Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook collected another award on the weekend, winning the Australian Directors Guild’s Best Direction in a Feature Film gong at the awards bash in Melbourne.
The Babadook’s Noah Wiseman
Photo: Matt Nettheim
The bash also celebrated the 30th anniversary of Melbourne-shot soap Neighbours, although Home & Away took away the TV Drama Serial award.
Eddy Bell’s Grey Bull, shot by ex-pat Kiwi Callan Green, took the short film award. Matchbox Pictures’ Nowhere Boys and Devil’s Playground, produced by expats Helen Bowden and Helen Panckhurst respectively, were both winners.
The ADG held its annual awards in Melbourne on Friday 8 May. Selected award winners were:
Best Direction In A TV Drama Series
The Code, Series 1 Episode 4, Shawn Seet
Best Direction In A Documentary (Stand Alone)
Prison Songs, Kelrick Martin
Best Direction In A Children’s TV Programme
(joint winners)
Get Grubby TV, Cate McQuillen
Nowhere Boys, Series 2 Episode 7, Craig Irvin
Best Direction In An Original Online Project
Wastelander Panda: Exile, Victoria Cocks
Best Direction In A Short Film
Grey Bull, Eddy Bell
Best Direction In A TV Drama Serial
Home And Away, Episode 6051, Scott Hartford-Davis
Best Direction In A TV Drama Serial
Please Like Me, Series 2 Episode 7, Matthew Saville
Best Direction In A Documentary Series
Changing Minds, Episode 2, Cian O’Clery
Best Direction In A TV Mini Series
Devil’s Playground, Episode 5, Tony Krawitz
Best Direction In A Documentary Feature
Love Marriage In Kabul, Amin Palangi
Best Direction In A Telemovie
Jack Irish: Dead Point, Jeffrey Walker
Excellence In TV Drama Direction
Chris Langman
Best Direction In A Feature Film
The Babadook, Jennifer Kent
