AWGIE winners 2008

Underbelly writers Peter Gawler, Greg Haddrick and Felicity Packard won the AWGIE award for best television mini series adaptation Leadbelly: Inside Australia’s Underworld, by Age journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule. It was the sole nominee in its category.

Last night the Australian Writers Guild held its annual awards for writing in film, television, radio and stage at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom.

Haddrick also won for TEN’s upcoming telemovie The Informant, pipping The King.

Comedy writer Doug MacLeod (Dogstar) took out three awards, including the Fred Parsons Award for Contribution to Australian Comedy.

SBS was a big winner with East West 101 and Newstopia scoring in the mini series and comedy sections while Home and Away and All Saints episodes received awards in the TV series and TV serial categories.

TV Winners:
Comedy – Situation or Narrative
Death Wish, Chandon Pictures by Rob Carlton

Comedy – Sketch or Light Entertainment
Newstopia, Episode 8, Series One by Michael Ward with Richard Marsland, Gary McCaffrie and Shaun Micallef

Children’s Television – C Classification
Man Bites Dog, Dogstar by Doug MacLeod

Documentary Public Broadcast
The Fibros and the Silvertails by Paul Oliver

Telemovie Original
The Informant by Greg Haddrick

Television Mini Series Adaptation
Underbelly by Peter Gawler, Greg Haddrick and Felicity Packard

Television Mini Series Original
East West 101 by Kristen Dunphy, Michael Miller, Kris Mrksa, Michelle Offen and Kris Wyld

Television Series
Against the Wall Part Two, All Saints by Sean Nash

Television Serial
Home & Away, Episode 4498 by Margaret Wilson

Dorothy Crawford Award Recognising Outstanding Contribution to the Profession of Scriptwriting
Liz Jones

2008 Major AWGIE Award and Copyright Agency Limited Peer Recognition Prize
Underbelly by Peter Gawler, Greg Haddrick and Felicity Packard

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Source: AAP