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Australian Writers' Guild Awards

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Monte Miller Award: Short Form

(for unproduced script under 30 minutes by Associate member)
  • Falling on Deaf Ears - Paul Bugeja
  • Liv - Pauline Findlay
  • Space - Jill Moylan
  • The Mind Job - J.J. Winlove

Monte Miller Award: Long Form

(for unproduced script over 30 minutes by Associate member)
  • Lucid - Philip Denson
  • Gifted - Laura Greaves (Sox - Steve Harrison
  • The Non-Believers - Steve Mitchell
  • Diving for Poland - Andrea Rogers
  • Falling Star - Meg Shields

Short Film

  • Two Ships — Nicky Arnall
  • Heck — Lisa Hoppe with Bobbie Waterman
  • Tethered — Craig Irvin
  • After The Credits — Josh Lawson
  • The Palace — Anthony Maras

Interactive Media

  • Bluebird AR — Marissa Cooke, Sam Doust and Amy Nelson

Documentary - Public Broadcast

  • The Tall Man — Tony Krawitz
  • The Long Walk of Brother Benedict — Linda Neil

Documentary - Corporate & Training

  • Ouch! That's Not Good! — Charles Hamlyn-Harris

Radio - Original Broadcast

  • Water Tight - Donna Cameron
  • Weeds Etc. - Noelle Janaczewska
  • The Clerk Ascending - Gina Schien

Radio - Adaptation

  • The Stepping Stars of Boronkowice - Noelle Janaczewska
  • King Tide - Katherine Thomson

Stage

  • Do Not Go Gentle - Patricia Cornelius
  • Love Me Tender - Tom Holloway
  • Namatjira - Scott Rankin
  • Furious Mattress - Melissa Reeves

Music Theatre

  • The Cockatoos - Sarah Carradine
  • The Musical Child - Cathryn Strickland

Community & Youth Theatre

  • Yet to Ascertain the Nature of the Crime - Roanna Gonsalves with Raimondo Cortese, Damien Miller, Grkem Acaroglu and the company of actors
  • Ithaca Road - Robert Kronk

Children's Theatre

  • Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear - Catherine Fargher
  • The African Musician - Afeif Ismail
  • The Girl who Forgot to Sing Badly - Finegan Kruckemeyer

Theatre for Young Audiences

  • Moth - Declan Greene
  • Romeo and Juliet Intensive - Ned Manning

Children's Television (P Classification)

  • Bananas in Pyjamas: Morgan's Cloud — John Armstrong

Children's Television (C Classification)

  • My Place: 1808 Sarah — Alice Addison
  • My Place: 1868 Minna — Nicholas Parsons
  • Gasp!: Fish Stick — Rachel Spratt

Comedy (Sketch or Light Entertainment)

  • Good News Week: Australia Decides 2010 — Dave Bloustein, Simon Dodd, Bruce Griffiths, Warwick Holt, Paul Livingston and Ian Simmons
  • Good News Week: Episode 3.30 — Dave Bloustein, Simon Dodd, Bruce Griffiths, Warwick Holt, Paul Livingston and Ian Simmons
  • Good News Week: The First Cut — Dave Bloustein, Simon Dodd, Bruce Griffiths, Warwick Holt, Paul Livingston and Ian Simmons

Comedy (Situation or Narrative)

  • Laid: Episode 4 — Marieke Hardy
  • Housos: Pregnant — Paul Fenech
  • Review With Myles Barlow: Series 2 Episode 1 — Phil Lloyd with Trent O'Donnell

Television Mini-series (Original)

  • Small Time Gangster — Gareth Calverley and Joss King
  • East West 101 — Season 3: The Hero's Journey — Vanessa Bates, Michael Miller, Michelle Offen, David Ogilvy, Katherine Thomson, Kristine Wyld with Steve Knapman
  • Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo — Christopher Lee

Television (Serial)

  • Home and Away — Episode 5215 — Cameron Welsh
  • Neighbours — Episode 6018 — Anthony Morris

Television (Series)

  • Rake — Episode 5: R v. Chandler - Peter Duncan
  • Spirited — Episode 7: Riders on the Storm — Jacquelin Perske
  • City Homicide — Episode 83: Last Man Standing — Mia Tolhurst

Telemovie (Original)

  • Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here — Peter Gawler
  • Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away — Kris Mrksa

Feature Film (Adaptation)

  • The Hunter — Alice Addison
  • Tomorrow, When the War Began — Stuart Beattie
  • Snowtown — Shaun Grant

Feature Film (Original)

  • Here I Am — Beck Cole
  • Wasted on the Young — Ben C. Lucas
  • Burning Man — Jonathan Teplitzky

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

  • Ian David

Dorothy Crawford Award - For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession

  • Currency Press

Fred Parsons Award - For Special Contribution to Australian Comedy

  • Chris Lilley

Hector Crawford Award - For Outstanding Contribution to the Craft in the Field of Script Editing

  • Denise Morgan (awarded posthumously)

John Hind Award - For Excellence in Science Fiction Writing

  • Matt Ford for Panic at Rock Island

Kit Denton Fellowship - For Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing

  • Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan

FOXTEL Fellowship - Fellowship awarded in recognition of a significant body of work in television

  • Kris Mrksa

Major Award

  • Patricia Cornelius