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 the July the 17th, 2017. A. Bertram Chandler's novel "Kelly Country" (1983) is an alternate history in which Kelly leads a successful revolution. The result is that Australia becomes a world power, but the Australian Republic which Kelly founded degenerates into a hereditary dictatorship. "Our Sunshine" (1991) by Robert Drewe was the basis of the 2003 film, "Ned Kelly", that starred Heath Ledger. Peter Carey's novel "True History of the Kelly Gang" was published in 2000, and was awarded the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Terry Pratchett's novel "The Last Continent" has a character called "Tinhead Ned",