Awards

Rowing reigned supreme at last night’s Halberg Awards with Hamish Bond and Eric Murray claiming the top award following their dominant gold medal win at London 2012 last year.

The pair also claimed the team of the year award with Mahe Drysdale taking the Sportsman of the Year awards and Valerie Adams making it seven in a row in the Sportswoman of the Year category. Continue reading »

While this news is unsurprising, this is not news worth celebrating.

We have a fantastic Television industry in New Zealand and this announcement means a whole lot of talented people won’t be recognised publicly by their peers for their outstanding work.

ThinkTV, the convenor of the 2012 New Zealand Television Awards, has announced the end of the annual Awards following discussions with its major partners TVNZ and MediaWorks.

The Awards have been through some turbulent times in the last few years with the loss of a key sponsor in 2011 and with the Screen Directors’ Guild of New Zealand pulling out of what was the joint Film and Television Awards at the beginning of 2012.

ThinkTV, on behalf of its members, would like to thank the judges, contestants, associated sponsors and the many others for the time and effort they have contributed to making the awards the success that they have been for the last five years.

The 85th Academy Award Nominations have been announced – what films will get the golden nod? Les Miserables, Lincoln, Life of Pi or Argo?

Oscar host Seth MacFarlane will join actress Emma Stone to reveal the nominees you can see here when the nominees are announced at approx 2.30am NZDT. Continue reading »

The build up to New Zealand’s most glamorous Television event began today, with the announcement of this year’s Television Awards finalists.

The 46 categories cover the full spectrum of Television production, from News, Drama, Reality, documentary and everything in-between. New categories, such as One-Off Drama and Breaking News, were well received and reflect the changing nature of Television programming. Leading the nominations was Tangiwai: A Love Story, a finalist in nine categories, while perennial favourites likeUnderbelly and Go Girls were also multiple nominees.

The Awards will be presented at a full, formal dinner event to be held at The Langham, Auckland on Saturday, 3 November.Highlights will screen on TV ONE on Sunday, 4 November.

Tickets for the Awards event are now on sale and are available at www.televisionawards.co.nz.

The New Zealand Television Awards 2012 finalists are: Continue reading »

The Screen Directors Guild (SDGNZ) is concerned that there is misinformation regarding the Film and Television Awards.

In 2005, as a service to the screen industry, the SDGNZ decided to run the film and television awards after several years of no awards event.

“The Guild took up this initiative as we felt it was important to recognise talented film and television makers by ensuring both were acknowledged in Awards ceremonies.” says Executive Director of SDGNZ Anna Cahill. Continue reading »

Entries have opened today for the New Zealand Television Awards 2012.

With a total of 46 categories to be contested, the Awards are set to once again recognise and celebrate the very best of New Zealand’s Television industry.

Entry information and criteria is available on the Awards website www.televisionawards.co.nz  Continue reading »

The Screen Directors’ Guild of NZ has confirmed that the Film categories in the Aotearoa Film & Television Awards are unlikely to play a part in this year’s event, after funding constraints have forced a review of its priorities this year.

The Awards have been jointly organised by the Guild and ThinkTV for the past four years. Together they’ve developed an iconic annual event, which has become a major feature of the screen industry calendar each year.

Guild Executive Director Anna Cahill said it was disappointing to bring to a close the partnership, but funding and resource constraints in the current environment  has meant the Guild has had to rethink its priorities, and to put more of its efforts into skill development and training for directors and editors.

Ms Cahill said that the Guild will be consulting with the NZ Film Commission and other film industry participants to find alternative ways to celebrate the film industry’s successes each year.

Chief Executive Rick Friesen says ThinkTV is committed to supporting a continuation of the Television awards portion of the event.

The winners in the country’s biggest People’s Choice Awards have been announced and the Breakfast programme has caught the eye of the New Zealand viewing public in more ways than one.

Kiwi television viewers have been noticeably charmed by Breakfast weather presenter Tamati Coffey and the Saturday morning host Toni Street, voting the two as Sexiest Man and Woman in this year’s TV Guide Best on the Box Awards.

Tamati was thrilled by his award win, but admits it was a challenge to decide who to vote for between the other category nominees.

“I was surprised to win, but I’ll take it.  Thanks New Zealand!  In our house we’re big Go Girls fans, so it was a hard decision,” said Tamati, who also thinks that Shortland Street actors and brothers Robbie and Pua Magasiva were strong contenders.

“If it hadn’t been for Jay Ryan, I would have been voting for them,” said Tamati. ”They’re fine looking brothers.”

Toni was surprised by her award, and when asked why she thought she had won, she said she wasn’t entirely sure.

“I was still getting over the shock of being nominated to tell you the truth!” said Toni.  “If I had to hazard a guess, I would say maybe my smile?  I’m a naturally friendly person, and I think Kiwis can relate to that. 

“Although, anyone who saw me singing The Cranberries last weekend on Saturday Breakfast might want to reconsider their vote!” added Toni.

On top of winning the Sexiest Man category and beating out some tough competition, Tamati has also managed to hold onto his reigning title as the nation’s favourite weather presenter for the third year running. 

“I’m very humbled to be accepting my third Best Weather Presenter award,” he said.

TVNZ’s Breakfast show has retained its gong for Best Morning Show and Breakfast’s business segment presenter Nadine Chalmers-Ross’ stocks must definitely be on the rise as she walks away with the Rising Star award. Scooping five titles in total, Breakfast has come up trumps again in this year’s Best on the Box Awards.

“TV3 on the other hand has got it covered when it comes to current affairs,” said TV Guide Editor Julie Eley.

Campbell Live and its affable host John Campbell were voted favourite current affairs programme and presenter of a current affairs programme for the third and second years respectively.

The New Zealand TV viewing public, however, seem to be split in their loyalties when it comes to the news networks.  While One News continues to dominate the Best News category for the fifth year running, TV3 news presenters were voted winners in their fields.  As well as John Campbell (Best Presenter, Current Affairs) and Hilary Barry’s (Best Presenter, News) wins, Hamish McKay was also voted Best Sports Presenter.

Other Best on the Box favourites include comedian and host of 7 Days, Jeremy Corbett, while 7 Days beat runner-up, The Jono Project, by 4,700 votes to be crowned Best Comedy Show. 

Long running advice show Fair Go enjoys continued popularity with voters and the much loved children’s programme What Now? won the Best Kids/Youth category for the fifth year in a row.

“We have now been running TV Guide Best on the Box for more than 10 years and these Awards go from strength to strength each year. It just goes to show the passion that we have for local content and home grown programming,” said Julie.

The 25 winners of the TV Guide Best on the Box Award winners were voted for by over 14,000 television viewers over three weeks in February and March via a public vote.

The full list of results is in this week’s TV Guide, on sale 15 March.

NEW ZEALAND PEOPLE

SEXIEST WOMAN
Toni Street (Saturday Breakfast/One News – TV1) 

SEXIEST MAN
Tamati Coffey (Breakfast – TV1) 

BEST ACTOR
Jay Ryan (Kevin, Go Girls – TV2) 

BEST ACTRESS
Amanda Billing (Sarah Potts, Shortland Street – TV2)                                           

BEST PRESENTER, NEWS
Hilary Barry (TV3)

 BEST PRESENTER, CURRENT AFFAIRS
John Campbell (Campbell Live – TV3) 

BEST PRESENTER, GENERAL
Marcus Lush (North – TV1) 

BEST PRESENTER, WEATHER
Tamati Coffey (TV1) 

BEST PRESENTER, SPORT
Hamish McKay (TV3) 

FUNNIEST PERSON ON TV
Jeremy Corbett (7 Days – TV3) 

RISING STAR
Nadine Chalmers-Ross (AMP Business – TV1) 

NEW ZEALAND SHOWS 

BEST NEWS
One News (TV ONE) 

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS
Campbell Live (TV3) 

BEST MORNING SHOW
Breakfast (TV1) 

BEST SPECIAL EVENT
Rugby World Cup 2011 (Sky Sports/Maori TV/TV1/TV3) 

BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Intrepid Journeys (TV1) 

BEST ONE OFF DOCUMENTARY
Inside NZ: Inside Child Poverty – A Special Report (TV3) 

BEST KIDS/YOUTH SHOW
What Now (TV2) 

BEST DRAMA SERIES
Shortland Street (TV2) 

BEST ONE OFF DRAMA
Tangiwai (TV1) 

BEST COMEDY
7 Days (TV3) 

BEST REALITY SERIES
Missing Pieces (TV3) 

BEST CULINARY SERIES
MasterChef New Zealand (TV1) 

BEST ADVICE SHOW
Fair Go (TV1) 

BEST SPORTS SHOW
The Crowd Goes Wild (Prime)

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