Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score (Peter Gabriel)
AACTA Award for Best Sound
London Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year (Phillip Noyce)
National Board of Review Award for Best Director (Phillip Noyce)Award nominations: AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Christine Olsen)
AACTA Award for Best Cinematography
AACTA Award for Best Costume Design
AACTA Award for Best Direction
AACTA Award for Best Editing
AACTA Award for Best Film
AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score
AACTA Award for Best Production Design
AACTA Award for Best Young Actor
Chlotrudis Award for Best Director
Chlotrudis Award for Best Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
London Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year
National Board of Review Award for Best Director
Political Film Society Award for Exposé
Political Film Society Award for Human RightsAward details: (details at IMDb)
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Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is based on a true story concerning the author's mother, as well as two other mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, Western Australia, to return to their Aboriginal families, after being placed there in 1931. The film follows the Aboriginal girls as they walk for nine weeks along 1,500 miles of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their community at Jigalong, while being pursued by white law enforcement authorities and an Aboriginal tracker. The soundtrack to the film, called Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, is by Peter Gabriel. British producer Jeremy Thomas, who has a long connection with Australia, was executive producer of the film, selling it internationally through his sales arm, HanWay Films.