2025 ELLIE AWARDS – NOMINEES ANNOUNCED!

2025 ASE ELLIE AWARDS NOMINEES

The Australian Screen Editors Guild is delighted to announce its nominees for the 2025 ELLIE Awards

The nominees are:

 

The Netflix Award for Technical Excellence

Oliver Dear – Together
Samuel Hill – Aussie Gold Hunters – Season 10

 

The ASE Award for Best Editing in News & Current Affairs

James Taylor – Tsunami: Stories of Survival
Andrew Cooke ASE – Making Lachlan Murdoch – Part 2: Money
Josh McAtamney – The Beast, Mexico’s Deadliest Train
Angela Leonardi – The River – Part 1 and 2

 

The ASE Award for Best Editing in a Short Drama

Shannon Michaelas – Analog Medium
Andy Finn – Family Man
Pip Hart – I’m The Most Racist Person I Know
Jack Charter – Interview With A Hero

 

The Netflix Award for Best Editing in a Comedy

Deborah Peart ASE – Strife: Week of Yes – S02, Ep01
Andrew MacNeil ASE – Good Cop/Bad Cop: Buckle Up – S01, Ep07
Katie Flaxman ASE – Fisk – S03, Ep03
Emily Robb – Urvi Went to an All Girls School – S01, Ep01

 

The ASE Award for Best Editing in Open Content

Leila Gaabi & Shannon Michaelas – Eighteen
Liam Fitzgibbon – Descent: The Slap… Eel – Ep3
Tom Antolini – Third Space
Emma McGavisk – Kumarangk: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge

 

The ASE Award for Best Editing in a Music Video

Brad Hurt ASE – LMNT 115 X ZAK ABEL – Out Of The Dark
Ilya Malov – Hilltop Hoods – Never Coming Home ft. SIX60
Sean McDermott – Party Dozen – Coup De Gronk

 

The Solid State Award for Best Editing in Trailers & Promos

Veina Yang – Black Snow – Season 2
Emma McGavisk – Eat the Invaders
Dean Saika – The Rule of Jenny Pen

 

The 101 Music Award for Best Editing in a Commercial

Andrew Holmes – Apple – Mac – Lessons
Luke Haig – Meat & Livestock Australia – Beef
Kent Hau – Modibodi – Shark Week – Fear Not
Denzil Heeger – Mihan Aromatics

 

The ASE Award for Best Editing in Corporate & Branded

Jarred Lammiman – Tamworth – The Unstoppable Farming Spirit
Sean McDermott – Richard Branson Commencement Speech
Tom Antolini – Surf Abu Dhabi
Andrew Holmes – UNHCR- Through My Eyes

 

The AWGACS Award for Best Editing in Children’s Entertainment

Andrew Macneil ASE – Rock Island Mysteries: Opposites Attract – S03, Ep06
Daniela Raulli – Rock Island Mysteries: Ellis vs Ellis – S03, Ep11
Adam Rainford & Jonathan Tappin – Tales from Outer Suburbia: Distant Rain – S01, Ep03

 

The ITV Award for Best Editing in Reality

Sam Hart – Alone – S03, Ep01
Dan Hart and Anna Martin – My Kitchen Rules – S14, Ep08
Derek Jones – Alone – S03, Ep10
Rhodri Wyn Lewis and Zane Bryant – Married at First Sight – S12, Ep14

 

The Adobe Award for Best Editing in Factual Entertainment

Rachel Grierson-Johns, Leanne Cole, Gretchen Peterson, John Rosser – Love on the Spectrum US – S03, Ep07
Scott Walmsley, Peter Crombie ASE, Pete Ward, Maude Rokvic (Assembly Editor) – The Jury: Death on the Staircase – S01, Ep05
Peter Crombie ASE, Scott Walmsley, Pete Ward, Maude Rokvic – The Jury: Death on the Staircase – S01, Ep01
Niki Hiini – Headliners – S01, Ep05
David Scarborough ASE & Emma McGavisk – Eat the Invaders: Camel Feast – S01, Ep04

 

The Blackmagic Design Award for Best Editing in Documentary or Documentary Series

Philippa Byers – Compass: The DJ and the Gospel Choir
Anna Craney – Compass: Geraldine Brooks – Grief, A Love Story
Andie Smith – Tracy: A Force of Nature
Orly Danon ASE – Australia: An Unofficial History – S01, Ep02

 

The Blue Post Award for Best Editing in a Drama

Mathew Evans, Annette Davey (Supervising Editor) – Apple Cider Vinegar – S01, Ep02
Annette Davey – Apple Cider Vinegar – S01, Ep01
Christine Cheung – Mix Tape – Ep01
Katie Flaxman ASE – The Newsreader – S03 Ep02

 

The Audio Network Award for Best Editing in Documentary Feature

Bergen O’Brien – Breakaway Femmes
Chris Bamford – The Raftsmen
Karryn de Cinque – Joh: Last King of Queensland
Navaz Illava & Jordan Jeynes – Hinckley

 

The Avid Award for Best Editing in Feature Drama