AWARD announces 44th AWARD Awards jurors
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors (AWARD) has today announced the full lineup of jurors for the 44th AWARD Awards.
A group of 83 leading creatives will be tasked with selecting the 44th AWARD Awards winners, with online pre-judging to determine finalists taking place from 12 May to 26 May 2023. Round two judging will be held from 17 – 25 July to nominate winners.
This year’s jury Chairs are:
Digital – Dave Bowman, Google
Press, Poster & The Dark Arts – Jade Manning, Today the Brave
Media Thinking – Jo Shoesmith, Amazon
Impact – Tom Martin, Special
Design – Pim van Nunen, UNKL
Culture – Susan Hosking, Mother
Sound – Mietta McFarlane, Square Space
Film – Sarah McGregor, Dentsu Creative
Craft in Motion – Loren Bradley, FINCH
Life Changing – Pete Baker, The Glue Society
Strategy – Bridget Jung, Ogilvy
See the full list of jurors here.
Says Cam Blackley, chair of AWARD: “AWARD has once again secured a world-class line-up of Jury Chairs and jurors. We are honoured that such an incredible calibre of judges volunteer their time and expertise to ensure AWARD continues to spotlight the most outstanding ideas in the APAC region.
“Off the back of our highly successful creative festival This Way Up in 2022, we look forward to incorporating our awards announcements and ceremonies throughout this year’s festival, which will be the first time since 2019 that our winners have not all been announced virtually.
“We can’t wait to celebrate all the outstanding creative ideas this year in person.”
AWARD will also be announcing some exciting news regarding this year’s Jury President shortly.
Winners of the 44th AWARD Awards will be announced during AWARD’s This Way Up festival, which will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney from the 15-17 August 2023.
Further details and information on the festival will be announced soon.
Entries into the AWARD Awards are still being accepted up until midnight Friday 31 March AEDT. For more information on the AWARD Awards and to enter visit the website here.
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Seems to be a recurring agency name among that list
Well done all! Here for the YTs!
big year for the YTs! as is every year
Some industry folk clearly rest on their laurels of the unofficial adland popularity contest, rather than actual creative credentials.
To have my work judged by a senior creative who has not a single award winning piece of work to their name is insulting. I’m all for diversity, but find some creatives that are deserving of being there and understand what it takes to make good work.
Some great names on that jury – all legends. Good luck all.
Let’s roll out the updates gang. You got this.
Looking forward to all your looking forwards.
Agreed. I’m seeing so many young creatives judging these awards before producing anything of note themselves.
Not only the young creatives. Many of the more experienced jurors on here have never won anything above a bronze either. Woeful selection process.
Do highly awarded work before judging work.
While you don’t need a massive bag of accolades to have a successful career, there needs to be scrutiny when it comes to who judges.
Love the green and blue gradient here. We never see such colour over such a judging panel. More colour please!
There seems to be a common theme in some of these local award shows of career judges who do more work on committees, talks and judging the work of others than making ads. Win awards before you judge awards.
It’s a local show – it’s not always about the work.
Some names haven’t had a chance to make the work that makes these shows. This is a safe place for them to learn how it works. I recall the same complaints about Award School tutors. Maybe there’s more to it.
Best Chill.
Not sure I buy that. There are plenty of avenues for young creatives to learn the ropes. If AWARD wanted to be respected as the best show in Australia it should award the best work. To award the best work you need to know what it takes. There are some people on this jury that are ticking diversity boxes which is great but it shouldn’t come at the cost of having the most well rounded critique of the work
Learn by making work. Learn by winning awards. Judging panels are for experienced, awarded professionals. If you “haven’t had the chance to make the work that makes these shows,” you definitely shouldn’t be judging them.
There’s always a few rock throwers on CB but this a fantastic crew of Chairs and Jurors.
Great job Cam and AWARD.
I agree with a lot of these comments. Great creative work should be decided by a people who have made great creative work. Simple. Anything short of that lessens the credibility of an AWARD Pencil. Keep putting juries like this together and before you know it winning at AWARD will be hollow.
There are so many non-white people in the industry who have worked on multiple award winning campaigns, hence ticking both the diversity and creative repertoire boxes – which are important and needed. Clearly, the decision makers, did not consider this – which in 2023, is surprising.
Pretty clear agenda from the committee. It’s great to see progress and a leveling of playing fields. But it’s coming at the cost of good creative. There are plenty of POC creatives in australia right now who have won multiple international awards and they’ve been overlooked because perhaps they don’t fit a certain narrative.