Chris Noonan Chris Noonan i(A125307 works by)
Gender: Male
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Film director.

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form y separately published work icon Babe ( dir. Chris Noonan ) Australia : Kennedy Miller Entertainment , 1995 Z1754149 1995 single work film/TV fantasy children's

Based on the novel The Sheep-Pig by British writer Dick King-Smith, Babe follows the adventures of a plucky piglet who is separated from his mother, brought to Farmer Hoggett's farm, and adopted by Fly, a kindly sheep-dog. His desire to emulate her and her mate, Rex, leads to farmer Hoggett training him as a 'sheep-pig' and entering him in the local sheep-dog trails, despite the derision of the other farmers.

1995 winner AWGIE Awards Major Award
1996 nominated British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards Best Screenplay - Adapted
1996 nominated British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards Best Film
1996 nominated Academy Awards Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
1996 nominated Academy Awards Best Picture
form y separately published work icon Police State ( dir. Chris Noonan ) Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Southern Star Entertainment , 1989 Z1937426 1989 single work film/TV crime

'Police State is the story of the development of corruption in the Queensland police force and body politic as revealed during the Royal Commission conducted by Tony Fitzgerald, QC in 1987/88. Police State opens with the dramatic early days of the Commission hearings and the evidence of Assistant Commissioner Graeme Parker. Parker was the first senior officer to admit his corruption and seek an indemnity from prosecution. His evidence exposed the testimony of earlier witnesses and implicated those at "the top and higher".'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive (http://www.australiantelevision.net/telemovies/1989.html). (Sighted: 3/5/2013)

1989 won Australian Film Institute Awards Best Telefeature
form y separately published work icon Vietnam ( dir. John Duigan et. al. )agent Sydney : Kennedy Miller Entertainment , 1987 Z1821018 1987 series - publisher film/TV historical fiction

Historical mini-series following a single family through eight years of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War: Douglas Goddard, a senior public servant working in Canberra; his dillusioned wife Evelyn; his son Phil, who is first conscripted to Vietnam and then returns as a regular soldier; and his daughter Megan, whose love for the son of a migrant worker leads her to Sydney and the anti-Vietnam movement.

Moran argues, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, that 'Vietnam has a wonderful complexity, majesty and sweep in its treatment of the years 1964-72'. While praising the compexity and elegiac nature of the program's treatment of inter-personal relationships, he adds,

The sweep of Vietnam is equally impressive -- the ability to narratively marshall a long series of events into a chain that connects history and the personal, a chain that begins in 1964 behind closed doors but increasingly could not be contained there, bursting out into the public arena of the media, the streets, the judges and finally the ballot box. And equally, Vietnam is a majestic document that fills an important space in the Laborist view of Australian politics created by the mini-series in the 1980s.

The mini series enjoyed enormous popularity when it was screened on Australian television.

1988 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Telemovie or Mini Series
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