Bradbury has won many international film festival prizes, received five Australian Film Industry awards, and two Academy Award nominations.

And instead of a festival prize bestowed by a jury, the award is a gold-plated statuette and big box office.

In 1964 his thesis film Aunt of Violets was awarded a festival prize in Krakow.

But, after a year, during which "Rachel River" won a few festival prizes, no commercial distributor had yet taken it on.

The film has won multiple festival prizes.

Americans, after all, walked off with half of the festival prizes.

Bestival, which won the the best major festival prize last year, was named the 2011 fans' favourite.

The festival prize prompted, or coincided with, a remarkably rapid adoption of Twitter by the international digerati.

At Land won the festival prize for sound design.

That they pulled it off is attested to by a long list of festival prizes and the continuing goodwill of the families featured in the movie.