Australian Film Critics Association

The Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA), formerly Melbourne Film Critics' Forum, is an Australian professional association for film critics, reviewers and journalists who work in the media, based in Melbourne. It is a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).

History

Formed in 1996, AFCA began as the Melbourne Film Critics' Forum, expanding to a national organisation in 2004. In the same year, AFCA became an Australian representative of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), which comprises the national organisations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world. FIPRESCI has members in more than 50 countries worldwide. AFCA helped to establish the first FIPRESCI jury at the Adelaide Film Festival.

AFCA's members, several of whom contribute to internationally recognised media outlets, are professional film critics, film reviewers and film journalists, from all media forums, who provide informed discussion, analysis and comment on Australian and world cinema. Here are some of them: Adam Ross, Lachlan Marks, Alan James, Laura Bennett, Alex Thomas, Lawrence Barber, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Lee Zachariah, Lisa Thatcher, Ashley Beks, Luke Buckmaster, Marcella Papandrea, Bede Jermyn, Madeleine Swain, Mark Lavercombe, Cameron Williams, Matthew Toomey, Carol Van Opstal, Nicholas Brodie, Paul Turner, Peter Krausz, Richard Alaba, David O'Connell, etc. The body supports both mainstream and independent cinema and highlights significant or challenging films.

Film awards

On 22 January 2008, AFCA announced the results of its inaugural Film Awards for 2007. The awards span four categories comprising Best Australian Film, Best Overseas Film, Best Documentary and Best Unreleased Film (in Australia at the time of the awards). The winning and commended films granted AFCA film awards are:

Year Best Australian Best Overseas Best Documentary Best Unreleased
2007 Winner: Noise No Country for Old Men (USA) Forbidden Lie$ (Australia) The Band's Visit (Israel)
Commended: The Home Song Stories The Lives of Others (Germany) Deep Water (UK) -
Commended: Romulus, My Father 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania) Sicko (USA) -
2008 Winner: The Black Balloon There Will Be Blood (USA) Man on Wire (UK) In the City of Sylvia (Spain)
Commended: The Square The Dark Knight (USA) Not Quite Hollywood (Australia) Romance of Astree and Celadon (France/Italy/Spain)
2009 Winner: Balibo Let the Right One In (Sweden) Of Time and the City (UK) Un Lac (France)
Commended: Mary & Max, Samson and Delilah Moon (UK), Wrestler (USA), Up (USA) Encounters at the End of the World (Germany), Capitalism: A Love Story (USA) Love Exposure (Japan)
2010 Winner: Animal Kingdom The Social Network (USA) Exit Through the Gift Shop (UK) Air Doll (Japan)
Commended: Beneath Hill 60, The Waiting City, Bran Nue Dae Toy Story 3 (USA), The Hurt Locker (USA), Inception (USA/UK) Food, Inc. (USA), La Danse (France/USA), Gasland (USA) Tetro (USA/Argentina/Spain/Italy), Film Socialisme (Switzerland/France), Berlin 36 (Germany)

In 2011 acting awards were introduced and the Best Unreleased Film category was discontinued.

Year Best Film Best International Film (English Language) Best International Film (Foreign Language) Best Documentary
2011 Snowtown The Tree of Life (USA) Incendies (Canada) Senna (UK)
2012 The Sapphires Hugo (France/UK/USA) A Separation (Iran) Searching for Sugar Man (Sweden/UK/Finland)
2013 Mystery Road Django Unchained (USA) Amour (France/Germany/Austria) Stories We Tell (Canada)
2014 The Babadook The Grand Budapest Hotel (USA/Germany) Two Days, One Night (Belgium/France/Italy) Jodorowsky's Dune (USA/France)
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road Birdman (USA) Phoenix (Germany) Amy (UK)
2016 Girl Asleep Arrival (USA) Mustang (France/Germany/Turkey) Sherpa (Australia)
2017 Hounds of Love Moonlight (USA) Toni Erdmann (Germany/Austria) I Am Not Your Negro (France/USA/Switzerland/Belgium)
2018 Sweet Country You Were Never Really Here (UK/USA/France) Roma (Mexico) Gurrumul (Australia)

Writing awards

In conjunction with its 2009 film awards, AFCA announced the results of its inaugural writing awards. The categories and winners are:

Year Ivan Hutchinson Award for Writing on Australian Film Award for Writing on Non-Australian Film Award for a Review of an individual Australian Film Award for a Review of an individual Non-Australian Film
2009 Loving Samson and Delilah, Therese Davis Fake Politics for the Real America, Martyn Pedler Disgrace, Alice Tynan 2012, Stephen Rowley
2010 Some of the Finest Films, Thomas Caldwell A Feast of Love – Eros, Agape and The Food Film, Bernard Hemingway The Loved Ones, Anders Wotzke I'm Still Here, Luke Buckmaster
2011 Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? We Are, Rebecca Harkins-Cross Islands and Ghosts: Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, Jake Wilson Griff the Invisible, Alice Tynan Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Josh Nelson
2012 God in all things: Amiel Courtin-Wilson's Hail, Josh Nelson The Shape of Rage: David Cronenberg's Dangerous Methods, Rebecca Harkins Cross All the Way Through Evening, Michael Scott The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Laurence Barber
2013 Launching The Rocket: Beyond the Typical Australian Film, Glenn Dunks Through the Mind: Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Scott MacLeod The Great Gatsby, Simon Miraudo To the Wonder, Simon Di Berardino
2014 Anger and Banality in Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, Thomas Caldwell Time Enough at Last: The Long History of the Long Film, Jake Moody The Babadook, Alexandra Donald Boyhood, Richard S. He
2015 The Shadow of the Rock, Rebecca Harkins-Cross Mad Max: Fury Road, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Bridge of Spies, Luke Goodsell
2016 South of Ealing: recasting a British studio's antipodean escapade, Adrian Danks Joe Cinque's Consolation, Lauren Carroll Harris No Home Movie, Ivan Cercina
2017 Dog Day, Every Day: Gillian Leahy’s Baxter and Me and the Essay Film, Adrian Martin Ellipsis, Luke Buckmaster Risk, Glenn Dunks
2018 The art of metamorphosis: Julian Rosefeldt's 'Manifesto, Gabrielle O'Brien West of Sunshine, Andrew Pierce Disobedience, Glen Falkenstein

See also


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