Bentley Dean

Bentley Dean is an Australian documentarian, director, producer, cinematographer, and filmmaker.

Career

Dean appeared in Race Around the World in 1997.

He is known for his collaborations with director Martin Butler.

Dean has earned critical acclaim for his works Contact (2010), First Footprints (2013), Tanna (2015), and A Sense of Self (2016) for Four Corners profiling Liz Jackson's experience of Parkinson's disease.

For Tanna, he received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.^[1][2]

Filmography

• 2021: Facing Monsters^[3]
• 2016: A Sense of Self (TV Movie documentary; with Martin Butler)
• 2015: Tanna (with Martin Butler)
• 2015: Call Me Dad (TV Movie documentary)
• 2013: First Footprints (TV Series documentary; with Martin Butler)
• 2010: Contact (Documentary; with Martin Butler)
• 2008: A Well-Founded Fear (Documentary)
• 2007: The Siege (Documentary)
• 2004: The President Versus David Hicks

Accolades

Tanna has received critical acclaim. It has a score of 74% on Metacritic.^[4]

Award	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref(s)
AACTA Awards (6th)	Best Film	Martin Butler, Bentley Dean and Carolyn Johnson	Nominated	[5]
	Best Direction	Martin Butler and Bentley Dean	Nominated
	Best Cinematography	Bentley Dean	Nominated
Academy Award	Best Foreign Language Film	Martin Butler and Bentley Dean	Nominated	[6][7]
African-American Film Critics Association	Best Foreign Film		Won	[8]
FCCA Awards	Best Film	Martin Butler, Bentley Dean and Carolyn Johnson	Nominated
	Best Cinematography	Bentley Dean	Nominated

References

1. Samuelson, Kate (24 January 2017). "Here Are the 2017 Oscar Nominations". Time. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
2. Frater, Patrick (23 August 2016). "Australia Selects 'Tanna' as Foreign-Language Oscar Contender". Variety. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
3. Slatter, Sean (10 March 2022). "'You had to be ready to go': Bentley Dean on finding and 'Facing Monsters'". IF Magazine. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
4. "Tanna Metacritic listing" (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/tanna). Metacritic. Accessed 24 September 2016.
5. "Hacksaw Ridge leads with 13 AACTA nominations". Sky News. 27 October 2016. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
6. Nordyke, Kimberly (24 January 2017). "Oscars: 'La La Land' Ties Record With 14 Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 January 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
7. "Oscar Nominations: Complete List". Variety. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
8. Nordyke, Kimberly (12 December 2016). "'Moonlight' Named Best Picture by the African American Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 December 2016.

External links

• Bentley Dean at IMDb