Bentley Dean Explained

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		[5]
	Best Direction	Martin Butler and Bentley Dean
	Best Cinematography	Bentley Dean
Academy Award	Best Foreign Language Film	Martin Butler and Bentley Dean		[6] [7]
African-American Film Critics Association	Best Foreign Film			[8]
FCCA Awards	Best Film	Martin Butler, Bentley Dean and Carolyn Johnson
	Best Cinematography	Bentley Dean

Notes and References

1. Samuelson. Kate. Here Are the 2017 Oscar Nominations. 24 January 2017. Time. 24 January 2017.
2. Web site: Australia Selects 'Tanna' as Foreign-Language Oscar Contender . Patrick . Frater . . 23 August 2016 . 23 August 2016.
3. Web site: Slatter . Sean . 'You had to be ready to go': Bentley Dean on finding and 'Facing Monsters' . IF Magazine . 10 March 2022 . 25 August 2024.
4. "Tanna Metacritic listing" (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/tanna). Metacritic. Accessed 24 September 2016.
5. Web site: Hacksaw Ridge leads with 13 AACTA nominations . 27 October 2016 . 1 November 2016 . Sky News . 28 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201128105921/https://www.skynews.com.au/culture/showbiz/movies/2016/10/27/hacksaw-ridge-leads-with-13-aacta-nominations.html . dead .
6. News: Oscars: 'La La Land' Ties Record With 14 Nominations . Kimberly . Nordyke . . 24 January 2017 . 24 January 2017 .
7. Oscar Nominations: Complete List . . 24 January 2017 . 24 January 2017.
8. Web site: 'Moonlight' Named Best Picture by the African American Film Critics Association . Kimberly . Nordyke . . 12 December 2016 . 12 December 2016.