SAMSON & DELILAH wins 7 AFI awards

BALIBO wins 4 AFI awards

The Madman ICONIC AUSSIE FILMS range of releases have garnered a major sweep of awards at the 2009 Samsung Mobile AFI Industry and Ceremony Awards.

The talk of the Australian Film Industry in 2009, SAMSON & DELILAH took out Best Film, Best Direction (Warwick Thornton), Best Original Screenplay and a shared AFI Young Actor Award for Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson at Saturday evening's ceremony, as well as Industry Awards for Best Cinematography (Warwick Thornton), Best Sound and the AFI Member?s Choice Award.

Making major headlines at home and abroad, and recently controversially banned in Indonesia, Robert Connelly?s BALIBO also picked up a number of major awards, including Best Lead Actor (Anthony LaPaglia), Best Adapted Screenplay (David Williamson, Robert Connolly), Best Supporting Actor (Oscar Isaac), and an AFI Industry Award for Best Editing (Nick Meyers ASE).

GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP IN TWELVE PARTS - Scott Hicks' study of internationally acclaimed composer, Philip Glass, also picked up a 2009 ceremony award for Best Feature Length Documentary.