Qantas Film & Television Awards Winners Announced
Media release
5 September 2009
Qantas Film And Television Awards Winners Announced
The cream of New Zealand’s film and television industries were celebrated tonight at a glittering gala event in the Civic Theatre, Auckland.
More than 750 guests, including Prime Minister Hon John Key, witnessed 39 Qantas Film and Television Awards being presented across news and current affairs, general television, documentary, and film categories.
A further 22 category winners were presented with awards during yesterday’s Qantas Film and Television Craft Awards lunch-time function.
Guests at tonight’s gala event included film directors Niki Caro and Gaylene Preston, actors Karl Urban and Lucy Lawless, and other luminaries from the New Zealand film and television community, with entertainment provided by The Topp Twins.
New Zealand Television Broadcasters’ Council chief executive and awards organising committee co-chair Rick Friesen paid tribute to the fantastic support the film and television industries have given to the awards.
“Tonight was a wonderful celebration of the achievements of the very best in our industries, and we’re extremely grateful for the broad endorsement the Awards have received from throughout the film and television communities,” Mr Friesen says.
“The creative industries represented here can be justly proud of their collective efforts – the standard of the winning entrants is up there with the very best in the world.”
Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand executive director Anna Cahill congratulated all the winners of the awards, and praised the efforts of the judges.
“We received 639 entries across 61 categories for this year’s awards and our panels of expert judges dedicated nearly 1000 hours to determining the winners,” Ms Cahill says.
“The overwhelming feedback from them was that the standard of film and television being produced in New Zealand continues to rise.”
Qantas regional general manager New Zealand and Pacific Grant Lilly also applauded the winners at this year’s awards.
“Qantas is very proud to join with the New Zealand Television Broadcasters’ Council and the Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand in recognising the best and brightest of New Zealand’s creative industries. I congratulate not only the winners, but all the finalists, for their contribution to ensuring New Zealand continues to have thriving film and television industries.”
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Award
highlights
Film
Qantas Best Feature Film
– budget over $1 million Dean Spanley
Best
Feature Film – budget under $1 million The Topp
Twins Untouchable Girls
Best Director in a
Feature Film (budget under and over $1 million) Toa
Fraser, Dean Spanley
__Best Lead Actor in a Feature
Film Scott Wills, Apron Strings
Best Lead Actress
in a Feature Film Jennifer Ludlam, Apron
Strings
Best Screenplay for a Feature Film Alan
Sharp, Dean Spanley
Television
Qantas
Best News One News
Best News or Current Affairs
Presenter Kevin Milne, Fair Go, TV
One
Investigation of the Year Ian Sinclair and
Dale Owens, Sunday (Dr Disaster 2), TV One
Journalist
of the Year Robyn Janes, Louisa Cleave and Corinne
Ambler, Close Up, TV One
Best performance by an actor
in general television Cohen Holloway, Until Proven
Innocent, TV One
Best performance by an actress in
general television Emily Barclay, Piece Of My Heart, TV
One
Images & Sound Best Drama Programme
Until Proven Innocent, TV One
Full Winners and
Finalists List (winner’s name first)
*Awarded at
Craft Awards on Friday 4 September
News and
Current Affairs Categories
Qantas Best
News
One News (TV One)
Finalists:
3 News
(TV3)
Tonight (TV One)
Best News or Current Affairs
Presenter
Kevin Milne – Fair Go (TV
One)
Finalists:
Paul Henry –Breakfast (TV
One)
Andrew Saville – One News (TV One)
__Best
News Reporting
Amanda Gillies – 3 News, Victoria
Bush Fires (TV3)
Finalists:
Guyon Espiner – One
News, Ele Peters (TV One)
Duncan Garner – 3 News,
Secret Tapes (TV3)
Best Current Affairs Reporting for
a weekly programme or one off current affairs
special
John Hudson, Stephen Butler, Leander
Scott-Donelan, Portia Mao – Sunday, Bad Milk (TV One)
Finalists:
Pete Cronshaw, Cara Darvill – 20/20,
Baby Business (TV2)
Mike McRoberts, John Stephenson,
Arthur Rasmussen, Paul Enticott – 60 Minutes, Bread
Basket/Basket Case (TV3)
Best Current Affairs
Reporting for a daily programme
Robyn Janes, Louisa
Cleave, Corinne Ambler – Close Up, Schools (TV One)
Finalists:
Donna-Marie Lever, Kate McCallum
– Close Up, Family: The Gunman’s Mum (TV
One)
Kate McCallum, Louisa Cleave, Michael
Holland, Mike Valintine – Close Up, Rest Home (TV
One)
Best Current Affairs Series
Q+A (TV
One)
Finalists:
Native Affairs (Maori
Television)
Sunday (TV One)
Investigation of the
Year
Ian Sinclair, Dale Owens – Sunday, Dr Disaster
2 (TV One)
Finalists:
John Hudson, Stephen Butler,
Leander Scott-Donelan, Portia Mao – Sunday, Bad Milk (TV
One)
Kate McCallum, Louisa Cleave, Michael Holland, Mike
Valintine – Close Up, Rest Home (TV One)
Journalist
of the Year
Robyn Janes, Louisa Cleave, Corinne
Ambler – Close Up (TV One)
Best News
Camera*
Jared Mason – One News, US Election: McCain
Campaign (TV One)
Finalists:
James Marshall –
Breakfast, Skifield Prepares to Open (TV One)
Cameron
Williams – 3 News, Anzac Day in Tinui and Chatham Islands
(TV3)
Best Current Affairs Camera*
Christopher
Brown – 20/20, The Amazing Race
(TV2)
Finalists:
Scott Behrnes – Campbell Live,
Merino (TV3)
Patrice Hutchinson – Native Affairs, Tini
Whetu I Te Rangi (Maori Television)
Best News
Editing*
Kirsten Bolam – One News, Ironwoman (TV
One)
Finalists:
Tony Clark – One News, National
Party candidates in South Auckland (TV One)
Rebecca
O’Sullivan – Sunrise/Nightline, Jetboat, Queenstown
Artist and Retronude exhibit (TV3)
Best Current
Affairs Editing*
Will Kong – Sunday, 17 Hours (TV
One)
Finalists:
Paul Enticott – 60 Minutes, No Fixed
Abode (TV3)
Paul Sparkes – Close Up, Rock School (TV
One)
General Television Categories
Images &
Sound Best Drama Programme
Until Proven Innocent –
Paula Boock, Donna Malane; Lippy Pictures Ltd (TV
One)
Finalists:
Outrageous Fortune – John Laing,
South Pacific Pictures (TV3)
Piece Of My Heart –
Michele Fantl, MF Films Ltd (TV One)
NZ On Air Best
Comedy Programme
The Jaquie Brown Diaries – Jaquie
Brown, Gerard Johnstone, Hayley Cunningham; Young, Gifted &
Brown (TV3)
Finalists:
The Millen Baird Show –
Rachel Gardner, Great Southern Television (TV3)
The
Pretender – Rachel Gardner, Great Southern Television (TV
One)
Maori Language Commission Best Maori Language
Programme
Ka Haku Au –Maramena Roderick, Ngahuia
Wade; Maramena Ltd (Maori Television)
Finalists:
Ko
Tawa – Jeni-Leigh Walker, Maori Television (Maori
Television)
Maumahara – Hinewehi Mohi, Raukatauri
Productions Ltd (Maori Television)
Qantas Best
Children’s/Youth Programme
Play It Strange 2008 –
Rachel Jean, Isola Productions Ltd
(C4)
Finalists:
Let’s Get Inventin’ – Luke Nola,
Rachel Jean, Television Spaceman Ltd (TV2)
Polyfest ’09
– Lisa Taouma, TVNZ (TV2)
Best Information/Lifestyle
Programme
Hunger For The Wild – Peter Young,
Fisheye Films Ltd (TV One)
Finalists:
Fair Go
–Graeme Muir, TVNZ (TV One)
What’s Really In Our Food
– Belinda McLeod; Top Shelf Productions Ltd
(TV3)
Best Entertainment Programme
Dancing With
The Stars – Debra Kelleher, TVNZ (TV One)
Finalists:
Eating Media Lunch – Paul Casserly, Great Southern
Television (TV2)
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? – Tony
Holden, Steve Gilbert; Great Southern Television (TV
One)
Best Sports Broadcast
International
Netball Series 2008 – Barbara Mitchell, TVNZ (TV
One)
Finalists:
Heineken Open Tennis Finals – Steve
Jamieson, TVNZ (TV One)
PowerBuilt Tools Motorsport:
Indianapolis 500 2009 – David Turner, TVNZ (TV
One)
Kordia Group Ltd Best Event
Coverage
Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards – Arwen
O’Connor, Nikki Streater, Satellite Media
(C4)
Finalists:
C4 goes to Vodafone Homegrown –
Arwen O’Connor, Nikki Streater, Satellite Media/C4
(C4)
One News Special: Election ’08 – Darryl Walker,
TVNZ (TV One)
Best Observational Reality
Series
Rescue 1 – Martin Cleave, Great Southern
Television (TV2)
Finalists:
Piha Rescue – Eric
Derks, South Pacific Video Productions Ltd (TV One)
The
Zoo – Sharon Bennett for Greenstone Pictures, Greenstone
Pictures (TV2)
Best Constructed Reality
Series
Missing Pieces –David Lomas, Eyeworks New
Zealand (TV3)
Finalists:
New Zealand’s Next Top
Model – Anna Lynch, John McDonald, TV3 (TV3)
Sensing
Murder – David Harry Baldock, Geoff Husson, Cinna Smith;
Ninox Television (TV2)
Best Performance by an Actress
in General Television
Emily Barclay – Piece Of My
Heart, MF Films Ltd (TV One)
Finalists:
Sarah Peirse
– Aftershock, Gibson Group (TV3)
Annie Whittle –
Piece Of My Heart, MF Films Ltd (TV One)
Best
Performance by a Supporting Actress in General
Television
Keisha Castle-Hughes – Piece Of My
Heart, MF Films Ltd (TV One)
Finalists:
Bronwyn
Bradley – Go Girls, South Pacific Pictures
(TV2)
Siobhan Marshall –Outrageous Fortune, South
Pacific Pictures (TV3)
Best Performance by an Actor in
General Television
Cohen Holloway –Until Proven
Innocent, Lippy Pictures Ltd (TV One)
Finalists:
Bob
McLaren – The Pretender, Great Southern Television (TV
One)
Antony Starr – Outrageous Fortune, South Pacific
Pictures (TV3)
Best Performance by a Supporting Actor
in General Television
Peter Elliott – Until Proven
Innocent, Lippy Pictures Ltd (TV One)
Finalists:
Owen
Black – Shortland Street, South Pacific Pictures
(TV2)
Andre King –The Pretender, Great Southern
Television (TV One)
Best Presenter
Entertainment/Factual Programme
Jason Gunn –
Dancing With The Stars, TVNZ (TV One)
Finalists:
Petra Bagust – What’s Really In Our Food, Top Shelf
Productions Ltd (TV3)
Te Radar – Off The Radar, JAM TV
(TV One)
Atomic Coffee Roasters Ltd Best Script –
Drama/Comedy Programme
James Griffin, Rachel Lang –
Outrageous Fortune, South Pacific Pictures
(TV3)
Finalists:
Paula Boock, Donna Malane – Until
Proven Innocent, Lippy Pictures Ltd (TV One)
Fiona Samuel
–Piece Of My Heart, MF Films Ltd (TV One)
Images &
Sound Best Director – Drama/Comedy
Programme
Brendon Donovan – Aftershock, Gibson
Group (TV3)
Finalists:
Peter Burger –Until Proven
Innocent, Lippy Pictures Ltd (TV One)
Fiona Samuel
–Piece Of My Heart, MF Films Ltd (TV One)
Best
Director – Factual/Entertainment Programme
Paul
Casserly –Eating Media Lunch, Great Southern Television
(TV2)
Finalists:
Jane Andrew – Off The Radar, JAM
TV (TV One)
Paul Murphy – Sensing Murder, Ninox
Television (TV2)
Best Multi-Camera Direction in
General Television*
Steve Jamieson – IRB World
Sevens Series Wellington, TVNZ (TV One)
Finalists:
Mitchell Hawkes – Vodafone NZ Music Awards, Satellite
Media (C4)
Mark Owers –Dancing With The Stars, TVNZ (TV
One)
Best Camera Work – Drama/Comedy
Programme*
David Paul – Until Proven Innocent,
Lippy Pictures Ltd (TV One)
Finalists:
Simon
Baumfield –Aftershock, Gibson Group (TV3)
Martin Smith
– Outrageous Fortune, South Pacific Pictures
(TV3)
Images & Sound Best Editing – Drama/Comedy
Programme*
Paul Sutorius –Until Proven Innocent,
Lippy Pictures Ltd (TV One)
Finalists:
Margot Francis
– Piece Of My Heart, MF Films Ltd (TV One)
Bryan Shaw
– Outrageous Fortune, South Pacific Pictures
(TV3)
Best Original Music in General Television*
David Ironside –Lost In Libya, Pacific Screen (TV
One)
Finalists:
Jonathan Bree – Go Girls, South
Pacific Pictures (TV2)
Conrad Wedde, Luke Buda –Until
Proven Innocent, Lippy Pictures Ltd (TV One)
Best
Sound Design in General Television*
Phil Burton, Don
Paulin, Chris Hiles – Aftershock, Gibson Group
(TV3)
Finalists:
Tom Miskin, Steve Finnigan, Stephen
Gallagher – Amazing Extraordinary Friends, Images & Sound
(TV2)
Carl Smith, Steve Finnigan, – Outrageous Fortune,
Images & Sound (TV3)
Best Production Design in General
Television*
Tracey Collins – Piece Of My Heart, MF
Films Ltd (TV One)
Finalists:
Flux Animation Studios
– Buzzy Bee And Friends, Lion Rock Ventures Ltd
(TV2)
John Harding – Until Proven Innocent, Lippy
Pictures Ltd (TV One)
Best Contribution to Design in
General Television*
Claire Palmer – Dancing With
The Stars, TVNZ (TV One)
Finalists:
Aftershock Effects
Team – Aftershock, Gibson Group (TV3)
Lesley
Burkes-Harding – Until Proven Innocent, Lippy Pictures Ltd
(TV One)
Documentary Categories
Best Popular
Documentary
A Good Way To Die? – Dan Salmon, Tash
Christie, Octopus Pictures (TV3)
Finalists:
Life,
Death And A Lung Transplant – Rachel Jean, Isola
Productions Ltd (TV3)
Mika Haka Kids – Maramena
Roderick Mika, Patangaroa Entertainment Ltd (Maori
Television)
Best Arts/Festival/Feature
Documentary
The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins –
Pietra Brettkelly
Finalists:
Assume Nothing –
Kirsty MacDonald, Girl on a Bike Films
Kapiti Art Project
– Summer Agnew, Curious Film (TVNZ6)
Best Director
– Documentary
Pietra Brettkelly –The Art Star And
The Sudanese Twins
Finalists:
Summer Agnew – Kapiti
Art Project, Curious Film (TVNZ6)
Gerard Smyth –
Barefoot Cinema: The Life And Art Of Cinematographer Alun
Bollinger, Frank Film (TV One)
Best Camera Work –
Documentary/Factual Programme*
Peter Young –
Hunger For The Wild, Fisheye Films Ltd (TV
One)
Finalists:
Tony Barnes, Obi Kenobi –Million
Dollar Catch, Great Southern Television (TV3)
Jacob
Bryant – The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins
Best
Editing – Documentary/Factual Programme*
Irena Dol
– The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins
Finalist:
Tim
Woodhouse – TOKI Does New York, Octopus Pictures (TV
One)
Film Categories
Qantas Best Feature Film
– budget over $1 million
Dean Spanley – Matthew
Metcalfe, Alan Harris; General Film
Corporation
Finalists:
Apron Strings – Rachel
Gardner, Great Southern Television
Show Of Hands –
Angela Littlejohn, Great Southern Television
Best
Feature Film – budget under $1 million
The Topp
Twins Untouchable Girls – Arani Cuthbert, Diva
Productions
Finalists:
I’m Not Harry Jenson – Tom
Hern, James Napier Robertson, Edward Sampson, Six String
Pictures
The Map Reader – John Davies, Arkles
Entertainment
Best Director in a Feature Film (budget
under and over $1 million)
Toa Fraser – Dean
Spanley, General Film Corporation
Finalists:
Anthony
McCarten – Show Of Hands, Great Southern
Television
Sima Urale – Apron Strings, Great Southern
Television
Best Lead Actor in a
Feature Film
Scott Wills – Apron Strings, Great
Southern Television
Finalists:
Joel Edgerton
–Separation City, Separation City Productions
Sam Neill
– Dean Spanley, General Film Corporation
Best Lead
Actress in a Feature Film
Jennifer Ludlam –Apron
Strings, Great Southern Television
Finalists:
Danielle
Cormack –Separation City, Separation City
Productions
Melanie Lynskey – Show Of Hands, Great
Southern Television
Best Supporting Actor in a Feature
Film
Peter O’Toole – Dean Spanley, General Film
Corporation
Finalists:
Les Hill –Separation City,
Separation City Productions
Cameron Rhodes – I’m Not
Harry Jenson, Six String Pictures
Best Supporting
Actress in a Feature Film
Bonnie Soper – The Map
Reader, Arkles Entertainment
Finalists:
Nancy Brunning
– The Strength Of Water, Filmwork Ltd
Michelle
Langstone –Separation City, Separation City
Productions
Best Screenplay for a Feature Film
Alan Sharp – Dean Spanley, General Film
Corporation
Finalists:
Briar Grace-Smith – The
Strength Of Water, Filmwork Ltd
Shuchi Kothari, Dianne
Taylor – Apron Strings, Great Southern
Television
Best Cinematography in a Feature
Film*
Rewa Harre – Apron Strings, Great Southern
Television
Finalists:
Bogumil Godfrejow – The
Strength Of Water, Filmwork Ltd
Leon Narbey –Dean
Spanley, General Film Corporation
Best Editing in a
Feature Film*
Chris Plummer – Dean Spanley,
General Film Corporation
Finalists:
Harold Brodie –
The Map Reader, Arkles Entertainment
Eric de Beus
–Apron Strings, Great Southern Television
Best
Original Music in a Feature Film*
Jools Topp, Lynda
Topp – The Topp Twins Untouchable Girls, Diva
Productions
Finalists:
Don McGlashan – Dean Spanley,
General Film Corporation
Samuel Flynn Scott, Luke Buda
– Separation City, Separation City
Productions
Images & Sound Best Sound Design in a
Feature Film*
Dave Whitehead, Polly McKinnon –
The Strength Of Water, Filmwork Ltd
Finalists:
Chris
Burt, David Long –The Topp Twins Untouchable Girls, Diva
Productions
Paul Cotterell – Dean Spanley, General Film
Corporation
Best Production Design in a Feature Film*
Johnny Hawkins –Apron Strings, Great Southern
Television
Finalists:
Rick Kofoed – The Strength Of
Water, Filmwork Ltd
Andrew McAlpine – Dean Spanley,
General Film Corporation
Best Costume Design in a
Feature Film*
Odile Dicks-Mireaux – Dean Spanley,
General Film Corporation
Finalist:
Kirsty Cameron –
The Strength Of Water, Filmwork Ltd
Best Make-Up
Design in a Feature Film*
Marese Langan – Dean
Spanley, General Film Corporation
Finalist:
Deb Watson
– The Strength Of Water, Filmwork Ltd
Best Short
Film
Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland – The Six
Dollar Fifty Man, Sticky Pictures Limited
Finalists:
James Cunningham – Poppy, Supercollider
Ltd
Grant Major – Undergrowth, Octopus
Pictures
Best Performance in a Short Film
Oscar
Vandy-Connor –The Six Dollar Fifty Man, Sticky Pictures
Limited
Finalists:
Ian Hughes – Undergrowth,
Octopus Pictures
Cameron Rhodes – Brave Donkey,
Robber’s Dog Films
Best Screenplay for a Short
Film*
Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland – The Six
Dollar Fifty Man, Sticky Pictures
Limited
Finalists:
David Coyle – Poppy,
Supercollider Ltd
Peter Force, Adam Strange –
Aphrodite’s Farm, JoyRide Films Ltd
Outstanding
Technical Contribution to a Short Film*
James
Cunningham – Poppy, Supercollider
Ltd
Finalists:
Cushla Dillon – Brave Donkey,
Robber’s Dog Films
Ginny Loane – Brave Donkey,
Robber’s Dog Films
Special award
NZTE
International Achievement Award
Natural History New
Zealand
Nominees:
Flux Animation Studio
South
Pacific Pictures
About the Qantas Film and Television Awards 2009
It is the second year the Awards have been held, following last year’s successful inaugural event. They are the amalgamation of the former New Zealand Screen Awards and the New Zealand Television Awards.
For a full list of winners, finalists and other information about the awards, please visit the official Qantas Film and Television Awards website: www.qantasfilmandtvawards.co.nz.
The Qantas Film and Television Awards is delighted to have Qantas as a significant partner and naming rights sponsor of the Awards.
The Awards would not be possible without the financial assistance of the New Zealand Film Commission.
The Qantas Film and Television Awards
committee gratefully acknowledges the support from sponsors:
• Auckland City Council – Auckland, home of
the Qantas Film and Television Awards 2009
• New
Zealand Trade and Enterprise
• Images and
Sound
• NZ On Air
• Kordia Group
Limited
• Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (Maori
Language Commission)
• Atomic Coffee Roasters
• AGB Nielsen
•
About the
Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand
The Screen
Directors Guild of New Zealand (SDGNZ) represents New
Zealand directors and editors. The guild creates a forum
where creatives can define, defend and further their
professional industry. The SDGNZ is dedicated to the
artistic excellence, employment opportunities and economic
wellbeing of its members.
About the New Zealand
Television Broadcasters’ Council
The New Zealand
Television Broadcasters' Council is an industry organisation
representing the non-competitive interests of free-to-air
television broadcasters in New Zealand. The members are
MediaWorks TV, Television New Zealand and Maori
Television.
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