AACTA Award for Best Production Design
The AACTA Award for Best Production Design is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television."[1] The award is presented at the annual AACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films.[2] From 1976–2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards).[3] When the AFI launched the Academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Production Design.[3]
Best Production Design was first presented as Best Art Direction in 1977.[4] The name changed to its current one in 1983.[5] The award is presented to the production designer of a film that is Australian-made, or with a significant amount of Australian content.
| Year |
Film |
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| 1970s |
| 1977 |
The Picture Show Man |
David Copping |
| Break of Day |
Wendy Dickson |
| Oz |
Robbie Perkins |
| Storm Boy |
David Copping |
| 1978 |
Newsfront |
Lissa Coote |
| The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith |
Wendy Dickson |
| The Getting of Wisdom |
John Stoddart, Richard D. Kent |
| The Mango Tree |
Leslie Binns |
| 1979 |
My Brilliant Career |
Luciana Arrighi |
| The Last Of The Knucklemen |
Leslie Binns |
| Mad Max |
Jon Dowding |
| Money Movers |
David Copping |
| 1980s |
| 1980 |
Breaker Morant |
David Copping |
| The Chain Reaction |
Graham 'Grace' Walker |
| Harlequin |
Bernard Hides |
| Stir |
Lee Whitmore |
| 1981 |
Gallipoli |
Herbert Pinter, Wendy Stites |
| Fatty Finn |
Lissa Coote |
| Grendel Grendel Grendel |
Alex Stitt |
| The Survivor |
Bernard Hides |
| Winter of Our Dreams |
Lee Whitmore |
| 1982 |
Mad Max 2 |
Graham 'Grace' Walker |
| The Return of Captain Invincible |
David Copping |
| Squizzy Taylor |
Logan Brewer |
| Starstruck |
Brian Thomson |
| 1983 |
Careful, He Might Hear You |
John Stoddart |
| Undercover |
Herbert Pinter |
| The Wild Duck |
Darrell Lass |
| The Year of Living Dangerously |
Herbert Pinter, Wendy Stites |
| 1984 |
Strikebound |
Tracy Watt, Harry Zettel, MacGregor Knox |
| Razorback |
Bryce Walmsley |
| Silver City |
Igor Nay |
| Street Hero |
Brian Thomson |
| 1985 |
Rebel |
Brian Thomson |
| Bliss |
Owen Paterson, Wendy Dickson |
| The Coca-Cola Kid |
Graham 'Grace' Walker |
| Frog Dreaming |
Jon Dowding |
| 1986 |
Playing Beatie Bow |
George Liddle |
| Dead End Drive-In |
Lawrence Eastwood |
| For Love Alone |
John Stoddart |
| The Right-Hand Man |
Neil Angwin |
| 1987 |
Ground Zero |
Brian Thomson |
| Bullseye |
George Liddle |
| The Place at the Coast |
Owen Paterson |
| To Market To Market |
Virginia Rouse |
| 1988 |
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey |
Sally Campbell |
| Dangerous Game |
Igor Nay |
| Incident at Raven's Gate |
Judith Russell |
| Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds |
Sean Callinan |
| 1989 |
Ghosts… of the Civil Dead |
Chris Kennedy |
| Dead Calm |
Graham 'Grace' Walker |
| Georgia |
Jon Dowding |
| Island |
Neil Angwin |
| 1990s |
| 1990 |
Flirting |
Roger Ford |
| The Big Steal |
Paddy Reardon |
| Blood Oath |
Bernard Hides |
| Weekend with Kate |
Lawrence Eastwood |
| 1991 |
Spotswood |
Chris Kennedy |
| Aya |
Jennie Tate |
| Deadly |
Peta Lawson |
| Isabelle Eberhardt |
Bryce Perrin, Geoffroy Larcher |
| 1992 |
Strictly Ballroom |
Catherine Martin |
| The Last Days of Chez Nous |
Janet Patterson |
| Love in Limbo |
David McKay |
| Romper Stomper |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| 1993 |
The Piano |
Andrew McAlpine |
| Broken Highway |
Lesley Crawford |
| Resistance |
MacGregor Knox |
| Say a Little Prayer |
Chris Kennedy |
| 1994 |
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
Owen Paterson |
| Gino |
Chris Kennedy |
| Muriel's Wedding |
Paddy Reardon |
| Traps |
Michael Philips |
| 1995 |
Metal Skin |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| All Men Are Liars |
Murray Pope |
| Mushrooms |
George Liddle |
| That Eye, the Sky |
Chris Kennedy |
| 1996 |
Children of the Revolution |
Roger Ford |
| Love Serenade |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| Shine |
Vicki Niehus |
| To Have & to Hold |
Chris Kennedy |
| 1997 |
The Well |
Michael Philips |
| Doing Time for Patsy Cline |
Roger Ford |
| Idiot Box |
Kerith Holmes |
| Thank God He Met Lizzie |
Clarissa Patterson |
| 1998 |
Oscar and Lucinda |
Luciana Arrighi |
| Dead Letter Office |
Chris Kennedy |
| The Interview |
Richard Bell |
| Radiance |
Sarah Stollman |
| 1999 |
Passion |
Murray Picknett |
| In a Savage Land |
Nicholas McCallum |
| Praise |
Michael Philips |
| Siam Sunset |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| 2000s |
| 2000 |
Bootmen |
Murray Picknett |
| Better Than Sex |
Tara Kamath |
| Chopper |
Paddy Reardon |
| Looking for Alibrandi |
Stephen Curtis |
| 2001 |
Moulin Rouge! |
Catherine Martin |
| The Bank |
Luigi Pittorino |
| Lantana |
Kim Buddee |
| La Spagnola |
Dee Molineaux |
| 2002 |
Dirty Deeds |
Chris Kennedy |
| Garage Days |
Michael Philips |
| Rabbit-Proof Fence |
Roger Ford |
| Swimming Upstream |
| 2003 |
Ned Kelly |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| Gettin' Square |
Nicholas McCallum |
| Japanese Story |
Paddy Reardon |
| The Night We Called It a Day |
Michael Philips |
| 2004 |
Somersault |
Melinda Doring |
| Love's Brother |
Paul Heath |
| One Perfect Day |
MacGregor Knox, Patrick Bennet, Joseph Keily |
| Tom White |
Dan Potra |
| 2005 |
The Proposition |
Chris Kennedy |
| Little Fish |
Luigi Pittorino |
| Look Both Ways |
Rita Zanchetta |
| Three Dollars |
Luigi Pittorino |
| 2006 |
Macbeth |
David McKay |
| Candy |
Robert Cousins |
| Suburban Mayhem |
Nell Hanson |
| Ten Canoes |
Beverley Freeman |
| 2007 |
The Home Song Stories |
Melinda Doring |
| Clubland |
Nell Hanson |
| Noise |
Paddy Reardon |
| Romulus, My Father |
Robert Cousins |
| 2008 |
Death Defying Acts |
Gemma Jackson |
| The Children of Huang Shi |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| The Tender Hook |
Pete Baxter |
| Unfinished Sky |
Laurie Faen |
| 2009 |
Australia |
Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn |
| Balibo |
Robert Cousins |
| Mao's Last Dancer |
Herbert Pinter |
| Mary and Max |
Adam Elliot |
| 2010s |
| 2010 |
Bright Star |
Janet Patterson |
| Animal Kingdom |
Josephine Ford |
| Beneath Hill 60 |
Clayton Jauncey |
| Tomorrow, When the War Began |
Robert Webb, Michelle McGahey, Damien Drew, Beverley Dunn |
| AACTA Awards |
2011 (1st) |
The Eye of the Storm |
Melinda Doring |
| The Hunter |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| Red Dog |
Ian Gracie |
| Sleeping Beauty |
Annie Beauchamp |
2012 (2nd) |
The Sapphires |
Melinda Doring |
| Burning Man |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| Killer Elite |
Michelle McGahey |
| Lore |
Silke Fischer |
2013 (3rd) |
The Great Gatsby |
Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy, Beverley Dunn |
| Adore |
Annie Beauchamp |
| Goddess |
| The Rocket |
Pete Baxter |
2014 (4th) |
Predestination |
Matthew Putland |
| The Babadook |
Alex Holmes |
| The Rover |
Josephine Ford |
| The Water Diviner |
Chris Kennedy |
2015 (5th) |
Mad Max: Fury Road |
Colin Gibson |
| Cut Snake |
Josephine Ford |
| The Dressmaker |
Roger Ford |
| Partisan |
Steven Jones-Evans, Sarah Cyngler |
2016 (6th) |
The Daughter |
Steven Jones-Evans |
| Girl Asleep |
Jonathon Oxlade |
| Goldstone |
Matt Putland |
| Hacksaw Ridge |
Barry Robison |
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