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Australian Film Institute: 1979

AFI Award

Best Film


Winner:
	My Brilliant Career (1979) - Margaret Fink
Other Nominees:
	Cathy's Child (1979) - Pom Oliver; Errol Sullivan In Search of Anna (1978) - Esben Storm Mad Max (1979) - Byron Kennedy

Best Actor in a Lead Role


Winner:
	Tim (1979) - Mel Gibson (I)
Other Nominees:
	Cathy's Child (1979) - Alan Cassell (I) In Search of Anna (1978) - Richard Moir Last of the Knucklemen, The (1979) - Michael Preston (I)

Best Actress in a Lead Role


Winner:
	Cathy's Child (1979) - Michele Fawdon
Other Nominees:
	My Brilliant Career (1979) - Judy Davis (I) Night, the Prowler, The (1978) - Ruth Cracknell Snapshot (1979) - Sigrid Thornton

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Tim (1979) - Alwyn Kurts
Other Nominees:
	Last of the Knucklemen, The (1979) - Michael Duffield (I) Mad Max (1979) - Hugh Keays-Byrne My Brilliant Career (1979) - Robert Grubb

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Tim (1979) - Pat Evison
Other Nominees:
	My Brilliant Career (1979) - Aileen Britton My Brilliant Career (1979) - Wendy Hughes My Brilliant Career (1979) - Patricia Kennedy (I)

Best Director


Winner:
	My Brilliant Career (1979) - Gillian Armstrong
Other Nominees:
	Cathy's Child (1979) - Donald Crombie In Search of Anna (1978) - Esben Storm Mad Max (1979) - George Miller (II)

Best Screenplay, Original


Winner:
	In Search of Anna (1978) - Esben Storm
Other Nominees:
	Kostas (1979) - Linda Aronson Mad Max (1979) - James McCausland; George Miller (II) Palm Beach (1979) - Albie Thoms

Best Screenplay, Adapted


Winner:
	My Brilliant Career (1979) - Eleanor Witcombe

Best Achievement in Cinematography


Winner:
	My Brilliant Career (1979) - Donald McAlpine

Best Achievement in Costume Design


Winner:
	My Brilliant Career (1979) - Anna Senior

Best Achievement in Sound


Winner:
	Mad Max (1979) - Gary Wilkins; Byron Kennedy; Roger Savage; Ned Dawson

Best Achievement in Editing


Winner:
	Mad Max (1979) - Tony Paterson (I); Cliff Hayes

Best Original Music Score


Winner:
	Mad Max (1979) - Brian May (I)

Best Short Animation


Winner:
	Letter to a Friend (1978) - Sonia Hofmann (II)

Best Achievement in Production Design


Winner:
	My Brilliant Career (1979) - Luciana Arrighi

Raymond Longford Award


Awarded to:
	Jerzy Toeplitz - To the founding director of AFTRS.