Australian Film Institute Award for Best Costume Design
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The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Costume Design (formerly Best Achievement in Costume Design) is awarded yearly by the Australian Film Institute
for excellence in costume design
. It was first awarded in 1977.
1978: Newsfront
– Norma Moriceau
1979: My Brilliant Career
– Anna Senior
– Anna Senior
1981: Fatty Finn
– Norma Moriceau
1982: Mad Max 2 – Norma Moriceau
1983: Careful, He Might Hear You
– Bruce Finlayson
1984: Silver City
– Jan Hurley
1985 Rebel – Roger Kirk
1986 Kangaroo – Terry Ryan
1987 The Umbrella Woman – Jennie Tate
1988 The Navigator – Glenys Jackson
1989 What the Moon Saw – Rose Chong
– Roger Kirk
1991: Spotswood
– Tess Schofield
1992: Strictly Ballroom
– Angus Strathie
1993: The Piano
– Janet Patterson
1994: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
– Lizzy Gardiner, Tim Chappel
1995: Billy's Holiday – Terry Ryan
1996: Children of the Revolution – Terry Ryan
1997: Doing Time for Patsy Cline
– Louise Wakefield
1998: Oscar and Lucinda
– Janet Patterson
1999: Passion – Terry Ryan
– Tess Schofield
2001: Moulin Rouge!
– Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie
2002: Dirty Deeds
– Tess Schofield
2003: Ned Kelly
– Anna Borghesi
2004: Somersault
– Emily Seresin
2005: The Proposition
– Margot Wilson
2006: Macbeth
– Jane Johnston
2007: The Home Song Stories
– Cappi Ireland
2008: The Tender Hook
– Cappi Ireland
2009: Australia
– Catherine Martin, Eliza Godman
Australian Film Institute
The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
for excellence in costume design
Costume design
Costume design is the fabrication of apparel for the overall appearance of a character or performer. This usually involves researching, designing and building the actual items from conception. Costumes may be for a theater or cinema performance but may not be limited to such...
. It was first awarded in 1977.
1970s
1977: The Picture Show Man – Judith Dorsman1978: Newsfront
Newsfront
Newsfront is a 1978 Australian drama film starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, and Bryan Brown, directed by Phillip Noyce. The screenplay is written by David Elfick, Bob Ellis, Philippe Mora, and Phillip Noyce. The original music score is composed by William Motzing...
– Norma Moriceau
1979: My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career (film)
My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on the book of the same name by Miles Franklin....
– Anna Senior
1980s
1980: Breaker MorantBreaker Morant
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal whose skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker"...
– Anna Senior
1981: Fatty Finn
Fatty Finn
Fatty Finn is a 1980 Australian film, directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Ben Oxenbould with Rebecca Rigg. It is based on the 1930s cartoon-strip character, Fatty Finn, created by Syd Nicholls and is loosely based on the 1927 silent fim, The Kid Stakes.-Plot:Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in...
– Norma Moriceau
1982: Mad Max 2 – Norma Moriceau
1983: Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You is a 1983 Australian drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name by Australian-American author Sumner Locke Elliott....
– Bruce Finlayson
1984: Silver City
Silver City (1984 film)
Silver City is a 1984 Australian film about post-war Polish immigration to Australia, following World War II. "Silver City" is the nickname of the immigration hostel in Australia.-Cast:* Gosia Dobrowolska as "Nina"* Ivar Kants as "Julian"...
– Jan Hurley
1985 Rebel – Roger Kirk
1986 Kangaroo – Terry Ryan
1987 The Umbrella Woman – Jennie Tate
1988 The Navigator – Glenys Jackson
1989 What the Moon Saw – Rose Chong
1990s
1990: Blood OathBlood Oath (film)
Blood Oath is a 1990 Australian feature film, known in some countries as Prisoners of the Sun. The film is based on the real-life trial of Japanese soldiers for war crimes committed against Allied prisoners of war on the island of Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies , such as the Laha massacre of...
– Roger Kirk
1991: Spotswood
Spotswood (film)
Spotswood is an Australian comedy film directed by Mark Joffe, made in 1990-1991, released in 1992 in some locations. It is also known as The Efficiency Expert in America....
– Tess Schofield
1992: Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann and produced by M&A Productions. The film is the first installment in The Red Curtain Trilogy, Luhrmann's trilogy of theatre-motif-related films; the follow-ups were Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...
– Angus Strathie
1993: The Piano
The Piano
The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...
– Janet Patterson
1994: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named...
– Lizzy Gardiner, Tim Chappel
1995: Billy's Holiday – Terry Ryan
1996: Children of the Revolution – Terry Ryan
1997: Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Doing Time for Patsy Cline is a 1997 Australian multi-award-winning film starring Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, and Matt Day and directed by Chris Kennedy.-Plot:...
– Louise Wakefield
1998: Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda (film)
Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.-Plot:...
– Janet Patterson
1999: Passion – Terry Ryan
2000s
2000: BootmenBootmen
Bootmen is a 2000 Australian comedy-drama film, directed by Dein Perry. It was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures in Canada and USA and 20th Century Fox Distribution in Australia and funded by the Australian Film Finance Corporation...
– Tess Schofield
2001: Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...
– Catherine Martin, Angus Strathie
2002: Dirty Deeds
Dirty Deeds (2002 film)
Dirty Deeds is a 2002 film shot in Australia. It was directed by noted fringe director David Caesar and stars Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington and John Goodman and produced by Nine Films and Television, the film and television production arm of the Nine Network, owned by PBL...
– Tess Schofield
2003: Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly (2003 film)
Ned Kelly is an Australian drama film directed by Gregor Jordan. The film portrays the life of Ned Kelly — a legendary bushranger in northeast Victoria. Ned Kelly, his brother Dan, and two other men — Steve Hart and Joe Byrne — formed a gang of Irish Australians in response to Irish and...
– Anna Borghesi
2004: Somersault
Somersault (film)
Somersault is an Australian independent film, written and directed by Cate Shortland and released in September 2004. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
– Emily Seresin
2005: The Proposition
The Proposition
The Proposition is a 2005 western film directed by John Hillcoat and written by screenwriter and musician Nick Cave. It stars Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, John Hurt, Danny Huston and David Wenham. The film's production completed in 2004 and was followed by a wide 2005 release in...
– Margot Wilson
2006: Macbeth
Macbeth (2006 film)
Macbeth is an Australian 2006 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill and Lachy Hulme...
– Jane Johnston
2007: The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories
The Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. Written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water , The Home Song Stories stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker....
– Cappi Ireland
2008: The Tender Hook
The Tender Hook
The Tender Hook is a 2008 Australian film noir starring Hugo Weaving, Rose Byrne and Matthew Le Nevez.The film tells the story of a love triangle set in a stylised version of Sydney’s criminal/boxing underworld in the 1920s. The story is about Iris’ rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that...
– Cappi Ireland
2009: Australia
Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood...
– Catherine Martin, Eliza Godman