Awards
Prospero Productions and our affiliates have been widely recognised for our work – both by the film industry and those industries we have touched through our films.
Australia - Life on the Edge
- 2015 Prestige Film Awards: Gold, Short Documentary
- 2014 Astra Awards: Nominee, Most Outstanding Factual Program
Change My Race
- 2015 Prestige Film Awards: Gold, Short Documentary
- 2014 Asia/Pacific Broadcasting Union Awards: Commendation, TV Documentary
Outback Truckers
- 2013 Worldfest Houston Film Festival Remi Awards: Gold Award, Documentary Series
- 2013 Gold Prestige Awards: Winner, Documentary
Jack the Ripper - Australia's Killer
- 2013 Prestige Film Awards: Gold, Documentary
The Man Who Jumped
- 2012 Gold Prestige Awards: Winner, Short Documentary
- 2013 Australian Directors Guild Awards: Nomination, Best Documentary Director (Russell Vines)
- 2013 Hugo Television Awards: Certificate of Merit, Documentary: Social/Political
- 2012 AACTA Awards: Nomination, Best Documentary Under One Hour
Ned's Head
- 2012 Gold Prestige Film Awards: Winner, Short Documentary
- 2012 The Hugo Television Awards: Certificate of Merit, Documentary: History/Biography
Dino Stampede
- 2012 Silver Prestige Film Awards: Winner, Short Documentary
SAS - The Search For Warriors
- 2011 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards: Winner, Best Documentary Series
- 2012 Gold Prestige Film Awards: Winner, Short Documentary
Pirate Patrol
- 2011 ASTRA Awards: Nomination, Most Outstanding Documentary
Every Family's Nightmare
- 2010 Houston Worldfest Remi Awards : Gold Award, TV & Cable Productions: Documentary
- 2010 Houston Worldfest Remi Awards: Gold Award, TV & Cable Productions: TV Series Documentary
Heartbreak Science
- 2010 Houston Worldfest Remi Awards: Platinum Award, TV & Cable Productions: Sound/Sound Design
- 2010 Houston Worldfest Remi Awards: Gold Award, TV & Cable Productions: Documentary
Navy Divers
- 2008 Australian Cinematographers Society Awards: Documentary, Cinema and TV (Awarded to Director of Photography, Malcolm Ludgate)
- 2008 Houston International Film Festival Remi Awards: Gold Award, TV Series: Documentary
- 2008 Sydney Morning Herald Awards: Winner, Best Observational Reality Series
Death of the Megabeasts
- 2010 Houston Worldfest Remi Awards: Gold Award, Best Documentary & TV & Cable Productions: Craft – use of HD
- 2010 Archaeology Channel Film & Video Festival Awards: Winner, Best Special Effects
- 2010 Archaeology Channel Film & Video Festival Awards: Honorable Mention, Best Narration
- 2010 Archaeology Channel Film & Video Festival Awards: Honorable Mention, Best Animation
- 2010 Gold Panda Awards: Nomination, Best Director, Documentary
- 2010 Banff World Television Festival, Rockie Awards: Nomination, Best Wildlife & Natural History
- 2010 AFI Awards: Nomination, Best Visual Effects, Feature
- 2010 ATOM Awards: Finalist, Best Documentary: Science, Technology and the Environment
- 2009 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC): Nomination, Best Music for Documentary
- 2009 14th Asian Television Awards: Highly Commended, Best Natural History or Wildlife Programme or Docu-drama
- 2009 SCTVF International Awards: Gold Panda Award, Documentary
Eco House Challenge
- 2007 ATOM Awards: Winner, Best Multi-Modal Production
- 2007 ATOM Awards: Finalist, Best Documentary: Science, Technology & the Environment
- 2007 Banksia Awards: Finalist, Education Award
- 2007 Banksia Awards: Finalist, People's Choice Award
- 2007 Houston International Film Festival Remi Awards: Bronze Award, Reality-Based Production
Kindness of Strangers
- 2007 Australian Museum’s Eureka Prize: Winner, Science Journalism
- 2007 Houston International Film Festival Remi Awards: Bronze Award, Information Programming
Shipwreck Detectives 2
- 2007 Australian Cinematographers Society Awards: Documentary, Cinema and TV (awarded to Director of Photography, Malcolm Ludgate)
Shipwreck Detectives
- 2002 Australian Cinematographers Society Awards: Documentary, Cinema and TV (awarded to Director of Photography, Malcolm Ludgate)
Selling Australia
- 2001 Chicago International Television Competition Awards: Certificate of Merit, Educational/Documentary
Diving School
- 2001 San Francisco International Film Festival Awards: Certificate of Merit, Television: Society and Culture
Paying For The Piper
- 1998 AFI Awards: Nomination, Best Documentary
- 1998 AFI Awards: Nomination, Best Editing
- 1998 Royal Television Society Awards: Nomination, Best Regional Documentary
- 1998 San Francisco Golden Spire Awards: Best Television in Current Events
Hutan: Wildlife of the Malaysian Rainforest
- 1998 New York Festival Awards: Silver World Medal, Best Wildlife Documentary
- 1999 International Wildlife Film Festival Awards:
- Winner, Best Editing
- Second place tie, Best Cinematography
- Best of Category, Short Television Series
- Merit Award, Soundtrack
- Merit Award, Use of Music
- Merit Award, Storytelling
- Merit Award, Narration
- Merit Award, Script
- Merit Award, Recording of Natural Sound
Shipwreck Coast Part 2: The Gelignite Bucaneer
- 1995 International Maritime and Exploration Film Festival Awards: Honorary Mention
Shipwreck Coast Part 1: The Batavia - Wreck, Mutiny & Murder
- 1995 International Maritime and Exploration Film Festival Awards: Honorary Mention
No Survivors
- 1994 International Maritime and Exploration Film Festival Awards: Winner
