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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Two Hands
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Film Details - CML Productions ; Meridian Films , 1999

Producers:

Marian Macgowan.

Production Companies:

CML Films and Meridian Films.

Finance Organisations:

Australian Film Finance Corporation.

Director of Photography:

Malcolm McCulloch.

Editors:

Lee Smith.

Production Designers:

Steven Jones-Evans.

Music:

Cezary Skubiszewski.

Cast:

Including Heath Ledger (Jimmy), Bryan Brown (Pando), David Field (Acko), Tom Long (Wally), Tony Forrow (Eddie), and Rose Byrne (Alex).

Release Dates:

29 July 1999 (Australia).

Location:

  • Filmed in Sydney, Australia (including Kings Cross, Revesby, Waterloo, Chinatown, and Bondi Beach).

Awards:

  • APRA Music Award (Best Film Score), Australasian Performing Rights Association, 2000.
  • AFI Award (Best Achievement in Direction), Australian Film Institute, 1999.
  • AFI Award (Best Achievement in Editing), Australian Film Institute, 1999.
  • AFI Award (Best Film), Australian Film Institute, 1999.
  • AFI Award (Best Original Screenplay), Australian Film Institute, 1999.
  • AFI Award (Best Performance by an an Actor in a Supporting Role), Australian Film Institute, 1999.
  • Australian Screen Music Award ( Best Original Music for a Feature Film), Australian Guild of Screen Composers, 1999.
  • ASSG Award (Best Achievement in Dialogue Editing & ADR in a Feature Film), Australian Screen Sound Guild, 1999.
  • ASSG Award (Best Achievement in Location Recording in a Feature Film), Australian Screen Sound Guild, 1999.
  • ASSG Award (Best Achievement in Mixing in a Feature Film), Australian Screen Sound Guild, 1999.
  • ASSG Award (Best Achievement in Sound Effects Creation & Editing in a Feature Film), Australian Screen Sound Guild, 1999.
  • Directors' Week Award - Special Mention, Fantasporto, 2000.
  • FCCA Award (Best Supporting Actor: Male), Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, 2000.
  • FCCA Award (Best Supporting Actor: Female), Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, 2000.
  • FCCA Award (Best Film), Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, 2000.
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