australian television information archive

The 2019 AWGIE Awards (52nd annual) were held on August 22, 2019 at the City Recital Hall in Sydney

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

• Bloom: ‘The Memory Box’ — Glen Dolman
• Jack Irish: Season 2, Episode 1 — Andrew Knight
• Secret City: Under the Eagle: ‘Run Little Rabbit’ — Matt Cameron
• The End: ‘Toxic Shock Syndrome’ — Samantha Strauss

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

• Lambs of God — Sarah Lambert
• On the Ropes — Tamara Asmar, Adam Todd and Ian Meadows
• The Cry — Jacquelin Perske

Television — Serial

• Home and Away: Episode 7073 — Margaret Wilson
• Neighbours: Episode 8052 — Jason Herbison
• The Heights: Episode 26 — Hannah Carroll Chapman

Comedy — Sketch or Light Entertainment

• Orange is the New Brown: Episode 1 — Joel Slack-Smith and Heidi Regan with Nazeem
• Hussain, Richard Thorp, Penny Greenhalgh and Sophie Braham
• The Weekly with Charlie Pickering: ‘TV Bingo’ and ‘Libspill 2’ — Gerard McCulloch, Charlie
• Pickering, Kynan Barker, Chris Kennett, Adam Richard with Justin Kennedy and Eleanor Robertson

Comedy — Situation or Narrative

• Rosehaven: Season 3, Episode 4 — Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola
• Rosehaven: Season 3, Episode 5 — Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola
• The Family Law: ‘Number One Gay Son’ — Benjamin Law and Kirsty Fisher
• Upright: 'Day Six' — Leon Ford
• Upright: 'Day Eight' — Tim Minchin

Children's Television (C Classification)

• Hardball: ‘Across the Ditch’ — Guy Edmonds and Matt Zeremes
• Mustangs FC: ‘Pity Party’ — Alix Beane
• The Deep: ‘Purple Tide’ — Cleon Prineas

Feature Film (Original)

• All Is True — Ben Elton
• Hotel Mumbai — John Collee with Anthony Maras
• Relic — Christian White and Natalie Erika James
• Ride Like a Girl — Andrew Knight and Elise McCredie
• The Favourite — Tony McNamara with Deborah Davis

Feature Film (Adaptation)

• Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears — Deb Cox
• True History of the Kelly Gang — Shaun Grant

Short Film

• Fitting — Bronwen Noakes with Emily Avila
• Here There Be Monsters — Drew Macdonald
• Judas Collar — Alison James
• Stray — Katherine Chediak Putnam with Dean W Law

Documentary — Public Broadcast or Exhibition

• Ghosthunter — Ben Lawrence
• The Art of the Game — Matthew Bate
• The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill: ‘Endeavour and Tahiti’ — Sally Aitken with Owen Hughes, Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios, David Alrich and Sam Neill

Documentary — Community, Educational and Training — or otherwise commissioned to a specific brief

• The Carnival of Consequence — George Catsi

Audio

• 19 Weeks — Emily Steel
• The Fitzroy Diaries — Lorin Clarke

Stage

• Degenerate Art — Toby Schmitz
• Going Down — Michele Lee
• The Harp in the South — Kate Mulvany
• The Long Forgotten Dream — H Lawrence Sumner
• Lost Boys — Lachlan Philpott

Community & Youth Theatre

• The Climbing Tree — Rachael Coopes
• The River at the End of the Road — Caleb Lewis
• These Are Not My People — Mary Rachel Brown
• Yellow Yellow Sometimes Blue — Noëlle Janaczewska

Theatre for Young Audiences

• Amphibian — Duncan Graham
• A Ghost In My Suitcase — Vanessa Bates

Interactive Media

• Awake: ‘First Contact’ — Mike Jones with Martin Taylor and Christian Cantamessa
• Days In Conflict — Sam Doust
• Eleven Eleven — Lucas Taylor
• Storm Boy: The Game — Ellen Jurik

Animation

• Beat Bugs: ‘Lady Madonna’ — Kate Mulvany
• Beat Bugs: ‘You Won't See Me’ — Thomas Duncan-Watt
• Berry Bees: ‘Hypnotic Hair, Don't Care’ — Joel Slack-Smith
• Monstrous: ‘Pier Pressure’ — Bruce Griffiths with Jasper St Aubyn West
• Spongo, Fuzz & Jalapeña: ‘The Gasman Cometh’ — Simon Dodd

Web Series and Other Non-Broadcast/Non-‘Subscription Video On Demand’ TV Short Works

• Sheilas: 'Nancy Wake — WW2 Spy' and 'Mary Ann Bugg — Bushranger' — Hannah Reilly and
• Eliza Reilly
• The Twist: 'Ned's Head', 'The Shark Arm Murder', 'The Claimaint, Sir Roger Tichborne' — Andy Muir

Major Award

• The Harp in the South — Kate Mulvany

David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre

• The Harp in the South — Kate Mulvany

Richard Lane Award for Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers’ Guild

• Jan Sardi

Dorothy Crawford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession and the Industry

• Mac Gudgeon

Fred Parsons Award for Outstanding Contribution To Australian Comedy

• Magda Szubanski

The Australian Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award

• Patrick Edgeworth