After the big announcement that The Sapphires has earned $6.4million at the Aussie box office, the week has just got even better for the makers of the smash hit Australian musical.
Not only has the feel good tale of a ‘60s aboriginal girl group who travelled to Vietnam to entertain the US troops won over audience hearts, it has now gained the approval of The Australian Writers Guild.
Tonight The Sapphires was awarded both the Major AWGIE Award for the most outstanding script of 2012 and the AWGIE Award for Feature Film Adaptation. Written by Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson, the script is based on the journey of Tony’s mother and an extraordinary time in her life.
Other winners included Michael Lucas proving that he is a star on the rise by winning two AWGIE Awards, for Not Suitable For Children in the Feature Film Original category and Offspring: Episode 206 in the Television Series category. Michael Lucas, who wrote the film with his own cancer scare in mind, returned from climbing Mount Killimanjaro to collect his awards.
Susan Smith’s powerful Mabo won the AWGIE Award for theTelemovie Original category cementing her place as an iconic Australian writer who was also responsible for Brides of Christ.
For those counting, here are the rest of the winners…
2012 AWGIE WINNERS
Major Award
The Sapphires
Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson
Feature Film – Adaptation
The Sapphires
Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson
Feature Film – Original
Not Suitable For Children
Michael Lucas
Telemovie – Original
Mabo
Susan Smith
Television Mini Series – Original
The Straits
Blake Ayshford, Jaime Browne, Kristen Dunphy and Nicholas Parsons with Louis Nowra.
Television Mini Series – Adaptation
The Slap
Emily Ballou, Alice Bell, Brendan Cowell and Kris Mrksa with Cate Shortland
Comedy - Sketch or Light Entertainment
Good News Week: The State of the Nation
Mat Blackwell, Dave Bloustien, Simon Dodd, Bruce Griffiths, Warwick Holt, Paul Livingston and Ian Simmons
Comedy - Situation or Narrative
Lowdown: One Fine Gay
Amanda Brotchie, Trudy Hellier and Adam Zwar.
Television – Serial
Home and Away: Episode 5391
Fiona Bozic
Television – Series
Offspring: Episode 206
Michael Lucas
Stage
Silent Disco
Lachlan Philpott
Community and Youth Theatre
The Sadness of Mister Saisson
Chris Thompson
Animation
Flea-Bitten! - Home Truths
Raymond Boseley
Interactive Media
SLiDE
Michelle Law,Anthony Mullins, Chris Somerville and Lucas Taylor
Short Film
Rarer Monsters
Shayne Armstrong and S. P. Krause
Children’s Television – P Classification
Guess How Much I Love You: Follow Me
David Evans
Children’s Television – C Classification
Dance Academy: The Second
Samantha Strauss
Children’s Theatre
Snow on Mars
Richard Tulloch with Kim Carpenter and Gale Edwards.
Radio – Original Broadcast
Random Red
Noëlle Janaczewska
Radio – Adaptation
Aurora’s Lament
Donna Abela
Documentary - Public Broadcast
The Curse of the Gothic Symphony
Anthony Mullins and Randall Wood.
Documentary - Corporate and Training
Living The Values
Charles Hamlyn-Harris
2012 SPECIAL AWARDS
Australian Writers’ Guild
2012 RICHARD LANE AWARD
For Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Australian Writers’ Guild
Graeme Koetsveld
Australian Writers’ Guild
2012 DOROTHY CRAWFORD AWARD
For Outstanding Contribution to the Profession
Kim Williams AM
Australian Writers’ Guild
2012 FRED PARSONS AWARD
For Outstanding Contribution to Australian Comedy
Ian Simmons
Australian Writers’ Guild
2012 HECTOR CRAWFORD AWARD
Outstanding Contribution to the Craft in the Field of Script Editing
‘For an Outstanding Contribution to the Craft via a Body of Script Editing Work’
Graeme Koetsveld
Australian Writers’ Guild
2012 MONTE MILLER AWARD – LONG FORM
Ashes
Michael Jones
Australian Writers’ Guild
2012 MONTE MILLER AWARD – SHORT FORM
Love Hurts
Nigel Karikari
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