# Major AWGIE Award

The Major AWGIE Award is awarded by the Australian Writers Guild for the outstanding script of the year at the annual AWGIE Awards for Australian performance writing. It is selected from individual category winners across the range of performance writing categories, covering film, television, stage, radio and interactive media.

## Winners

The tables below show the winning writer(s) and work in each year and the work's category, since the awards began.

### 1960s

| Year | Writer(s) | Work | Category |
| 1968 (1st) |
| 1968 (1st) | Colin Free | “Cage a Tame Tiger”, Contrabandits | TV |
| 1968 (1st) | Richard Lane | You Can’t See 'Round Corners | TV Serial |
| 1969 (2nd) |
| 1969 (2nd) | Alan Hopgood | The Cheerful Cuckold | Tele-play |

### 1970s

| Year | Writer(s) | Work | Category |
| 1970 (3rd) |
| 1970 (3rd) | Mungo MacCallum | The Stoneham Obsessions | Radio Feature |
| 1971 (4th) |
| 1971 (4th) | Michael Boddy & Bob Ellis | The Legend of King O'Malley | Stage |
| 1972 (5th) |
| 1972 (5th) | David Williamson | The Removalists | Stage |
| 1973 (6th) |
| 1973 (6th) | Tony Morphett | “Freda”, Certain Women | TV |
| 1974 (7th) |
| 1974 (7th) | Cliff Green | Marion | TV Play |
| 1975 (8th) |
| 1975 (8th) | Jim McNeil | How Does Your Garden Grow? | Stage |
| 1976 (9th) |
| 1976 (9th) | No major award | | |
| 1977 (10th) |
| 1977 (10th) | Steve J. Spears | The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin | Stage |
| 1978 (11th) |
| 1978 (11th) | David Williamson | The Club | Stage |
| 1979 (12th) |
| 1979 (12th) | Tony Morphett | “A Matter of Life and Death”, Against The Wind | TV |

### 1980s

| Year | Writer(s) | Work | Category |
| 1980 (13th) |
| 1980 (13th) | No major award | | |
| 1981 (14th) |
| 1981 (14th) | Ken Kelso | Manganinnie | Film Adaptation |
| 1982 (15th) |
| 1982 (15th) | Ron Elisha | Einstein | Stage Original |
| 1983 (16th) |
| 1983 (16th) | Hyllus Maris & Sonia Borg | Women of the Sun | TV Original |
| 1984 (17th) |
| 1984 (17th) | Robert Caswell | Scales of Justice | TV Original |
| 1985 (18th) |
| 1985 (18th) | Peter Carey & Ray Lawrence | Bliss | Film Adaptation |
| 1986 (19th) |
| 1986 (19th) | Glenda Hambly | Fran | Film |
| 1987 (20th) |
| 1987 (20th) | Michael Gow | Away | Stage |
| 1988 (21st) |
| 1988 (21st) | Anthony Wheeler | Olive | TV Original |
| 1989 (22nd) |
| 1989 (22nd) | Peter Schreck | The Soldier Settlers | TV Original |

### 1990s

| Year | Writer(s) | Work | Category |
| 1990 (23rd) |
| 1990 (23rd) | Nick Enright | Daylight Saving | Stage |
| 1991 (24th) |
| 1991 (24th) | Keith Thompson | “A General Malaise”, G.P. | TV series |
| 1992 (25th) |
| 1992 (25th) | Michael Cove | The Habit | Radio Original |
| 1993 (26th) |
| 1993 (26th) | Nick Enright | A Property of the Clan | Theatre-in-Education (TIE) |
| 1994 (27th) |
| 1994 (27th) | Peta Murray | The Keys to the Animal Room | TIE |
| 1995(28th) |
| 1995(28th) | Chris Noonan & George Miller | Babe | Feature Adaptation |
| 1996 (29th) |
| 1996 (29th) | Rivka Hartman | The Miniskirted Dynamo | Documentary Public Broadcast |
| 1997 (30th) |
| 1997 (30th) | Nick Enright | Blackrock | Feature Adaptation |
| 1998 (31st) |
| 1998 (31st) | Andrea Lemon | Rodeo Noir | Stage |
| 1999 (32nd) |
| 1999 (32nd) | Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas | Who’s Afraid of the Working Class | Stage |
| 1999 (32nd) | Justin Monjo & Nick Enright | Cloudstreet | Stage |

### 2000s

| Year | Writer(s) | Work | Category |
| 2000 (33rd) |
| 2000 (33rd) | Patricia Cornelius | Hogs, Hairs & Leeches | Community Theatre |
| 2001 (34th) |
| 2001 (34th) | John Romeril (with Rachel Perkins) | One Night the Moon | TV Original |
| 2002 (35th) |
| 2002 (35th) | Dennis K. Smith | Rainbow Bird and Monster Man | Documentary Broadcast |
| 2003 (36th) |
| 2003 (36th) | Tony McNamara | The Rage in Placid Lake | Feature Original |
| 2004 (37th) |
| 2004 (37th) | Cate Shortland | Somersault | Feature Original |
| 2005 (38th) |
| 2005 (38th) | Melissa Reeves | The Spook | Stage |
| 2006 (39th) |
| 2006 (39th) | Katherine Thomson & Barbara Samuels | Answered by Fire | Television Mini Series Original |
| 2007 (40th) |
| 2007 (40th) | Keith Thompson | Clubland | Feature Original |
| 2008 (41st) |
| 2008 (41st) | Peter Gawler, Greg Haddrick & Felicity Packard | Underbelly | TV mini series adaptation |
| 2009 (42nd) |
| 2009 (42nd) | Warwick Thornton | Samson and Delilah | Feature Original |

### 2010s

| Year | Writer(s) | Work | Category |
| 2010 (43rd) |
| 2010 (43rd) | David Michôd | Animal Kingdom | Feature Film Original |
| 2011 (44th) |
| 2011 (44th) | Patricia Cornelius | Do Not Go Gentle | Stage |
| 2012 (45th) |
| 2012 (45th) | Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson | The Sapphires | Feature Film Adaptation |
| 2013 (46th) |
| 2013 (46th) | Alana Valentine | Grounded | Community & Youth Theatre |
| 2014 (47th) |
| 2014 (47th) | Blake Ayshford, Shelley Birse & Justin Monjo | The Code | Television Mini-Series Original |
| 2015 (48th) |
| 2015 (48th) | Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios | The Water Diviner | Feature Film - Original |
| 2016 (49th) |
| 2016 (49th) | Shelley Birse | The Code: season 2 | Television Miniseries – Original |
| 2017 (50th) |
| 2017 (50th) | Leah Purcell | The Drover's Wife | Stage |
| 2018 (51st) |
| 2018 (51st) | Bradley Slabe | Lost & Found | Animation |
| 2019 (52nd) |
| 2019 (52nd) | Kate Mulvany | The Harp in the South | Stage |

### 2020s

| Year | Writer(s) | Work | Category |
| 2020 (53rd) |
| 2020 (53rd) | Suzie Miller | Prima Facie | Stage |
| 2021 (54rd) |
| 2021 (54rd) | Kodie Bedford | Cursed! | Stage |