Nominees announced for ADG Directors Awards

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Picture 416.pngPicture 417.pngPicture 418.pngThe Australian Directors Guild today announced the nominees for its 2009 peer-assessed awards, celebrating the creative achievement of directors in film, television and new media platforms.

In the TVC category the nominees are:

Ben Lawrence – Pollards: Mitsubishi

Sean Meehan – Separation: Quit Victoria

Steve Rogers – Pure Waters: Boags Draught

Winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner at the Star City Astral Room in Sydney on Thursday September 10, 2009. Tickets are available online at www.adg.org.au

There will also be four special achievement awards made on the night:

  • the Cecil Holmes Award for services to directors
  • the Michael Carson Award for excellence in TV drama production
  • the Outstanding Achievement Award for an outstanding body of work
  • the First Assistant Directors Award

Last year’s recipients were drama director Kate Woods, documentarymaker Tom Zubrycki, animator Bruce Petty and First AD Mark Turnbull.

 

ADG President, Ray Argall, said: “We congratulate all the nominees onthe great work they have produced this year and look forward to seeingthem at next month’s Awards night.”

 

The nominees for the 2009 competitive awards are:

TVC       

Ben Lawrence – Pollards: Mitsubishi

Sean Meehan – Separation: Quit Victoria

Steve Rogers – Pure Waters: Boags Draught

Directing for New Media Platforms              

Marcus Gillezeau – Scorched

Nick Pollack – Continental Cup-a-Soup free cup campaign

               

Documentary (stand alone)

Amiel Courtin-Wilson – Cicada   

Bentley Dean – Contact

Scott Hicks – Glass: A portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

 

Documentary (series)       

Brian McKenzie – Ironing Man: Meet me at the Mango Tree

Kay Pavlou – Armenia: Family Footsteps              

Rachel Perkins – Freedom for our Lifetime: First Australians

 

Feature Film         

Serhat Caradee – Cedar Boys           

Adam Elliot – Mary and Max        

Glendyn Ivin – Last Ride             

Rachel Ward – Beautiful Kate

Music Clip             

Nash Edgerton – Beyond Here Lies Nothing: Clip for Bob Dylan

Short Film             

Britt Arthur – My Uncle Bluey     

Tim Dean – Fences  

Anna McGrath – Small Change      

Richard Vilensky – Liebermans in the Sky

                

Telemovie            

Tony Ayres – Saved     

Michael James Rowland – The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce

Tony Tilse – Scorched              

Rowan  Woods – Three Acts of Murder           

 

TV Comedy Series             

Nathan Craig & Earl Melville – Love: Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure

Bradley Howard – Episode 10: Newstopia

Alex Weinress – Pack: Chandon Pictures

 

TV Drama Series               

Grant Brown – The Brotherhood: UNDERBELLY: A Tale of Two Cities

Ian Gilmour – Danger Zone: All Saints

Shawn Seet – Business as Usual UNDERBELLY: A Tale of Two Cities

Jet Wilkinson – Bloodlines: All Saints         

 

TV Mini Series     

Peter Andrikidis – False Witness: False Witness

Grant Brown – Boab Dreaming: Dirt Game             

Brendan Maher – Down Among the Dead Men: Dirt Game

Ian Watson – Carla Cametti PD                                                                          

For further details and to book for the ADG Awards 2009, visit www.adg.org.au