Australian Director’s Guild Awards: 2009 nominees
Underbelly, All Saints, NEWStopia, False Witness, Dirt Game, and Saved are all up for awards as Aussie directors pick their best.
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The Australian Director’s Guild has selected its best for its annual awards with nominees including Underbelly, All Saints, NEWStopia, False Witness, Dirt Game, and Saved (pictured).
ADG President, Ray Argall, said: “We congratulate all the nominees on the great work they have produced this year and look forward to seeing them at next month’s Awards night.”
To qualify, productions had to air between 1 July 2008 and 30 June 2009. Amongst the television nominees are:
TV Drama Series
Grant Brown The Brotherhood: Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities
Ian Gilmour Danger Zone: All Saints
Shawn Seet Business as Usual Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities
Jet Wilkinson Bloodlines: All Saints
TV Comedy Series
Nathan Craig & Earl Melville Love: Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure
Bradley Howard Episode 10: Newstopia
Alex Weinress Pack: Chandon Pictures
TV Mini Series
Peter Andrikidis False Witness: False Witness
Grant Brown Boab Dreaming: Dirt Game
Brendan Maher Down Among the Dead Men: Dirt Game
Ian Watson Carla Cametti PD
Telemovie
Tony Ayres Saved
Michael James Rowland The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Tony Tilse Scorched
Rowan Woods Three Acts of Murder
Documentary (stand alone)
Amiel Courtin-Wilson Cicada
Bentley Dean Contact
Scott Hicks Glass: A portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Documentary (series)
Brian McKenzie Ironing Man: Meet me at the Mango Tree
Kay Pavlou Armenia: Family Footsteps
Rachel Perkins Freedom for our Lifetime: First Australians
TVC
Ben Lawrence Pollards: Mitsubishi
Sean Meehan Separation: Quit Victoria
Steve Rogers Pure Waters: Boags Draught
Winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner at Star City casino, Sydney, on Thursday September 10.
For full details, including the Film nominees, visit www.adg.org.au
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4 Responses
They simply must give the comedy award to the epic Inspektor Herring (Newstopia) finale. 😀
Agreed… quite remarkable…
It’s actually Nathan Earl & Craig Melville who are nominated for Choose Your Own Adventure. 😉
I’ll be sure to tell their publicist.