New Zealand Television Awards Announces 2024 Finalists
(Auckland - October 15, 2024) The 2024 New Zealand Television Awards are shaping up to be an exciting event, showcasing a diverse array of talent and programming from across the country. With a remarkable 121 nominations from over 490 entries, the finalists reflect a rich tapestry of storytelling and creativity in local television.
This year’s nominees span a range of content aired on local free-to-air networks including TVNZ 1 & 2, Three, Sky Open (formerly Prime), and Whakaata Māori, as well as New Zealand-made programming on pay TV, digital, and streaming platforms such as Neon, TVNZ+, ThreeNow, Newsroom, Stuff, RNZ, and Coconet TV.
Leading the nominations is Lingo Pictures’ and Luminous Beast’s critically acclaimed TVNZ drama series After The Party, which received nine nominations, including Best Actress (Robyn Malcolm), Best Actor(Peter Mullan), and NZ On Air Best Drama.
Other contenders for the NZ On Air Best Drama award include South Pacific Pictures’ comedy-drama Far North, which earned six nominations, including nods for Best Actor (Temuera Morrison), Screen Auckland Best Director: Drama/Comedy (David White), and Best Cinematography: Drama/Comedy as well as TVNZ’s bold drama about a wealthy family at the helm of a megachurch, Testify which is also a finalist in four craft categories.
In the news and current affairs group, Newshub shines, with all nominations for Best Reporter of the Yeargoing to its journalists, Michael Morrah, Alexa Cook, and Lisette Reymer.
Recognised for their significant contributions to the industry, the nominations for the Best Presenter: News and Current Affairs category include Julian Wilcox from The Hui, Jack Tame for Q+A, Radio New Zealand’s Guyon Espiner for 30 with Guyon and Patrick Gower for Paddy Gower Has Issues.
TVNZ news has secured two nominations in the Best News Coverage category for its 1 News coverage on Election Night and Cyclone Gabrielle: One Year On, while Newshub rounds out the nominations with its coverage of the Auckland Shooting.
An entertaining mix of original programming make up the Best Original Reality Series finalists list this year, TVNZ 2’s Down For Love from Attitude Pictures, and Perpetual Entertainment’s Cooks On Fire and Great Southern Television’s The Casketeers, both for TVNZ 1.
In the Factual and Documentary categories, Escaping Utopia, the three-part series on New Zealand’s most extreme religious cult, Gloriavale, has received four nominations including Best Factual Series and Best Director: Documentary/Factual. Also in contention is Black Coast Vanishings for Three and Scotty Morrison’s deeply personal journey, Origins (S2) for TVNZ.
In the performance categories, Friends Like Her lead Morgana O’Reilly and After The Party’s Robyn Malcolm, have been given the nod alongside Chelsie Preston Crayford for Dark City: The Cleaner and Bree Peters for her role in Great Southern Television’s local comedy Spinal Destination.
For Best Supporting Actress, nominees include Awa Puna for The Boy, The Queen, And Everything In Between, Tara Canton for After The Party, Tess Haubrich for Friends Like Her, and Roxie Mohebbi for Miles From Nowhere. In the Best Actor category, Cohen Holloway is recognized for his role in Dark City: The Cleaner, alongside esteemed actors Temuera Morrison for Far North and Peter Mullan for After The Party.
Vying for the Best Supporting Actor trophy are Jay Ryan, who has been nominated for his role in black comedy series Creamerie, alongside Jarod Rawiri for Friends Like Her and Elz Carrad for After The Party.
The New Zealand Television Awards 2024 Television Legend and finalists in the publicly voted 2024 Television Personality of the Year category are yet to be announced.
The New
Zealand Television Awards will be held at Auckland’s Aotea
Centre on Friday November 22.
Comedian Pax Assadi
has been announced as host of the 2024
event.
New Zealand On Air Best Drama
Testify
Philippa Rennie,
Sharlene George
Warner Bros. International Television
Production New Zealand / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
After
The Party
Helen Bowden, Liz DiFiore, Peter
Salmon
Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Friends Like Her
Sarah-Kate Lynch,
Philip Smith, Kathleen Anderson Annabelle Lee-Mather, Steven
Zanoski,
Great Southern Television Limited / Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Best
Comedy
Miles From Nowhere
Ahmed
Osman, Gary Scott, & Sam Wilton
Gibson Group &
Homegrown Pictures / Neon / Sky Open
Kid
Sister
Emily Anderton
Greenstone TV /
TVNZ+
7 Days
Rob Brown, Thom
Watts,
The Downlow Concept / Warner Bros. Discovery
/ Three & ThreeNow
The Motherhood Anthology -
Give Me Babies
Ankita Singh, Calvin Sang and Briar
Collard
Eyes and Ears / Oriental Maidens / TVNZ 2 &
TVNZ+
Best Factual Series
Origins
Te Wakahuia Bernard,
Tash Christie, Meg Douglas
Scottie Douglas Productions /
Greenstone TV / TVNZ+
Black Coast
Vanishings
Cass Avery & Nicola Smith
Augusto /
Kindred Films / Story Time Productions / Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Escaping
Utopia
Philippa Rennie & Natalie Malcon
Warner
Bros. International Television Production New Zealand / TVNZ
1 & TVNZ+
New Zealand On Air Best Documentary
Ruamata: It's More Than
Hockey
Kereama Wright, Mahanga Pihama, Riria
Morgan, Arthur Rasmussen, Peter Lee, Matua
Houltham
Mairanga Media / RNZ
Hīkoi Speaking
Our Truth
Whatanui Flavell
Haututū Creatives /
TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Family Faith Footy: A Pasifika
Rugby Story
Adrian Stevanon, Gregor Paul, Abba-Rose
Vaiaoga-Ioasa, Philip Smith
Great Southern Television
Limited / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Best Original Reality Series
Cooks On Fire Season
2
Nick Ward, Brendan Dahill, Richard Fletcher &
David Arlich
Perpetual Entertainment NZ / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Down For Love Season 2
Rachel
Jean
Attitude Pictures / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
The
Casketeers
Vivienne Wigby-Ngatai, Annabelle Lee
Mather, Philip Smith
Great Southern Television Limited /
TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Best Current Affairs Programme
Q+A with Jack Tame
Alex
Braae and the Q+A team
TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Paddy
Gower Has Issues
Warner Bros. Discovery / Three &
ThreeNow
Sunday - The Final Episode
Sunday
Team
TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Newsroom Investigates
with Melanie Reid
Newsroom.co.nz
New Zealand On Air Best Children's Programme
Island of Mystery: Te Wā o
Matariki
Andrea Kahukiwa
Adrenalin
Fresh
Fairytales 2
Hope Papali’i and Eileen
Lee
Coconet TV
Kiri & Lou
Fiona
Copland
Kiri and Lou Ltd / Sky
KEA Kids
News
Luke Nola and Kendall Kanoa Kukahiko
Luke
Nola & Friends
Te Māngai Pāho Best Māori Programme
NZ Wars: Stories of
Tauranga Moana
Mihingarangi Forbes, Annabelle
Lee-Mather
Aotearoa Media Collective / RNZ /
TVNZ+
Hīkoi Speaking Our Truth
Whatanui
Flavell
Haututū Creatives / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Origins
Te Wakahuia Bernard, Tash
Christie, Meg Douglas
Scottie Douglas Productions /
Greenstone TVNZ1 & TVNZ+
Te Māngai Pāho Best Reo Māori Programme
Waka
Huia
Meg Douglas, Whatanui Flavell
Scottie Douglas
Productions Limited / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Te Karere
– Nationwide Activation Day
Rapaera Tawhai and the
Te Karere team
TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Ruamata: It's
More Than Hockey
Kereama Wright, Mahanga
Pihama, Riria Morgan, Arthur Rasmussen, Peter Lee, Matua
Houltham
Mairanga Media / RNZ
New Zealand On Air Best Pasifika Programme
Still
Here
Ursula Grace Williams, Josh Yong, Torisse
Laulu
Four and Five Films Ltd / Re:News /
TVNZ+
Untold Pacific History
Damon Fepulea'i
and Tuki Laumea
Coconet TV
Family Faith Footy: A
Pasifika Rugby Story
Adrian Stevanon, Gregor Paul,
Abba-Rose Vaiaoga-Ioasa, Philip Smith
Great Southern
Television Limited / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Best News Coverage
Cyclone Gabrielle – One
Year On
1News at Six
TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Auckland
Shooting
Newshub
Warner Bros. Discovery /
Three & ThreeNow
Election Night
1News
at Six
TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Best Sports Programme
All Blacks: In Their Own
Words
James Gemmell, Tim Dale-Fuller, Jon
Wild
Whisper Films / NZR+
Ruamata: It's More
Than Hockey
Kereama Wright, Mahanga Pihama,
Riria Morgan, Arthur Rasmussen, Peter Lee, Matua
Houltham
Mairanga Media /
RNZ
Relentless
Alex Bradshaw, Tara
Durrant
Fire Fire / TVNZ+
Best Live Event Coverage
Anzac 2024
Ngatapa Black,
Wayne Leonard, Sean Murphy
Whakaata Māori /
MĀORI+
Super Rugby Final 2024 - Blues v
Chiefs
Marcus Kennedy, Mark Kearns, Will
Meiklejohn
Sky Sport NZ / Sky Sport 1
Ngā Tohu
Matariki o te Tau 2023
Ngatapa Black
Whakaata
Māori / MĀORI+
Ngā Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua o
Aotearoa
Ngatapa Black, Kereti Rautangata, Kororia
Taumaunu
Whakaata Māori / MĀORI+
Best Entertainment Programme
New Zealand
Today
Bronwynn Bakker, Guy Williams, Matt Cooke, Cam
Bakker
Kevin & Co / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three
& ThreeNow
Code - The Reunion
Joe
Whitehead, Bailey Mackey
Pango Productions / Whakaata
Māori / MĀORI+
Taskmaster NZ
Cam Bakker,
Bronwynn Bakker
Kevin & Co / TVNZ 2 &
TVNZ+
Best Director: Documentary/Factual
Laurie Clarke
Our
Country’s Shame
SunPix Ltd
Sophie Musgrove
& Siddharth Nambiar
Dynamic Planet
NHNZ
Worldwide / NEON / Sky Open / Sky Go
Natalie Malcon,
Justin Pemberton & Britta Hawkins
Escaping
Utopia
Warner Bros. International Television
Production New Zealand / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Megan
Jones & Candida Beveridge
Black Coast
Vanishings
Augusto / Kindred Films / Story Time
Productions / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three &
ThreeNow
Screen Auckland Best Director: Drama / Comedy Drama
Calvin Sang
The
Motherhood Anthology - Give Me Babies
Eyes and Ears /
Oriental Maidens / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
The 8 Pan-Asian
Women Directors of Kāinga
Kāinga
Brown Sugar
Apple Grunt Productions Ltd / RNZ
David
White
Far North
White Balance Pictures / South
Pacific Pictures / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three &
ThreeNow
Peter Salmon
After The
Party
Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Best Actress
Bree
Peters
Spinal Destination
Great Southern
Television / Whitiora Productions / Sky
Chelsie
Preston Crayford
Dark City - The Cleaner
Endeavour
Ventures Ltd / Neon & Sky Open
Robyn
Malcolm
After The Party
Lingo Pictures / Luminous
Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Morgana
O’Reilly
Friends Like Her
Great Southern
Television Limited / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three &
ThreeNow
Best Supporting Actress
Tara Canton
After The
Party
Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Tess Haubrich
Friends Like
Her
Great Southern Television Limited / Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Awa
Puna
The Boy, The Queen, And Everything In
Between
Lucky Legs Media Ltd / TVNZ+
Roxie
Mohebbi
Miles From Nowhere
Gibson Group &
Homegrown Pictures / Neon & Sky Open
Best Actor
Cohen Holloway
Dark City - The
Cleaner
Endeavour Ventures Ltd / Neon & Sky
Open
Peter Mullan
After The Party
Lingo
Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Temuera
Morrison
Far North
White Balance Pictures /
South Pacific Pictures / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three
& ThreeNow
Best Supporting Actor
Jarod Rawiri
Friends Like
Her
Great Southern Television Limited / Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Elz
Carrad
After The Party
Lingo Pictures /
Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Jay
Ryan
Creamerie Season 2
Kevin and Co. / Flat 3
Productions Ltd / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
Reporter of the Year
Alexa
Cook
Newshub
Warner Bros. Discovery / Three
& ThreeNow
Lisette
Reymer
Newshub
Warner Bros. Discovery / Three
& ThreeNow
Michael
Morrah
Newshub
Warner Bros. Discovery / Three
& ThreeNow
Best Presenter: Entertainment
Guy Williams
New Zealand
Today
Kevin & Co / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three
& ThreeNow
Dave Letele
Heavyweight with Dave
Letele
Heavyweight Media / South Pacific Pictures /
TVNZ+
Jeremy Wells and Paul Williams
Taskmaster
NZ
Kevin & Co / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
Karen
O’Leary
Paddy Gower Has Issues
Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Best Presenter: News And Current Affairs
Julian
Wilcox
The Hui
Great Southern Television
Limited / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three &
ThreeNow
Jack Tame
Q+A with Jack
Tame
TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Guyon Espiner
30
with Guyon Espiner
RNZ
Patrick
Gower
Paddy Gower Has Issues
Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Best Editing: Documentary or Factual
Tori Bindoff, Carl
Budden
Escaping Utopia
Warner Bros.
International Television Production New Zealand / TVNZ 1
& TVNZ+
Margot Francis and James Brown
Black
Coast Vanishings
Augusto / Kindred Films / Story Time
Productions / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three &
ThreeNow
Toby Longbottom
The Long
Game
Stuff Circuit
Chris Anderton
NZ
Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana
Aotearoa Media
Collective / RNZ / TVNZ+
Best Editing: Drama / Comedy Drama
Allanah Bazzard
Dark City
- The Cleaner
Endeavour Ventures Ltd / Neon & Sky
Open
Eric de Beus
Testify
Warner Bros.
International Television Production New Zealand / TVNZ 2
& TVNZ+
Denise Haratzis
After The
Party
Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Best Camerawork: Documentary or Factual
Mark Chamberlin
The
Hui
Great Southern Television Limited / Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Chris
Watkins
WTF is Crypto?
Reel Factory /
TVNZ+
Dean Cornish and Mark Russell
Troy
Kingi’s Desert Hīkoi
Tavake /
TVNZ+
Best Director: Multi-Camera
Matt Barrett
Anzac
2024
Whakaata Māori
Marcus Kennedy
The
Rugby Championship - All Blacks v South Africa
Sky
Sport NZ / Sky Sport 1
Matt Quin
NRL playoffs -
Warriors v Knights
Sky Sport NZ / Sky Sport
1
Mark Kearns
Super Rugby Final 2024 - Blues v
Chiefs
Sky Sport NZ / Sky Sport
1
Images & Sound Best Cinematography: Drama / Comedy Drama
Dave Cameron NZCS
ACS
After The Party
Lingo Pictures / Luminous
Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Simon
Tutty
Testify
Warner Bros. International
Television Production New Zealand / TVNZ 2 &
TVNZ+
Adam Luxton
Far North
White Balance
Pictures / South Pacific Pictures / Warner Bros. Discovery /
Three & ThreeNow
Best Contribution to a Soundtrack
Pinnacle Post Sound Team
Our
Flag Means Death - Season 2
Neon & Sky
Open
Tom Miskin, Alan Kidd, Mike Bayliss, Steve
Finnigan
Far North
South Pacific Pictures /
Warner Bros. Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Bruce
Langley
Dark City - The Cleaner
Endeavour
Ventures Ltd / Neon & Sky Open
Images & Sound Best Original Score
Karl Sölve
Steven & Rob Thorne
Black Coast
Vanishings
Augusto / Story Town / Kindred Films /
Warner Bros. Discovery / Studiocanal
Three &
ThreeNow
Moniker
Far North
White Balance
Pictures / South Pacific Pictures / Warner Bros. Discovery /
Three & ThreeNow
Andrew Keoghan, Reb
Fountain
Escaping Utopia
Warner Bros.
International Television Production New Zealand / TVNZ 1
& TVNZ+
Best Post Production Design
Erin Woolhouse
The Motherhood
Anthology - Give Me Babies
The Rebel Fleet / Eyes and
Ears / Oriental Maidens / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
Alana
Cotton
Testify
Warner Bros New Zealand /
TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
Jemma Lee
Motherhood - Ahi
and the Stars
Caravan Park Films / Stella Maris /
TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
Best Production Design
Andy Currie
The Motherhood
Anthology - Give Me Babies
Eyes and Ears / Oriental
Maidens / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
Neville
Stevenson
Dark City - The Cleaner
Endeavour
Ventures Ltd / Neon & Sky Open
Melissa
Spicer
After The Party
Lingo Pictures /
Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Riria
Lee
Kāinga
Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions
Ltd / RNZ
Best Costume Design
Sarah
Aldridge
Testify
Warner Bros. International
Television Production New Zealand / TVNZ 2 &
TVNZ+
Briar Vivian
Miles From
Nowhere
Gibson Group & Homegrown Pictures / Neon
& Sky Open
Briar Vivian
Far
North
White Balance Pictures / South Pacific Pictures
/ Warner Bros. Discovery / Three &
ThreeNow
Best Makeup Design
Janene Cissi
The Boy, The Queen,
And Everything In Between
Lucky Legs Media Ltd / TVNZ
2 & TVNZ+
Maya Bailey
Far North
White
Balance Pictures / South Pacific Pictures / Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
Joseph Kalepo &
Andrew Kalepo
Motherhood
KOHA Productions /
TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+
Best Script: Comedy
Pax Assadi
Raised by Refugees
Season 2
Kevin & Co / Sky Open
Simone
Nathan
Kid Sister
Greenstone TV /
TVNZ+
Mohamed Hassan
Miles From
Nowhere
Gibson Group & Homegrown Pictures / Neon
& Sky Open
Best Script: Drama
Dianne Taylor
After The
Party
Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Paul Cleave
Dark City - The
Cleaner
Endeavour Ventures Ltd / Neon & Sky
Open
Sarah-Kate Lynch
Friends Like
Her
Great Southern Television Limited / Warner Bros.
Discovery / Three & ThreeNow
About the New Zealand Television Awards
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