AustLit
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Inaugurated in 2011 and first presented in 2012 (for the 2011 award year).
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2024
winner form y The Newsreader ( dir. Emma Freeman ) Australia : Werner Film Productions , 2021-2022 20851611 2021 series - publisher film/TVThe series 'follows the unlikely bond between a young TV reporter and a "difficult" female newsreader'.
Source: Inside Film (https://www.if.com.au/joanna-werner-michael-lucas-find-drama-in-a-tv-newsroom/) (Sighted: 3/12/2020)
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Year: 2022
winner form y Mystery Road : Origin ( dir. Dylan River ) Australia : Bunya Productions , 2022 24477425 2022 series - publisher film/TV detectiveThe series 'follows Constable Jay Swan, a charismatic young officer who arrives at his new station. Fresh from the city and tipped for big things, Jay might be the new copper, but he’s not new to this town. His estranged father Jack lives here, as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary.'
Positioned as the third series of Mystery Road, it is set some twenty years earlier and acts as an 'origin story' for protagonist Jay Swan.
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Year: 2021
winner form y The Newsreader ( dir. Emma Freeman ) Australia : Werner Film Productions , 2021-2022 20851611 2021 series - publisher film/TVThe series 'follows the unlikely bond between a young TV reporter and a "difficult" female newsreader'.
Source: Inside Film (https://www.if.com.au/joanna-werner-michael-lucas-find-drama-in-a-tv-newsroom/) (Sighted: 3/12/2020)
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Year: 2020
winner form y Mystery Road ( dir. Rachel Perkins et. al. )agent Australia : Bunya Productions Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2018-2020 11467193 2018 series - publisher film/TV detectiveSeries one:
'Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two young farm hands on an outback cattle station. One is a local Indigenous footy hero, and the other a backpacker. Working with local cop Emma James (Judy Davis), Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.'
Source: Screen Australia (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2017/07-12-mystery-road-series). (Sighted: 13/07/2017)
Series two:
'A headless corpse is found floating by the shore in a remote outback town. As if this weren’t mysterious enough, Detective Swan and his colleague Fran have to contend with protests against the excavation of an Indigenous site. And then another body turns up.'
Source: Berlinale program (Sighted: 13/02/2020)
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Year: 2019
winner form y Total Control Black B*tch ( dir. Rachel Perkins et. al. )agent Australia : Blackfella Films Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2019-2023 15284926 2019 series - publisher film/TV'An unlikely national hero, Alex is catapulted into government in a cynical power play. Used, abandoned and underestimated, now she's on a path that will send the political establishment into meltdown.'
Source: Screen Australia.