Hamish Blake took home the Gold Logie at the 62nd Annual Gold Coast Television Awards on Sunday night, with his show, Lego Masters Australia, picking up two other awards. Blake also won the newly named Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter, an award he previously won in 2012, while Channel Nine, now in its fourth season, won a featured entertainment or comedy show. .
“If you’re still watching this, you’re insomniac,” Blake said as he picked up the Golden Lodge, making it the last of a series of all-night jokes about the four-hour ceremony. televised.
Blake beat comedian Julia Morris, today’s host Karl Stefanovic, Masterchef presenter Melissa Leong, veteran actor Ray Meagher at home and abroad, The Voice Australia presenter Sonia Kruger and the ABC quizmaster Tom Gleeson, who won the award in 2019.
The ABC dominated the peer-to-peer awards, with The Newsreader winning an outstanding drama series and Anna Torv winning an outstanding actress for her lead role in the drama of the 1980s newsroom. Richard Roxburgh was a prominent actor for his role in the ABC Fires miniseries, which also won a featured miniseries or TV movie. Neither actor was present at the Star Gold Coast venue to accept his awards.
Former ABC News Breakfast journalist Tony Armstrong won the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent and ABC’s international cartoon success Bluey won a children’s television show exceptional.
The cast of Home and Away, winner of the most popular drama show. Photography: Chris Hyde / Getty Images
The lead actor was Colin Friels for his role in the ABC drama series Wakefield. ABC talent also won the most popular actress and the most popular actor: Kitty Flanagan for the comedy Fisk and Guy Pearce for the crime drama Jack Irish.
The Channel 10 project beat the unconditional Four Corners and 60 Minutes to bring out news coverage or the most prominent public affairs report for Lisa Wilkinson’s interview with Brittany Higgins, whom the presenter described as “the most important job I’ve ever done. “
Wilkinson said the Logie belonged to “a woman who inspired more than 100,000 fierce, exhausted and equally angry women and men to take to the streets of this country to roar in numbers too large to ignore.”
Outstanding sports coverage was on Channel Seven for its coverage of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, while its longtime sports commentator Bruce McAvaney, who has covered all the Summer Olympics since Moscow in 1980, be included in the Lodge Hall of Fame.
A special tribute was also paid to animator Bert Newton, who died in October 2021.
National Indigenous television network NITV recorded its first Logie, for the SBS documentary co-produced, Incarceration Nation.
The most popular categories voted by viewers were won by Seven’s Home and Away for the most popular drama, The Project for current affairs and Foxtel / 10’s Gogglebox for entertainment television.
Nine’s Travel Guides and Network 10’s Masterchef and Have you been paying attention? won the most popular lifestyle, reality and comedy categories respectively.