australian television information archive

The 42nd annual AWGIE Awards were held August 28, 2009 at Doltone House in Sydney

Richard Lane Award Recognising Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers' Guild

• Jack Brislee

Hector Crawford Award - For a Significant Contribution to the Craft via a Body of Script Editing Work

• May-Brit Akerholt

Richard Wherrett Prize

• Tenderness - Slut — Patricia Cornelius

Kit Denton Fellowship

• Back to Back Theatre

John Hinde Award for Science Fiction

• Shayne Armstrong and S.P Krause

Monte Miller Award

(for unproduced script over 30 minutes — Associate member)

• Dog Club — Irina Goundortseva
• Box — James Greville
• The Smash Man — Mark Hopkins
• Space Cadet — Paulene Turner

Monte Miller Award

(for unproduced script under 30 minutes — Associate member)

• State of Mind — Philip Tarl Denson
• Broken — Mitchell Forrester
• Lost Dog — Dean Friske
• Wake Up Call — Andrew Kotatko
• The Darkness In Their Eyes — David Williamson

Children's Television (C Classification)

• CJ the DJ - Si's Slide — John Armstrong
• K9 - The Fall of the House of Gryffen — John Armstrong and Shane Krause
• Sumo Mouse - Episode 19 - That's a Sidekick in the Pants — Ray Boseley
• Pearlie - Dude Ranch — Stu Connolly

Children's Television (P Classification)

• Zigby - Zigby and the Mango — Suzie Wicks

Children's Theatre

• The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy - — Finegan Kruckemeyer, conceived — Andy Packer

Theatre for Young Audiences

• Tenderness - Slut — Patricia Cornelius

Community & Youth Theatre

• Watermark — Alana Valentine

Stage

• When the Rain Stops Falling — Andrew Bovell
• Ruben Guthrie — Brendan Cowell
• The Modern International Dead — Damien Millar

Interactive Media

• FIND815 — Anthony Mullins

Radio - Original Broadcast

• There's Something about Eels— — Noëlle Janaczewska
• Pitch Black — Noëlle Janaczewska
• Moon Door — Verity Laughton
• Davy — Verity Laughton
• Concerto for Humans and Semtex — Simon Luckhurst

Radio Adaptation

• There's Something about Eels... — Noëlle Janaczewska

Documentary - Public Broadcast

• How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer — Simon Nasht
• First Australians - Episode 1 — Rachel Perkins and Louis Nowra
• First Australians - Episode 3 — Louis Nowra with Beck Cole

Documentary - Corporate Training

• Not My Sister - Scott Xavier Higgins
• Bingo Night - Scott Xavier Higgins
• Bag Snatch - Michael Winter

Short Film

• Champions — Anita Beckman
• Dearth — Bruce Davie
• Floating — Juliet Porter
• Tomorrow — Simon Portus

Comedy (Sketch or Light Entertainment)

• How Green Was My Cactus — Doug Edwards and Shane Edwards
• Good News Week 2:07 - The 2008 Jet - Sparrow Awards — Dave Bloustien, Simon Dodd, Bruce Griffiths, Warwick Holt and Ian Simmons, with Mat Blackwell, Patrick Cook, Paul Livingston and Celia Pacquola
• Newstopia — Stephen Hall and Michael Ward with Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie

Comedy (Situation or Narrative)

• Poster Girl — Van Badham
• Chandon Pictures - A Script is Written — Rob Carlton
• Review with Myles Barlow - Episode 3 — Phil Lloyd with Trent O'Donnell
• Whatever Happened to that Guy? - Bryan Brown Stole My Life — Brendan Luno and Peter Moon
• Whatever Happened to that Guy? - The Book — Doug MacLeod

Television (Serial)

• Neighbours - Episode 5474 — John Davies
• Out of the Blue - Episode 4 — Sam Meikle
• Neighbours - Episode 5486 — Anthony Morris
• Home and Away - Episode 4649 — Sean Nash

Television (Series)

• Rush - Episode 1 — Christopher Lee
• Rush - Episode 4 — John O'Brien and Christopher Lee
• Satisfaction - Episode 4, Playground — Jo Martino
• Carla Cametti PD - Episode 1, To Have and to Hold — Jo Martino and Samantha Winston, additional writing — Liz Doran

Telemovie (Original)

• Saved — Belinda Chayko
• Scorched — Tim Pye

Television Mini-series (Original)

• East West 101 - Season 2 — Vanessa Bates, Kristen Dunphy, Michael Miller, Michelle Offen, David Ogilvy and Katherine Thomson
• False Witness — Peter Gawler
• The Circuit - Series 2 — Kelly Lefever and Mitch Torres with Dot West and Wayne Blair

Feature Film (Adaptation)

• Blessed — Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius and Christos Tsiolkas
• Bran Nue Dae — Reg Cribb, Rachel Perkins with Jimmy Chi
• Last Ride — Mac Gudgeon
• Easy Virtue — Sheridan Jobbins with Stephan Elliott and Noël Coward

Feature Film (Original)

• The Combination — George Basha
• Cedar Boys — Serhat Caradee
• Mary and Max — Adam Elliot
• Samson and Delilah — Warwick Thornton

Major AWGIE Award

• Samson and Delilah — Warwick Thornton