australian television information archive

The 2015 AWGIE Awards (48th annual) were held at Doltone House, Hyde Park Sydney on September 11, 2015

Monte Miller Award: Long Form

for unproduced script over 30 minutes by Associate member

• A Piece of Meat — Ed Blythe with James Windeler
• The Man from the Moon — Gemma Crofts
• Butterflies — Jenny Hicks
• Living Metal — C.S. McMullen
• The Spy — Andrew Slattery

Monte Miller Award: Short Form

for unproduced script under 30 minutes by Associate member

• The Brooch — Elizabeth Dias
• 5 Moons of Pluto — Bradford Walton

Telemovie (Original)

• Redfern Now Telemovie — Promise Me — Steven McGregor
• House of Hancock — Katherine Thomson

Television Mini-series (Adaptation)

• Gallipoli — Christopher Lee
• The Secret River — Jan Sardi & Mac Gudgeon

Television Mini-series (Original)

• The Principal — Alice Addison and Kristen Dunphy
• The Kettering Incident — Vicki Madden, Andrew Knight, Cate Shortland and Louise Fox
• Deadline Gallipoli -Jacquelin Perske, Stuart Beattie, Shaun Grant and Cate Shortland
• Love Child: Series 2 — Tim Pye, Cathryn Strickland, Chris McCourt, Jane Allen and Tamara Asmar

Television (Series)

• Offspring: Episode 510 — Leon Ford
• Offspring: Episode 511 — Michael Lucas
• Wentworth: Series 2, 'Fear Her' — Pete McTighe
• The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Series 3, 'Darkness Visible' — Stuart Page
• Wentworth: Series 3, 'The Governor's Pleasure' — Stuart Page

Television (Serial)

• Home and Away: Episode 6202 — Romina Accurso
• Home and Away: Episode 6057 — Louise Bowes
• Neighbours: Episode 6962 — Nick King
• Neighbours: Episode 6943 — Emma J. Steele

Comedy (Sketch or Light Entertainment)

• Legally Brown: Series 2 — Joel Slack-Smith

Comedy (Situation or Narrative)

• Maximum Choppage: 'A Fistful of Pastels' — Lawrence Leung
• It's A Date: Series 2, 'Worst Thing' — Phil Lloyd with Peter Helliar
• Danger 5: 'Back to the Führer' — Dario Russo and David Ashby
• Please Like Me: Series 2, 'Scroggin' — Josh Thomas

Feature Film (Original)

• Paper Planes — Robert Connolly & Steve Worland
• The Water Diviner — Andrew Knight & Andrew Anastasios
• The Little Death — Josh Lawson
• Ashby — Tony McNamara
• Skin Deep — Monica Zanetti

Feature Film (Adaptation)

• Sucker — Ben Chessell & Lawrence Leung
• Ruben Guthrie — Brendan Cowell
• The Last Cab to Darwin — Reg Cribb with Jeremy Sims
• Holding the Man — Tommy Murphy

Major AWGIE

• The Water Diviner — Andrew Knight & Andrew Anastasios

Short Film

• Foal — Vanessa Gazy
• Red Rover — Brooke Goldfinch
• Welcome to Iron Knob — Dave Wade

Radio — Original

• The Other Polish Explorer — Noëlle Janaczewska
• Like a Writing Desk — Aden Rolfe
• The Ravens — Alana Valentine

Interactive Media

• Secrets & Lies — Stephen Irwin, Lucas Taylor, Dominic Morris

Animation

• Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong: 'Camp Coppawannastopya' — Tim Bain
• Pirate Express: 'One Flew Over the Crow's Nest' — Thomas Duncan-Watt
• The New Adventures of Figaro Pho: 'The Fear of Zombies (Romerophobia)' — Bruce Griffiths

Documentary — Public Broadcast

• Sam Klemke's Time Machine — Matthew Bate and Sandy Cameron
• Gayby Baby — Charlotte Mars
• Shock Room — Kathryn Millard
• Women He's Undressed — Katherine Thomson
• Monkey Grip — Fiona Tuomy

Documentary — Corporate & Training

• Dying to Talk: Exploring Death and End of Life Issues — Peter Flynn

Community & Youth Theatre

• The Gap — Patricia Cornelius, Angela Betzien and Melissa Reeves
• Six Million Hits — Caleb Lewis
• Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday — Roslyn Oades

Stage

• Jump for Jordan — Donna Abela
• Brothers Wreck — Jada Alberts
• Monologue for a Murderer — Kate Rice

Children's Theatre

• Luke Lloyd: Alienoid — John Armstrong
• The Boy at the Edge of Everything — Finegan Kruckemeyer

Theatre for Young Audiences

• Sugarland — Rachael Coopes. Story by Rachael Coopes with Wayne Blair
• Marlin — Damien Millar
• M.Rock — Lachlan Philpott
• Girl Asleep — Matthew Whittet

Music Theatre

• Little Bird — Nicki Bloom

Children's Television (P Classification)

• Guess How Much I Love You: 'Little Green Worm' — David Evans
• Guess How Much I Love You: 'Make A Rainbow' — Charlotte Rose Hamlyn
• Bubble Bath Bay: 'Gone With The Wind' — Rachel Spratt

Children's Television (C Classification)

• Nowhere Boys: Series 2, Episode 7 — Pete McTighe
• The Deep: 'Digging Deeper' — Tom Taylor
• Skinner Boys: 'Festival of the Ancestors' — David Witt

Drama or Comedy, Other Form

• Crazy Bastards: Episodes 1-3 — Justin Heazlewood
• The Katering Show — Kate McLennan with Kate McCartney
• BedHead: Episode 1 and 4 — Jon Dalgaard and Claire Phillips with Tom Keele, Reece Jones and Ben Mathews
• Restoration — Stuart Willis with Matthew Clayfield

Richard Lane Award

For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers' Guild

• Tim Pye

Dorothy Crawford Award

For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession

• Alan Seymour (posthumous award)

Fred Parsons Award

For Special Contribution to Australian Comedy

• Bill Harding

David Williamson Prize

In Celebration and Recognition of Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre

• Finegan

Australian Writers' Foundation Playwriting Award

for an Outstanding Contribution to the Craft via a Body of Script Editing Work

• Patricia Cornelius, Angela Betzien