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Best Actress | 1989 | Judy
Best Film | 1987 | Antony I.
Best Director | 1987 | Gillian
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1987 | Claudia
Back-to-back consecutive Best Actress AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Judy Davis for this film as Davis had won the same category the previous year for Kangaroo (1986). At the time, this was Davis' third win for a Best Actress in a Lead Role AFI Award, as Davis had won first for Winter of Our Dreams (1981) and in that same year had also won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Hoodwink (1981), making High Tide (1987) her fourth AFI Award for acting.
According to the book 'Australian Film 1978-1994' edited by Scott Murray, "the poster, the press books and almost all writers render the title in two words, but the film clearly has it as one".
The character of Mick played by Colin Friels was originally written as a female role but had to become a man when the lead Lillie (Judy Davis) central character's gender change occurred.
According to website 'Wikipedia', "the script was originally written and financed to be about a man who had abandoned his daughter. But then [director Gillian] Armstrong went to see Wrong World (1985) at the cinema, which was about a male drifter, and the more she thought about the more she felt there had been plenty of films about a man being reunited with their child such as Paper Moon (1973) and Paris, Texas (1984). Her husband suggested she change the character to a woman, which would not only be different but give the film a harder edge. Armstrong was reluctant as she did not want to make another film about a woman, but eventually changed her mind. [Screenwriter Laura] Jones and [producer Sandra] Levy agreed with the choice".
The Lillie character portrayed by Judy Davis was actually originally written as a male personage.
