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2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
The 2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards were held on 10 November 2001 at the St James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand. To better suit the release schedule of the film industry, the date of the awards ceremony was moved from a mid-year date of previous years to November. The awards were presented by the New Zealand Academy of Film and Television Arts and sponsored by Nokia New Zealand who also sponsored the Nokia New Zealand Film Awards Scholarship, awarded to a film student. The awards presentation featured a tribute to director John O'Shea. Nominees and winners Prizes were awarded in 21 categories. Road move '' Snakeskin'' won with most awards, with six, while '' Stickmen'' won four. Best Film *'' Snakeskin'', Vanessa Sheldrick **'' Stickmen'', Michelle Turner **'' Rain'', Philippa Campbell, John Toon, Robin Scholes Best Director *Hamish Rothwell, '' Stickmen'' **Gillian Ashurst, '' Snakeskin'' **Christine Jeffs, '' Rain'' Best Actor *Scott Wills, '' Stickmen'' **Kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the greater Helsinki Greater Helsinki, metropolitan area, but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa.HS: Nokian juuret ovat Tammerkosken rannalla (in Finnish) In 2020, Nokia employed approximately 92,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crooked Earth
''Crooked Earth'' is a 2001 New Zealand film directed by Sam Pillsbury and starring Temuera Morrison. The film opened to negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office. Plot The film follows Will Bastion (Morrison) as he returns home from the army after 20 years to bury his father. Upon returning home, tradition dictates that Will must take the tribal chief position. Due to his disinterest in the role, his brother Kahu (Makoare) takes charge as he appoints himself with the position. Faced with Kahu's drug-dealing and radical views, Bastion must decide if he should act. Cast * Temuera Morrison as Will Bastion * Lawrence Makoare as Kahu Bastion * Jaime Passier-Armstrong as Ripeka Bastion * Quinton Hita as Api * Nancy Brunning as Marama * Sydney Jackson as Pettigrew * George Henare as Tipene * Calvin Tuteao Calvin Tuteao is a New Zealand actor who has appeared in ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'', ''Once Were Warriors'' and '' Xena: Warrior Princess''. Tut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 In New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 2001 in New Zealand. Population * Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,916,200. * Increase since 31 December 2000: 43,100 (1.11%). * Males per 100 Females: 96.2. Incumbents Regal and viceregal *Head of State – Elizabeth II * Governor-General – The Rt Hon. Sir Michael Hardie Boys GNZM, GCMG, QSO followed by The Hon Dame Silvia Cartwright PCNZM, DBE, QSO Government The 46th New Zealand Parliament continued. Government was The Labour Party led by Helen Clark, in coalition with Alliance, led by Jim Anderton. *Speaker of the House – Jonathan Hunt *Prime Minister – Helen Clark *Deputy Prime Minister – Jim Anderton *Minister of Finance – Michael Cullen *Minister of Foreign Affairs – Phil Goff * Chief Justice — Sian Elias Opposition leaders See: :Parliament of New Zealand, :New Zealand elections *National – TBD ( Leader of the Opposition) * Greens – Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald * Act – TBD * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Film Awards
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Kim Sinclair
Kim Sinclair (born 10 July 1954) is an Academy Award-winning art director and production designer from New Zealand. He won the Oscar during the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for the film ''Avatar''. He shared it with Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg. Selected filmography *''Slow West'' (2015) *'' The Dark Horse'' (2014) *'' Man of Steel'' (2013) *''The Adventures of Tintin'' (2011) *''Avatar'' (2009) *''Black Sheep'' (2006) *''The Legend of Zorro'' (2005) *''The Last Samurai'' (2003) *'' Beyond Borders'' (2003) *''Cast Away ''Cast Away'' is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in ...'' (2000) References External links * NZ On Screen biography 1954 births Living people Best Art Direction Academy Award winners Best Production Design BAFTA Award winners People from Auc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Barclay
Emily Barclay (born 24 October 1984) is an English-born, New Zealander and Australian AFI award winning actress. Career Emily Barclay was born in Plymouth to a General practitioner and a landscape designer, and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, where she went to an all-girls school and attended Saturday morning drama classes. At the age of nine, Barclay played Hamlet in a school production and decided to become an actress. At the age of 13, she got herself an agent and supported herself between TV movies by working in a video store. Diana Rowan (the same casting agent who discovered Anna Paquin, and Keisha Castle-Hughes) discovered Barclay in a school play and cast her as Celia in 2004's ''In My Father's Den'', that raised the actress to prominence. For that film, Barclay won Most Promising Newcomer at the 2005 British Independent Film Awards. She followed by moving to Australia – while continuing part-time with her degree in English and gender studies at the University of Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki
Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki is a New Zealand actress. Her debut performance was in the critically acclaimed film ''Rain''. The Seattle PI newspaper has described the film as "an exquisitely mixed and applied palette of color and hue to help her story. ''Rain'' is gorgeously evocative visually and draws us in as seductively ... a wonderful metaphor for a film that is largely successful". Agent Sharon Power Filmography *''Rain'' (2001) *''Fracture Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displa ...'' (2004) References External links * * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand film actresses {{NewZealand-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liddy Holloway
Elizabeth Brenda "Liddy" Holloway (27 March 1947 – 29 December 2004) was a New Zealand actress and television scriptwriter. Career Born in Wellington, New Zealand, the daughter of a politician, Phil Holloway, Liddy Holloway originally worked as a journalist. She switched to acting and had a long career in the theatre. She also acted in Australia in the early 1980s, with acting roles in feature films ''Squizzy Taylor'' and ''The Clinic''. She also acted on Australian television, appearing in guest roles in several episodes of soap opera ''Prisoner'', a series for which she also wrote some scripts. Holloway moved to Los Angeles briefly in 1990 to give Hollywood a try, but did not stay long. She eventually garnered international attention for her recurring role as Hercules' mother on the syndicated adventure series, ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'', a role she played intermittently from 1995 to 1998. Holloway also found wide recognition in her home country through her 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Brunning
Nancy Brunning (1971 – 16 November 2019) was a New Zealand actress, director, and writer who won awards in film and television and made a major contribution to the growth of Māori in the arts. Brunning was of Māori descent from the tribes of Ngati Raukawa and Ngai Tuhoe. She won the best actress award at the New Zealand Film Awards for her lead role in the film '' What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?'' (1999), the sequel to cult classic ''Once Were Warriors''. In 2000, she won the Best Actress in Drama award at the New Zealand Television Awards for her lead role in the television series ''Nga Tohu''. She was the acting coach for the Oscar-nominated short film ''Two Cars, One Night'' directed by Taika Waititi. According to friend and frequent collaborator Temuera Morrison, she "paved the way" for Māori actors in New Zealand. Biography Brunning grew up in Taupo and attended Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School from 1990, graduating in 1991 with a Diploma in Acting. She live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Majesty (2001 Film)
''Her Majesty'' is a 2001 coming of age film about a young girl who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth II comes to visit her small hometown. Directed by Mark J. Gordon, this New Zealand made, family-friendly feature film, is the winner of over 20 festival awards, including the Audience Award at Florida, Newport Beach, Stonybrook, World Cinema Naples and Marco Island. Vicky Haughton who co-stars in ''Her Majesty'' went on to play the grandmother in the movie ''Whale Rider''. She also had a part in ''King Kong''. Walter Coblenz, the producer, was also producer on such films as ''All the President's Men'', '' The Candidate'', and ''The Onion Field''. Virginia Katz, the editor, also edited '' Kinsey'' and ''Dreamgirls''. Production designer Kim Sinclair also won an Academy Award in 2010 for his work on ''Avatar''. Release ''Her Majesty'' was first released theatrically in the U.S. in April 2004 and continued to screen in select cities through March 2005, with posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey ( ; born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress widely known for her portrayals of complex women in several independent films and television shows and also known for her command of American dialects. Lynskey is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, a New Zealand Film Award, and a Hollywood Film Award including nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. She started her career with the fim ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994), earning a New Zealand Film Award for her portrayal of teenage murderess Pauline Parker. She later appeared in various international productions, including ''Ever After'' (1998), ''Detroit Rock City'', '' But I'm a Cheerleader'', ''The Cherry Orchard'' (all 1999), '' Coyote Ugly'' (2000), ''Snakeskin'' (2001), '' Shooters'', '' Abandon'', and ''Sweet Home Alabama'' (all 2002). After moving to the United States, Lynskey became known as a character actor, gaining recognition for a mix of big-budget and sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temuera Morrison
Temuera Derek Morrison (born 26 December 1960) is a New Zealand actor and Singer who first gained recognition for his role as Dr. Hone Ropata on the soap opera ''Shortland Street''. He gained critical acclaim for his starring role as Jake "The Muss" Heke in the 1994 film ''Once Were Warriors'' and its 1999 sequel '' What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?'' Outside New Zealand, Morrison is best known for his work in the ''Star Wars'' multimedia franchise, playing the roles of Jango Fett as well as his many genetic clones, including the clone troopers and Jango's clone son Boba. He originated the role of Jango in the 2002 film ''Attack of the Clones''. Morrison would go on to provide the voice of Boba Fett in the 2004 re-release of ''The Empire Strikes Back'', and then portray Boba fully in the second season of ''The Mandalorian'' (2019–present) and the spin-off show ''The Book of Boba Fett'' (2021–present). Morrison is also known for voicing Chief Tui, the father of the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
