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The 2013 AWGIE Awards were held at the Plaza Ballroom in Melbourne on Friday October 4.

Monte Miller Award: Short Form

(for unproduced script under 30 minutes by Associate member)

• Trunk - Derek Foster
• Drive By - Edward Lyons
• Any Given Day - Anne O'Hoy with Leah Pullen

Monte Miller Award: Long Form

(for unproduced script over 30 minutes by Associate member)

• Fury - Charlotte McConaghy
• Starfish - Hannah Moon and Stephen Sholl with Robin Geradts-Gill
• The Knot - Jessica Paine

Telemovie (Adaptation)

• An Accidental Soldier - Blake Ayshford
• Underground: The Julian Assange Story - Robert Connolly

Television Mini-series (Original)

• Devil's Dust - Kris Mrksa
• Underbelly: Badness - Nicola Aken, Peter Gawler, Felicity Packard and Jeffrey Truman
• Underbelly: Squizzy - Peter Gawler, Andrew Muir, Felicity Packard, Adam Todd and Jeffrey Truman

Television (Series)

• Rake 2: R v Greene - Peter Duncan
• Rake 2: R v Mohammed - Peter Duncan
• Rake 2: R v Floyd - Andrew Knight
• Redfern Now: Raymond - Adrian Wills

Television (Serial)

• Home & Away 5660 - Sam Atwell
• Home & Away 5616 - Louise Bowes
• Home & Away 5714 - Gary Sewell

Comedy (Sketch or Light Entertainment)

• Good News Week: The Second Going - Mat Blackwell, George Dodd, Simon Dodd, Warwick Holt, Paul Livingston and Ian Simmons
• How Green Was My Cactus - Doug Edwards and Lindy Wilson with Shane Edwards

Comedy (Situation or Narrative)

• A Moody Christmas: Decapod Crustaceans - Phil Lloyd and Trent O'Donnell
• A Moody Christmas: Separate Seats - Phil Lloyd and Trent O'Donnell
• Please Like Me: Portuguese Tarts - Josh Thomas with Liz Doran and Thomas Ward
• Please Like Me: Spanish Eggs - Josh Thomas with Liz Doran and Thomas Ward

Feature Film (Original)

• Felony - Joel Edgerton
• Drift - Morgan O'Neill
• The Rocket - Kim Mordaunt

Feature Film (Adaptation)

• A Most Wanted Man - Andrew Bovell
• Lore - Cate Shortland

Radio — Original

• See How The Leaf People Run - Michele Lee
• Eaten - Gina Schien

Radio — Adaptation

• Cross Sections - Suzie Miller
• Head Full Of Love - Alana Valentine

Interactive Media

• The Opera House Project - Sam Doust

Animation

• The Adventures Of Figaro Pho: The Fear Of Unfamiliar Toilets - Bruce Griffiths
• A Cautionary Tail - Erica Harrison
• Ghosts Of Time: Mummy Mia - David Witt

Documentary — Public Broadcast

• Whitlam: The Power & The Passion - Paul Clarke
• Love & Fury: Judith Wright & 'Nugget' Coombs - John Hughes and Penelope Chai
• Red Obsession - David Roach with Warwick Ross

Documentary — Corporate & Training

• Your Choice - Ken Wallace

Theatre for Young Audiences

• Tame - Declan Greene
• Truck Stop - Lachlan Philpott
• Driving Into Walls - Suzie Miller
• The Warrior And the Princess - Shirley Van Sanden

Community & Youth Theatre

• The Quiet Brother - Ivy Mak
• Beagle Bay Chronicles - Casey Nicholls
• Grounded - Alana Valentine

Stage

• Medea - Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks
• Pompeii, L.A. - Declan Greene
• Happy Ending - Melissa Reeves
• Sweetest Things - Kate Rice

Children's Theatre

• Starchaser - Lally Katz
• The House That Jack Filled - Finegan Kruckemeyer

Short Film

• Spine - Sophie Miller
• The Amber Amulet - Genevieve Hegney and Matthew Moore
• Bursting! - Gary Sewell
• The Last Time I Saw Richard - Nicholas Verso

Children's Television (P Classification)

• Guess How Much I Love You: I Promise - David Evans
• Guess How Much I Love You: A Hare's Tale - Lisa Hoppe
• Guess How Much I Love You: The Big Apple - Jane Schneider

Children's Television (C Classification)

• Ghosts Of Time: Alien Adventure - David Evans
• Dance Academy: New Rules - Josh Mapleston
• Dance Academy: Not For Nothing - Samantha Strauss
• Dance Academy: A Perfect Storm - Samantha Strauss

Richard Lane Award

For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers' Guild

• Simon Hopkinson

Dorothy Crawford Award

For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession

• Neil Armfield

Fred Parsons Award

For Special Contribution to Australian Comedy

• Guy Rundle

Hector Crawford Award

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

• Kym Goldsworthy

FOXTEL Fellowship

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

• Jacquelin Perske

David Williamson Prize

• Alana Valentine

Major Award

• Alana Valentine