Australian Cinematographer Awards 2024: winners

The Australian Cinematographers Society’s 54th National Awards were held at the newly restored Ithaca Auditorium in Brisbane City Hall last night, hosted by Ray Martin.

Bryan Brown was guest of honour.

Ben Cotgrove (pictured) who won the prestigious Australian Cinematographer of the Year Milli Award. Cotgrove also won a Gold Tripod in the Documentary category for his work on A Man’s Man.

ACS National President Erika Addis said, “I would like to wholeheartedly congratulate Ben on winning the Milli, it is an amazing achievement. I would also like to congratulate all the other entrants and award winners for their incredible work. Year after year the standard and quality of Australian cinematographers’ work never ceases to amaze me. It has been a remarkable year for Australian cinematographers and the Australian Cinematographers Society as we continue to go from strength to strength supporting our craft. Again, well done and congratulations one and all.”

“It is a tremendous honour and great privilege to have won the Milli as the standard of entrants and indeed cinematography in Australia is at the very highest level. I am truly humbled to win this award and give my heartfelt thanks to the ACS and all of their sponsors for the awards and everything they do for cinematographers in Australia,” Cotgrove said.

Hall of Fame Awards
Nicola Daley ACS BSC,
Andy Taylor ACS
Peter Menzies Snr ACS

Life Membership Award
Yuri Sokol ACS
Miguel Gallagher

John Leake OAM ACS Emerging Cinematographer Award
Jaclyn Paterson.

Student Cinematography Award of Distinction
Pete Moses for Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

Gold Tripod
Geoffrey Thomas who won the John Bowring ACS Station Breaks & Promos for The Invisibles promo shoot for National Geographic’s The Invisibles series about a drug cartel, Dave May ACS took home the Music Videos award for Walker: Life & Death and Benjamin Foley who won the Neil Davis International News award for New York Times – Under Attack in Ukraine’s South East.

The Current Affairs award went to Tom Hancock for Foreign Correspondent: Fighting Back, Season 22 / Episode 29 and Josh Flavell ACS won in Entertainment & TV Magazine for Home Australia: Longhouse, Season 2 / Episode 7.

The Ron Taylor AM ACS & Valerie Taylor AM Wildlife & Nature award went to Romilly Spiers for Planet Insect – Hive Minds, Season 1 / Episode 3 and Alexander Schultz took out the gong for Short Films with Hitched.

The Gold Tripod for Drama Series went to Stefan Duscio ACS for Shantaram, Season 1 / Episode 1, Feature Films – Budget $3m and under went to Craig Barden ACS for The Rooster and then the Gold Tripod for Feature Films – Budget $3m and over was awarded to Marc Spicer ACS for We Have A Ghost.

Other Gold Tripod Winners included:
Corporate – Corporate Branding & Advertising – Joshua Lamont ACS for Powered by Tasmania
Corporate – Branded Content, Education & Events – Matthew Allard ACS for Ritz-Carlton
Commercials – Local / Regional – Brad Day for A Killer Moment
Commercials – National / International – Jeremy Rouse ACS for Navy