Austin has won 6 BAFTA awards. In 1995 for his role in ITV’s Rwanda coverage; in 2010,for his role in the "ITV News" coverage of the Haiti earthquake.In 2011 for the Cumbria Murders coverage and in 2014 for reporting of the Woolwich attacks. With Sky News in 2020, Austin won a BAFTA for coverage of the Hong Kong protests. And in 2021, for a programme on the crisis in Idlib in Syria, also for Sky News