The 2010 Qantas Film and Television Awards were held on Saturday 18 September at the Civic Theatre in

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, New Zealand. The craft awards were presented in a separate awards lunch at the Auckland Town Hall on Friday 17 September. It was the final of the Qantas Film and Television Awards, before Qantas was lost as the naming-rights sponsor and the awards were renamed the Aotearoa Film and Television Awards. The awards are best remembered for the expletive-filled acceptance speech given by '' Breakfast'' presenter Paul Henry upon winning the

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. Highlights from the main awards evening were broadcast on Sunday 19 September on TV ONE.

Nominees and winners

Awards were given in 58 categories, covering news and current affairs, general television, feature film and short film.

News and current affairs

Qantas Best News * '' ONE News'' (TV One) ** ''

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'' (TV One) Best News or Current Affairs Presenter * John Campbell, ''

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'', "Tsunami Aftermath" (TV3) ** Hilary Barry & Mike McRoberts, ''

'', "Aisling Symes" (TV3) ** Carly Flynn, ''

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'', "Samoa Tsunami" (TV3) Best News Reporting * Paul Hobbs, '' ONE News'', "TSU Funerals" (TV One) ** Lisa Owen, '' ONE News'', "Baker Hostage" (TV One) ** Rebecca Wright, ''

'', "Drink Drive Fly" (TV3) Journalist of the Year * Paul Hobbs, "TSU Funerals", '' ONE News'' (TV One) Best Current Affairs Reporting for a weekly programme or one off current affairs special * Janet McIntyre & Joanne Mitchell, '' Sunday'', "Discourse with a Dictator" (TV One) ** John Hudson & Jane Skinner, '' Sunday'', "Child Brides" (TV One) ** Karen McCarthy, '' 60 Minutes'', "Homicide" (TV3) Best Current Affairs Reporting for a daily programme * Brook Sabin, ''

'', "Darryl's Recovery" (TV3) ** Corinne Ambler, ''

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'', "Dwarf" (TV One) ** Natasha Utting, ''

'', "Fraudster" (TV3)

News and current affairs (craft)

Best Current Affairs Series * '' Sunday'' (TV One) ** ''

'' (TV3) ** ''Willie Jackson's NewsBites'' (Maori Television) Best News Camera * Steve Lawton, '' ONE News'', "Birds" (TV One) ** Michael Lacoste, ''

'', "Maubisse, Haiti and Bangkok" (TV3) ** Daniel O'Sullivan, '' ONE News'', "Ice Energy" (TV One) Best Current Affairs Camera * Martin Anderson, '' 20/20'', "Lost and Found" (TV2) ** Ken Dorman, '' Sunday'', "Brave Choice" (TV One) ** Belinda Walshe, '' 60 Minutes'', "Braking Point" (TV3) ** Belinda Walshe, '' 60 Minutes'', "Drug Runner" (TV3) Best News Editing * Andrew Gibb, '' Breakfast'', "Spelling Bee" (TV One) ** Kirsten Bolam, '' ONE News'', "Cavalcade" (TV One) ** Paul Sparkes, '' ONE News'', "Opshop" (TV One) Best Current Affairs Editing * Catherine Hallinan, ''

'', "Darryl" (TV3) ** Andrew Gibb, ''

'', "Apprentice" (TV One) ** Vicky Harker, '' Sunday'' Episode 24, "Born to Dance" (TV One)

General television

Best Drama Programme * '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) ** ''

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'', Rachel Gardner, Great Southern Television Ltd (TV 2) ** ''

Go Girls ''Go Girls'' is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series that centers on four adult friends, three female and one male, living on Auckland's North Shore. In the fifth season it was the same premise, but this time centered on five adult fr ...

'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) Best Comedy Programme * '' The Jaquie Brown Diaries'', Jaquie Brown, Gerard Johnstone, Young, Gifted & Brown (TV3) ** ''

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'', Jon Bridges & the downlow concept (TV3) ** '' Pulp Sport'', Jamie Linehan &

Ben Boyce Ben Boyce is a New Zealand television and radio personality and comedian best known as the host of TV shows '' Pulp Sport'', '' WANNA-BEn'' and ''Jono and Ben'' on TV3. Biography Boyce is a graduate of the New Zealand Broadcasting School at ...

, Shonky Productions (TV3) Best Maori Language Programme * ''E Tu Kahikatea'', TeNoni Ltd (Maori Television) ** ''AKO'', Jeni-Leigh Walker & Pānia Papa (Maori Television) ** ''Moteatea'', Hinewehi Mohi (Maori Television) Best Children's/Youth Programme * ''Reservoir Hill'', KHF Media (TV2) ** '' Let's Get Inventin''' "Eco Rat Trap", Luke Nola and Friends Ltd (TV2) ** ''Kaitangata Twitch'', Christopher Hampson Production Shed.TV (Maori Television) Best Information/Lifestyle Programme * ''Radar's Patch'', Jane Andrews, JAM TV Ltd (TV One) ** ''

Fair Go ''Fair Go'' is a New Zealand consumer affairs television programme hosted by Pippa Wetzell and Hadyn Jones. First aired in 1977, it is New Zealand's second longest-running local programme (after '' Country Calendar''). It is also highest-rate ...

'', Graeme Muir, TVNZ (TV One) ** ''South'', Melanie Rakena and Marcus Lush, JAM TV Ltd (TV One) Best Entertainment Programme * ''The Topp Twins & The APO'', Arwen O'Connor, Satellite Media (TV3) ** '' Good Morning: Sir Howard Morrison Special'', Sally-Anne Kerr, TVNZ (TV One) ** ''Homai Te Pakipaki'', Homai Te Pakipaki (Maori Television) Best Sports Broadcast * ''TV3 V8 Supercars Hamilton 400'', Nigel Carpenter, TV3 (TV3) ** ''Heineken Open Tennis Final 2010'', Steve Jamieson, TVNZ (TV One) ** ''International Netball Series 2009'', Barbara Mitchell, TVNZ (TV One) Best Observational Reality Series * '' Intrepid Journeys'', Dean Cornish, JAM TV Ltd (TV One) ** ''

Neighbours at War ''Neighbours at War'' (2005–2015) was a New Zealand reality series, screening on TV2. It visited New Zealand residents disgruntled with their neighbours and tried to help sort problems out. It gave an insight to everything from upset tenants ...

'', Sarah Kinniburgh, Greenstone Pictures (TV2) ** ''

Piha Rescue ''Piha Rescue'' is a New Zealand reality series following the daily actions of the Piha Surf Life Saving Club lifeguards on the famous Piha surf beach. Piha is one of the many beaches located on the West Coast near Auckland. ''Piha Rescue ...

'', Eric Derks, South Pacific Video Productions (TV One) Best Constructed Reality Series * ''One Land'', Julie Christie & Bailey Mackey, Eyeworks New Zealand (TV One) ** '' MasterChef New Zealand'', Bettina Hollings & Darryl McEwen, Imagination Television (TV One) ** ''

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'', Glenn Sims & Philip Smith, Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) Best Performance by an Actress – General Television *

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'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) ** Kate Elliott, ''

'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) **

Siobhan Marshall Siobhan Marshall is a New Zealand actress best known for her role as Pascalle West from the comedy/drama series '' Outrageous Fortune'' (2005–2010). Career Marshall attended Auckland's Unitec School of Performing Screen Arts and graduated i ...

, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV 3) Best Performance by a Supporting Actress – General Television *

Lisa Chappell Lisa Irene Chappell (born 18 October 1968) is a New Zealand actress and musician. She is known for her roles as Chelsea Redfern in '' Gloss'' (1987–90), her acting debut, and as Claire McLeod in ''McLeod's Daughters'' (2001–03), a performanc ...

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'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) **

Chelsie Preston Crayford Chelsie Florence Preston Crayford (born 1987) is a New Zealand actress. Early life Preston Crayford was born in Wellington to film maker Gaylene Preston and musician Jonathan Crayford. Apart from appearing in a water safety commercial at the ag ...

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'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) ** Miriama Smith, ''Kaitangata Twitch'', Production Shed.TV (Maori Television) Best Performance by an Actor – General Television *

George Henare George Winiata Henare (born 11 September 1945) is a New Zealand actor with a career spanning over 50 years. Early life Born in Gisborne on 11 September 1945, the third youngest in a family of ten children, Henare affiliates to the Māori trib ...

, ''Kaitangata Twitch'', Production Shed.TV (Maori Television) **

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'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) **

Kirk Torrance Kirk Torrance is an actor and playwright from New Zealand, best known for his role as Wayne Judd in '' Outrageous Fortune''. He is also a former Commonwealth Games swimmer. Career His debut play ''Strata'' (2003) won Best New Playwright at the ...

, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) Best Performance by a Supporting Actor – General Television *

Matt Whelan Matt Whelan (born 1985) is a New Zealand actor and comedian. Whelan is known for his roles as Brad Caulfield in the New Zealand television comedy-drama programme ''Go Girls''. He has also played Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in the Amazon Origi ...

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'', South Pacific Pictures, (TV2) **

Grant Bowler Grant Bowler (born 18 July 1968) is a New Zealand-Australian actor and television presenter who has worked in American, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian film, television, and theatre. He is known for playing the role of Constable Wayne ...

, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) ** Scott Wills, ''

'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) Best Presenter Entertainment/Factual Programme *

Marcus Lush Marcus Lush (born July 1965) is a politician and television and radio presenter in New Zealand. Broadcasting He made his first footsteps into television in the 1990s as a reporter co-presenting TV2's ''Newsnight'' alongside Simon Dallow and Ali ...

, ''South'', Jam TV Ltd (TV One) ** Petra Bagust, ''What's Really in Our Food?'', Top Shelf Productions Limited (TV3) **

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, ''Radar's Patch'', JAM TV (TV One) Best Script – Drama/Comedy Programme * James Griffin, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) ** Michael Bennett, ''Kaitangata Twitch'', Production Shed.TV (Maori Television) ** Rachel Lang, ''

'', South Pacific Pictures, (TV2) Best Director – Drama/Comedy Programme * Gerard Johnstone, '' The Jaquie Brown Diaries'', Young, Gifted and Brown (TV3) ** Peter Burger, ''

'', South Pacific Pictures (TV2) ** David Stubbs & Thomas Robins, ''Reservoir Hill'', KHF Media Ltd (TV2) Best Director – Factual/Entertainment Programme * Melanie Rakena, ''South'', JAM TV Ltd (TV One) ** Jane Andrews, ''Radar's Patch'', JAM TV (TV One) ** Belinda Simpson, '' Intrepid Journeys'' (TV One)

General television (craft)

Best Multi Camera Direction in General Television * Steve Jamieson, ''Heineken Open Tennis Final 2010'', TVNZ (TV One) ** Steve Jamieson, ''Takapuna Sprint Triathlon'', TVNZ (TV One) ** Barbara Mitchell, ''International Netball Series 2009'', TVNZ (TV One) Best Cinematography – Drama/Comedy Programme * Simon Reira, ''

'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) ** David Paul, ''Kaitangata Twitch'', Production Shed.TV (Maori Television) ** Marty Smith, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) Images & Sound Best Editing – Drama/Comedy Programme * Eric de Beus, ''

'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) ** Bryan Shaw, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) ** Mark Taylor, ''

'', South Pacific Pictures (TV2) Best Original Music in General Television * Rhian Sheehan, ''

'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) ** Gareth Farr, ''Kaitangata Twitch'', Production Shed.TV (Maori Television) ** Eden Mulholland, ''World Kitchen'', Zoomslide Media Ltd (TV3) Best Sound Design in General Television * Tom Miskin, James Hayday & Steve Finnigan, ''Kaitangata Twitch'', Production Shed.TV (Maori Television) ** Tom Miskin, Steve Finnigan, ''

'', South Pacific Pictures (TV2) ** Carl Smith, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) Best Production Design in General Television * Gary Mackay, ''Kaitangata Twitch'', Production Shed (Maori Television) ** Clayton Ercolano, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) ** Gary Mackay, ''

'', South Pacific Pictures (TV2) Best Contribution to Design in General Television * David Cooke, ''

'', Great Southern Television Ltd (TV2) ** Katrina Hodge, '' Outrageous Fortune'', South Pacific Pictures (TV3) ** Sarah Voon, ''

'', South Pacific Pictures (TV2)

Documentary

Best Popular Documentary * ''Lost in Wonderland'', Costa Botes, Lone Pine Film ** ''Donated to Science'', Paul Trotman, PRNfilms (TV3) ** ''The Worst Offenders'', Virginia Wright, Southern Screen Productions (TV One) Best Arts/Festival/Feature Documentary * '' This Way of Life'', Cloud South Films ** ''There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho'', Lyn Collie and Briar March ** ''The Unnatural History of the Kakapo'', ELWIN Productions Best Director – Documentary * Thomas Burstyn, '' This Way of Life'', Cloud South Films **

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, ''The Flight of Te Hookioi'', Monsoon Pictures International Ltd (Maori Television) ** Robin Shingleton, ''Real Crime: The Truth About Us'', Project Melting Pot (TV One)

Documentary (craft)

Best Cinematography – Documentary/Factual Programme * Marty Williams, Costa Botes & Gareth Moon, ''Lost in Wonderland'', Lone Pine Film ** Thomas Burstyn, '' This Way of Life'', Cloud South Films ** Briar March, ''There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho'' Best Editing – Documentary/Factual Programme * Prisca Bouchet & Briar March, ''There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho'' ** Cushla Dillion, '' This Way of Life'', Cloud South Films ** Ken Sparks, ''The Worst Offenders'', Southern Screen Productions (TV One)

Feature film

Best Feature Film * ''

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'', Ainsley Gardiner, Whenua Films ** ''Home by Christmas'', Gaylene Preston, Sue Rogers & Nigel Hutchinson, Doublehead Films ** '' Under the Mountain'', Richard Fletcher, Matthew Grainger & Jonathan King, Redhead Films Best Director in a Film Feature *

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'', Whenua Films **

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, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films ** Stephen Sinclair, ''

Russian Snark ''Russian Snark'' is a 2010 New Zealand film directed and written by Stephen Sinclair and produced by Liz DiFiore. The film features Stephen Papps, Elena Stejko, Stephanie Tauevihi and Te Waimarie Kessell. It is the story of Misha, a Russian f ...

'', Godzone Pictures Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film *

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, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films ** Stephen Papps, ''

'', Godzone Pictures ** James Rolleston, ''

'', Whenua Films Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film *

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, '' The Vintner's Luck'', Ascension Film Ltd **

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, ''Life's a Riot'', Riot Productions ** Elena Stejko, ''

'', Godzone Pictures Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film *

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'', Whenua Films ** Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, ''

'', Whenua Films **

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, '' Under the Mountain'', Redhead Films Limited Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film * Stephanie Tauevihi, ''

'', Godzone Pictures **

Keisha Castle-Hughes Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian-born New Zealand actress who rose to prominence for playing Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the film '' Whale Rider''. She was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Bes ...

, '' The Vintner's Luck'', Ascension Film Ltd ** Tina Cleary, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films Best Screenplay for a Feature Film *

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'', Whenua Films **

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, ''Life's a Riot'', Riot Productions **

, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films

Feature film (craft)

Best Cinematography in a Feature Film * Adam Clark, ''

'', Whenua Films ** Alun Bollinger, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films ** Denis Lenoir, '' The Vintner's Luck'', Ascension Film Ltd Best Editing in a Feature Film * Chris Plummer, ''

'', Whenua Films ** Ken Sparks, ''Life's a Riot'', Riot Productions ** Paul Sutorius, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films Best Original Music in a Feature Film * Lukasz Buda, Samuel Scott & Conrad Wedde, ''

'', Whenua Films ** Victoria Kelly, '' Under the Mountain'', Redhead Films Limited ** David Long & Stephen Gallagher, ''

'', Godzone Pictures Best Sound Design in a Feature Film * Tim Prebble, Ken Saville, Michael Hedges & Gethin Creagh, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films ** Tim Prebble, Gethin Creagh & Gilbert Lake, '' Under the Mountain'', Redhead Films Limited ** Ken Saville, Tim Prebble, Chris Todd, Michael Hedges & Gilbert Lake, ''

'', Whenua Films Best Production Design in a Feature Film * Grant Major, '' The Vintner's Luck'', Ascension Film Ltd ** Ralph Davies, '' Under the Mountain'', Redhead Films Limited ** Shayne Radford, ''

'', Whenua Films Best Costume Design in a Feature Film * Beatrix Pasztor, '' The Vintner's Luck'', Ascension Film Ltd ** Leslie Burkes-Harding, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films ** Amanda Neale, ''

'', Whenua Films Best Make-Up Design in a Feature Film * Steve Boyle & Jane O'Kane, '' Under the Mountain'', Redhead Films Limited ** Angela Mooar, ''Home by Christmas'', Doublehead Films ** Dannelle Satherley, ''

'', Whenua Films Best Visual Effects in a Feature Film * Charlie McClellan, '' Under the Mountain'', Redhead Films Limited ** Park Road Post, ''

'', Godzone Pictures ** George Ritchie, '' The Vintner's Luck'', Ascension Film Ltd

Short films

Best Short Film * thedownlowconcept, ''Only Son'', thedownlowconcept ** Zoe McIntosh, ''Day Trip'', Lone Pine Film ** Sam Peacocke, ''Manurewa'', Robber's Dog Films Ltd Best Performance in a Short Film * Tuhoe Isaac, ''Day Trip'', Lone Pine Film ** Aaron McGregor, ''Choice Night'', POP Film ** Josh Thomson, ''Only Son'', thedownlowconcept

Short films (craft)

Best Screenplay for a Short Film * Thedownlowconcept, ''Ryan Hutchings'', Jarrod Holt, Nigel McCulloch, Only Son, thedownlowconcept ** Sam Peacocke, ''Manurewa'', Robber's Dog Films Ltd ** Paul Stanley Ward, ''Choice Night'', POP Film Outstanding Technical Contribution to a Short Film * Ginny Loane, ''Redemption'', Isola Productions Ltd ** Robert Key, ''Roof Rattling'', Robin Murphy Productions Limited ** Gareth Moon, Jodie Stack, Chris Ulutupu & Kate Logan, ''Day Trip'', Lone Pine Film

People's choice award

* Paul Henry, '' Breakfast'' ** Beth Allen, ''

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, ''Cheers to 50 Years'' **

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, '' Outrageous Fortune'' ** Jaquie Brown, '' The Jaquie Brown Diaries'' ** Mike McRoberts, ''

'' ** Bernadine Oliver-Kerby, '' ONE News'' ** Pippa Wetzell, '' Breakfast'' ** Kevin Milne, ''

References

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