australian television information archive

The 2017 AWGIE Awards (50th annual) were held on August 25, 2017 at Darling Harbour, Sydney.

Television — Series Or Miniseries (More Than 4 Hours Duration)

• Janet King: ‘Playing Advantage’ — Greg Haddrick
• Seven Types of Ambiguity: ‘Alex’ — Jacquelin Perske
• The Wrong Girl: Episode 3 — Michael Lucas
• Wentworth: ‘Seeing Red’ — Pete McTighe

Television — Telemovie Or Miniseries (Less Than 4 Hours Duration)

• Deep Water — Kris Wyld and Kym Goldsworthy
• High Life — Glen Dolman
• Hoges: Part 1 — Keith Thompson

Television — Serial

• Home and Away: Episode 6510 — Faith McKinnon
• Neighbours: Episode 7414 — Sam Meikle
• Neighbours: Episode 7477 — Sue Hore
• Neighbours: Episode 7492 — Peter Mattessi

Comedy — Situation Or Narrative

• No Activity: ‘Silent Night’ — Trent O’Donnell
• Please Like Me: ‘Burrito Bowl’ — Josh Thomas, Thomas Ward and Liz Doran
• Rosehaven: Episode 4 — Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola
• Rosehaven: Episode 6 — Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola

Comedy — Sketch Or Light Entertainment

• Fancy Boy: ‘Three Wishes’ — Declan Fay and Anne Edmonds with John Campbell, Stuart Daulman, Greg Larsen, Jonathan Schuster and Henry Stone
• Sammy J’s Playground Politics — Sam McMillan and Chris McDonald with James Pender
• Suspect Moustache: Episode 1 — Fabian Lapham

Children’s Television — P Classification (Preschool — Under 5 Years)

• Digby Dragon: ‘Mungo’s Flight School’ — Tim Bain
• Guess How Much I Love You: ‘Little White Fawn’ — Melanie Alexander
• Hoot Hoot Go!: ‘Giggle Fangs is Too Good at Hoot and Seek’ — Wendy Hanna

Children’s Television — C Classification (Children’s — 5–14 Years)

• Oh Yuck!: ‘Gastrov Flatulinsky’ — Timothy Lee
• The Deep: ‘Beware the Sentinels’ — Thomas Duncan-Watt
• The Deep: ‘Finn Comes Aboard’ — Rachel Spratt
• The Skinners: ‘Carpathian Cook Book’ — David Witt

Feature Film (Original)

• Hacksaw Ridge — Andrew Knight with Robert Schenkkan
• Hounds of Love — Ben Young

Feature Film (Adaptation)

• Lion — Luke Davies

Short Form

• Big City — Jordan Bond
• Creswick — Christian White and Natalie Erika James
• Going Vego — Christopher Burke
• Tender — Rebecca Greensill

Animation

• Counterfeit Cat: ‘Room of Panic’ — Tim Bain
• Motown Magic: ‘My Girl’ — John Armstrong
• Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong: ‘Adventures in Holo Sitting’ — Charlotte Rose Hamlyn
• Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong: ‘Happy Birthday Dear Dark Lord’ — Thomas Duncan-Watt

Documentary — Public Broadcast or Exhibition

• Paris or the Bush: ‘The Story of the Cods’ — Wayne Groom with Carolyn Bilsborow
• Streets of Your Town: Episode 2 — Sally Aitken
• The Panther Within — Edoardo Crismani

Documentary — Corporate & Training

• Cyber Security — The Internet — Sam Meikle
• Demons to Please — Jim Shomos with Amelia Walters

Stage

• Hurt — Catherine McKinnon
• The Drover’s Wife — Leah Purcell
• The Turquoise Elephant — Stephen Carleton
• Things I Know To Be True — Andrew Bovell

Community & Youth Theatre

• Michael Swordfish — Lachlan Philpott
• Teacup in a Storm — Noëlle Janaczewska
• Trailer — Vanessa Bates
• Uprising — Patricia Cornelius and Melissa Reeves

Theatre for Young Audiences

• Gorgon — Elena Carapetis
• The Big Dry — Mark Kilmurry, adapted from the novel by Tony Davis
• Where Words Once Were — Finegan Kruckemeyer

Children's Theatre

• Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories — Dan Giovannoni with Luke Kerridge
• Egg — Angela Betzien
• The Snow — Finegan Kruckemeyer
• You and Me and the Space Between — Finegan Kruckemeyer

Music Theatre

• Atomic — Danny Ginges with Philip Foxman

Interactive Media

• Ghosts of Biloela — Que Minh Luu, Christopher Burke and Anna Barnes
• VR Noir: A Day Before The Night — Mike Jones

Major Award

• The Drover’s Wife — Leah Purcell

David Williamson Prize

Given in Celebration and Recognition of Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre

• The Drover’s Wife — Leah Purcell

Richard Lane Award

For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers' Guild

• Kelly Lefever

Fred Parsons Award

For Outstanding Contribution To Australian Comedy

• Julian Morrow

The Australian Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award

• Andrew Knight