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AUSTRALIA AND THE DARK KNIGHT NAMED THE BEST OF 2009
The 2009 FILMINK Awards have been announced, with Australia and The Dark Knight taking the most honours.
The results of the 2009 FILMINK Awards poll have been tallied, and the big winners with moviegoers are The Dark Knight and Australia.
The FILMINK Awards are the only movie awards where the punters who line up at cinema box offices around Australia get to have their say in categories such as Best Film, Worst Film, Best Documentary, Best Tentpole Movie and Best True Original, and more Aussie-centric categories such as Best Australian Newcomer, Best Performance By An Aussie In An Overseas Movie and, of course, Best Australian Film. And what genuine movie poll wouldn't ask moviegoers for their pick for the year's Best Sort?
"This year's results are another exciting reflection of the Australian moviegoer," reckons FILMINK Magazine Publisher Dov Kornits. "Once again, films like The Dark Knight and Australia, which were snubbed at other movie awards ceremonies, proved very popular with our voters."
After three years as an open-to-the-public event featuring celebrities, filmmakers and film industry bigwigs, the 2009 FILMINK Awards marks a transitional year for the popular party as we launch FILMINK TV, an online vodcast component of FILMINK Magazine. The plan is to move the FILMINK Awards - both voting and the announcement of winners - completely online in 2010.
"Having watched other awards shows - most of which have degenerated into backslapping affairs shown in dreary TV timeslots - I felt that we needed to take the FILMINK Awards to the people. At the end of the day, that's what FILMINK is really about," says Dov Kornits.
Stay tuned for exciting announcements about the 2010 FILMINK Awards, but for now, here are the winners...(and runners-up in order)
Best Film
1. The Dark Knight
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Australia
4. Juno
5. Wall-E
Worst Film
1. The Love Guru
2. Australia
3. Meet the Spartans
4. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
5. Alvin and the Chipmunks
Best Australian Film
1. Australia
2. The Black Balloon
3. Dying Breed
4. The Square
5. Not Quite Hollywood
Best Performance by An Aussie in an Overseas Movie
1. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
2. Naomi Watts, The Painted Veil
3. Guy Pearce, Traitor
4. Abbie Cornish, Stop-Loss
5. Russell Crowe, 3:10 to Yuma
Best Australian Newcomer
1. Brandon Walters, Australia
2. Gemma Ward, The Black Balloon
3. Hanna Mangan Lawrence, The Square
4. Danielle Catanzariti, Hey Hey, It's Esther Blueburger
5. Lachlan Buchanan, Newcastle
Best Sort
1. Hugh Jackman, Australia
2. Angelina Jolie, Wanted
3. Daniel Craig, Quantum of Solace
4. Keira Knightley, The Duchess
5. Ellen Page, Juno
Best Documentary
1. Not Quite Hollywood
2. Man On Wire
3. Young @ Heart
4. Lionel
5. Standard Operating Procedure
Best Tentpole Movie
1. The Dark Knight
2. Australia
3. Sex and the City
4. Mamma Mia!
5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Best True Original - Live Action
1. Juno
2. Lars and the Real Girl
3. Be Kind Rewind
4. Hunger
5. Men's Group
Best True Original - Animation
1. Wall-E
2. Horton Hears A Who
3. Persepolis
4. Waltz With Bashir
5. Global Haywire