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1999 Australian Film Institute Awards

Australian film and television award ceremony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ116264846 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 41st Australian Film Institute Awards (generally known as the AFI Awards) were held on 13 November 1999. Presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the awards celebrated the best in Australian feature film, documentary, short film and television productions of 1999. The nominations were announced on 13 October 1999. Two Hands received the most nominations in the feature film category with eleven, while SeaChange received seven nominations in the television category.

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Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Australian, Film and Institute can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1999 Australian Film Institute Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.