2015, the verdict

THEATRE

Event(s) of the Year Ukchuk-ga: Pansori Mother Courage – Sydney Festival Camille O’Sullivan: Changeling – Sydney Festival The Tempest – Bell Shakespeare What Rhymes with Cars and Girls – MTC Orfeo ed Euridice – Spectrum Now
Honourable Mention 4.48 Psychosis; Manic Pixie Dream World – SUDS All About Medea – Montague Basement Of Mice and Men – Sport for Jove Battle of Waterloo – STC Love and Information – STC & Malthouse Man of La Mancha – Squabbalogic A View from the Bridge – Young Vic [NT Live]
Dishonourable Mention Tabac Rouge – Sydney Festival Five Properties of Chainmale – Arts Radar & Griffin Independent The Rocky Horror Show – Richard O’Brien She Only Barks at Night – Living Room Theatre Jumpy – STC/MTC
Best (New) Play What Rhymes with Cars and Girls, Aidan Fennessy Battle of Waterloo, Kylie Coolwell Extinction, Hannie Rayson Manic Pixie Dream World, Tansy Gardam	The Most Pertinent Award ASYLUM – Apocalypse Theatre Company
The ‘Proud Overdaring’ Award Masquerade – Griffin Theatre Company, STCSA, & Sydney Festival Mother Courage and Her Children – Belvoir Edward II – Sport for Jove	Shakesproud The Tempest (dir. John Bell) Hamlet (dir. Saro Lusty-Cavallari) Love’s Labour’s Lost (dir. Damien Ryan)

FILMS

Film(s) of the Year The Daughter (SFF) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Suffragette (BFF) Ex Machina
Honourable Mention Song of the Sea (SFF) Far from the Madding Crowd Eisenstein in Guanajuato (SFF) Slow West (SFF) The Dressmaker
Dishonourable Mention Macbeth	The Empty Shell Award The Secret River (SFF/ABC1)
The Most Gratuitous Display of Money, and the Second-Unnecessary-Film award Peter Jackson, The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies	The Let’s Pretend The Prequels Never Happened award Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

BOOKS

Book(s) of the Year 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write, Sarah Ruhl A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende In the Skin of a Lion; The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje All The Names, José Saramago Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez Final Exam, Julio Cortázar Isabelle the Navigator, Luke Davies
Honourable Mention Clade, James Bradley The Spare Room, Helen Garner A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, Marina Lewycka The Total Library: Non-fiction 1922-1986, Jorge Luis Borges	The Almost Award The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht The Dressmaker, Rosalie Ham Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson