Awards and Nominations
- 1969 Inaugural Drama Critics Award - Best Production, "Fortune and Men's Eyes"
- 1970 Polish Government Scholarship to study with Jersey Grotowski, Wraclaw ($10,000)
- 1978 Script Development, Australian Film Commission, "Cape Hawk - A Work in Progress"
- 1978 Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Aboriginal Overseas Study Grant
- 1978 BBC-TV Specials Directors' Course for Emerging Nations
- 1987 Inaugural Harold Blair Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Performing Arts
- 1987 Awarded the title of "Elder" by BNPC Delegates
- 1990 Ikkeman Sacred Feather, International First Nations Film and Art Festival, Canada
- 1992 Best Feature Film and first feature film by a First Nations Director, Dreamspeaker International Film and Arts Festival, Edmonton, Canada
- 1992 Nominee - East West Award - Best Feature Film, Hawaii International Film Festival, Hawaii, USA
- 1993 Co-recipient - Literary Fellowship - Australia Council for "Kicking Down the Doors: A History of Australian Indigenous Filmmakers: 1968 to 1993"
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