Moody Christmas collects an AWGIE

Phil Lloyd and Trent O’Donnell’s A Very Moody Christmas shared the comedy honours with Josh Thomas’ Please Like me at Friday night’s Australian Writers’ Guild Awards. The two shows were joint winners in the category of Comedy: Situation or narrative at the 46th annual AWGIE Awards.

Also picking up gongs, the documentary Red Obsession, TV series Rake and telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story.

Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket took out the prize for original feature film while Cate Shortland’s Lore won for feature film adaptation.

The event was held in Melbourne this year at the Plaza Ballroom. Jan Sardi, president of the Australian Writers’ Guild , said: “The calibre of this year’s nominees is testimony to the outstanding achievement of this year’s AWGIE Award winners, judged by their peers as being the best in what has been a top shelf year for Australian performance writing.”