Asian Academy Creative Awards 2025: Anz winners | TV tonight

National winners have been announced in the Asian Academy Creative Awards 2025 in Singapore.

There were 331 national winners in 16 countries and areas, making this the largest showcase so far from Asia-Pacific content.

Winners of the Australian and NZ How do you make juice, struggle, the narrow road to deep north, four years later, Space Nova, ACS: The Investigators, Muster Dogs And Mix tape.

Asian Academy Creative Awards Chairperson, President of Network 10, Head of Streaming, and Regional Lead at Paramount Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), Beverley McGarvey, said, “Our region is sending the world a strong message this year, via the Asian Academy Creative Awards, with a record number of Entries, a record number of Judges for the National Round, Up 30% on Last Year, and A Record Number of Companies Entering, 176 in All ”.

National winners will later determine on the Asian Academy for Capitol Theater in all categories of regional winners in all categories, at the Asian Academy of Creative Arts in Singapore Capitol Theater.

Best actor in a leading role
Jacob Elordi
The narrow road to the deep north
Curio Pictures

Best actor in a supporting role
Hugo Weven
How to make gravy
Foxtel, binge, fifth season
Warner Bros International Productions Australia
Speech & Drama Pictures

Best actor/actress in a comic role
Asher Keddie
Strife S2
Foxtel, binge, fifth season, made up stories

Best actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett
Indemnification
Apple TV+, Apple Studios, Esperanto Filmoj and anonymous content

Best actress in a supporting role
Aisha Dee
Apple cider vinegar
Netflix, see-saw films, scabies picking

Best adjustment of an existing format (non-screened)
Asher Keddie
Strife S2
Foxtel, binge, fifth season, made up stories

Best animation
Space Nova Season 2
SLR Productions, ABC Kids

Best children’s program
Secrets at Red Rocks
Libertine photos

Best cinematography (fiction)
John Stokes – Darby and Joan Season 2
CJZ, Acorn TV

Best comic program
Luck
Greenstone TV
Warner Bros Discovery

Best direction (fiction)
Mohini Heerse
Four years later
Easy Tiger Productions, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)

Best direction (non-fiction)
Bryan Cockerill
Australian crime stories: the researchers
The full box
Nine entertainment

Best documentary (Oneoff)
Unbreakable
The Jelena Dokic story
In Films, Roadshow Films, Channel Nine

Best documentary history
Australian crime stories – the researchers
The full box
Nine Entertainment Australia

Best documentary series
The jury
Dead on the stairs
Northern photos
SBS & Screen Australia

Best drama series
The narrow road to the deep north
Curio Pictures

Best factual presenter
Ray Martin
The last farewell
BBC Studios Productions

Best Feature Film
How to make gravy
Foxtel, Binge, Fifth Season, Warner Bros International Productions
Australia, Speech & Dramafotas

Best infotainment program
Not – have no children
Greenstone TV/TVNZ

Best lifestyle program
Move Houses
Imagination
TVNZ & CINEFLIX

Best music or dance program
Marlon Williams: two worlds
The two worlds
Monsoon photos International
Maori -television

Best unwritten entertainment
Muster Dogs Series 3
Ambience Entertainment, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ABC commercial

Best original production by a streamer (fiction)
Mix -Tape
Foxtel, Binge
Subotica, Waterman -films

Best Scenario
Meg Washington & Nick Waterman
How to make gravy
Foxtel, Binge, Fifth Season, Warner Bros International Productions
Australia, Speech & Dramafotas

Best Short Form (Scripted)
Moonbird
Kutikina Productions and Sheoak Films, SBS

Asian Academy of Creative Arts (AACA) is the organizer of the most prestigious prizes of the Asia PAC for creative excellence, Asian Academy Creative Awards (AAA). Aaca was established to honor creative excellence and to serve as a peer rated top of performance in making content, performance and media production. Open for countries in the Asia -Pacific region, the AAA honors Excellency in television, film, digital, streaming and emerging technologies. Through its academy campus it also strives to develop and encourage the next generation of industry professionals. The AAA and Academy Campus is owned and organized by the Asian Academy of Creative Arts, an organization Not for Profit. For more information about the Aaca, go to www.asianacademycreativeawards.com