The Gruen Transfer and Wilfred, directed by Renegade’s Tony Rogers, also up for AFI Awards

The Gruen Transfer, Series 3, has also been nominated for an AFI Award, in the category of the best light entertainment television series.

The news comes further to yesterday’s announcement that the Jungleboys’ Trent O’Donnell’s Review With Myles Barlow Series 2 had three AFI nominations – BestComedy, Best Screenplay and Best Comedy Performance.

WILFRED (Series two), which is directed by Renegade’s Tony Rogers, picked up three AFI nominations including Best Television Comedy, Best Actor and Best Screenplay.

Rogers is one of the original creators of the show, which is producedby Jen Livingston out of Renegade. The first series won an 2009 AFI forBest Television Comedy and was recently sold to the US FX Network.

Renegade Films picked up seven AFI nominations. The other four were for the documentary, Inside the Firestorm, which recounted the events of Black Saturday in Victoria 2009. It is nominated for Best Doco, Best Editing, Best Sound and Best

Director (Jacob Hickey.)

Brilliant Films’ director Brendan Young is also among the nominations for a 2010 AFI Award, with  ‘You Only Live Twice – The Incredibly True Story Of The Hughes Family’ nominated in the best Documentary Category.

The film is an odyssey into four generations of the Hughes Family, a maverick Australian clan of performers and larger than life personalities where legend, duality and contradiction go hand in hand. Broadcast nationally, twice on the ABC earlier this year, it was a ratings and critical success.

The Guild’s Emma Freeman is up for two AFI Awards for best direction in television, one for Hawke, and one for the Showcase series, Tangle, Season 2, Episode 16, ‘Lost and Found’.

Nominees were announced on Wednesday night at a special event held at the Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay. The winners will be announced at a ceremony held over two nights in Melbourne — Friday 10th and Saturday 11th December.

Click here for a full list of nominees.