australian television information archive

The 2018 AWGIE Awards (51st annual) were held on August 30, 2018 in Sydney.

Television — Series Or Miniseries (More Than 4 Hours Duration)

• Fighting Season: 'Heroes' — Belinda Chayko
• Mystery Road: 'Gone' — Michaeley O'Brien
• Mystery Road: 'The Waterhole' — Timothy Lee
• Picnic at Hanging Rock: Episode 1 — Beatrix Christian
• The Wrong Girl: Season 2, Episode 4 — Vanessa Alexander

Television — Telemovie Or Miniseries (Less Than 4 Hours Duration)

• Riot — Greg Waters
• Safe Harbour — Belinda Chayko, Matt Cameron and Phil Enchelmaier
• Sunshine — Matt Cameron and Elise McCredie

Television — Serial

• Home and Away: Episode 6810 — Nick King
• Home and Away: Episode 6905 — Fiona Kelly
• Neighbours: Episode 7776 — Peter Mattessi

Comedy — Sketch or Light Entertainment

• No nominees

Comedy — Situation or Narrative

• Fucking Adelaide: 'Maude Loves Us' — Matthew Cormack
• Get Krack!n: Episode 7 — Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan
• Mr Inbetween: Episode 3 — Scott Ryan
• Ronny Chieng: International Student: 'Asian Rules Football' — Declan Fay with Ronny Chieng
• Rosehaven: Season 2, Episode 4 — Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola

Children's Television — P Classification

• Little J and Big Cuz: 'Lucky Undies' — Beck Cole
• Little J and Big Cuz: 'Where's Aaron?' — Erica Glynn

Children's Television — C Classification

• Drop Dead Weird: 'Letter in a Bottle' — Joel Slack-Smith
• Grace Beside Me: 'Love Me, Love Me Not' — Giula Sandler
• Mustangs FC: 'Flawless' — Magda Wozniak

Feature Film — Original

• Brothers' Nest — Jaime Browne
• Sweet Country — Steven McGregor with David Tranter

Feature Film — Adaptation

• Cargo — Yolanda Ramke

Short Film

• I Fucked a Mermaid and No One Believes Me — Joel Perlgut
• Post Mortem Mary — Joshua Long
• Sleepwalking — Melissa Anastasi

Radio — Original

• My Father's Wars — Elaine Acworth
• Seoul City Sue — Noëlle Janaczewska

Interactive Media

• Inside Manus — Lucas Taylor
• Rumu — A Tale of Love, Loss and Effective Home Management — Daniel McMahon with Robot
• House

Animation

• Beat Bugs: Season 2, 'I'll Be On My Way' — Charlotte Rose Hamlyn
• Beat Bugs: Season 2, 'I'm Only Sleeping' — Cleon Prineas
• Lost & Found — Bradley Slabe

Documentary — Public Broadcast or Exhibition

• No nominees

Documentary — Community, Educational and Training — or otherwise commissioned to a specific brief

• Cyber Security — The Social Engineer — Sam Meikle
• Minibeast Heroes — Tim Bain
• Your Posts Are Public — George Catsi

Community & Youth Theatre

• promiscuous/cities — Lachlan Philpott
• The Hum — Angela Betzien

Theatre for Young Audiences

• Emil and the Detectives — Nicki Bloom
• My Robot — Finegan Kruckemeyer
• Thai-riffic! — Nathan Luff

Stage

• Atlantis — Lally Katz
• Caravan — Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius and Melissa Reeves with Wayne Macauley
• Mark Colvin's Kidney — Tommy Murphy
• Rice — Michele Lee
• The Rasputin Affair — Kate Mulvany

Music Theatre

• Barbara and the Camp Dogs — Alana Valentine with Ursula Yovich
• Muriel's Wedding the Musical — PJ Hogan with Kate Miller-Heidke & Keir Nuttall (lyrics) and Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson (lyrics)
• Vigil — Stephen Vizard

Web Series and Other Non-Broadcast/Vod Works

• Freudian Slip — Clare Sladden
• Homecoming Queens: 'Beach' — Michelle Law and Chloë Reeson
• Wrong Kind of Black: 'Lover not a Fighter' — Nick Musgrove with Boori Monty Pryor

Major Award

• Lost & Found — Bradley Slabe

David Williamson Prize

Given in Celebration and Recognition of Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre
• Muriel's Wedding the Musical – PJ Hogan with Kate Miller-Heidke & Keir Nuttall (lyrics) and Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson (lyrics)

Richard Lane Award

For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers' Guild
• Michelle Offen

Hector Crawford Award

For Outstanding Contribution to the craft as a Script Producer, Editor or Dramaturge
• Tony Ayres

The Australian Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award

• Sue Smith