H&A’s AWGIE Nomination

Nominations have recently been announced for the 42nd Annual AWGIE awards, the Australian Writers Guild’ss much respected accolade for excellence in screen, television, stage and radio writing.

This year’ss nominations sees writer Sean Nash in the shortlist for Episode 4649 of Home and Away, which aired in Australia on 29th May 2008. The episode featured the return of Kane Phillips who sneaked into the hospital to see his son Oliver, as well as Jai’ss deliberate fall off the pier and Ross’s uncertainty about his blossoming relationship with Morag.

Also nominated for the Television Serial category are 2 episodes of ‘sNeighbours’s, and an episode of the axed soap ‘sOut of the Blue’s. Awards are based solely on the original script, regardless of the final edit or ratings of the episode when it goes to air. The winner will be announced on Friday 28th August 2009.

Previous wins for the show include:

2003 – Coral Drouyn (Episode 3445 – Alf’ss Near Death Experience)
2005 – Louise Crane-Bowes (Episode 3806 – Olympic Return, Noah’ss Funeral)
2006 – Sam Meikle (Episode 4121 – Flynn’ss Death)
2007 – Sam Meikle (Episode 4212 – J/M Wedding Explosion aftermath / Peter’ss ‘sdeath’s)
2008 – Margaret Wilson (Episode 4498 – Sally & Brad’ss non-wedding)