58th Logie Awards | |
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Date | 8 May 2016 |
Site | Crown Palladium, Melbourne, Victoria |
Highlights | |
Gold Logie | Waleed Aly |
Hall of Fame | Noni Hazlehurst |
Most awards | The Project (3) |
Most nominations | 800 Words (6) |
Television coverage | |
Network | Nine Network (HD) |
The 58th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were held on Sunday 8 May 2016 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast live on the Nine Network. Public voting for the Best Award categories began on 16 November 2015 and ended on 17 January 2016. Nominations were announced on 3 April 2016 along with the winners of the Outstanding Newcomer Awards.
It was announced on 4 November 2015 that the 2016 Logie Awards would reinstate the Logie Award for Best Factual Program, as well as a new publicly-voted category for Best News Panel or a Current Affairs Program. Two new industry-voted awards were also given, Logie Award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress. Additionally, all publicly-voted category awards changed their title from "Most Popular" to "Best Awards".
The 2016 ceremony will also be the first to accept nominations for original Australian content produced by or airing on streaming media such as Netflix, Presto and Stan. Comedy series No Activity, distributed by Stan, earned 3 nominations, thus becoming the first program premiering on a streaming service to earn a Logie nomination.
Nominees were announced at an event held in Melbourne on 3 April 2016, hosted by Peter Helliar and Sylvia Jeffreys.
The In Memoriam segment was introduced by Jennifer Byrne. Clare Bowditch performed a cover version of The Beatles "In My Life". The following deceased were honoured: