AWARD announces Special Awards shortlist for the 44th AWARD Awards
AWARD has today announced the shortlist for the 44th AWARD Awards’ Special Award categories, which will be judged as part of This Way Up: Australia’s Advertising Festival of Creativity in Sydney from August 15-17.
The winners will be announced at the Gold Pencil Award Party – the festival’s wrap celebration taking place at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art on the evening of Thursday 17 August.
The entry-based Special Awards are not calculated through a points-based system but instead are judged by specialist juries who give scores for each of the entered pieces of work.
The aim is to spotlight individuals, companies and networks who have consistently delivered high-quality work across the year, spreading the recognition and sharing the reward.
The Special Awards include Individual Agency of the Year, Individual Creative or Team of the Year, Individual Director of the Year, Emerging Creative or Team of the Year, Emerging Director of the Year, Marketing Team of the Year, Account Team of the Year, Chief Marketing Officer of the Year, Emerging Indigenous Creative Talent, Agency Network of the Year, and Production Company of the Year.
The Grand Award (AWARD’s best in show) will also be announced on the night.
View all the shortlisted entries here.
Register to attend The Gold Pencil Award Party here. Tickets to this event are selling fast, so get in quick. The AWARD Awards gold winners will also be announced on the night.
View This Way Up’s full festival line-up here. Be sure not to miss out on the stellar line-up of international and local speakers.
AWARD thanks all of this year’s judges for their time and dedication to the awards and its sponsor Google.
16 Comments
just observing
Is there a single woman on the shortlist for creative team of the year?
No males on the CMO of the year either. The whole system needs an overhaul. Or just split out a separate male team of the year and female team of the year instead of just selecting, presumably, the best performing teams this year, regardless of which gender they identify with.
There is absolutely no need to represent diversity in shortlists. Best ideas win.
Creative departments will continue to be boys clubs until the leadership diversifies. In these atmospheres, men are the gatekeepers the ‘best’ ideas, opportunities and creative cultures. With a rare few exceptions, it’s only men that lead all creative departments across Oz.
Everyone wins a prize because there’s a category for everybody,
If there isn’t an award for you, then lobby for a category!
If you were on the Supreme Court you’d vote against affirmative action
It’s 2023. Creative departments across the country have all but eradicated the old boys club culture. These awards recognise those who have made the best work this year and there are no barriers or bias in the way of women achieving this. All these lazy circa 2017 comments do is undermine the achievement of those shortlisted.
Try harder and better luck next year.
L O L. This was absolutely written by some crusty old male CD who pats himself on the back at night thinking that he fixed sexism because he hired a girl team that one time. The boys club is alive and well in agencies and now takes the form of men getting groomed to be creative stars by the male creative leaders, getting all the perks, help and support they need – and the female ‘diversity’ hires sit and rot doing the labour, taking the shit jobs off the men, begging their leaders endlessly for support because the male creative leaders are too scared to put in extra time with women because 1. they don’t know how to talk to them and 2. they really don’t believe they’re ‘actually good’, and this happens until they either, quit or push through the endless bullshit and by pure luck get something good up – and even then you can bet their male counterparts are still getting paid more then them. Why? Because agencies don’t bother fixing the problem if they’ve got women in the department, in fact they don’t even care about seeing the problem. If you bring it up they’ll just gaslight you, tell you you’re imagining it and give you immeasurable and vapid reasons as to why the men you work with are just simply better than you. And if you’re really lucky they’ll just tell you the industry is just unfair and it’s your job to succeed despite it. Why else do you think women are out sourcing mentorship with help from organisations like The Aunties? Why else do you think so many women are quitting advertising? I don’t know what’s in the air up there in Palm Beach or wherever your $3.5 million house is, but in the real world women are still fighting against the same old boys club bullshit they always have.
OATH
Above comments almost definitely from the old white men running the show. Laughable.
Try harder to open your eyes bro
There is 100% paths that are open more easily to men. Much of this will be to do with bias – both conscious and unconscious – as has been pointed out.
It’s also important not to generalise. There are plenty of young men facing closed doors in ad land, because of who they are, what their background is. Trust me I know.
There are also plenty men in advertising that support women wholeheartedly with extra time, focus etc and don’t feel remotely like they ‘cant talk to them’.
What percentage of Australian CCOs are women?
CCO’s? What about ECD’s?
I assumed you were about 20 different women in creative depts while I was reading because this experience is SO BANG ON and SO COMMON. Including my own. Anyone who denies it is denying their own privilege.