Australian Film Institute Award for Best Children's Television Drama

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Children's Television Drama is awarded annually by the Australian Film Institute

Australian Film Institute

The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...

as part of the awards

Australian Film Institute Awards

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...

in television

Australian Film Institute Television Awards

The Australian Film Institute Television Awards are annual awards presented for excellence in Australian television annually as part of the AFI Awards by the Australian Film Institute. The AFI Awards cover non-feature films, films, television, and special awards...

for excellence in children's drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

. The award commenced in 1991 and in 2009 an additional category for Best Children's Television Animation was awarded.

Best Children's Television Drama

Year	Winner	Episode	Recipient(s)	Network	Other nominees
1991	Round the twist	"Wunderpants"	Antonia Barnard
1992	Lift Off Lift Off Lift Off was an Australian educational television series that was broadcast on ABC Television from 1992 until the series ended in 1996. Each episode featured a live action storyline about a group of young children, and the problems they encountered with growing up, their parents, and various other...	"Something tells me"	Patricia Edgar
1993	Round the twist	"Little Squirt"	Patricia Edgar Antonia Barnard
1994	Sky Trackers Sky Trackers Sky Trackers was a television series created by Tony Morphett, and produced by Patricia Edgar and Margot McDonald for the Australian Children's Television Foundation...	"Skating the dish"	Patricia Edgar Margot McDonald
1995	The Ferals The Ferals The Ferals is an Australian children's comedy television series created by Wendy Gray and Claire Henderson and produced by the ABC. It ran from 1994 to 1995, and it featured a mixture of people and animal puppets known as the "Ferals." It was lauded for its irreverent humour and distinctive...	"Ratty Ratty Bang Bang"	Wendy Gray	ABC TV ABC1 ABC1 was a United Kingdom based television channel from Disney using the branding of the Disney owned American network, ABC.The channel initially launched exclusively on the British digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on 27 September 2004. On 10 December 2004 it was launched on...
1996	Spellbinder Spellbinder Spellbinder may refer to:Spellbinder , an Australian-Polish science fiction television seriesSpellbinder , a Batman villain*Spellbinder , the star of the 1980s Marvel Comics limited series Spellbound...	Episode #11	Noel Price	Nine Network Nine Network The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
1997	The Wayne Manifesto The Wayne Manifesto The Wayne Manifesto is an Australian children's television series that aired on the ABC in 1996. Based on the children's books by David McRobbie, it is centred around the life 12-year-old Wayne Wilson, showing the world both as the way he would like it and the way it really is...	"Amy Pastami Day"	Alan Hardy	ABC TV
1998	Blabbermouth and Stickybeak		Ann Darrouzet	ABC TV
1999	See how they run	Episode #1	Josephine Ward
2000	Eugenie Sandler P.I. Eugénie Sandler P.I. Eugénie Sandler P.I. is an 13 part Australian children's series that first aired on ABC1 in 2000. The series stars Xaris Miller as the title character. The show now airs on ABC3 in an afternoon timeslot.- Overview :...	Episode #2	Margot McDonald	ABC TV
2001	Cybergirl Cybergirl Cybergirl is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in Australia. The 26 episode series was created by Jonathan M. Shiff, whose previous series include the BAFTA-award-winning Ocean Girl. Cybergirl has also screened on ABC1 on 6:00am, Thursday and on other...	Episode #1	Jonathan M. Shiff Daniel Scharf	Network Ten Network Ten Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
2002	Short Cuts		Margot McDonald
2003	Out There		Michael Bourchier
2004	Wicked Science		Jonathan M. Shiff Daniel Scharf
2005	Holly's Heroes		Ann Darrouzet Dave Gibson Jenni Tosi
2006	Mortfied		Phillip Bowman Bernadette O’Mahony
2007	Lockie Leonard Lockie Leonard (TV series) Lockie Leonard is an Australian children's television series adapted from the Lockie Leonard books that first screened on the Nine Network Australia in 2007. The series was filmed in Albany, Western Australia...		Kylie du Fresne	Nine Network
2008	Blue Water High Blue Water High Blue Water High is an Australian television drama series, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on ABC1 and on Austar/Foxtel Nickelodeon channel in Australia and on various channels in many other countries...	Series #3	Noel Price Dennis Kiely	ABC TV
2009	The Elephant Princess The Elephant Princess The Elephant Princess is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in 2008. The series is produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions. A second season began screening in 2011.-Premise:...		Jonathan M. Shiff Joanna Werner	Network Ten
2010	My Place My Place (TV series) My Place is an Australian children's television drama series based on the award-winning picture book of the same name by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins. The series first screened on ABC3 weeknights 8pm from 4 December 2009....		Penny Chapman Penny Chapman Penny Chapman is an Australian television producer. Her work includes Brides of Christ and RAN Remote Area Nurse. and the award winning My Place -References:...	ABC TV	Dance Academy Dance Academy Dance Academy is an Australian teen-oriented television drama produced by Werner Film Productions in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ZDF. Series one premiered on 31 May 2010, and series two is scheduled for 2012.-Plot:... - Joanna Werner (ABC TV) Dead Gorgeous Dead Gorgeous Dead Gorgeous is an Australian-British children's television show which premiered on 15 March 2010 in Britain and 5 April 2010 in Australia. It is produced by Burberry Productions and Coolabi Productions with funding from Screen Australia. It was previously known as Dead Normal, however the name... - Ewan Burnett, Margot McDonald (ABC TV) Lockie Leonard - Kylie Du Fresne (Nine Network)

Best Children's Television Drama

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