AWGIE Awards 2010

The Australian Writers’ Guild has announced the nominations for this year’s AWGIE Awards – judged by writers for writers and awarded for excellence.

The writers of Australia’s best loved stage, screen and radio have been nominated for these coveted awards. They are awards which are given for the script alone, recognising that everything starts with the written word.

AWG President Tim Pye says: ‘Every year, the AWGIE Awards recognise and reward the best of Australia’s performance writers for their contribution to the screen and theatre industries. Often, scriptwriters are the quiet achievers. The AWGIES are a great opportunity for writers to make some real noise and to come together to celebrate the highest standard in Australian scriptwriting.”

Previous AWGIE award winners are in the mix again this year including Katherine Thomson, Greg Haddrick, Doug Macleod and David Williamson AO.

This year the Original Screenplay category features three recently released films including Lou by Belinda Chayko, Beneath Hill 60 by David Roach and Animal Kingdom by David Michôd. The yet to be released Griff the Invisible by Leon Ford is also nominated.

Two scripts from the hit program Underbelly vie for the Television Mini-Series Adaptation. In the Television Serial category the two perennial favourites Home and Away and Neighbours will slog it out for the top gong.

Suzie Miller’s play, Transparency, made possible by the 2008 Kit Denton Fellowship, has been nominated for an AWGIE in the Theatre: Stage category.

The winner of the Major AWGIE Award for most outstanding script of 2010 will also receive the $10,000 Peer Recognition Prize which is proudly sponsored by Copyright Agency Limited.

Other prizes to be announced on the night include the $25,000 FOXTEL Fellowship for excellence in television writing, the $30,000 Kit Denton Fellowship and the $15,000 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction.

The AWGIE Awards are open to AWG members and are the only Australian scriptwriting awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script. 

The 43rd AWGIE Awards will take place in Melbourne on Friday 20 August.

THEATRE NOMINEES FOR THE 2010 AWGIE AWARDS

THEATRE: STAGE
The Dark Room by Angela Betzien
And No More Shall We Part by Tom Holloway
Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd by Lally Katz
Transparency by Suzie Miller
The Book of Everything by Richard Tulloch

THEATRE: MUSIC THEATRE
Call Girl the Musical by Tracy Harvey and Doug Macleod
Rembrandt’s Wife by Sue Smith

THEATRE: COMMUNITY & YOUTH THEATRE
Night Breakfast by Merillee Moss
Bustown by Lachlan Philpott

For a full listing of the nomination categories, visit awg.com.au.

To find previous AWGIE Award winning scripts, take a look at our Awards listings.