TVNZ’s news and current affairs coverage is to the fore at the New Zealand Screen Awards, with Jack Tame nominated for Reporter of the Year and the team’s coverage of the Tom Phillips shooting and the Mount Maunganui landslide also finalists.
The broadcaster has five nominations across the journalism categories, with Q+A with Jack Tame a finalist for Best Current Affairs Programme.
Tame is also nominated for Reporter of the Year for a portfolio including his exclusive interview with ex-Police Commissioner Andrew Coster in the wake of the Jevon McSkimming scandal.
Tame is also nominated for Best Presenter: News and Current Affairs.
TVNZ’s coverage of the fatal shooting of fugitive father Tom Phillips in September last year and the deadly Mount Maunganui landslide in January are both finalists in the Best News Coverage category.
The New Zealand Screen Awards celebrates the best in the country’s film and TV industry, with finalists announced today across 57 categories.
The feature film Pike River leads the nominations with 15, while NZ-German co-production Bust Up tops the television categories with 12 nominations, followed by NZ-Scottish co-production The Ridge with nine.
Finalists in the Best Feature Documentary include Prime Minister, chronicling Jacinda Ardern’s time in office; Tenor: My Name is Pati, following brothers Pene and Amitai Pati from humble beginnings to the international opera stage; and Tearepa Kahi’s Sgt Haane, about Māori Battalion veteran Sergeant Haane Manahi’s service in North Africa during World War II.
In the television categories TVNZ finalists include:
Educators, Warren’s Vortex and New Zealand Spy (Best Comedy programme)
Hyundai Country Calendar and Moving Houses (Best Factual Series)
Baddies (Best Children’s Programme)
Ka Ora Tonu - When We Walk (Best Māori Programme)
Waka Huia (Best Reo Māori Programme)
400 Weddings and a Funeral (Best Pasifika Programme)
Taskmaster New Zealand Season 6 and I'm Not Racist... But (Best Entertainment Programme)
Counting the Beat (Best Director: Documentary/Factual Series, Best Presenter: Entertainment).
The New Zealand Screen Awards will be held on November 19 at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre.
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