[2] On the 10th anniversary of the establishment of AACTA in 2020, the Byron Kennedy Award was selected to celebrate low-budget independent films.
As the nominees were announced, AACTA wrote that the award would "recognise an Australian film that illustrates the resourcefulness, inventiveness, originality and excellence that Byron Kennedy embodied through his genre-defining work with George Miller on Mad Max".
[4] The Byron Kennedy Award is presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is "to identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television.
"[5] It recognises a person in their early career for "outstanding creative enterprise within the film and television industries... whose work embodies the qualities of Byron Kennedy: innovation, vision and the relentless pursuit of excellence.
"[1] Recommendations for recipients are made by the general public, but the AFI and Academy may also select further candidates without the need for an entry.