Australian Directors’ Guild Awards 2019: nominees

Mystery Road, Riot, Mr. Inbetween, Who Do You Think You Are? and The Bureau of Magical Things are amongst titles attracting nominations for the 2019 Australian Directors’ Guild Awards.

Directors include Rachel Perkins, Nash Edgerton, Tony Krawitz, Emma Freeman, Jeffrey Walker, Daina Reid and Shannon Murphy.

Eligibility period for entries was for an 18 month period 1 July 2017– 31 December 2018.

Winners will be announced at the City Recital Hall in Sydney, on Monday 6 May.

Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Drama Series episode
Rachel Perkins for Mystery Road (Series 1)
Nash Edgerton for Mr Inbetween (Series 1)
Tony Krawitz for Harrow (Series 1, Episode 5: Non Sum Qualis Erum)
Emma Freeman for Sisters (Pilot Episode)

Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Mini Series and Telefeature
Jeffrey Walker for Riot
Daina Reid for Romper Stomper (Episode 6: Anabasis)
Shannon Murphy for On The Ropes

Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Drama Serial episode
Arnie Custo for Home and Away (Episode 6858)
Geoffrey Nottage for Home and Away (Episode 7039)
Scott Major for Neighbours (Episode 7776A)
Scott Major for Neighbours (Episode 7776B)

Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Comedy Program episode
Colin Cairnes for True Story with Hamish & Andy (Episode “Lisa”)
Erin White for Sando (Series 1 Episode 6)
Trent O’Donnell for No Activity (Episode “The Night Before Christmas”)

Best Direction in a Documentary Feature
Ben Lawrence for Ghost Hunter
Catherine Scott for Backtrack Boys
Mark Joffe for Working Class Boy
Matthew Sleeth for Guilty
Paul Damien Williams for Gurrumul
Richard Todd for Dying to Live

Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Cian O’Clery for Employable Me (Series 1, Episode 1)
Sally Aitken and Kriv Stenders for The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill (Episode 2)
Steve Peddie for Who Do You Think You Are? (Season 9 Episode 2 – Charlie Teo)

Best Direction in a Children’s TV or SVOD Drama Program
Ana Kokkinos for Mustangs FC (Series 2, Episode 11)
Grant Brown for The Bureau of Magical Things (Series 1, Episode 1)
Jess Harris for Mustangs FC (Series 2, Episode 6)
Nicholas Verso for Grace Beside Me (Series 1, Episode 4)

Best Direction in a Online Drama Series
Billie Pleffer for Deadlock
There is only one nomination in this category.

Best Direction in a Online Comedy Series
Corrie Chen for Homecoming Queens
Sophie Hyde for F***ing Adelaide
Zoe Pepper for The Big Spaghetti
Nina Oyama for The Angus Project
Henry Stone for Be Your Own Boss

Best Direction in an Animation Project
Andrew Goldsmith and Bradley Slabe for Lost & Found
Kyle Portbury for Truth
Stephen Bristow for Sherazade (Sherazade The Untold Stories Season 1 Episode 10 – “Here Kitty Kitty”)