Award Entry Terms and Conditions

• The work submitted to the 2024 APDG Awards must have been broadcast, screened or performed for the first time between February 2, 2023 and February 1, 2024.
• Entrants must have current APDG membership to enter and must maintain current membership until the awards ceremony in August 2024.
• As long as the entrant is a full member and Australian/New Zealand resident or citizen, they may enter a work that was produced overseas.
• You may enter with a “Joint Entry” if you and another APDG member/s had the same role on the same work. You may still enter as an individual and acknowledge your team for those that had different roles on the same work.
• Emerging members can only enter Emerging Categories. If an emerging member wishes to enter another category, they must upgrade to full membership.
• Affiliate members may submit an entry on behalf of a full member, but must submit a letter of authority from the full member.  They can purchase a business name on trophy option if they are the producers or owners of copyright in a work.
• If the affiliate (business representative) is the member/designer, you must enter through the affiliate membership account. Both affiliate membership and full membership must be current and remain current until the awards ceremony in August 2024.
• Entrants may enter more than one work in the Awards. A separate entry form must be submitted for each entry. (Use the copy feature to duplicate basic information).
• The same entrant cannot enter the same Work to more than one category. The only exception in which the Work may be entered a second time, is into the “Concept Art” Category, if the entrant’s concept art materials are not entered into another category.
• Entrants may enter as many categories as they like, as long as is a different work.
• The most senior head of a department should act as the entrant where there is a design team involved.
• Serving on APDG boards, panels or committees does not restrict entry.

Entrants receive and own the APDG trophy if they win unless the Business name on trophy is purchased by the production company or owners of copyright in the work. The Business name on trophy can only be purchased by Affiliate members of the APDG.

• There is only one trophy per category.
• For joint entries, both/all entrants will be acknowledge on the one trophy. For full and emerging entries, only the entrant will be acknowledged on the trophy.
• Design Teams will be acknowledged on the APDG website and in the program.
• Any additional trophies for the design team members, can be purchased by the entrant for up to 6 months after the awards ceremony.

Entrants will need to be able to authorise, or attach a letter of authorisation from the relevant authority, to permit the APDG to:

• Air the supplied promotional clip and promotional image at the APDG awards ceremony.
• Publish the supplied promotional clip and promotional image at a possible streamed awards event.
• Choose music to accompany the supplied clip if no soundtrack is attached.
• Publish the supplied clip and still on all APDG Awards related materials and websites.
• Distribute the supplied still to media reporting on the APDG Awards.

• The APDG Management Committee reserves the right not to present an award in any category.
• Decisions made by the APDG Management Committee regarding the Awards are final.
• The APDG Management Committee reserves the right to not run a category if that category receives 3 or less entries, in which case entrant/s  will be refunded the full amount of their entry fee.

A new judging panel is formed each year and judges are invited to the panel by the directors of the APDG. The panel comprises industry professionals from relevant industries and where possible judges will be APDG accredited.

• Each entry will receive up to 7 appraisals.
• Judges will record their appraisals in the Judging platform using the following standardised criteria:
  • Integrity – the contribution of the design to the excellence and cohesion of the whole production.
  • Quality – the design exhibits depth, subtlety, sophistication, inventiveness and intelligence.
  • Skill – the design supports the project with a high level of creativity, originality and technical-mastery.
• There is no limit to the number of award categories each judge may judge.
• There is no limit to the number of consecutive years a judge may judge.
• Judges will remain anonymous until the announcement of a shortlist of finalists.
• Judging assessment forms will be reviewed by the APDG Directors.

• Award recipients will be announced at the APDG awards ceremony in August.
• There shall only be one winning entry in each category.
• The shortlisted design team will have their name and role listed on the APDG website.
• The winning design team will have their name mentioned at the awards event as well as being listed on the awards program and APDG website.