australian television information archive

The 2014 AWGIE Awards (47th annual) were held at Doltone House Hyde Park, Sydney on Friday September 05.

Monte Miller Award: Long Form

for unproduced script over 30 minutes by Associate member

• Anxiety Society - Veronica Kopinski
• Vanished - Alexei Mizin and Ryan van Dijk
• Three Moons - Simon Proud
• Small Town - Susan Thwaites

Monte Miller Award: Short Form

for unproduced script under 30 minutes by Associate member

• Paradise - Anya Beyersdorf
• Love Lawn - Megan Palinkas
• Some Time Later - Donovan Renn
• Dust Bunny - Stuart Willis

Telemovie (Adaptation)

• Jack Irish: Dead Point - Matt Cameron
• The Broken Shore - Andrew Knight

Television Mini-series (Adaptation)

• ANZAC Girls - Niki Aken and Felicity Packard

Television Mini-series (Original)

• The Devil's Playground - Alice Addison, Blake Ayshford, Tommy Murphy and Cate Shortland
• The Code - Blake Ayshford, Shelley Birse and Justin Monjo
• Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story - David Caesar and Samantha Winston
• Old School - Matt Cameron, Belinda Chayko, Michaeley O'Brien and Paul Oliver with Gregor Jordan

Television (Series)

• Rake: Series 3 'Their Lordships v. Finnane' - Peter Duncan
• Offspring: Episode 411 - Michael Lucas
• Rake: Series 3, Episode 5 - Andrew Knight
• Puberty Blues: Series 2, Episode 3 - Tony McNamara
• Wentworth: Series 2 'Metamorphosis' - John Ridley

Television (Serial)

• Home and Away: Episode 5946 - Nick King
• Neighbours: Episode 6744 - Stephen Vagg
• Neighbours: Episode 6857 - Stephen Vagg
• Neighbours: Episode 6820 - Margaret Wilson
• Neighbours: Episode 6836 - Alexa Wyatt

Comedy (Sketch or Light Entertainment)

• This Is Littleton: 'Talent And A Head for Business' - Amanda Brotchie with Dave O'Neil, Karl Chandler, Ronny Chieng, Melinda Cklamovska, Tegan Higginbotham, Tony Moclair, Matt Okine, Miles O'Neil, Morgana O'Reilly, Stevo Petkovic, Steen Raskopoulos, Vachel Spirason and Adele Vuko
• How Green Was My Cactus - Doug Edwards and Lindy Wilson with Shane Edwards (Radio)
• Wednesday Night Fever: Series 1 - Mat Blackwell, Rick Kalowski, Steve Lynch, Sammy J, Ian Simmons, Joel Slack-Smith and Stephen Walsh with Anne Edmonds, Heath Franklin and Richard Thorp
• Legally Brown - Joel Slack-Smith and Stephen Walsh with Nazeem Hussain, Morgan Jones and Richard Thorp

Comedy (Situation or Narrative)

• The Moodys: 'Sean's Day in Court' - Patrick Brammall
• The Moodys: 'Commitments' - Phil Lloyd and Trent O'Donnell
• The Moodys: 'Australia Day' - Phil Lloyd and Trent O'Donnell

Feature Film (Original)

• Cut Snake - Blake Ayshford
• 52 Tuesdays - Matthew Cormack
• My Mistress - Stephen Lance with Gerard Lee
• Is This The Real World - Martin McKenna

Major AWGIE

• The Code - Blake Ayshford, Shelley Birse and Justin Monjo

Short Film

• Grey Bull - Edward Bell
• She Was She - Penelope Chai
• Rocketman - Phillip Enchelmaier
• Baby Baby - Billie Pleffer

Radio — Original

• My Life In Cookbooks - Noëlle Janaczewska
• Contact - Katie Pollock

Interactive Media

• AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS - Christy Dena

Animation

• Buzz Bumble: 'Best Bugs' - Alix Beane
• Get Ace: 'Ace Gets Braced' - Raymond Boseley
• The Flamin' Thongs: 'Thongageddon' - Simon Dodd and Bruce Griffiths
• Tashi: 'Tashi & The Genie' - Sam Meikle

Documentary — Public Broadcast

• The Boffin, the Builder and the Bombardier: 'Hit Without Being Hit' - John Concannon
• A Woman's Journey Into Sex - Sally McKenzie

Documentary — Corporate & Training

• Indigenous Cultural Awareness - Charles Hamlyn-Harris
• Trial Bay Gaol Internee Cell - Charles Hamlyn-Harris

Community & Youth Theatre

• Full Circle - Maree Freeman with Stephanie Brown and Bridget Wood
• Tough Beauty - Finegan Kruckemeyer
• The Chosen - Lachlan Philpott
• Comin' Home Soon - Alana Valentine

Stage

• The Secret River - Andrew Bovell
• Savages - Patricia Cornelius
• You Are Dead. You Are Here. - Christine Evans
• Forget Me Not - Tom Holloway
• The Trouble with Harry - Lachlan Philpott

Children's Theatre

• Caylee's Ukulele - Donna Abela with songs by Jacquie Reid
• Compass - Jessica Bellamy
• The Grumpiest Boy in the World - Finegan Kruckemeyer
• The 13-Storey Treehouse - Richard Tulloch

Theatre for Young Audiences

• Storm Boy - Tom Holloway
• The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You - Finegan Kruckemeyer

Children's Television (P Classification)

• Hoopla Doopla!: 'Snow Business' - Kym Goldsworthy
• Bananas in Pyjamas: 'The Fast Bananas' - Kevin Nemeth
• Hoopla Doopla!: 'Hula Hoopla' - David Witt

Children's Television (C Classification)

• Nowhere Boys: Episode 3 - Craig Irvin
• The Worst Year of My Life - Again!: 'Match Day' - Brendan Luno
• Nowhere Boys: Episode 6 - Elise McCredie
• Nowhere Boys: Episode 1 - Roger Monk

Dorothy Crawford Award

For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession

• Everett DeRoche (posthumous)

Richard Lane Award

For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers' Guild

• Jon Stephens and Bruce Pulsford

Fred Parsons Award

For Special Contribution to Australian Comedy

• Andrew Denton

Hector Crawford Award

for an Outstanding Contribution to the Craft via a Body of Script Editing Work

• Peter Matheson

FOXTEL Fellowship

In Recognition of a Outstanding and Significant Body of Work in Television

• Kelly Lefever

David Williamson Prize

In Celebration and Recognition of Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre

• Andrew Bovell

Australian Writers' Foundation Playwrights Fellowship

• Sue Smith
• Katherine Thompson