Ned Kelly the Kelly Gang", the world's first dramatic feature-length film. Among those who have portrayed him on screen are Australian rules football player Bob Chitty ("The Glenrowan Affair", 1951), rock musician Mick Jagger ("Ned Kelly", 1970) and Heath Ledger ("Ned Kelly", 2003). In the visual arts, Sidney Nolan's 1946–47 Kelly series is considered "one of the greatest sequences of Australian painting of the twentieth century". His stylised depiction of Kelly's helmet has become an iconic Australian image; hundreds of performers dressed as "Nolanesque Kellys" starred in the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2001, Peter Carey won the
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Kelly's last night alive. It toured Australia nationally in 2015 and was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Regional Touring Production. In 2015, another musical treatment of the Kelly story premiered at the Ulumbarra Theatre in the Victorian town of Bendigo. "Ned: A New Australian Musical" (or sometimes shortened to "Ned: The Musical"), featured a book by Anna Lyon and Marc Mcintyre, and Music and Lyrics by Adam Lyon. The production ran from the 22nd of May to 31 May. A one night only concert version of the musical is set to be staged at Melbourne's National Theatre on