What is The Man from Snowy River (1982 movie)?
{{redlinks|date=May 2012}} {{italictitle}} {{Infobox movie | name = The Man from Snowy River | image = | caption = Australian DVD cover | director = [[George T. Miller]] | producer = [[Geoff Burrowes]]<br>[[Michael Edgley]]<br>[[Simon Wincer]] | writer = Screenplay:<br>[[John Dixon]]<br>Story:<br>[[Fred Cul Cullen]]<br>'''Poem:'''<br>[[Banjo Paterson]] | starring = [[Tom Burlinson]]<br>[[Sigrid Thornton]]<br>[[Kirk Douglas]] | music = [[Bruce Rowland]] | cinematography = [[Keith Wagstaff]] | editing = [[Adrian Carr]] | distributor = [[20th Century Fox]] | released = {{Film date|1982|3|25|df=y}} | runtime = 102 minutes | country = Australia | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Man from Snowy River''''' is a 1982 [[Australia]]n movie. It is based on the [[Banjo Paterson]] poem ''[[The Man from Snowy River (poem)|The Man from Snowy River]]''. The cast included [[Kirk Douglas]], Jack Thompson, [[Tom Burlinson]], [[Sigrid Thornton]], [[Terence Donovan]], and [[Chris Haywood]]. Both Burlinson and Thornton were in the 1988 sequel, ''[[The Man from Snowy River II]]''. ''The Man from Snowy River'' made $17,228,160 at the box office in Australia,.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |title=''Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office'' |access-date=2012-05-04 |archive-date=2011-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218045303/http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> This is the same as $50,132,946 in 2009 dollars. ==Awards and nominations== * Won 1982 [[Australian Film Institute|AFI]] Award for Best Original Music Score &mdash; (awarded to [[Bruce Rowland]]) * Won 1982 [[Montreal World Film Festival]] Award for Most Popular Film &mdash; (awarded to [[George T. Miller]]) * Nominated for 1982 [[Australian Film Institute|AFI]] Award for Best Ach