Logie Awards 2017: nominees
Jessica Marais, Grant Denyer, Peter Helliar, Waleed Aly, Rodger Corser & Samuel Johnson in the race for Gold.
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Just one female, Jessica Marais, is nominated for the Gold Logie award this year.
The Love Child / Wrong Girl star has to fend off competition from Grant Denyer, Peter Helliar, Waleed Aly, Rodger Corser and Samuel Johnson for this year’s Gold.
The Project‘s push for Peter Helliar to be nominated for Gold have paid off, but it has come at the expense of Carrie Bickmore -out of contention for the top gong. She is still in the running for Silver as Best Presenter.
But the Gold is less diverse this year than 2016, when a campaign for Lee Lin Chin netted a Gold nomination.
Best Drama is a fight between 800 Words, Doctor Doctor, Home And Away, Molly, Offspring and Wentworth. But in the jury voted Most Outstanding Drama it is down to A Place To Call Home, Cleverman, Rake, The Code and Wentworth.
ABC leads with the most nominations, while TEN leads in the “viewer voted” categories.
The 2017 Logie Awards will be held at Crown on Sunday April 23 and screen on Nine.
VIEWER VOTED
GOLD: Best Personality On Australian TV
Grant Denyer
All Star Family Feud/Family Feud/The Great Australian Spelling Bee
Jessica Marais
Love Child/The Wrong Girl
Peter Helliar
The Project
Rodger Corser
Doctor Doctor/The Doctor Blake Mysteries
Samuel Johnson
Molly
Waleed Aly
The Project
SILVER: Best Actor
Craig McLachlan
Deep Water/The Doctor Blake Mysteries/The Wrong Girl
Erik Thomson
800 Words
Richard Roxburgh
Rake
Rodger Corser
Doctor Doctor/The Doctor Blake Mysteries
Samuel Johnson
Molly
SILVER: Best Actress
Asher Keddie
Offspring
Deborah Mailman
Cleverman/Jack Irish/Offspring/Wolf Creek
Jessica Marais
Love Child/The Wrong Girl
Jessica Mauboy
The Secret Daughter
Marta Dusseldorp
A Place To Call Home/Jack Irish/Janet King
SILVER: Best Presenter
Amanda Keller
The Living Room
Carrie Bickmore
The Project
Grant Denyer
All Star Family Feud/Family Feud/The Great Australian Spelling Bee
Sarah Harris
Shark Tank/Studio 10
Waleed Aly
The Project
Best New Talent
Hayley Magnus
The Wrong Girl
Penny McNamee
Home And Away
Rob Collins
Cleverman/The Wrong Girl
Shalom Brune-Franklin
Doctor Doctor
Tiarnie Coupland
Love Child
Best Drama Program
800 Words
Doctor Doctor
Home And Away
Molly
Offspring
Wentworth
Best Entertainment Program
Anh’s Brush With Fame
Family Feud
Have You Been Paying Attention?
The Voice Australia
Upper Middle Bogan
Best News Panel Or Current Affairs Program
Four Corners
Studio 10
Sunrise
The Project
Today
Best Reality Program
Australian Survivor
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!
MasterChef Australia
My Kitchen Rules
The Block
Best Sports Program
In Rio Today
Monday Night With Matty Johns
The AFL Footy Show
The NRL Footy Show
Wide World Of Sports
Best Lifestyle Program
Better Homes And Gardens
Gardening Australia
Luke Warm Sex
Selling Houses Australia
The Living Room
Best Factual
Australian Story
Bondi Rescue
Bondi Vet
Gogglebox Australia
Todd Sampson’s Body Hack
JURY VOTED
SILVER: Most Outstanding Drama Series
A Place To Call Home
Cleverman
Rake
The Code
Wentworth
SILVER: Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
Barracuda
Deep Water
Molly
Secret City
The Kettering Incident
SILVER: Most Outstanding Actor
Henry Nixon
The Kettering Incident
Noah Taylor
Deep Water
Richard Roxburgh
Rake
Rodger Corser
Doctor Doctor
Samuel Johnson
Molly
SILVER: Most Outstanding Actress
Anna Torv
Secret City
Danielle Cormack
Wentworth
Elizabeth Debicki
The Kettering Incident
Jessica Marais
Love Child
Marta Dusseldorp
Janet King
Yael Stone
Deep Water
SILVER: Most Outstanding Supporting Actor
Ben Oxenbould
Deep Water
Damon Herriman
Secret City
Matt Nable
Barracuda
Rick Donald
800 Words
Ryan Johnson
Doctor Doctor
SILVER: Most Outstanding Supporting Actress
Debra Lawrance
Please Like Me
Deborah Mailman
Wolf Creek
Jenni Baird
A Place To Call Home
Nicole da Silva
Wentworth
Victoria Haralabidou
Barracuda
Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer
Elias Anton
Barracuda
Geraldine Hakewill
Wanted
Hunter Page-Lochard
Cleverman
Rob Collins
Cleverman
Tilda Cobham-Hervey
The Kettering Incident
Most Outstanding Entertainment Program
Anh’s Brush With Fame
Gruen
Have You Been Paying Attention?
The Voice Australia
The Weekly With Charlie Pickering
Most Outstanding Comedy Program
Black Comedy
Please Like Me
Rosehaven
Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell
Upper Middle Bogan
Most Outstanding News Coverage
“Bankstown Hospital”
Nine News
“Federal Election 2016”
Seven News
“Inside Syria”
SBS World News
“S.A. Waste Dump”
NITV News
“Sky News Election Coverage 2016”
Sky News
Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report
“Anita Cobby: You Thought You Knew It All…”
Seven News Investigates
“Australia’s Shame”
Four Corners
“George Pell Investigation”
7.30
“Good Cop, Bad Cop”
60 Minutes
“Money For Nothing”
Four Corners
Most Outstanding Sports Coverage
2016 NRL Grand Final
2016 Supercars Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
2016 AFL Grand Final
Cricket: KFC Big Bash League
Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Most Outstanding Children’s Program
Beat Bugs
Bottersnikes & Gumbles
Little Lunch: The Nightmare Before Graduation
Nowhere Boys: Two Moons Rising
Tomorrow When The War Began
Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program
Conviction
Deep Water: The Real Story
Gogglebox Australia
Keeping Australia Alive
Todd Sampson’s Body Hack
ABC: 41
TEN Network: 31
Seven Network: 22
Nine Network: 20
Foxtel: 19
SBS: 7
Stan: 2
NITV: 1
Source: Sunday Telegraph
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44 Responses
Also shocked & disappointed Hyde & Seek wasn’t nominated. It was a brilliant show.
The only things I really care about on this list are that Australian Survivor wins best reality, Gogglebox best factual, and it would be nice to see Peter Helliar win the gold. I am a fan of his comedy
Yes, I would like to see Pete Heliar win too, he is no less deserving than any of the previous winners in the last decade. Having followed Logies since 1978, I have lost faith in the process; particularly since electronic voting and multi platform social media campaigns. No-one is ever happy with the Logies; so I just go with the flow. The fact that we have not had successive wins by anyone for years, or even multiple wins is probably fairer than those years where Ray Martin and Lisa McCune cleaned up year after year. Pete is for me always a welcome presence when i tune in to the project (as are Tommy and Lehmo). Pete brings such a lovely mix of humour and at times seriousness on issues. Odd that Carrie not there this year. The Logies are always unpredictable.
Please, never mention Peter Helliar and comedy in the same sentance. If your looking for someone to do bum and d*** jokes at the local high school then he’s you man. But a comedian on a national tv show………. forget it.
Harsh. Comedy is subjective, obviously he has his fans.
im surprised that Here Come The Habibs which was a rating hit for 9 did not get any nominations- that show was funny.
i hope Today wins.
i think what happened at the oscars with the ‘wrong film’ winning best film- something like that will happen here at logies.
Happy WentWorth is nominated for best drama but shocked that pamela rabe didnt get a nomination- she is brilliant as ‘The Freak’
And yes, Love Child should have won more than that rubbish Home and Away. I guess the voters were younger viewers. It was obvious.
Grant Denyer? Really?? I’m sorry he was involved in the accident, but I find the guy super annoying and find it laughable he was voted.
Anyone find it a bit odd that every nominee for best presenter is from Channel 10?
Obviously their PR department bought extra copies of TV Week this year.
Still don’t understand how The Project has two presenters nominated when it often comes 4th in it’s time slot.
TEN’s audience being younger than others is probably more connected and pro-active to online voting. Their shows also pull up well in polls and surveys here.
Makes no difference how many copies of TV Week you buy. There are no voting forms these days. Voting is done online.
Pleased to see the noms for Secret City – they were snubbed at the AACTA’s
Jessica is well deserved. I don’t understand how a rubbish show like Offspring is still nominated also Asher Keddie. Too overrated. I guess it is Rating Vs. quality
I disagree, Offspring has some of the best acting on tv. Overlooked: Kat Stewart and Richard Davies in support categories.
I disagree. The acting is extreme. Do you know anyone in real life talking like that at this age? around 40 and all these extreme facial expressions, too annoying. This show run its course years ago. The beginning was really good, but the magic gone.
Not the first time I have heard someone say Offspring characters need to act their age, especially now they are young parents.
From its first ep it pitched as a dramedy, and its often stylised and heightened performances was its point of difference. The writing may have softened over the later seasons, but the ensemble cast and performances I still find most enjoyable and affecting.
I don’t watch Logies but I hope that Jessica Marais gets gold. Did a fantastic role in TWG & Love Child.
On the other side, Olympics 2016 should pick up for best sports coverage along with In Rio Today.
Some good noms, surprised Love Child didn’t get a best drama nomination. While I like Home & away, Love Child is way more deserving than it is.
Lisa Wilkinson should’ve been nominated for Gold Logie and Best Presenter.
my picks for Gold are; Grant Denyer, Rodger Corser or Jessica Marais
i hope that self opinionated waleed ali doesn’t win gold
A Place To Call Home was at its peak in season 2 with its daring storyline about James’ conversion therapy. but it barely got a mention in logie noms. moves to foxtel, where it never quite hit the same mark and it finally gets attention. Have standards dropped across the board or is something else going on?
Gold is a 2 horse race between sam & pete. best reality was Survivor for sure and hopefully Plase Like Me takes home at least 2 awards.
doesn’t seem fair that Upper Middle Bogan can be in both entertainment and comedy categories. especially as ‘entertainment’ is a very broad reaching category as is, including reality shows like The Voice as well.
what are the tips for HoF? Denise, Kerri-anne or Dr. Harry?
I would say Denise or Caroline Jones. Daryl still long overdue.
There should be a voting category for comedy separate from entertainment. Upper Middle Bogan shouldn’t be up against The Voice and Family Feud.
There’s no justice if Australian Survivor doesn’t win Best Reality.
Pamela Rabe ripped off again, should be Best Actress and Gold logie nominated.
Her performance as ‘The Freak’ has been brilliant, especially in the scene where she killed Bea.
Here here!
You may be right, but her show is not FTA. Just not enough volume of viewers.
Best Lifestyle Program – Luke Warm Sex – LOL – can someone please get a quote from Luke McGregor about this
Hardest category to pick a winner – Most Outstanding Supporting Actor – all were superb
Firstly a big shout out to Studio Ten and Sarah Harris getting a nom. It’s always been a fan of mine providing some genuinely funny live tv moments. Second in regards to the Gold I’m not sure about Samuel Johnson being nominated for just one bit of acting. Sure his performance was pretty flawless definitely should be best actor but his only performance on tv was over 12 months ago anyone else think so or just me… I must admit I’ve always had a slight issue with actors being nom for gold….
Samuel Johnson has an extensive career with many quality shows and performances. I prefer someone like that to be nominated that some young one-role actor who happens to be the flavour-of-the-month. Gold logie should be reserved for actors with long, versatile careers. One of the reasons I would love to see Craig McLachlan recognised, purely because he has played hugely diverse characters simultaneously over the past few years.
What’s the chance that “Molly” scoops up lots of awards?
It was a class act telemovie!
Peter Hilliard & Grant Denver up for Gold, Isti Aussie TV that bad? Where is Lisa Wilkinson for Gold or Best Presenter? Even Karl couldn’t get a mention at least Sunrise missed out again. Justice. Gogglebox factual? Your dreaming. Don’t tell me they don’t edit that to the nth degree or that the cast isn’t aware that they must produce ‘gold’ to stay on the show.
Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program – Gogglebox? How is that factual or documentary? Should be under entertainment.
It is a factual documentary of entertaining families watching TV. while a new take on the premise, it is exactly those two things. It is not scripted or new age reality by any means.
Hi David, I think you might have mixed up the Best Lifestyle nominees and omitted the Best Factual category by mistake?
Thanks for pointing out, now corrected.
Hang on so The Living Room isn’t nominated for best Lifetsyle? They have won the past few years.
It is, I made an editing error, apologies.
It would be interesting to see if the nominations would be different if the networks weren’t allowed to run campaigns. It seems like people just vote for who the networks tell us to vote for. Peter Helliar getting a gold nomination just because he is the only Project host who hasn’t won one is an absolute farce in my opinion. He didn’t even get nominated in the Best Presenter category.
You do know Charlie Pickering never got a nomination either right? Speaking of this tho I remember Tracey Grimshaw making a light hearted remark about it being rigged if Peter Helliar wins this year.. stranger things…
Not unusual for me to find the industry nominated awards far more balanced than the public ones. Debra Lawrence should romp it in for her nuanced and heartfelt performance.
Just a pity that Pamela Rabe has been overlooked again.
My sentiments exactly. Pamela Rabe should have won last year, but deserved another nomination this year; if not the prize. An astonishing performance. It would be great for Debra Lawrence to finally win a Logie. I don’t think she has one.
Don’t watch the Logies personally but hope Sam Johnson gets the Gold, Please Like Me Most Outstanding and Debra Lawrence Best supporting Actress. Very deserving shows/actors.
Interesting to see only one female up for Gold but a few new faces is always good. I remember when Lisa McCune was up several years in a row.