The inaugural New Zealand Screen Awards were held on Wednesday 27 July 2005 at SkyCity Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand. Following the demise of the GOFTA awards, the Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand founded the New Zealand Screen Awards to honour excellence in New Zealand film and television. Due to there having been no film awards in 2004, the eligibility period was from 1 October 2003 to July 2005. In the weeks ahead of the awards presentation, sponsor SkyCity screened a series of nominated short films. The film In My Father's Den was nominated in all 12 of the feature film award categories and won 10 awards.
Nominees and Winners.
No finalists were selected for the Feature Film categories Achievement in Production Design, Achievement in Make-Up, Achievement in Special Effects/CGI due to lack of entries.
There were 12 feature film categories, two digital feature categories, four short film categories and 22 television categories.
Feature film.
Best Picture
Achievement in Directing
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Screenplay 
Achievement in Cinematography
Achievement in Editing
Achievement in Original Music 
Contribution to a Soundtrack 
Achievement in Costume Design
Digital feature.
Best Digital Feature 
Technical Contribution to a Digital Feature 
Short film.
Best Short Film 
Performance in a Short Film 
Script for a Short Film 
Technical Contribution to a Short Film 
Television.
Best Drama Series 
Best Comedy Programme 
Best Documentary 
Best Documentary/Factual Series 
Korero Maori Best Maori Language Programme
Best Children's Programme 
Best Lifestyle/Entertainment Programme 
Performance by an Actress
Performance by a Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actor 
Performance by a Supporting Actor 
Presenter, Entertainment/Factual 
Script, Single Episode of a Drama Series or Serial
Script, Comedy 
Achievement in Directing, Drama/Comedy Programme 
Achievement in Directing, Documentary
Achievement in Directing, Factual Programming/Entertainment
Achievement in Camerawork Documentary 
Achievement in Editing, Documentary
Achievement in Original Music 
Contribution to a Soundtrack 
Contribution to Design
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