australian television information archive

Longford Lyell Award

• David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM

Television

Best Drama Series

• Clickbait
• Jack Irish
• Mr Inbetween
• The Newsreader
• Total Control
• Wakefield
• Wentworth

Best Miniseries or Telefeature

• A Sunburnt Christmas
• The End
• Fires
• New Gold Mountain
• The Unusual Suspects

Best Narrative Comedy Series

• Aftertaste
• Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun
• Fisk
• Frayed
• Preppers
• Rosehaven

Best Comedy Entertainment Program

• Dom and Adrian 2020
• Hard Quiz
• The Moth Effect
• Spicks And Specks
• The Weekly

Best Entertainment Program

• Australian Ninja Warrior
• LEGO® Masters Australia
• The Masked Singer
• Mastermind
• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2021
• The Voice

Best Factual Entertainment Program

• Australia Talks
• Courtney Act's One Plus One
• Gogglebox Australia
• Love on the Spectrum
• The Project
• You Can't Ask That

Best Lifestyle Program

• Adam and Poh's Malaysia in Australia
• The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
• Gardening Australia
• Grand Designs Australia
• The Living Room
• Love it or List it Australia

Best Reality Series

• The Amazing Race Australia
• Australian Survivor: Brains v Brawn
• The Block
• Luxe Listings Sydney
• MasterChef Australia
• The Real Housewives of Melbourne

Best Documentary or Factual Program

• Brazen Hussies
• EXPOSED: The Ghost Train Fire
• Life in Colour with David Attenborough
• Ms Represented with Annabel Crabb
• Old People's Home For 4 Year Olds
• The School That Tried to End Racism

Best Children's Program

• 100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone
• Bluey
• The Bureau of Magical Things
• Dive Club
• Hardball
• Kangaroo Beach

Best Stand-Up Special

• Anne Edmonds and Lloyd Langford — Business with Pleasure
• Celia Pacquola — Let Me Know How It All Works Out
• Hannah Gadsby — Douglas
• Lano and Woodley in Lano and Woodley
• Rhys Nicholson Live at the Athenaeum
• Tom Gleeson — Lighten Up

Best Lead Actress in a Drama

• Deborah Mailman — Total Control
• Mandy McElhinney — Wakefield
• Miranda Otto — Fires
• Pamela Rabe — Wentworth
• Anna Torv — The Newsreader

Best Lead Actor in a Drama

• Rudi Dharmaligam — Wakefield
• Guy Pearce — Jack Irish
• Sam Reid — The Newsreader
• Richard Roxburgh — Fires
• Scott Ryan — Mr Inbetween

Best Comedy Performer

• Mark Samual Bonanno — Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun
• Kitty Flanagan — Fisk
• Tom Gleeson — Hard Quiz
• Broden Kelly — Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun
• Sarah Kendall — Frayed
• Nakkiah Lui — Preppers
• Luke McGregor — Rosehaven
• Celia Pacquola — Rosehaven

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama

• Michelle Lim Davidson — The Newsreader
• Marg Downey — The Newsreader
• Harriet Dyer — Wakefield
• Rachel Griffiths — Total Control
• Noni Hazlehurst — The End FILM

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama

• Harry Greenwood — Wakefield
• William McInnes — The Newsreader
• Matt Nable — Mr Inbetween
• Stephen Peacocke — The Newsreader
• Justin Rosniak — Mr Inbetween

Best Direction in Drama or Comedy

• Fires (Episode 2) — Ana Kokkinos
• Mr Inbetween (Episode 6) — Nash Edgerton
• The Newsreader (Episode 1) — Emma Freeman
• Wakefield (Episode 5) — Kim Mordaunt
• Wakefield (Episode 8) — Jocelyn Moorhouse

Best Screenplay In Television

• Mr Inbetween (Episode 6: Ray Who?) — Scott Ryan
• The Newsreader (Episode 1) — Michael Lucas
• The Newsreader (Episode 5) — Kim Ho & Michael Lucas
• Wakefield (Episode 5) — Kristen Dunphy & Sam Meikle
• Total Control (Episode 1) — Stuart Page

Best Direction in Nonfiction Television

• Brazen Hussies — Catherine Dwyer
• Hannah Gadsby — Douglas — Madeleine Parry
• Love on the Spectrum (Episode 4) — Cian O'Clery
• Ms Represented with Annabel Crabb (Episode 1) — Stamatia Maroupas
• You Can’t Ask That (Episode 1) — Kirk Docker

Best Cinematography In Television

• A Sunburnt Christmas — Dylan River
• Bump (Episode 1: Sorpresa!) — Garry Phillips
• Clickbait (Episode 6: Simon) — Marden Dean
• Fires (Episode 2: Everything’s Gone) — Bonnie Elliot
• The Newsreader (Episode 1: Three, Two, One…) — Earle Dresner

Best Costume Design In Television

• Dancing With The Stars: All Stars (Episode 6) — Tim Chappel
• Fires (Episode 2: Everything’s Gone) — Cappi Ireland
• Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (Episode 1: Death By Design) — Penny Dickinson
• New Gold Mountain (Episode 1: Propriety) — Cappi Ireland
• The Newsreader (Episode 1: Three, Two, One…) — Marion Boyce

Best Editing In Television

• Clickbait (Episode 1: Five Million Hits) — Rodrigo Balart
• Fires (Episode 2: Everything’s Gone) — Mark Atkin
• The Newsreader (Episode 5: No More Lies) — Angie Higgins
• Total Control (Episode 1: Aftermath) — Nicholas Holmes
• Wakefield (Episode 8) — Gabriel Dowrick

Best Production Design In Television

• Fires (Episode 2: Everything’s Gone) — Jo Ford
• Jack Irish (Episode 1) — Carrie Kennedy
• Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (Episode 1: Death By Design) — Ben Bangay
• New Gold Mountain (Episode 1: Propriety) — Paddy Reardon & Adele Flere
• The Newsreader (Episode 1: Three, Two, One…) — Melinda Doring

Best Original Score In Television

• Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House Of Fun (Episode 1: Housemates) — Tom Armstrong
• Clickbait (Episode 1: Five Million Hits) — Cornel Wilczek
• Fires (Episode 2: Everything’s Gone) — Cornel Wilczek
• Frayed (Episode 1) — Bryony Marks
• New Gold Mountain (Episode 1: Propriety) — Caitlin Yeo

Best Sound In Television

• Clickbait (Episode 1: Five Million Hits) — Emma Bortignon, Stephen Witherow, Nigel Croyden & John Wilkinson
• Fires (Episode 2: Everything’s Gone) — Emma Bortignon, Paul Pirola & Roger Van Wensveen
• Frayed (Episode 1) — Paul Finlay, Robert Sullivan, James Andrews & Dino Giacomin
• The Newsreader (Episode 1: Three, Two, One…) — Nick Godkin
• Total Control (Episode 1: Aftermath) — Phil Keros, Stuart Waller, Andy Wright & Diego Ruiz

Feature Film

Best Film

• The Dry
• The Furnace
• High Ground
• Nitram
• Penguin Bloom
• Rams

Best Indie Film

• Disclosure
• Ellie and Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt)
• Lone Wolf
• Moon Rock for Monday
• My First Summer
• Under My Skin

Best Direction

• The Dry - Rob Connolly
• The Furnace - Roderick MacKay
• High Ground - Stephen Maxwell Johnson
• Nitram - Justin Kurzel
• Penguin Bloom - Glendyn Ivin

Best Lead Actor

• Simon Baker — High Ground
• Eric Bana — The Dry
• Caleb Landry Jones — Nitram
• Ahmed Malek — The Furnace
• Jacob Junior Nayinggul — High Ground

Best Lead Actress

• Rose Byrne — Peter Rabbit 2
• Judy Davis — Nitram
• Noni Hazlehurst — June Again
• Genevieve O'Reilly — The Dry
• Naomi Watts — Penguin Bloom

Best Supporting Actor

• Michael Caton — Rams
• Baykali Ganambarr — The Furnace
• Anthony LaPaglia — Nitram
• Sean Mununggurr — High Ground
• Jack Thompson — High Ground

Best Supporting Actress

• Essie Davis — Nitram
• Claudia Karvan — June Again
• Esmerelda Marimowa — High Ground
• Miranda Tapsell — The Dry
• Jacki Weaver — Penguin Bloom

Best Original Screenplay

• Ellie and Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) — Monica Zanetti
• The Furnace — Roderick MacKay
• High Ground — Chris Anastassiades
• June Again — JJ Winlove
• Nitram — Shaun Grant

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Dry — Rob Connolly & Harry Cripps
• Penguin Bloom — Shaun Grant & Harry Cripps
• Peter Rabbit 2 — Will Gluck & Patrick Burleigh
• Rams — Jules Duncan

Best Cinematography

• The Dry — Stefan Duscio
• High Ground — Andrew Commis
• Mortal Kombat — Germain McMicking
• Nitram — Germain McMicking
• Penguin Bloom — Sam Chiplin

Best Costume Design

• The Dry — Cappi Ireland
• High Ground — Erin Roche
• Mortal Kombat — Cappi Ireland
• Nitram — Alice Babidge
• Rams — Tess Schofield

Best Editing

• The Dry — Nick Meyers, Alexandre de Franceschi
• Friends and Strangers — James Vaughan
• High Ground — Jill Bilcock, Karryn de Cinque, Hayley Miro Browne
• Nitram — Nick Fenton
• Peter Rabbit 2 — Matt Villa

Best Production Design

• 2067 — Jacinta Leong
• Mortal Kombat — Naaman Marshall
• Nitram — Alice Babidge
• Penguin Bloom — Annie Beauchamp
• Peter Rabbit 2 — Roger Ford

Best Original Score

• The Dry — Peter Raeburn
• June Again — Christopher Gordon
• Nitram — Jed Kurzel
• Penguin Bloom — Marcelo Zarvos
• Rams — Antony Partos

Best Sound

• Ascendant — Angus Robertson, Peter Purcell, Phil Heywood, Scott Mulready
• The Dry — Chris Goodes, Ann Aucote, Glenn Newnham
• Mortal Kombat — Robert McKenzie, James Ashton, Des Kenneally, Adrian Medhurst, Jed Dodge, Phil Heywood
• Nitram — Steve Single, Dean Ryan, James Ashton
• Peter Rabbit 2 — Kevin O'Connell, Robert Mackenzie, Andy Wright, Ben Osmo

Short Form

Best Short Form Drama

• Beautiful They
• The Bends
• Dwarf Planet
• Grace
• The Tailings
• You and Me, Before and After

Best Short Form Comedy

• A Life in Questions: Wisdom School with Aaron Chen
• All My Friends Are Racist
• Celebration Nation
• Hug the Sun
• Jimmy Rees
• Samantha Andrew

Best Short Form Entertainment

• Chopsticks or Fork?
• Gourmet Lazy
• Nat's What I Reckon
• Ozzy Man Reviews
• Strong Women
• Woven Threads - Stories from Within

Documentary

Best Documentary

• Girls Can’t Surf
• I’m Wanita
• My Name is Gulpilil
• Playing With Sharks
• Strong Female Lead
• When the Camera Stopped Rolling

Best Cinematography in a Documentary

• After The Night (Episode 1: The End of Innocence) — Jim Frater
• The Beach (Episode 1: Too Mad Too Shy) — Dylan River
• The Bowraville Murders — Nathan Barlow
• Freeman — Bonnie Elliott
• Step into Paradise — Bonnie Elliott

Best Editing in a Documentary

• Freeman — Daniel Wieckmann
• My Name is Gulpilil — Tania M. Nehme
• Playing With Sharks — Adrian Rostirolla
• Under The Volcano — Karen Johnson
• When the Camera Stopped Rolling — Ray Thomas

Best Sound in a Documentary

• The Bowraville Murders — Richard Boxhall
• Freeman– Byron Scullin
• Life in Colour with David Attenborough (Episode 1: Seeing in Colour) — Wayne Pashley
• My Name is Gulpilil — Tom Heuzenroeder
• When the Camera Stopped Rolling — Sam Petty

Best Original Score in a Documentary

• Freeman– James Henry
• Playing With Sharks — Caitlin Yeo
• Step into Paradise — Amanda Brown & Nick Wales
• The Beach (Episode 1: Too Mad Too Shy) — Megan Washington & Kristin Rule
• When the Camera Stopped Rolling — Kyls Burtland

Additional Awards

Best Hair and Make-Up

• Australian Gangster — Sheldon Wade
• Mortal Kombat — Nikki Gooley
• Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries — Lynn Wheeler
• New Gold Mountain — Cheryl Williams, Helen Magelaki & Ian Loughnan
• Nitram — Fiona Rees-Jones

Best Casting

• The Dry — Jane Norris
• High Ground — Anousha Zarkesh
• The Newsreader — Nathan Lloyd
• Nitram — Nikki Barrett, Alison Telford & Kate Leonard
• Wakefield — Marianne Jade

Best Visual Effects or Animation

• Jungle Cruise — Jim Berney, Jake Morrison, J.D. Schwalm, Jamie Macdougall, Marla Henshaw, Malte Sarnes; Rising Sun Pictures
• Mortal Kombat — Chris Godfrey, Prue Fletcher, Avi Goodman, Nick Tripodi; Method Studios
• Mortal Kombat — Dennis Jones, Dan Bethell, Chris Godfrey, Prue Fletcher, Peter Stubbs; Rising Sun Pictures
• Peter Rabbit 2 — Will Reichelt, Simon Pickard, Simon Whiteley, Fiona Chilton, Jason Bath, Matt Middleton; Animal Logic
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings — Christopher Townsend, Damien Carr, Josh Simmonds, Nathan Ortiz; Method Studios

Audience Choice Awards

Favourite Actor

• Asher Keddie — Nine Perfect Strangers
• Celia Pacquola — Rosehaven
• Deborah Mailman — Total Control
• Eric Bana — The Dry
• Pamela Rabe — Wentworth

Favourite Competition Reality Show

• Australian Survivor
• LEGO Masters Australia
• MasterChef Australia
• The Block
• The Voice

Favourite Digital Comedy Creator

• Sam Cotton
• Millie Ford
• Christian Hull
• Sooshi Mango
• Jimmy Rees

Favourite Entertainment Show

• Anh’s Brush With Fame
• Bondi Rescue
• Gardening Australia
• Gogglebox Australia
• Have You Been Paying Attention

Favourite Film

• A Sunburnt Christmas
• The Dry
• Mortal Kombat
• Penguin Bloom
• Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

Favourite Television Drama

• Clickbait
• Home and Away
• Jack Irish
• RFDS
• Wentworth

Favourite Television Host

• Adam Hills — Spicks and Specks
• Carrie Bickmore — The Project
• Costa Georgiadis — Gardening Australia
• Hamish Blake — LEGO Masters Australia
• Tom Gleeson — Hard Quiz

International Awards - FIlm

Best Film

• Being the Ricardos
• Belfast
• Dune
• Licorice Pizza
• Nitram
• The Power of the Dog

Best Direction

• Paul Thomas Anderson — Licorice Pizza
• Kenneth Branagh — Belfast
• Jane Campion — The Power of the Dog
• Justin Kurzel — Nitram
• Denis Villeneuve — Dune

Best Actor

• Benedict Cumberbatch — The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank
• Andrew Garfield — tick, tick... BOOM! as Jonathan Larson
• Caleb Landry Jones — Nitram as Nitram
• Will Smith — King Richard as Richard Williams
• Denzel Washington — The Tragedy of Macbeth as Lord Macbeth

Best Actress

• Penélope Cruz — Parallel Mothers as Janis Martínez
• Lady Gaga — House of Gucci as Patrizia Reggiani
• Jennifer Hudson — Respect as Aretha Franklin
• Nicole Kidman — Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball
• Kristen Stewart — Spencer as Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Supporting Actor

• Bradley Cooper — Licorice Pizza as Jon Peters
• Jamie Dornan — Belfast as Pa
• Ciarán Hinds — Belfast as Pop
• Al Pacino — House of Gucci as Aldo Gucci
• Kodi Smit-McPhee — The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon

Best Supporting Actress

• Caitríona Balfe — Belfast as Ma
• Cate Blanchett — Don't Look Up as Brie Evantee
• Judi Dench — Belfast as Granny
• Kirsten Dunst — The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon
• Sally Hawkins — Spencer as Maggie

Best Screenplay

• Paul Thomas Anderson — Licorice Pizza
• Kenneth Branagh — Belfast
• Jane Campion — The Power of the Dog
• Shaun Grant — Nitram
• Aaron Sorkin — Being the Ricardos

International Awards - Television

Best Comedy Series

• The Great
• Hacks
• The Kominsky Method
• Sex Education
• Ted Lasso
• The White Lotus

Best Drama Series

• The Handmaid's Tale
• Maid
• Mare of Easttown
• Nine Perfect Strangers
• Squid Game
• Succession

Best Actor in a Series

• Murray Bartlett — The White Lotus as Armond
• Lee Jung-jae — Squid Game as Seong Gi-hun
• Ewan McGregor — Halston as Halston
• Jeremy Strong — Succession as Kendall Roy
• Jason Sudeikis — Ted Lasso as Ted Lasso

Best Actress in a Series

• Jennifer Coolidge — The White Lotus as Tanya McQuoid
• Nicole Kidman — Nine Perfect Strangers as Masha Dmitrichenko
• Jean Smart — Hacks as Deborah Vance
• Sarah Snook — Succession as Siobhan "Shiv" Roy
• Kate Winslet — Mare of Easttown as Marianne "Mare" Sheehan