AWGIE Awards: Kit Denton award goes to Hamish & Andy writers
The first winners of the newly renamed Kit Denton Disfellowship, previously the Kit Denton Fellowship, have been named as Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan whose writing credits have included Big Bite, Hamish & Andy and The Mansion.
The announcement was made at tonight’s Australian Writers Guild AWGIE Awards held in Sydney.
Other winners included The Secret Life Of Us writer Kris Mrksa who picked up the Foxtel Fellowship, Chris Lilley who was recognised for his contribution to comedy and films Snow Town and Burning Man.
The AWGIE winners:
- 2011 KIT DENTON FELLOWSHIP
ForCourage and Excellence in Performance Writing
Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan
- 2011 FOXTEL FELLOWSHIP
Fellowship awarded in recognition of a significant body of work in television.
Kris Mrksa
- 2011 RICHARD LANE AWARD
For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers’ Guild
Ian David
- 2011 DOROTHY CRAWFORD AWARD
For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession
Currency Press
- 2011 FRED PARSONS AWARD
For Outstanding Contribution to Australian Comedy
Chris Lilley
- 2011 HECTOR CRAWFORD AWARD
Outstanding Contribution to the Craft in the Field of Script Editing
Denise Morgan (awarded posthumously)
- Major Award
Patricia Cornelius
- Stage
Do Not Go Gentle
Patricia Cornelius
- Feature Film – Adaptation
Snowtown
Shaun Grant
- Feature Film – Original
Burning Man
Jonathan Teplitzky
- Documentary – Public Broadcast
The Tall Man
Tony Krawitz
- Documentary – Corporate and Training
Ouch! That’s Not Good!
Charles Hamlyn-Harris
- Short Film
Heck
Lisa Hoppe and Bobbie Waterman
- Comedy – Sketch or Light Entertainment
Good News Week: Australia Decides 2010
Dave Bloustien, Simon Dodd, Bruce Griffiths, Warwick Holt, Paul Livingston and Ian Simmons
- Comedy – Situation or Narrative
Laid: Episode 4
Marieke Hardy
- Television – Serial
Home and Away: Episode 5215
Cameron Welsh
- Television – Series
Rake – Episode 5: R v. Chandler
Peter Duncan
- Television Mini Series – Original
Small Time Gangster
Gareth Calverley and Joss King
- Telemovie – Original
Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here
Peter Gawler
- Children’s Television – P
Bananas in Pyjamas: Morgan’s Cloud
John Armstrong
- Children’s Television – C
My Place: 1868 Minna
Nicholas Parsons
- Music Theatre
The Musical Child
Cathryn Strickland
- Children’s Theatre
Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear
Catherine Fargher
- Community and Youth Theatre
Yet to Ascertain the Nature of the Crime
Roanna Gonsalves with Raimondo Cortese, Damien Millar, Görkem Acaroglu and the company
- Theatre for Young Audiences
Moth
Declan Greene
- Interactive Media
Bluebird AR
Marissa Cooke, Sam Doust and Amy Nelson
- Radio – Original Broadcast
The Clerk Ascending
Gina Schien
- Radio – Adaptation
King Tide
Katherine Thomson
- 2011 MONTE MILLER AWARD – LONG FORM
Diving for Poland – Andrea Rogers
- 2011 MONTE MILLER AWARD – SHORT FORM
Space – Jill Moylan
- 2011 JOHN HINDE AWARD
For Excellence in Science Fiction Writing
Matt Ford for Panic at Rock Island
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So someone actually writes the cr*p that Hamish and Andy go on with?!?
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Bit harsh, Dave.
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