The Monaco Streaming Film Festival is the latest event to honour Australian television mogul Reg Grundy, announcing the establishment of an innovation award in his name.
Created in partnership with Grundy Media, the Reg Grundy Innovation Award is designed to recognise ground-breaking media and technological industry leaders that embody the spirit of the late media icon.
Entrants can be individuals or teams who have made historic contributions to both expand and elevate worldwide entertainment.
It comes after the inaugural Aacta Reg Grundy TV Award was created and presented in Australia last year.
The inaugural Monaco Streaming Film Festival is billed as a hybrid “festival-meets-summit” experience that celebrates the streaming industry’s content, makers, creators, and talent while providing insider knowledge on the film and content production industries.
Taking place from July 3-6, the festival will extend well beyond Monaco’s borders via its own live streaming platform.
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Created in partnership with Grundy Media, the Reg Grundy Innovation Award is designed to recognise ground-breaking media and technological industry leaders that embody the spirit of the late media icon.
Entrants can be individuals or teams who have made historic contributions to both expand and elevate worldwide entertainment.
It comes after the inaugural Aacta Reg Grundy TV Award was created and presented in Australia last year.
The inaugural Monaco Streaming Film Festival is billed as a hybrid “festival-meets-summit” experience that celebrates the streaming industry’s content, makers, creators, and talent while providing insider knowledge on the film and content production industries.
Taking place from July 3-6, the festival will extend well beyond Monaco’s borders via its own live streaming platform.
Grundy’s widow...
- 6/1/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Reg Grundy hosting ‘Wheel of Fortune’ in 1959.
Aacta has launched the Reg Grundy Award: an annual $50,000 prize open to anyone with the best new idea for an unscripted TV format.
Established in partnership with Reg Grundy’s wife, Rg Capital chairman Joy Chambers-Grundy, the award is designed to honour Reg’s entrepreneurial spirit, while also fostering a new generation of ideas.
Grundy’s legacy includes the local production of formats such as Sale of the Century, Blankety Blanks, Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, The Price Is Right and Perfect Match, as well as the creation of drama series Sons & Daughters, Prisoner and Neighbours.
The prize is open to anyone of any level of experience, who can demonstrate they have an idea that is original, viable and entertaining. Pitches can include genres such as quiz, variety, reality, competition, lifestyle, panel, and interview.
The judging panel will include Eureka Productions CEO Chris Culvenor,...
Aacta has launched the Reg Grundy Award: an annual $50,000 prize open to anyone with the best new idea for an unscripted TV format.
Established in partnership with Reg Grundy’s wife, Rg Capital chairman Joy Chambers-Grundy, the award is designed to honour Reg’s entrepreneurial spirit, while also fostering a new generation of ideas.
Grundy’s legacy includes the local production of formats such as Sale of the Century, Blankety Blanks, Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, The Price Is Right and Perfect Match, as well as the creation of drama series Sons & Daughters, Prisoner and Neighbours.
The prize is open to anyone of any level of experience, who can demonstrate they have an idea that is original, viable and entertaining. Pitches can include genres such as quiz, variety, reality, competition, lifestyle, panel, and interview.
The judging panel will include Eureka Productions CEO Chris Culvenor,...
- 9/6/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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Reg Grundy, the man behind the likes of Neighbours and Prisoner: Cell Block H, has died.
The man who helped bring the world shows such as The Young Doctors, Neighbours and Prisoner: Cell Block H has died.
Reg Grundy was 92, and passed away at the end of last week at his Bermuda home. His career took him from radio presenting through to his television work. He also got involved with films, and produced Abba: The Movie back in 1977.
But it’s his Australian soaps, that he made under the banner of the Reg Grundy Organisation, for which he will remain the best known. He is survived by his wife and daughter.
Rest in peace, Mr Grundy.
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Reg Grundy, the man behind the likes of Neighbours and Prisoner: Cell Block H, has died.
The man who helped bring the world shows such as The Young Doctors, Neighbours and Prisoner: Cell Block H has died.
Reg Grundy was 92, and passed away at the end of last week at his Bermuda home. His career took him from radio presenting through to his television work. He also got involved with films, and produced Abba: The Movie back in 1977.
But it’s his Australian soaps, that he made under the banner of the Reg Grundy Organisation, for which he will remain the best known. He is survived by his wife and daughter.
Rest in peace, Mr Grundy.
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- 5/9/2016
- Den of Geek
Reg Grundy, the Australian media mogul and entrepreneur who was responsible for such seminal TV soaps as Neighbours and Prisoner: Cell Block H, has died. Australian media reports he passed away on Friday at his home in Bermuda. He was 92. Grundy started his career in radio, hosting a local version of Wheel Of Fortune and moving with it to television in 1959 when he founded production company the Reg Grundy Organisation. Other shows that were produced by the company…...
- 5/9/2016
- Deadline TV
Reg Grundy, a veteran TV executive best known for creating the long-running Australian soap opera “Neighbors,” has died at age 92. He died at his home in Bermuda, where he has lived since 1982 with his wife, actress Joy Chambers, according to the BBC. Grundy’s production company created many of Australia’s biggest TV hits, including “The Young Doctors,” “Sons and Daughters” and “Prisoner: Cell Block H.” He also co-produced the 1977 documentary “Abba: The Movie.” Also Read: Russell Crowe in Talks to Star in 'The Mummy' Opposite Tom Cruise In addition, he picked up several U.S. game shows...
- 5/9/2016
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Us film and TV producer to receive lifetime award at TV festival.
Jerry Bruckheimer is to receive the Honorary Golden Nymph Award at the 54th Annual Monte-Carlo Television Festival recognizing his lifetime achievements in film and television.
The presentation will be made by Prince Albert of Monaco at the Opening Ceremony of festival, which runs June 7-11, 2014.
Bruckheimer’s films include Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, The Rock, Armageddon and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, earning more than $16 billion.
In TV, his titles include the CSI franchise, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Dark Blue, The Amazing Race and new series Hostages.
In the 2005-06 season, Bruckheimer had a record-breaking 10 series on network television.
His projects have collectively received 41 Academy Award nominations (six wins), 118 Emmy Award nominations (22 wins), 23 Golden Globe nominations (four wins) and 30 People’s Choice Awards nominations (15 wins) among others.
Others to receive the Honorary Golden Nymph Award includ Dick Wolf, Anne Sweeney...
Jerry Bruckheimer is to receive the Honorary Golden Nymph Award at the 54th Annual Monte-Carlo Television Festival recognizing his lifetime achievements in film and television.
The presentation will be made by Prince Albert of Monaco at the Opening Ceremony of festival, which runs June 7-11, 2014.
Bruckheimer’s films include Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, The Rock, Armageddon and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, earning more than $16 billion.
In TV, his titles include the CSI franchise, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Dark Blue, The Amazing Race and new series Hostages.
In the 2005-06 season, Bruckheimer had a record-breaking 10 series on network television.
His projects have collectively received 41 Academy Award nominations (six wins), 118 Emmy Award nominations (22 wins), 23 Golden Globe nominations (four wins) and 30 People’s Choice Awards nominations (15 wins) among others.
Others to receive the Honorary Golden Nymph Award includ Dick Wolf, Anne Sweeney...
- 10/31/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Jerry Bruckheimer will receive the Honorary Golden Nymph Award in 2014.
The prolific TV and film producer will be honoured with the prestigious prize at the 54th Annual Monte Carlo Television Festival next summer.
Prince Albert of Monaco will hand the award to the filmmaker at the festival, which is held from June 7 to 11.
Festival CEO Laurent Puons said in a statement: "If it is possible for a producer to become a worldwide brand, Jerry Bruckheimer is that producer.
"His work is seen throughout the world and has captured the imagination of multiple generations who have experienced the very best in filmed entertainment that he has produced. We are delighted that he has accepted our invitation to honour him. He will receive an award from Hsh Prince Albert that he richly deserves."
Past winners of the award include the likes of Dick Wolf, Anne Sweeney, David E Kelley, Merv Griffin and Reg Grundy.
The prolific TV and film producer will be honoured with the prestigious prize at the 54th Annual Monte Carlo Television Festival next summer.
Prince Albert of Monaco will hand the award to the filmmaker at the festival, which is held from June 7 to 11.
Festival CEO Laurent Puons said in a statement: "If it is possible for a producer to become a worldwide brand, Jerry Bruckheimer is that producer.
"His work is seen throughout the world and has captured the imagination of multiple generations who have experienced the very best in filmed entertainment that he has produced. We are delighted that he has accepted our invitation to honour him. He will receive an award from Hsh Prince Albert that he richly deserves."
Past winners of the award include the likes of Dick Wolf, Anne Sweeney, David E Kelley, Merv Griffin and Reg Grundy.
- 10/29/2013
- Digital Spy
Glenn Dunks was at the AFI Awards 2010, and although his favourite film didn’t win any, he will always remember the night Animal Kingdom ruled the world.
And with that the 2010 Samsung Mobile AFI Awards are over and done with for another year. David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom dominated the ceremony as everybody expected, but the refreshingly diverse roster of Australian films from 2010 brought about winners from period romances to action adventures, musicals to vampire horror films. Of the six projects nominated for Best Film only one – Julie Bertuccelli’s poetic The Tree, my personal favourite Australian film of 2010 – left empty handed.
Host Shane Jacobson, of Kenny fame, began the proceedings with a musical sequence that referenced Australian films past and present before what can politely be called “the Animal Kingdom show” commenced, quickly winning several awards.
The crowd, and fellow recipients, were high on Ben Mendelsohn’s win, his...
And with that the 2010 Samsung Mobile AFI Awards are over and done with for another year. David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom dominated the ceremony as everybody expected, but the refreshingly diverse roster of Australian films from 2010 brought about winners from period romances to action adventures, musicals to vampire horror films. Of the six projects nominated for Best Film only one – Julie Bertuccelli’s poetic The Tree, my personal favourite Australian film of 2010 – left empty handed.
Host Shane Jacobson, of Kenny fame, began the proceedings with a musical sequence that referenced Australian films past and present before what can politely be called “the Animal Kingdom show” commenced, quickly winning several awards.
The crowd, and fellow recipients, were high on Ben Mendelsohn’s win, his...
- 12/12/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Neighbours creator Reg Grundy is the recipient of this years AFI Raymond Longford Award, the Australian Film Institutes’s highest honour.
“Over the years I took Australians out into the world: actors, producers, performers, directors, technicians and writers and together we proved that Australians were up there with the best there is. This has been one of my great joys and they are all people with whom I am proud to have been associated,” said Grundy.
“I am indeed honoured to receive the Raymond Longford Award from the Australian Film Industry. Television production has been my chosen field and my passion for the major part of my life and I have been fortunate enough to have had success in all forms of it, in my own country and overseas,” he added.
Grundy was the producer of shows such as Wheel of Fortune, Sale of the Century, Perfect Match, The Restless Years,...
“Over the years I took Australians out into the world: actors, producers, performers, directors, technicians and writers and together we proved that Australians were up there with the best there is. This has been one of my great joys and they are all people with whom I am proud to have been associated,” said Grundy.
“I am indeed honoured to receive the Raymond Longford Award from the Australian Film Industry. Television production has been my chosen field and my passion for the major part of my life and I have been fortunate enough to have had success in all forms of it, in my own country and overseas,” he added.
Grundy was the producer of shows such as Wheel of Fortune, Sale of the Century, Perfect Match, The Restless Years,...
- 12/8/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Reg Grundy has revealed that he is "disappointed" in modern Australian TV. The 87-year-old television pioneer, who developed programmes such as Neighbours, The Young Doctors and Sons and Daughters during his career, said that the standard of shows in 2010 is "very poor". In his first ever TV interview, Grundy told the Nine Network that money takes a front seat over heart and instinct in the industry. He said: "Doesn't mean to say that there aren't people with heart and instinct there, but I think that (more)...
- 9/22/2010
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Kylie Minogue once attempted to block broadcasts of episodes of Neighbours which she appeared in, it has been claimed. The singer rose to fame playing Charlene in the Australian soap. According to the Daily Mail, Reg Grundy - one of the programme makers - has claimed that Minogue tried to ban repeats of her on-screen wedding to Jason Donovan's Scott Robinson "That marriage probably got the highest ratings of any marriage in Australia," he said. "She went on to great success and I applaud that." He continued: "She (more)...
- 9/21/2010
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
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