(Auckland – November 24, 2022) Aotearoa’s
television industry gathered to celebrate the sector’s
achievements tonight as the 2022 New Zealand
Television Awards winners were announced. Hosted by
Kura Forrester, the sold-out red carpet gala event was held
at Auckland’s Shed 10.
Celebrity Treasure
Island host Bree Tomasel won the publicly-voted
Television Personality of the Year category this year, while
veteran children’s television producer Janine Morrell-Gunn
was honoured as this year’s TV Legend. Morrell-Gunn’s
award was presented by broadcaster Stacey
Morrison.
The Panthers, produced by Tavake
Limited for TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+, dominated the scripted
categories at tonight’s presentation, winning eight
awards including NZ On Air Best Drama. The
historical drama series which chronicles the rise of the
Polynesian Panthers in 1970s Tāmaki Makaurau also won Best
Post Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best
Contribution to a Soundtrack, Best Editing: Drama/Comedy
Drama, Images & Sound Best Cinematography: Drama/Comedy
Drama and of the show’s three director finalists, Miki
Magasiva was named Screen Auckland Best Director:
Drama/Comedy Drama.
The Pact, KOHA’s
poignant family drama exploring end of life choice which
premiered on TVNZ+, won a total of four awards including
Best Script: Drama presented to Harry McNaughton and Natalie
Medlock as well as three out of tonight’s four performance
awards: Best Supporting Actress for Timmie Cameron, Best
Actress for Irene Wood and Best Actor which was presented to
2021 Television Legend honouree, Ian Mune.
Rounding
out the acting award winners is Scotty Cotter who was named
Best Supporting Actor for his role in Plus6Four’s
Papakura-set TVNZ+ comedy series
‘Kura.
In the comedy categories,
Pax Assadi’s semi-biographical comedy Raised by
Refugees which played on Prime and Neon was named Best
Comedy while Tom Sainsbury won Best Script: Comedy for
Wellington Paranormal, the show’s third consecutive
win in this category.
Three’s Newshub has been
awarded Best News Coverage for the fourth year running, this
time for its reporting of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 1
News’ Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver was named
Reporter of the Year and Jack Tame, the eponymous host of
TVNZ’s Q + A won Best Presenter: News & Current
Affairs. The other news, current affairs and sport wins
included: Newsroom for Best Current Affairs Programme for
Newsroom Investigates: Breaking Bad Practice, the
follow-up to its 2020 investigation of Oranga Tamariki’s
practice of ‘reverse uplifts’, Sky Sport for Best Sports
Programme for 1-39: The Highlanders Story and
TVNZ’s Te Karere which won Te Māngai Pāho Best
Reo Māori Programme.
In the factual and
documentary categories, Stuff Circuit received the award for
NZ On Air Best Documentary for Disordered, a
multi-part investigation into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder in New Zealand, Black Iris Limited’s
Whakaata Māori series Chatham Islanders won Best
Factual Series, Bevan Crothers won Best Camerawork:
Documentary or Factual for his work on Whakaata Māori’s
Moko, Chris Graham won Best Director:
Documentary/Factual for TVNZ+’s Scribe: Return of the
Crusader and Prisca Bouchet, Julie Alp and Annie Goldson
won Best Editing: Documentary or Factual for the Prime TV
documentary A Mild Touch of Cancer.
In
the reality and entertainment categories: Attitude
Pictures’ groundbreaking primetime TVNZ 2 series Down
for Love won Best Original Reality Series while Pango
Productions’ second season of Match Fit for Three
won Best Format Reality Series; NZ Opera and Greenstone
TV’s feature screen production of Handel’s baroque
masterpiece Semele was named Best Entertainment
Programme and Tāmati Rimene-Sproat was named Best
Presenter: Entertainment for Great Southern TV’s Hongi
to Hāngi: And Everything In Between and Great Southern
TV’s The Casketeers was awarded Te Māngai Pāho
Best Māori Programme – the show previously won the category
in 2019.
Other winners on the night included:
SweetShop & Green and Studio Local’s animated series
Bird’s Eye View which was named NZ On Air
Best Children’s Programme; Gary Mackay, Alistair Kay,
Anneke Botha who won Best Production Design for Netflix’s
Cowboy Bebop; Amanda Ashton who was awarded Best
Makeup Design for her work on Kura Productions’ and
Whakaata Māori’s bilingual youth drama series
Ahikāroa; David Long & Stephen Gallagher who won
Images & Sound Best Original Score for Mystic;
Mitchell Hawkes who was awarded Best Director: Multi Camera
for Kura Productions’ and South Pacific Pictures TVNZ 2
special Stan Walker: Impossible Live; and Kahawai
Productions’ Celebrate Matariki, broadcast on
various platforms, which won Best Live Event
Coverage.
The 2022 New Zealand Television
Award winners are:
Best Post
Production Design
James Gardner
The
Panthers
Tavake Limited / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Best Production Design
Gary
Mackay – Production Designer, Alistair Kay Supervising Art
Director, Anneke Botha – Set Decorator
Cowboy
Bebop
Intergalactic Productions Limited /
Netflix
Best Costume
Design
Sammy Salsa
The
Panthers
Tavake Limited / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Best Makeup Design
Amanda
Ashton
Ahikāroa: Season 4
Kura Productions /
Whakaata Māori
Best Contribution to a
Soundtrack
Native Audio
The
Panthers
Tavake Limited / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Images & Sound Best Original
Score
David Long & Stephen
Gallagher
Mystic: Series 2
Libertine Pictures
& Slim Film + TV / TVNZ 2
Best Editing:
Documentary or Factual
Prisca Bouchet, Julie Alp
and Annie Goldson
A Mild Touch of
Cancer
Occasional Productions /
Prime
Best Editing: Drama / Comedy
Drama
Sacha Campbell
The
Panthers
Tavake Limited / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Best Camerawork: Documentary or
Factual
Bevan Crothers
Moko
Velvet
Stone Media Ltd / Whakaata Māori
Images
& Sound Best Cinematography: Drama / Comedy
Drama
Andrew McGeorge
The
Panthers
Tavake Limited / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+
Best Script: Comedy
Tom
Sainsbury
Wellington Paranormal – Series 4,
Episode 4
New Zealand Documentary Board / TVNZ
2
Best Script: Drama
Harry
McNaughton and Natalie Medlock
The Pact, Episode
2
KOHA Productions / TVNZ+
Best Director:
Multi Camera
Mitchell Hawkes
Stan Walker:
Impossible Live
Kura Productions / South Pacific
Pictures / TVNZ 2
Best Director:
Documentary/Factual
Chris
Graham
Scribe: Return of the Crusader
The Down
Low Concept / TVNZ+
Screen Auckland Best
Director: Drama / Comedy Drama
Miki
Magasiva
The Panthers, Episode 1
Tavake Limited
/ TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
Best Live Event
Coverage
Celebrate Matariki
Brendon
Butt, Tobias Jones
Kahawai Productions /
Various
Best Supporting
Actress
Timmie Cameron
The
Pact
KOHA Productions / TVNZ+
Best
Supporting Actor
Scotty
Cotter
Kura
Plus6Four Entertainment /
TVNZ+
Reporter of the
Year
Barbara Dreaver
1
News
TVNZ / TVNZ 1
Best Presenter:
Entertainment
Tāmati Rimene-Sproat
Hongi
To Hāngī: And Everything In Between
Great Southern
Television Limited / TVNZ 1
Best Presenter:
News And Current Affairs
Jack
Tame
Q+A with Jack Tame
TVNZ / TVNZ
1
Best Actor
Ian Mune
The
Pact
KOHA Productions / TVNZ+
Best
Actress
Irene Wood
The Pact
KOHA
Productions / TVNZ+
Television
Legend
Janine Morrell-Gunn
Te
Māngai Pāho Best Māori Programme
The
Casketeers
Annabelle Lee-Mather, Philip Smith, Viv
Wigby-Ngatai, Chris Anderton, Francis Tipene, Kaiora
Tipene
Great Southern Television Limited / TVNZ
1
Te Māngai Pāho Best Reo Māori
Programme
Te Karere
Rapaera Tawhai,
Ripeka Timutimu, Scotty Morrison
TVNZ / TVNZ
1
NZ On Air Best Pasifika
Programme
The
Panthers
Halaifonua Finau, Tom Hern, Vea
Mafile’o, Chris Graham, Mario Faumui
Tavake Limited /
TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+
NZ On Air Best Children’s
Programme
Bird’s Eye View
Sharlene
George, Gal Greenspan, Tania Smiler, Gemma Easton, Pete
Circuitt, Jared Kahi
SweetShop & Green and Studio
Local / HEIHEI
Best Sports
Programme
1-39: The Highlanders
Story
Ross Karl, Mark Malaki- Williams
Sky
Sport
Best Entertainment
Programme
Semele
Rebecca
Tansley, Rochelle Leef, Tash Christie
N.Z. Opera &
Greenstone TV / Sky Arts
Best Factual
Series
Chatham
Islanders
Kathleen Mantel
Black Iris Limited /
Whakaata Māori
Best Current Affairs
Programme
Newsroom Investigates: Breaking Bad
Practice
Melanie Reid, Mark Jennings, Bonnie Sumner,
Paul Enticott
Newsroom
Best Original
Reality Series
Down for
Love
Robyn Paterson, Candida Beveridge
Attitude
Pictures / TVNZ 2
Best Format Reality
Series
Match Fit – Series
2
Aaron Dolbel, Mark Taylor, Bailey Mackey
Pango
Productions / Warner Bros.
Discovery/Three
Television Personality of the
Year
Bree Tomasel
Celebrity Treasure
Island (TVNZ 2)
Best
Comedy
Raised by
Refugees
Bronwynn Bakker, Cam Bakker, Pax
Assadi
Kevin & Co / Prime
NZ On Air
Best Documentary
Stuff Circuit –
Disordered
Paula Penfold, Louisa Cleave, Toby
Longbottom, Phil Johnson
Stuff
Best News
Coverage
Russia Invades
Ukraine
Newshub
Warner Bros. Discovery /
Newshub
NZ On Air Best
Drama
The Panthers
Halaifonua
Finau, Tom Hern, Vea Mafile’o, Chris Graham, Mario
Faumui
Tavake Limited / TVNZ 1 &
TVNZ+