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NOMINATIONS IN THE 2015 AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS ANNOUNCED

2015-04-09

Via ADG:
"Nominees in the 2015 Australian Directors Guild Awards have been announced today. The Awards celebrate the outstanding work of Australian screen directors over the past year across 15 categories including film, television, multiplatform, music and advertising.
 

The Award winners will be announced on Friday 8 May at an Awards Ceremony and Black Tie Dinner at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins.

The golden era in Australian television continues with Samantha Lang nominated for Carlotta and Jeffrey Walker for Jack Irish: Dead Point in the telemovie category and Kate Dennis (Secrets & Lies, Ep2), Tony Krawitz (Devil’s Playground, Ep5), Peter Salmon (Secrets and Lies, Ep6) and Ian Watson (Anzac Girls, Ep6) nominated in the TV Mini Series category.
The nominees in the TV Drama Series category are Shawn Seet for The Code (Series 1, Ep4), Jessica Hobbs for Rake (Series 3, Ep1), Rowan Woods for Rake (Series 3, Ep5), Geoff Bennett for Love Child (Series 1, Ep5) and Kevin Carlin for Wentworth (Series 2 Ep11).
 

In the 30th year of Neighbours, Chris Langman, director of Episode 6962 of the much loved series, has been nominated in the TV Drama Serial category with Home and Away directors Danny Raco, Scott Hartford-Davis and David Gould taking out the other three nominations in the category.
 

Matthew Saville has once again been nominated twice in the ADG Awards. This year for his work as the director of the feature film Felony, written by and starring Joel Edgerton, and for Episode 7, Series 2 of the TV Comedy Please Like Me.
His fellow nominees in the TV Comedy category are Dario Russo (Danger 5, Series 2 Ep3) and Trent O’Donnell (The Moodys, Series 2, Ep1)
 

The other nominees in the Feature Film category are Sophie Hyde for 52 Tuesdays, Jennifer Kent for The Babadook and Robert Connolly for Paper Planes.


There are three nominees in the Documentary Feature category: Amin Palangi for Love Marriage in Kabul, Eddie Martin for All This Mayhem and Nick Torrens for China’s 3 Dreams."
 

The complete 2015 ADG Awards nominees list.


TVC:
Bruce Hunt - The Westpac Bicentennial Foundation: Fred's Drive Tim Bullock - Driver's Test
Jessie Oldfield & Adam Murfet - Life Through Wool
Ray Lawrence - NSW Teachers Federation: Graduation
 

Music Video:
Josh Logue - TV (Eves The Behaviour)
Matthew Chuang - It’s Alright (Fractures)
Ben Young - How You Sleep At Night (John Butler Trio)
 

Original Online Category:
Victoria Cocks - Wastelander Panda: Exile
Timothy Smith - Precinct 13: Baby Jane's Goodbye Bill Northcote - Animal Dash
 

Telemovie:
Samantha Lang - Carlotta
Jeffrey Walker - Jack Irish: Dead Point
 

TV Comedy:
Dario Russo - Danger 5 / S2 Ep3
Matthew Saville - Please Like Me / S2 Ep7 Trent O'Donnell - The Moodys / S2 Ep1
 

TV Drama Serial:
Danny Raco – Home and Away / Ep6109 Chris Langman - Neighbours / Ep6962
Scott Hartford-Davis – Home and Away / Ep6051 David Gould – Home and Away / Ep6017
 

TV Mini Series:
Kate Dennis - Secrets & Lies / Ep2 Tony Krawitz - Devil's Playground / Ep5 Peter Salmon - Secrets and Lies / Ep6 Ian Watson - Anzac Girls / Ep6
 

TV Children’s:
Peter Salmon - Nowhere Boys / S2 Ep1 Cate McQuillen - Get Grubby TV
Sally Browning & Gary Doust - Blue Zoo Craig Irvin - Nowhere Boys / S2 Ep7
 

Documentary Series:
Paul Scott - Redesign My Brain / Ep1
Ruth Cullen - The Dreamhouse / Ep3
Don Featherstone & James Bogle - The War That Changed Us / Ep1 Jennifer Peedom - Life at 9 / Ep2
Cian O'Clery - Changing Minds / Ep2
 

Documentary Stand-Alone:
Kelrick Martin - Prison Songs
Danielle MacLean - Blown Away
Donna Geyer - Orphans On Wall Street Fiona Cochrane - All In Her Stride
 

Short Film:
Beth Armstrong - You Cut, I Choose Melissa Anastasi - This Feral Life Eddy Bell - Grey Bull
Ben Briand - Blood Pulls A Gun Adrian Chiarella - Touch
 

Student Film:
David Coyle - Enfilade
Nora Niasari - The Phoenix (Simorgh) Sunday Emerson Gullifer - Meat Genevieve Clay-Smith - I Am Emmanuel Vanessa Gazy - Foal
 

TV Drama Series:
Jessica Hobbs - Rake / S3 Ep1 Shawn Seet - The Code / S1 Ep4 Geoff Bennett – Love Child / S1 Ep5 Rowan Woods - Rake / S3 Ep5 Kevin Carlin - Wentworth / S2 Ep11
 

Documentary Feature:
Amin Palangi - Love Marriage in Kabul Eddie Martin - All This Mayhem
Nick Torrens - China’s 3 Dreams
 

Feature Film:
Sophie Hyde - 52 Tuesdays  Matthew Saville - Felony  Robert Connolly - Paper Planes  Jennifer Kent - The Babadook
 

Tickets to the 2015 Awards Ceremony & Dinner are available at: www.adg.org.au