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Australian Directors Guild Awards

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The ceremony was held in Melbourne on May 05, 2016 at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins

Feature Film

  • Bentley Dean & Martin Butler - Tanna
  • Sue Brooks - Looking For Grace
  • Jocelyn Moorhouse - The Dressmaker
  • Jeremy Sims - Last Cab To Darwin/li>

Michael Carson Award For Excellence In Television Drama Direction

  • Geoffrey Nottage

TV Drama Series

  • Jeffrey Walker - Banished / S1, Ep7
  • Shawn Seet - Love Child / S2, Ep3
  • Emma Freeman - Glitch / S1, Ep1
  • Fiona Banks - The Dr. Blake Mysteries / S3, Ep3
  • Kevin Carlin - Wentworth / S3, Ep1

TV Drama Serial

  • Geoffrey Nottage - Home & Away / Ep 6176
  • David Gould - Home & Away / Ep 6341

TV Mini-Series

  • Michael Rymer - Deadline Gallipoli / Ep 1
  • Peter Salmon - The Beautiful Lie / Ep 6
  • Kriv Stenders - The Principal / Ep 1
  • Shawn Seet - Peter Allen - Not The Boy Next Door / Ep 1

Telemovie

  • Mark Joffe - House of Hancock
  • Jennifer Leacey - Mary - The Making of a Princess
  • Rachel Perkins - Redfern Now: Promise Me

TV Comedy

  • Dena Curtis - 8MMM Aboriginal Radio - Episode 2
  • Craig Melville - Maximum Choppage / Ep 4
  • Jonathan Brough - Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane / Ep 1
  • Sian Davies - The Ex PM / Ep 2

Esban Storm Award for Children's TV

  • Daina Reid - Ready For This / Ep4
  • Ian Reiser - Little Lunch: The Grandparents Day
  • Tony Krawitz - Ready For This / Ep13
  • Evan Clarry - Mako: Island of Secrets (AKA: Mermaids) / S2, Ep11

Documentary - Feature

  • Margot Nash - The Silences
  • Jennifer Peedom - Sherpa
  • Stefan Moore & Susan Lambert - Tyke Elephant Outlaw
  • Nick Bird & Eleanor Sharpe - Remembering The Man
  • Lisa Nicol - Wide Open Sky

Documentary - Stand Alone

  • Sophie Wiesner - Call Me Dad
  • David Mason - Cast from the Storm (TV version)
  • Sally Aitken - Getting Frank Gehry
  • Jane Manning - Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation
  • Darlene Johnson - The Redfern Story

Documentary - Series

  • Ivan O'Mahoney - Hitting Home / Ep 1
  • Cian O'Clery - Changing Minds - The Inside Story / S2, Ep2
  • Madeleine Parry - The Maddie Parry Series / Ep 2
  • Sally Aitken - The Great Australian Race Riot / Ep 1

Short Film

  • Darlene Johnson - Bluey
  • Jack Sheridan - Injury Time
  • Corrie Chen - Reg Makes Contact
  • Matthew Richards - The Disappearance of Willie Bingham
  • Brooke Goldfinch - Red Rover

Student Film

  • Rachel Anderson - Little Kingdom
  • Dongmei Li - The Corn is Flowering
  • Simon Trevorrow - There's a Bluebird in my Heart
  • Eugenie Muggleton - Twenty Forty Three

TV Commercial

  • Husein Alicajic - Officeworks: Let Their Amazing Out
  • Tim Bullock - Volkswagen: Bear
  • Nicholas Carlton - beyondblue: Preventing Youth Suicide
  • Michael Spiccia - Taco Bell: Routine Republic
  • Peter Carstairs - Ultrasound

Animation

  • Darcy Prendergast - Come Alive
  • Luke Jurevicius - The New Adventures of Figaro Pho: Time Travellers
  • Damian Smith - Little Darling (Director's Cut)
  • Del Kathryn Barton & Brendan Fletcher - Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose

Original Online Project

  • Kacie Anning - Fragments of Friday / S2
  • Shaun Wilson - Noirhouse / S2
  • Nathan Earl - Plonk
  • Julietta Boscolo - Department of Justice Victoria: Barbie
  • Christopher Nelius - Andy Hensel - Unstoppable

Music Video

  • Peter Carstairs & Curtis Hill - Hallelujah (The Rubens)
  • Nash Edgerton - The Night We Called It A Day (Bob Dylan)
  • Aaron McCann - Cold Sober feat. Empty (Mathas Stone)

ADG/DGA Finders Award

  • Sue Brooks: Looking for Grace

Cecil Holmes Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Australian Directors Guild

  • Michael Frankel & Greg Duffy