australian television information archive

The 2012 AWGIE Awards were held at Doltone House in Sydney on August 24

Monte Miller Award: Short Form

(for unproduced script under 30 minutes by Associate member)

• Safia's Statue — Philip Enchelmaier
• The Beekeeper — Will Goodfellow
• Love Hurts — Nigel Karikari
• The Ravens — Jennifer Perrott
• Heatherdale — Duncan Richards
• No Answers in a Gun — Kenneth Wallace

Monte Miller Award: Long Form

(for unproduced script over 30 minutes by Associate member)

• Lola — Pauline Findlay
• Ashes — Michael Jones
• The Box — Claire Phillips
• Clinton Black's Class For The Modern Liar — Simon Proud
• Boys In The Trees — Nicholas Verso

Telemovie (Original)

• Beaconsfield — Judi McCrossin
• Mabo — Susan Smith

Television Mini-series (Adaptation)

• The Slap — Emily Ballou, Alice Bell, Brendan Cowell, Kris Mrksa with Cate Shortland
• Underbelly: Razor — Peter Gawler, Michaeley O'Brien, Felicity Packard and Jeffrey Truman

Television Mini-series (Original)

• The Straits — Blake Ayshford, Jaime Browne, Kristen Dunphy and Nicholas Parsons with Louis Nowra.

Television (Serial)

• Home & Away 5437 — Louise Bowes
• Home & Away 5391 — Fiona Bozic
• Neighbours 6231 (Jim's Death) — Pete McTighe

Television (Series)

• Spirited: If You See Her Say Hello — Alice Bell
• Offspring: Episode 206 — Michael Lucas
• Spirited: Living In Oblivion — Ian Meadows
• Spirited: I'll Close My Eyes — Jacquelin Perske

Comedy (Sketch or Light Entertainment)

• Good News Week: State Of The Nation — Dave Bloustien, Simon Dodd, Bruce Griffiths, Paul Livingston, Warwick Holt, Mat Blackwell and Ian Simmons
• How Green Was My Cactus — Doug Edwards, Lindy Wilson and Shane Edwards (radio)
• Agony Uncles: Episode 1 — Adam Zwar

Comedy (Situation or Narrative)

• Lowdown: One Fine Gay — Amanda Brotchie, Adam Zwar with Trudy Hellier
• Laid 2: Episode 3 — Marieke Hardy
• At Home With Julia: Date Night — Rick Kalowski, Phil Lloyd with Amanda Bishop
• At Home With Julia: The Leaker — Rick Kalowski, Phil Lloyd with Amanda Bishop

Feature Film (Original)

• Wish You Were Here — Kieran Darcy-Smith and Felicity Price
• Last Dance — Terence Hammond and David Pulbrook
• Not Suitable For Children — Michael Lucas

Feature Film (Adaptation)

• The Eye Of The Storm — Judy Morris
• The Sapphires — Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs

Short Film

• Rarer Monsters — Shayne Armstrong and S P Krause
• The Wilding — Grant Scicluna

Radio — Original Broadcast

• Paper Moon — Clementine Bendle-Thompson
• Random Red — Noëlle Janaczewska
• Grinning At The Lid — Paul Livingston

Radio — Adaptation

• Aurora's Lament — Noëlle Janaczewska

Interactive Media

• Slide — Michelle Law, Anthony Mullins, Chris Somerville and Lucas Taylor

Animation

• FLEA-BITTEN!: Bugs In Black — Ray Boseley
• FLEA-BITTEN!: Home Truths — Ray Boseley
• The Woodlies: Stormin' The Fortress — Rob George

Documentary — Public Broadcast

• The Curse Of The Gothic Symphony — Anthony Mullins with Randall Wood
• All The Way — Anne Delaney with Paul Ham & Toby Cresswell
• Australia On Trial: The Mount Rennie Outrage — Katherine Thomson

Documentary — Corporate & Training

• Living The Values — Charles Hamlyn-Harris
• Q400 Main Landing Gear Wheel Changing — Charles Hamlyn-Harris
• La Trobe University For Year 12 Students — Amanda Kerley

Community & Youth Theatre

• The Sadness Of Mister Saisson — Chris Thompson
• Behind The Cane — Margery Forde and Michael Forde
• The Boy With The Longest Shadow — Finegan Kruckemeyer
• Cyberbile — Alana Valentine

Stage

• Porn.Cake — Vanessa Bates
• 10,000 Beers — Alex Broun
• Man In The Middle — Ron Elisha
• Neighbourhood Watch — Lally Katz
• Silent Disco — Lachlan Philpott

Children's Theatre

• Love — Finegan Kruckemeyer
• This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing — Finegan Kruckemeyer
• Snow On Mars — Richard Tulloch with Kim Carpenter and Gale Edwards

Children's Television (P Classification)

• Guess How Much I Love You: Favourite Thing — David Evans
• Guess How Much I Love You: Follow Me — David Evans
• Bananas In Pyjamas: The Snowman — Kevin Nemeth
• Guess How Much I Love You: Snowflake — Jane Schneider

Children's Television (C Classification)

• Dance Academy: A Good Life — Roger Monk & Samantha Strauss
• Dance Academy: The Prix de Fonteyn — Samantha Strauss
• Dance Academy: The Second — Samantha Strauss

Richard Lane Award

For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers' Guild

• Graeme Koetsveld

Dorothy Crawford Award

For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession

• Kim Williams AM

Fred Parsons Award

For Special Contribution to Australian Comedy

• Ian Simmons

Hector Crawford Award

For Outstanding Contribution to the Craft in the Field of Script Editing

• Graeme Koetsveld

Kit Denton Fellowship

For Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing

• Angela Betzien

FOXTEL Fellowship

Fellowship awarded in recognition of a significant body of work in television

• Kristen Dunphy

Major Award

• The Saphires — Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson