Look Both Ways won the behind-the-camera trifecta of best film, best director and bestoriginal script at the Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) awards at theweekend.

The drama was written anddirected by Sarah Watt and produced by Bridget Ikin immediately prior to herbecoming one of the two evaluation managers at Film Finance Corporation Australia.

FCCA members also votedDenise Haratzis best editor for her work on the drama and Watt's husbandWilliam McInnes best actor.

All three of the remaining actorawards went to the cast of Little Fish,including Cate Blanchett and in the supporting categories to Noni Hazlehurstand Hugo Weaving.

The screenplay for Three Dollars won the adapted categoryfor director Robert Connolly and Elliot Perlman, author of the novel from whichthe film was adapted.

The two foreign film winnerswere director Clint Eastwood's US film MillionDollar Baby and Alejandro Amenabar's Spanish drama The Sea Inside in the English and non-English categoriesrespectively.

Look Both Ways, which was launched on 17 arthouse screens three months ago, was on 57prints at the height of its season and has taken $1.8m (A$2.5m), making it aspecialist rather than a mainstream hit.

It has won many criticalaccolades including the Discovery Award at Toronto, the FIPRESCI Award for best Asia-Pacific film atthe Brisbane International Film Festival and the audience prize at the AdelaideFilm Festival.

The full list of winners:

BEST FILM
Look Both Ways - producer: BridgetIkin

BEST DIRECTOR
Sarah Watt - Look Both Ways

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sarah Watt - Look Both Ways

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Robert Connolly, Elliot Perlman - ThreeDollars

BEST ACTORS (LEADING ROLES)
William McInnes - Look Both Ways
Cate Blanchett - Little Fish

BEST ACTORS (SUPPORTINGROLES)
Hugo Weaving - Little Fish
Noni Hazlehurst - Little Fish

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Benoit Delhomme - The Proposition

BEST EDITOR
Denise Haratzis - Look Both Ways

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Nick Cave,Warren Ellis - The Proposition

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Million Dollar Baby (in English)
The Sea Inside (not in English)

BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT
Jewboy - director: Tony Krawitz

BEST AUSTRALIAN DOCUMENTARY
Girl In A Mirror- director: Kathy Drayton

BEST AUSTRALIAN FEATUREDOCUMENTARY
Rash - director: Nicholas Hansen

EMERGING TALENT
Tim Dean (from the Victorian College of the Arts) for directing