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Peter Salmon

Director, Writer

2024 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for New Zealand On Air Best Drama: After The Party
Nominated for Best Director: Drama / Comedy Drama: for After The Party

2022 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Drama Series: for The Pact

2021 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Director - Drama: for INSiDE

2018 Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Director - Drama: for Wanted, series two

2016 British Academy Children's Awards
Nominated for Children's Award - International Section: Nowhere Boys

2016 Australian Directors Guild Awards
Nominated for Best Director - TV Miniseries: for The Beautiful Lie, episode six 

2015 Australian Directors Guild Awards
Nominated for Best Direction - TV Miniseries: for Secrets & Lies, episode six 
Nominated for Best Direction - Children's Television: for Nowhere Boys

2015 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
Best Children's Television Series: Nowhere Boys

2011 Aotearoa New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Best Drama Programme: This is Not My Life

2010 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Drama Programme: Go Girls

2007 Cannes Film Festival (France)
Nominated for Discovery Award - International Critics Week: Fog

2007 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Short Film: Fog

2005 New Zealand Screen Awards
Best Children's Programme: Being Eve

2004 Telly Awards (United States)
Nominated for Best Children's Television Programme: Being Eve

2003 International Television Festival of Programmes for Children and Youth (Slovakia)
Prix Danube: Being Eve

2003 New York Festivals Television Programming and Promotion Awards
Silver Medal - Teen Programme Age 13 to 17: Being Eve

2002 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Best Drama Series or Serial: Being Eve

2002 International Emmy Awards
Nominated for Children and Young People's Programming - English Language: Being Eve

2002 New York Festivals Television Programming and Promotion Awards
Gold Medal - Teen Programme Age 13 to 17: Being Eve

2001 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France)
Special Mention - Ecumenical Jury: Letters about the Weather

2001 New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Short Script: Letters About the Weather

2000 L'Étrange Film Festival (France)
Grand Prix: Playing Possum
Audience Award: Playing Possum

1999 Antalya International Film Festival (Turkey) 
Special Jury Award: Playing Possum