The Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program is an award presented annually at the Australian
TV Week
''TV Week'' is a weekly Australian magazine that provides television program listings information and highlights, as well as television-related news.
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Logie Awards
The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The first ceremony was held in 1959 as the ...
. The award is given to recognise an outstanding Australian factual, observational or documentary program. The winner and nominees of this award are chosen by television industry juries.
It was first awarded at the
7th Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1965 as Best Documentary Series (1967, 1973-1974, 1976-1986).
The award was renamed many times in subsequent ceremonies; Best Documentary (1966, 1969),
Best Australian Documentary Series (1970),
Best Documentary/Current Affairs Series
(1971),
Best Dramatised Documentary Series (1975). The nominees in the ''Best Documentary'' category were either single documentaries or documentary series. This award category was eliminated in 1968 and 1972.
At the
29th Annual TV Week Logie Awards in 1987, the industry voted awards for documentaries was renamed Most Outstanding Single Documentary or Documentary Series until 1993.
It has also been known as Most Outstanding Documentary Single or Series (1994-1995),
Most Outstanding Documentary (1996–1999, 2001, 2009),
and Most Outstanding Documentary or Special Report in a Public Affairs Program (2000), Most Outstanding Documentary Series (2002-2006)
and Most Outstanding Documentary or Documentary Series (2007-2008), Most Outstanding Factual Program (2010-2015). This award category was eliminated in 2016 and returned in 2017 as the ''Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program''.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Best Documentary Series.
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Series.
See also
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Logie Award for Most Popular Factual Program
References
External links
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Awards established in 1965
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1965 establishments in Australia