Animal Kingdom (film)

Animal Kingdom
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Michôd
Written by	David Michôd
Produced by	Liz Watts
Starring	Ben Mendelsohn Joel Edgerton Guy Pearce Luke Ford Jacki Weaver Sullivan Stapleton James Frecheville
Cinematography	Adam Arkapaw
Edited by	Luke Doolan
Music by	Antony Partos
Production companies	Screen Australia Porchlight Films Film Victoria Screen NSW Fulcrum Media Finance Showtime Australia Blue-Tongue Films
Distributed by	Madman Entertainment
Release dates	22 January 2010 (2010-01-22) (Sundance) 3 June 2010 (2010-06-03) (Australia)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	$5 million[1]
Box office	$7.2 million[2]

Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama film written and directed by David Michôd in his feature directorial debut. It stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, James Frecheville, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, and Sullivan Stapleton.

The screenplay was inspired by several crimes allegedly committed by the Pettingill family of Melbourne, particularly one involving brothers Trevor Pettingill and Victor Peirce, and two other men, Anthony Leigh Farrell and Peter David McEvoy, all of whom were acquitted in 1988 of murdering two police officers in the Walsh Street police shootings.

Animal Kingdom premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2010, where it won the World Cinema Jury Prize. The film was theatrically released on 3 June 2010 to highly positive reviews, with Mendelsohn and Weaver earning widespread acclaim for their performances. Weaver won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture at the 15th Satellite Awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 83rd Academy Awards.