Australian Writers' Guild Awards

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The 2022 AWGIE Awards (55th annual) were held on November 15, 2022 in Sydney.

Television — Serial

  • Home and Away: Episode 7742 — Louise Bowes
  • Neighbours: Episode 8654 — Jessica Paine
  • Neighbours: Episode 8801 — Emma J Steele

Television — Series

  • Bump: Season 2, 'AITA (Am I the Arsehole)' — Jessica Tuckwell
  • Firebite: Season 1, 'I Wanna Go Home' — Kodie Bedford
  • Heartbreak High: Season 1, Episode 1 — Hannah Carroll Chapman
  • The Newsreader: Season 1, 'A Step Closer to the Madness' — Niki Aken
  • The Newsreader: Season 1, 'No More Lies' — Kim Ho and Michael Lucas
  • Total Control: Season 2, Episode 2 — Pip Karmel

Television — Limited Series

  • Fires — Tony Ayres, Belinda Chayko, Anya Beyersdorf, Steven McGregor and Jacquelin Perske with Mirrah Foulkes
  • Lie With Me — Jason Herbison and Margaret Wilson with Anthony Ellis

Comedy — Sketch or Light Entertainment

  • Gruen: Season 13, 'Punts' — Sophie Braham and James Colley with Cameron James, Bec Melrose and Mark Sutton
  • The Feed: 'Comedy Sketches, 2021' — Ben Jenkins, Alex Lee, Jenna Owen, Vidya Rajan and Vic Zerbst

Comedy — Situation or Narrative

  • How to Stay Married: Season 3, 'Keyboard Warriors' — Nick Musgrove
  • Metro Sexual: Season 2, 'Martha Bradbury' — Henry Boffin with Nicholas Kraak
  • Spreadsheet: Season 1, 'Chlamydia & Nits' — Kala Ellis

Children's Television (P Classification)

  • Beep and Mort: Season 1, 'Beep's Home' — Charlotte Rose Hamlyn
  • Little J & Big Cuz: Season 3, 'Levi Learns' — Samuel Nuggin-Paynter
  • Little J & Big Cuz: Season 3, 'Serpent's Eye' — Dot West
  • Little J & Big Cuz: Season 3, 'Shelter' — Adam Thompson

Children's Television (C Classification)

  • Rock Island Mysteries: Season 1, 'A Young Mystery' — Marisa Nathar
  • The PM's Daughter: Season 1, Episode 4 — Angela McDonald
  • The PM's Daughter: Season 1, Episode 8 — Lou Sanz
  • The Strange Chores: Season 2, 'Walk Wolfman' — Luke Tierney

Feature Film — Original

  • Blaze — Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero
  • How To Please A Woman — Renée Webster
  • Sissy — Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes
  • Sweet As — Jub Clerc and Steve Rodgers

Feature Film — Adaptation

  • Mrs Harris Goes to Paris — Keith Thompson with Carroll Cartwright & Anthony Fabian, and Olivia Hetreed
  • The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson — Leah Purcell
  • The Stranger — Thomas M. Wright

Short Film

  • Pasifika Drift — Natasha Henry
  • Snapshot — Becki Bouchier
  • The Moths Will Eat Them Up — Tanya Modini
  • When The Sky Was Blue — Rae Choi

Documentary — Public Broadcast or Exhibition

  • Beyond The Reef — Georgia Harrison
  • Big Deal — Craig Reucassel and Christiaan Van Vuuren
  • Girl Like You — Frances Elliott with Samantha Marlowe
  • Ithaka — Ben Lawrence
  • Peace Pilgrims — John Hughes

Audio — Fiction

  • Sunshadow: Episode 1, Episode, 9 and Episode 10 — Phil Enchelmaier and Bronwen Noakes
  • The Bazura Project's Radio Free Cinema: 'Herzog's Adventures in Wernerland' — Lee Zachariah with Shannon Marinko
  • The Fitzroy Diaries: Season 3, Episode 1, Episode 3, Episode 7 and Episode 8 — Lorin Clarke
  • The Great Mantini — Simon Luckhurst
  • Untrue Romance: 'Call You Back' — Tommy Murphy

Audio — Non-Fiction

  • The Phantom Never Dies: Fantomen — Maria Lewis

Stage — Original

  • Dogged — Andrea James and Catherine Ryan
  • Horizon — Maxine Mellor

Stage — Adapted

  • Animal Farm — Van Badham
  • Playing Beatie Bow — Kate Mulvany
  • My Father's Wars — Elaine Acworth

Community & Youth Theatre

  • Euphoria — Emily Steel
  • Summer at Suspended Stone Camp — Madelaine Nunn
  • Very Happy Children With Bright and Wonderful Futures — Joshua Maxwell

Theatre for Young Audiences

  • Cactus — Madelaine Nunn
  • House — Dan Giovannoni
  • We Are The Mutable — Matthew Whittet

Interactive Media & Gaming

  • Sun Runners: Radioactive Laser Eyes — Zoe Pepper

Animation

  • Metropius: Season 1, Case #001 — Ally Burnham

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

  • A Beginner's Guide to Grief: Segment 1: Denial, 'Stung By A Thousand Bees' — Anna Lindner
  • All My Friends Are Racist: Season 1, 'Cancelled' — Kodie Bedford and Enoch Mailangi
  • Iggy & Ace: Season 1, Episode 3 and Episode 4 — AB Morrison
  • It's Fine, I'm Fine: Season 1, 'Poo Boy' — Jeanette Cronin
  • The Power of the Dream: Season 1, 'Swimming' and 'Weightlifting' — Alexandra Keddie and Bobbie-Jean Henning

Major Award

  • Girl Like You — Frances Elliott and Samantha Marlowe

David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre

  • Horizon — Maxine Mellor

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

  • Philip Dalkin

Fred Parsons Award for Outstanding Contribution To Australian Comedy

  • Phil Lloyd and Trent O'Donnell

Hector Crawford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Craft

  • Peter Gawler