Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Award winners announced – The Correspondent, Apple Cider Vinegar, Colin From Accounts, My Brilliant Career among winners at the Australian Writers’ Guild Awards
The Correspondent, Peter Duncan’s powerful retelling of journalist Peter Greste’s imprisonment in 2013 has taken home the award for best adapted Feature Film at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s 58th Annual AWGIE Awards, presented tonight in Sydney.
Screenwriters Samantha Strauss, Angela Betzien and Anya Beyersdorf picked up the Limited Series Award for the Netflix hit Apple Cider Vinegar while Allan Clarke won Television Series for Episode 7 of Stan’s Invisible Boys. Fan favourite Colin From Accounts was recognised with its second Writers’ Guild award, with Patrick Brammall winning Comedy – Situation or Narrative for episode five of the second season.
Natalie Erika James’ horror feature Saccharine, which premiered at Sundance in January, triumphed in the Feature Film – Original category, and Lorin Clarke’s exploration of the life of her father, the iconic satirist John Clarke, in Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke won the Documentary – Public Broadcast or Exhibition prize.
The musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career, one of Australia’s most iconic stories, won the prestigious $120,000 David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre, the richest annual playwriting award in the country.
It was the second win on the night for writers Sheridan Harbridge, Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank, who also received the AWGIE Award for best script in Music Theatre.
In the Stage – Original category, Angus Cerini was acknowledged for Into the Shimmering World, while Vanessa Bates was awarded the Stage – Adapted prize for her reimagining of fairytales’ most marginalised women in The Magic Hour.
Five Australian Writers’ Guild members were honoured with Life Membership in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the Writers’ Guild and the industry: Geoffrey Atherden, Anne Brooksbank, Michael Harvey, Shane Porteous and Roger Simpson.
Other AWGIE Award winners:
- The first ever AWGIE Award for Comedy – Stand-Up went to Bronwyn Kuss for Pillows xxxx,
- Nicolette Minster, Aleisha McCormack and Rhys Nicholson took home the AWGIE for Comedy – Sketch and Light Entertainment for The Weekly: ‘Rhysearch’,
- Samantha Cable won the Interactive Media & Gaming category with Copycat,
- Emma Gordon won Children’s Television – C Classification for Spooky Files: Season 2, ‘FOMO Sojo Casa House’,
- Charlotte Rose Hamlyn won the AWGIE for Kangaroo Beach: Season 3, ‘Hungry The Seagull’ in the Children’s Television – P Classification category,
- The Animation category went to Michael Greaney for DeadBeat Ends Meet: ‘Invasive (Quest)ions’,
- There were two winners in the Television – Serial category: Gary Sewell was awarded for Episode 6522 of Hollyoaks, while Fiona Kelly picked up the prize for Episode 8330 of Home and Away.
- Brendan Wan and Jeremy Teh with Aran Thangaratnam and Vivian Nguyen won the AWGIE for Short Film with Asian Male Lead, and
- The Web Series category went to Charlotte George and Miriam Glaser for Buried.
In the theatre and audio categories:
- Jeremy Nguyen with Hiroki Kobayashi and Hoa Pham won Theatre for Young Audiences for The Story of Chi,
- Community Theatre went to Lliane Clarke with Aunty Cheryl Penrith OAM and Voices of Women for Women of the Riverina,
- Greg Haddrick won Audio – Fiction for Central Intelligence, and
- Marc Fennell and Emma Weatherill won Audio – Non-Fiction for This Is Not A Game.
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Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Award winners announced
