Awards & Winners

Sarah Watt

Date of Birth 30-August-1958
Place of Birth Sydney
(Australia, New South Wales, Oceania)
Nationality Australia
Also know as Saran Ann Watt
Profession Writer, Film Director, Film Producer, Animator
Sarah Ann Watt was an Australian film director. Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television at the Swinburne Film and Television School, Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect the style of future work. In 1995, she directed a short film, Small Treasures, which won Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival. In 2000, she made a program for the SBS series Swim Between the Flags called "Local Dive". It was made concurrently with another project that she was directing called "The Way of the Birds" based on the 1996 book of the same name by author Meme McDonald. She received the Australian Film Institute's award for Best Director for her 2005 film Look Both Ways. Watt returned to the VCA School of Film and Television to teach animation and was to assist in the development of many animators including Academy Award winner Adam Eliot in 1996. Watt was instrumental in the development of scripts for all of her students, but left the School to further develop her own projects, returning on occasion as a script and final production assessor. During the post-production of Look Both Ways, Watt was diagnosed with cancer. Her second film My Year Without Sex was released in 2009.

Awards by Sarah Watt

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sarah Watt.

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay My Year Without Sex

2005


AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Honored for : Look Both Ways
AACTA Award for Best Direction
Honored for : Look Both Ways

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
AACTA Award for Best Direction Look Both Ways
AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay Look Both Ways
Screen International Award Look Both Ways

2001


AACTA Award for Best Short Animation
Honored for : Living with Happiness

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
AACTA Award for Best Short Animation Living with Happiness

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
AACTA Award for Best Short Animation The Way of the Birds