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The stars came out in Auckland for New Zealand’s most glamorous Television event, celebrating outstanding achievement as the New Zealand Television Awards 2012 winners were announced.

The stars came out in Auckland for New Zealand’s most glamorous Television event, celebrating outstanding achievement as the New Zealand Television Awards 2012 winners were announced.

The News and Current Affairs categories were hotly contested once again, and this year 3 News took the Best Scheduled News Programme, while Best Breaking News Coverage went to ONE News’ coverage of the Carterton Ballooning Tragedy.

Mel Reid from TV3’s 60 Minutes won the coveted Journalist of the Year Award for her compelling story about the ACC privacy fiasco, which won Investigation of the Year.

In Drama, Go Girls took home the award for Best Drama Series, and Siege – the story of a gunman taking a town hostage, won five awards including the new category of Best One-Off Drama. Maori Television’s Julian Wilcox and Matai Smith both won awards for their respective roles as Best News OR Current Affairs Presenter and Best Presenter Entertainment/Factual.

The FOUR production of the Vodafone NZ Music Awards 2011 won top honours in two categories, including Best Entertainment OR Event Programme.

Rick Friesen, ThinkTV’s Chief Executive said, “this may have been the most difficult year ever for the judges. So many categories had such strong entrants it was extremely difficult to choose a winner. Each and every winner and finalist was most deserving of the accolades they have received.”

Best Factual Series:

Radar Across the Pacific
Alexander Behse – Zeitgeist Productions (TV ONE)

Intrepid Journeys
Melanie Rakena – Jam TV (TV ONE)
Funny Roots
Nick Ward & James Anderson – Two Heads (TV3)

Best Observational Reality Series:

SPCA Rescue - Christchurch Earthquake Special
Megan Jones – Imagination Television (TV ONE)

Songs From the Inside
Maramena Roderick – Awa Films (Maori TV)
Rescue 1
Philip Smith, Martin Cleave for Great Southern TV (TV2)

Best Constructed Reality Series:

The Food Truck
James Anderson & Nick Ward – Two Heads (TV ONE)

Missing Pieces
Sue Donald/David Lomas – Eyeworks New Zealand (TV3)
Marae DIY
Philly de Lacey, Greg Mayor, Nix Jaques – Screentime NZ (Maori TV)

Best Current Affairs Reporting for a Weekly Programme OR One-Off Current Affairs Special:

Mark Crysell & Julie Clothier
Cherry Blossom Tragedy
Sunday (TV ONE)

Melanie Reid
Eye of the Storm
60 Minutes (TV3)
Janet McIntyre, Max Adams & Chris Cooke
The Silent Witness
Sunday (TV ONE)
Janet McIntyre & Carolyne Meng-Yee
Reasonable Doubt
Sunday (TV ONE)

Best Current Affairs Reporting for a Daily Programme:

Gill Higgins & Chris Lynch
Online Predators
Close Up (TV ONE)

Tristram Clayton
Scam
Campbell Live (TV3)
John Campbell
Kim Dotcom. Who knew what?
Campbell Live (TV3)

Best Director - Entertainment/Factual:

Julie Christie
The Block NZ
Eyeworks New Zealand (TV3)

Peter Young
Get Fresh with Al Brown
Fisheye Films (TV ONE)

Best Multi-camera Direction:

Mitchell Hawkes
Vodafone NZ Music Awards 2011
MediaWorks TV (FOUR)

Robert Hagen
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa A Gala Concert
Arts and Entertainment Productions (Maori TV)
Mitchell Hawkes for Satellite Media
Wilson Dixon – The New Zealand Tour
Satellite Media (TV2)

Best Cinematography Drama/Comedy:

David Paul
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)

DJ Stipsen
Siege
Screentime NZ (TV ONE)
David Paul
Rage
Tom Scott Productions (TV ONE)

Best News Camera:

Phil Johnson
Fiji Floods
3 News (TV3)

Bob Grieve
Farmers & Boarding
3 News (TV3)
James Marshall
Cooper
ONE News (TV ONE)

Best Current Affairs Camera:

Daniel Grade
Horn of Africa Famine
60 Minutes (TV3)

Chris Brown
Sitting Tall
20/20 (TV2)
Warren Armstrong
Artist
Campbell Live (TV3)

Best Children’s/Youth Programme:

Let's Get Inventin'
Claire Logan
Luke Nola (TVNZ7)

Girl vs. Boy
Thomas Robins and David Stubbs
KHF Media (TV2)
The Erin Simpson Show
Emma Gribble and Penny Watson
Whitebait TV (TV2)

Best Information Series:

Global Radar
Jane Andrews
Jam TV (TV ONE)

Neighbourhood
Sarah Kinniburgh and Anna Lynch
Satellite Media (TV ONE)
The Nutters Club
Brian Holland, Laurie Clarke and Vincent Burke
Top Shelf Productions (Maori TV)

Best Entertainment OR Event Programme:

Vodafone NZ Music Awards 2011
Arwen O’Connor, Angela Mann
MediaWorks TV (FOUR)

2012 Comedy Gala
John McDonald
MediaWorks TV/NZ Comedy Trust (TV3)
The Sitting
Brian Holland, Laurie Clarke and Vincent Burke
Top Shelf Productions (TVNZ7)

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress:

Miriama Smith
Siege
Screentime NZ (TV ONE)

Miranda Harcourt
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)
Sarah Peirse
BLISS – the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
MF Films (TV ONE)

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor:

Mick Rose
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)

Peter Elliott
BLISS – the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
MF Films (TV ONE)
Mike Minogue
Rage
Tom Scott Productions (TV ONE)

Best Presenter - Entertainment/Factual:

Matai Smith
Homai Te Pakipaki
Maori Television

Andrew Lumsden
Global Radar
Jam TV (TV ONE)
Paul Henry
Would I Lie To You?
MediaWorks TV (TV3)

Images & Sound
Best Editing Drama/Comedy:

Margot Francis
BLISS – the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
MF Films (TV ONE)

Margot Francis
Siege
Screentime NZ (TV ONE)
Jono Woodford Robinson
Rage
Tom Scott Productions (TV ONE)

Best Original Music:

Don McGlashan
BLISS – the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
MF Films (TV ONE)

Joel Haines
Strongman – The Tragedy
A Bigger Picture (TV3)
Peter Hobbs
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)

Best Sound Design:

Chris Burt
Siege
Screentime NZ (TV ONE)

Dick Reade
Strongman – The Tragedy
A Bigger Picture (TV3)
Phil Burton, Chris Hiles, Don Paulin
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)

Best News Reporting:

Duncan Garner & Patrick Gower
Secret Tea Tapes
3 News (TV3)

Amanda Gillies
Mangere Drowning & Barry Hart
3 News (TV3)
Heather du Plessis-Allan
Rena
ONE News (TV ONE)

Best Current Affairs Series:

60 Minutes
TV3

Campbell Live
TV3
Sunday
TV ONE

Investigation of the Year:

Melanie Reid & Eugene Bingham
The Eye of the Storm
60 Minutes (TV3)

John Hudson & Chris Cooke
Steel Trap
Sunday (TV ONE)
John Campbell and Pip Keane
Friends – John Banks & Kim Dotcom
Campbell Live (TV3)

Best Director Documentary:

Gerard Smyth
When a City Falls – The People’s Story
Frank Film (TV3)

Leanne Pooley
Shackleton’s Captain
Making Movies (TV ONE)
Bryan Bruce
Inside Child Poverty
Red Sky Film & Television Ltd (TV3)

Best Cinematography - Documentary/Factual:

Simon Baumfield
Shackleton’s Captain
Making Movies (TV ONE)

Thomas Burstyn CSC & Chris Brokensha
Strongman – The Tragedy
A Bigger Picture (TV3)
Mark Chamberlin
Neighbourhood
Satellite Media (TV ONE)

Best Editing - Documentary/Factual:

Ken Sparks, Richard Lord
When A City Falls – The People’s Story
Frank Film (TV3)

Tim Woodhouse
Shackleton’s Captain
Making Movies (TV ONE)
Mark Albiston
Blakey
Sticky Pictures Ltd (TV ONE)

Best Performance by an Actor:

Mark Mitchinson
Siege
Screentime NZ (TV ONE)

Craig Parker
Shackleton’s Captain
Making Movies (TV ONE)
Ryan O’Kane
Rage
Tom Scott Productions (TV ONE)

Best Performance by an Actress:

Sara Wiseman
What Really Happened – Votes for Women
Eyeworks New Zealand (TV ONE)

Kate Elliott
BLISS – the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
MF Films (TV ONE)
Amanda Billing
Shortland Street
South Pacific Pictures (TV2)

NZ On Air
Best One-Off Drama:

Siege
Philly de Lacey and Ric Pellizzeri
Screentime NZ (TV ONE)

BLISS - the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
Michele Fantl
MF Films (TV ONE)
Rage
Tom Scott and Emma Slade
Tom Scott Productions (TV ONE)

Best News Editing:

Luis Portillo
Fashion
Breakfast (TV ONE)

Brent Walters
Headcases
ONE News (TV ONE)
Rebecca O’Sullivan
Hamwalk
3 News (TV3)

Best Current Affairs Editing:

Bob Grieve
Aftershock
60 Minutes (TV3)

Paul Sparkes
Steampunk
Close Up (TV ONE)
Andrew Gibb
Dime
Close Up (TV ONE)

Best Graphics:

Vinay Ranchhod
Devil in the Detail (TV ONE)

Vinay Ranchhod
Gambling RP (TV ONE)
Ben Ashby
Steel Trap (TV ONE)

Best Production Design:

John Harding
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)

Shackleton’s Captain (TV ONE)
Tracey Collins
BLISS – the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
MF Films (TV ONE)

Best Costume Design:

Sarah Voon
Go Girls Season 4
South Pacific Pictures (TV2)

Nic Smillie
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)
Kirsty Cameron
BLISS – the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
MF Films (TV ONE)

Best Make-Up Design:

Linda Wall
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)

Tracey Sharman
Strongman – The Tragedy
A Bigger Picture (TV3)
Vanessa Hurley & Stefan Knight
Go Girls Season 4
South Pacific Pictures (TV2)

Best Comedy OR Comedy Series:

Hounds
thedownlowconcept and Matt McPhail
thedownlowconcept (TV3)

7 Days
Jon Bridges, the downlowconcept
MediaWorks TV (TV3)
Wilson Dixon – The New Zealand Tour
Sarah Kinniburgh, Mitchell Hawkes, Jesse Griffin
Satellite Media (TV2)

JDA
Best Popular Documentary:

The Green Chain
Meg Douglas & Kathleen Mantel
Scottie Productions Limited (Maori TV)

Rhodes, Actor Singer
Robert Hagen
Arts and Entertainment Productions (Maori TV)
Inside Child Poverty
Bryan Bruce and Richard Thomas
Red Sky Film & Television Ltd (TV3)

Best Feature OR Drama Documentary:

Strongman – The Tragedy
Paula McTaggart and Gaylene Preston
A Bigger Picture (TV3)

When A City Falls – The People’s Story
Gerard Smyth & Alice Shannon
Frank Film (TV3)
Shackleton’s Captain
James Heyward & Andy Salek
Making Movies (TV ONE)

Kordia
Best Coverage Breaking News:

ONE News
Carterton Ballooning Tragedy
TV ONE

3 News
Christchurch Earthquakes December 2011
Mike Brockie for 3 News
TV3
3 News
Ewen Macdonald Verdict
Richard Sutherland for 3 News
TV3

Best News OR Current Affairs Presenter:

Julian Wilcox
Political All In
Native Affairs (Maori TV)

Mike McRoberts
Earthquake Anniversary
3 News (TV3)
John Campbell
Lyttelton
Campbell Live (TV3)

The Langham, Auckland
Journalist of the Year:

Melanie Reid
The Eye of the Storm
60 Minutes (TV3)

Duncan Garner
Secret Tea Tapes
3 News (TV3)
Julie Clothier
Cherry Blossom Tragedy
Sunday (TV ONE)
Gill Higgins
Online Predators
Close Up (TV ONE)

Te Mangai Paho
Best Maori Language Programme:

Whare Taonga
Meg Douglas
Scottie Productions (Maori TV)

Kia Ora Molweni
George Andrews
George Andrews Productions (Maori TV)
Tamaki Paenga Hira
Mechele Harron
Maori Television

Best Presenter: Te Reo Maori:

Julian Wilcox
Native Affairs
Maori Television (Maori TV)

Pania Papa
AKO
Maori Television (Te Reo)
Piripi Taylor
Te Kaea
Maori Television (Maori TV)

Best Script - Drama/Comedy:

John Banas
Siege
Screentime NZ (TV ONE)

Paula Boock & Donna Malane
Tangiwai – A Love Story
Lippy Pictures (TV ONE)
Tom Scott and Grant O'Fee
Rage
Tom Scott Productions (TV ONE)

Images & Sound
Best Director - Drama/Comedy:

Fiona Samuel
BLISS – the beginning of Katherine Mansfield
MF Films (TV ONE)

Mike Smith
Siege
Screentime NZ (TV ONE)
Danny Mulheron
Rage
Tom Scott Productions (TV ONE)

Images & Sound
Best Drama Series:

Go Girls Season 4
Britta Johnstone & Chris Bailey
South Pacific Pictures (TV2)

Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud
Philly de Lacey and Ric Pellizzeri
Screentime NZ (TV3)
Nothing Trivial
Britta Johnstone & Chris Bailey
South Pacific Pictures (TV ONE)

Best Scheduled News Programme:

3 News
TV3

ONE News
TV ONE
Tonight
TV ONE

Media Release: Think TV
04/11/2012