2016, the verdict

THEATRE

Event(s) of the Year A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare’s Globe Golem – 1927, presented by STC The Golden Age – STC Fase, four movements to the music of Steve Reich – Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Sydney Festival A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Theatre for A New Audience
Honourable Mention Thomas Murray and the Upside Down River – Stone Soup & Griffin Independent Disgraced; The Hanging – STC Inner Voices – Don’t Look Away The Literati – Bell Shakespeare & Griffin Theatre Company Babes in the Woods – Don’t Look Away
Dishonourable Mention (or The Shovel) The Blind Giant is Dancing – Belvoir The Great Fire – Belvoir Twelfth Night – Belvoir Power Plays – STC A Midsummer Night’s Dream – STC
Best (New Australian) Play Skylab, Melodie Reynolds-Diarra (National Play Festival) Thomas Murray and the Upside Down River, Reg Cribb The Turquoise Elephant, Stephen Carleton Picnic at Hanging Rock, Tom Wright, after Joan Lindsay
Best Design (Set, Costume, Lighting, Sound, Other) David Fleischer (set & costume) – The Golden Age Dann Barber (set) – Thomas Murray and the Upside Down River 1927 (projections/lighting/set) – Golem Andrew Bailey (‘set’) – Lungs Zjarie Paige-Butterworth (costumes) – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Gabriella Tylesova (set & costume) – A Flea in Her Ear Luke Smiles (motion laboratories) (soundtrack) – Girl Asleep
Shakesproud A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare’s Globe (live web-stream) A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Theatre for A New Audience (filmed)	The ‘Room Temperature’ Award Arcadia – STC Things I Know To Be True – STCSA & Frantic Assembly

FILMS

Film(s) of the Year The Daughter Hunt for the Wilderpeople Girl Asleep (SFF)

Honourable Mention What’s Between Us (MGFF) Kubo and the Two Strings Arrival Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

The Empty Shell award Carol The Hateful Eight Hail, Caesar Burn Burn Burn Finding Dory Swiss Army Man

BOOKS

Book(s) of the Year How to be both; Girl Meets Boy; There but for the; Artful, Ali Smith The Good People, Hannah Kent Gotham (Wisdom Tree #1), Nick Earls Blindness, José Saramago Melbourne, Sophie Cunningham The Islanders, Christopher Priest Chimerica; The Children (plays), Lucy Kirkwood Sea-Hearts, Margo Lanagan

Honourable Mention Freya, Anthony Quinn The Tattooed Map, Barbara Hodgson Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein Like; Autumn, Ali Smith We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Jay Fowler

The Almost Award The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner

‘Book-Running’ (or Potter-moreplease) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play), J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, & Jack Thorne

Dishonourable Mention Here at the End of the World, We Learn to Dance, Lloyd Jones A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers