The finalists for the 41st AWARD Awards have been announced across all categories. DDB Group New Zealand has the most finalists in Advertising. Revolver/Will O’Rourke has the most finalists in Craft. BMF has the most finalists in Film & Entertainment.

The agencies with the most finalists by category are:

• Advertising: DDB Group New Zealand with 25; CHE Proximity and The Monkeys with 16; Clemenger BBDO Wellington and Special Group Australia with 11; BMF, DDB Sydney and TBWA/Sydney with 8; TBWA/Melbourne with 7 and Leo Burnett Melbourne 6.
• Design: DDB Group New Zealand, Raydar and TBWA\HAKUHODO with 3; BMF, CHE Proximity, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Houston Group, Liquorish Brand and Digital, Rabbit Content, TBWA\India, and The Monkeys with 2.
• Craft: Revolver/Will O’Rourke with 24; FINCH with 18; Good Oil with 17; Sweetshop with 10; DDB Group New Zealand and Scoundrel with 9; Alt.vfx, CHE Proximity and The Editors with 6; ARC Edit, Assembly, DDB Sydney and TBWA\Sydney with 6.

• Film & Entertainment: BMF with 14; DDB Group New Zealand with 9; DDB Sydney and The Monkeys with 8, CHE Proximity with 5, Special Group Australia with 4, and Bear Meets Eagle on Fire and FINCH with 3.

• Innovation: CHE Proximity and Leo Burnett Melbourne with 2; Clemenger BBDO Sydney, DDB Group New Zealand, LIDA Australia and Ogilvy Sydney all with 1.
• Media: DDB Group New Zealand with 4; CHE Proximity and Special Group Australia with 3 and M&C Saatchi with 2.
• Purpose: CHE Proximity with 6; Ogilvy Group Thailand, TBWA\HAKUHODO, TBWA\Santiago Mangada Puno and The Monkeys all with 2.
• Planning (APG Creative Strategy): BMF with 9; Clemenger BBDO Wellington with 6; DDB Sydney and Host/Havas with 3; CHE Proximity, M&C Saatchi and whiteGREY all with 2.
• Planning (Brand Building): only winners will be announced.

Find all finalists here.

The AWARD Awards ceremony will take place on Friday March 27 2020 at The Venue, Alexandria as the culmination of a three-day AWARD Creative Festival that will incorporate live judging as well as a number of other events.

Tickets are available here. 

Chairs for the Juries are:

• Digital: Craig Brooks
• Press, Poster and The Dark Arts: Sarah Barclay
• Media Thinking: Russ Tucker, TBWA’s Eleven PR \ FH
• Impact: Pia Chaudhuri, BMF
• Design: Michaela Webb, Round
• Culture: Michael Hilliard, FINCH
• Sound: Kim Pick, VMLY&R
• Film: Jeff Goodby, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
• Craft in Motion: Wilf Sweetland, Sweetshop
• Life-Changing: Tea Uglow, Google Creative Lab
• APG Creative Strategy (1): Andrew Howie, Amazon
• APG Creative Strategy (2): Sudeep Gohil, KPMG
• Brand Building: Brent Smart, IAG

Find the full list of judges here.

AWARD’s sponsors are Adstream, Alt.vfx, Campaign Brief, Google, Stellar Entertainment and The Editors.