2024 ELLIE AWARDS – NOMINEES ANNOUNCED!

The Australian Screen Editors Guild is delighted to announce its nominees for the 2024 ELLIE Awards

The nominees are:

The Melodie Award for Best Editing in Current Affairs

Simon Phegan and Josh McAtamney – Dateline: Making a Militant
Josh McAtamney – Dateline: Bears Gone Wild
Leah Donovan – Foreign Correspondent: Inside Iran, The Fight Continues
Micah McGown – Dateline: Sex Tourism: Predators in Paradise

The Editors Award for Best Editing in a Short Drama

Pip Hart – And the Ocean Agreed
Nathan Lacey – Die Bully Die
Wilson Tran – Finding Jia
Kevin Luk – Favourites
Jessie Hildebrand – Dusty

The Netflix Award for Best Editing in a Comedy

Danielle Boesenberg – Colin from Accounts Season 2 Episode 1 Blessings
Deborah Peart ASE – Strife Episode 1 For All Women
Katie Flaxman – White Fever Episode 5
Ariel Shaw – Erotic Stories Episode 1 Philia

The Digistor Award for Best Editing in Open Content

Andrew Holmes – Highlife
Sean McDermott – We Rise – We Are Warriors x Powerhouse
Nicole Thorn – Girl Crush
Lester Jones – Finding Home

The ASE Award for Best Editing in a Music Video

Brad Hurt – Stephen Sanchez: Baby Blue Bathing Suit
Emily Robb – Nick Ward: Shooting Star
Tom Antolini – Lime Cordiale: Cold Treatment

The Solid State Award for Best Editing in Trailers & Promos

Nic Venettacci – Hunt for Truth: Tasmanian Tiger
Adam Leonard – High Country
Gretchen Peterson – Midnight Oil The Hardest Line
Brad Hurt – NRL 24 Season Launch Promo

The Blackmagic Award for Best Editing in a Commercial

Alexandre De Franceschi ASE – Hailstorm
Luke Haig – Uber Eats – Gets Almost Anything “Magic”
Shannon Michaelas – Hello Christmas
Andrew Holmes – Grand Seiko

The ASE Award for Best Editing in Corporate & Branded

Delaney Murphy – The Public Diagnosis
Jack Hutchings ASE and Grace O’Connell – This is Footy Country
Jarred Lammiman – 2024 Tatts Finke Desert Race
Brad Hurt – Sujan Jawai
Tony McGrath – Movieworld Fright Nights: Deceased

The ASE Award for Best Editing in Children’s Entertainment

Josef Switak – Bluey: The Sign
Daniela Raulli – Planet Lulin Episode 10
Kris Rowe, HaiHa Le – Fizzy & Suds Episode 5 Trains

The ASE Award for Best Editing in Reality

Sam Hart – Alone Season 2 Episode 1
Dan Hart – Hunted Season 2 Episode 11
Sebastien Carew-Reid, Karen Crespo, Cameron Kirby – The Summit Season 2 Episode 11
Karen Crespo – Love Triangle Season 2 Episode 1

The Adobe Award for Best Editing in Factual Entertainment

Nic Venettacci – Hunt For Truth – Tasmanian Tiger Episode 1: Tigermania
Rachel Grierson-Johns, Leanne Cole, Toby Stratmann – Love On The Spectrum US Season 2 Episode 7
John Unwin – Muster Dogs Season 2 Episode 1
Rowan Togami Evans and Zoë Davis – The Art Of… Masculinity
Wyn Chiem, Leigh Elmes, Elizabeth Graetz – Tony Armstrong’s Extraordinary Things Episode 4

The Eizo Award for Best Editing in Documentary or Documentary Series

Adam Wright – The Test Season 3 Episode 2
Pete Ward – Pressure and Release
Andrew Cooke ASE and Philippa Rowlands ASE – Nemesis Episode 3
Rhodri Wyn Lewis, Luke Cornish, Cathy Vu and Amanda Knight – Dance Life Episode 4

The Blue Post Award for Best Editing in a Drama

Deborah Peart ASE – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Part 1 Black Fire Orchid
Dany Cooper ASE – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Part 7 Sturt’s Desert Pea
Mark Perry ASE – Boy Swallows Universe Episode 4
Angie Higgins – Fake Episode 5
Adrian Rostirolla ASE – Fake Episode 7

The Audio Network Award for Best Editing in Documentary Feature

Matias Bolla and Zac Grant – This Is Going To Be Big
Gretchen Peterson – Midnight Oil The Hardest Line
Karen Johnson – Welcome to Babel
Jenny Hicks, Scott Walmsley and Andrea Lang ASE – Dale Frank Nobody’s Sweetie
Sam Matthews – A Portrait of Love

The Avid Award for Best Editing in Feature Drama

Patrick McCabe – Flathead
Luke Haigh – The Convert
Carly Turner – Uproar
Andy Canny – Woman of the Hour

2024 ASE EMERGING EDITOR AWARDS NOMINATIONS HERE