australian television information archive

The 2024 AWGIE Awards (56th annual) were held on February 15, 2024
(There was no award ceremony in calendar 2023 due to the event being moved from the end of the year to the start of the year)

Feature Film — Original

• Head South — Jonathan Ogilvie
• Late Night with the Devil — Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes
• The New Boy — Warwick Thornton
• The Rooster — Mark Leonard Winter

Feature Film — Adaptation

• Blueback — Robert Connolly
• The Royal Hotel — Oscar Redding with Kitty Green

Short Film

• IMOAN — Catherine Kelleher
• Jia — Vee Shi
• Tuī Ná — William Duan
• Voice Activated — Steve Anthopoulos

Documentary — Public Broadcast or Exhibition

• The Defenders — Matthew Bate
• Harley & Katya — Blayke Hoffman with Selina Miles
• John Farnham: Finding the Voice — Poppy Stockell with Paul Clarke
• Volcano Man — Tim Russell with James Crawley and Steven Sander

Documentary — Community, Educational and Training

• Imagined Touch — Sofya Gollan

Television — Serial

• EastEnders: Episode 6593 — Peter Mattessi
• Home and Away: Episode 7949 — Paige Montague
• Home and Away: Episode 7959 — Louise Bowes
• Neighbours: Episode 8867 — Sarah Mayberry
• Neighbours: Episode 8903 — Jason Herbison

Television — Series

• The Great: Season 3, 'Ice' — Tony McNamara
• The Newsreader: Season 2, 'People Like You and Me' — Kim Ho
• Totally Completely Fine: Season 1, 'Not All Heroes Carry a Vape' — Keir Wilkins

Television — Limited Series

• The Clearing: 'Maitreya' — Elise McCredie
• The House Across the Street — Giula Sandler
• The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart — Sarah Lambert, Kirsty Fisher and Kim Wilson

Animation

• Bird Drone: Clare Toonen
• Koala Man: Season 1, 'The Red Hot Rule' — Nina Oyama
• The Sandman: Season 1, 'Dream of a Thousand Cats' — Catherine Smyth-McMullen
• The Strange Chores: Season 3, 'Help Manga Charlie' — Alix Beane

Children's Television — P Classification

• Beep and Mort: Season 1, 'My Best Friend' — Amy Stewart
• Beep and Mort: Season 1, 'Nothing To Do Day' — Charlotte Rose Hamlyn
• Kangaroo Beach: Special, 'Hoppy Christmas Ghërkinn' — Charlotte Rose Hamlyn and Tim Bain
• Kangaroo Beach: Season 2, 'King Kanga' — Rebekka Schafferius

Children's Television — C Classification

• Crazy Fun Park: Season 1, 'I Don't Want to Grow Up' — Nicholas Verso
• Crazy Fun Park: Season 1, 'Remember Me' — Magda Wozniak
• Mikki vs the World: Season 2, 'Broken Hearts and Stinky Farts' — Gemma Bird Matheson
• Turn Up the Volume: Season 1, 'Spinning Around' — Chloe Wong and Penelope Chai
• Turn Up the Volume: Season 1, 'The Less I Know the Better' — Matthew Bon

Comedy — Situation or Narrative

• A Christmas Ransom — Elliot Vella, Gretel Vella and Timothy Walker
• Colin from Accounts: Season 1, 'Flash' — Harriet Dyer
• Colin from Accounts: Season 1, 'The Good Room' — Patrick Brammall
• In Limbo: Season 1, 'Cremating' — Tamara Asmar

Comedy — Sketch or Light Entertainment

• Gruen Nation: Season 14, 'Pawesome' — James Colley and Bec Melrose with Kirsten Drysdale,
• Angela Lavoipierre and Cameron James
• The Last Year of Television: 2022 — Mitch McTaggart
• The Weekly: The Week in TV feat. Margaret Pomeranz — Rob Hunter

Audio — Fiction

• Gripped: You Don't Know Me: 'Is There Anything Else You Remember?' — Jacklyn Bassanelli
• The Missed — Sami Shah
• Starship Q Star: Season 1, 'First Contact-ish' — Meegan May and Lauren Anderson

Audio — Non-Fiction

• Disclosed: The Children in the Pictures: 'Crimes Without Borders' — Simon Nasht with Akhim Dev, Belinda Lopez and Emma Lancaster

Stage — Original

• The End of Winter — Noëlle Janaczewska
• Everyman and His Dog — Ron Elisha
• Never Closer — Grace Chapple
• The Return — John Harvey
• Wayside Bride — Alana Valentine
• Whitefella Yella Tree — Dylan Van Den Berg

Stage — Adapted

• Are We There Yet? — Finegan Kruckemeyer
• Looking for Alibrandi — Vidya Rajan
• Museum of Modern Love — Tom Holloway

Music Theatre

• Dubbo Championship Wrestling — Daniel Cullen with James Cullen
• Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan — Alana Valentine and Christos Tsiolkas

Community and Youth Theatre

• The Chapel, the Fire and the Dead Cat — Madelaine Nunn
• How to Vote: Or, the Repercussions of Political Ambition and Personal Rivalries within
• Student Leadership and Media Organisations in the Context of the Post-COVID-19 Neoliberal
• University Institution — Julian Larnach
• Ngadjung — Dylan Van Den Berg

Theatre for Young Audiences

• All the Shining Lights — Brendan Hogan
• Past the Shallows — Julian Larnach
• The Sleep that Ceased to Settle — Finegan Kruckemeyer

Web Series and Other Non-Broadcast/Non-'Subscription Video On Demand' TV Short Works

• Appetite: Season 1, Episode 1 'Dead Ahead' and Episode 2 'Pho Ken What' — Mohini Herse, Neilesh Verma and Grace Tan
• Childish Deano: Season 1, Episode 1 'Show and Tell' and Episode 6 'Apology' — David Ferrier with Dean Thomas
• Latecomers: Season 1, Episode 1 'I Woke Up with Cerebral Palsy Again' and Episode 3 'Great
• Boobs' — Emma Myers, Nina Oyama, Angus Thompson
• Night Bloomers: Season 1, 'Striking Hair Pins' — Ra Chapman
• Night Bloomers: Season 1, 'Friend or Foe' — Andrew Undi Lee

David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre

• Whitefella Yella Tree — Dylan Van Den Berg

Richard Lane Award for Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers' Guild

• Shane Brennan