Great news, Newsreader fans!
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| Anna Torv and Sam Reid as Helen Norville and Dale Jennings in a promotional photo for The Newsreader. Both Torv and Reid are nominated for Logies in 2022. |
The nominations for the 2022 Logie Awards were announced yesterday morning (15/05/2022), and even better - The Newsreader is among them!
The Logie Awards are a longheld tradition of Australian television; the first awards being handed out in 1959, and after a two year hiatus due to COVID19 restrictions, they are coming back to the Gold Coast this year. Fans of Anna Torv will note that this is the region in Queensland that she spent most of her formative years in! The Logies means that many Australian television programs and personalities that were prominent in 2021 and 2022 are up for many awards, and six of these potentially could go to our beloved fictional newsreading crew!
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| Gold and Silver Logie Awards, and its TV Week base. Source - TV Blackbox |
In the public-voted Popular categories, the show itself is up for Most Popular Drama, and Anna Torv has been nominated for Most Popular Actress for playing our leading lady Helen Norville.
The Newsreader has secured four more nominations in the industry-decided Outstanding categories. The show and Anna Torv once again are nominated for Most Outstanding Drama and Most Outstanding Actress (an award Torv has won before in 2017 for her previous show Secret City; also directed by Emma Freeman and produced by Joanna Werner). Sam Reid joins the ranks of Most Outstanding Actor for his role of Dale Jennings, and William McInnes could secure Most Outstanding Support Actor for playing Lindsay Cunningham.
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| Screenshot of William McInnes and Anna Torv from Episode One. Can you see the Logie Awards behind Lindsay on the shelf? |
It is worth noting too that Emma Freeman's other drama that she directed; Love Me, is nominated for seven awards, Anna Torv's harrowing bushfire miniseries Fires is expected to shine in the Outstanding categories, and Stephen Peacocke (Rob Rickards) is up for Most Popular Actor for his leading role in the rural medical drama R.F.D.S. The show will compete with The Newsreader for Most Popular Series.
It's not The Newsreader's first major awards night. In late 2021, the show was nominated for an overwhelming sixteen AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Televison Arts) Awards - securing double nominations in some categories - and was the most nominated and won series for the year. They took home five of these; the program for Best Drama, Torv for Best Lead Actress, McInnes for Best Supporting Actor, Freeman for Best Direction in Drama or Comedy, and Melinda Doring for Best Production Design in Television.
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| AACTA Award statuettes. Source - AACTA Website |
Smaller but notable awards include its win of Most Popular Australian Drama at the online 2021 TV Blackbox Awards, and Nathan Lloyd was awarded Best Casting in a TV Drama, Miniseries & Telemovie at the 2021 Casting Guild Awards
2022 is certainly shaping up to be as momentous for the cast and crew of The Newsreader as 2021; not forgetting to mention the multiple international screenings and the production of Season Two in the very near future. Will you be watching the Logie Awards this year? I will, and I have already voted for the show!
To vote for The Newsreader, Anna Torv and Stephen Peacocke in the Popular categories, you will need to be an Australian citizen with an Australian mobile phone number. Click this link and follow the prompts to help our newsreading team score some sweet retro victory!
See you all on Logies night! Fingers crossed we will have some happy news to report!
~ Erin, for News At Six 1986
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