| Best actuality coverage | Decision ’84, | Malcolm Kemp |
|---|---|---|
| Best children’s programme | Spot On | Judith Thomas |
| Best documentary programme | Gallipoli | Allan Martin |
| Best drama programme | Inside Straight | Peter Muxlow |
| Best entertainment programme | McPhail & Gadsby | Peter Lye |
| Best factual series | Close Up | Mark Westmoreland |
| Best speciality programme | Koha | Ernie Leonard |
| Best director | Inside Straight | Tony Wilson |
| Best actor | Roy Billing | |
| Best actress | Helen Morse | |
| Best new talent | Philip Gordon | |
| Best original music | Heroes | Stephen McCurdy and John Gibson |
| Best new journalist | Genevieve Westcott | |
| Best dramatic script | Children of the Dog Star | Ken Catran |
| Stan Hosgood Award | Ken Dorman | |
| Excellence in television performance | Peter Hayden | |
The last Feltex New Zealand Television Awards ceremony was held in Wellington 14 May 1985. In announcing the firm’s withdrawal from the awards, the managing director, Mr Peter Stanes, said We have been reviewing our sponsorship activities, at the same time as negotiations with the Guild of Film and Television Arts have been occurring.
We have not been able to reach agreement with the guild for a combined film and television awards in 1986, and so have decided to relinquish our sponsorship rights for the awards.
Feltex had been sponsor of the Television Awards, in conjunction with the Television Producers and Directors Association, the Broadcasting Corporation and Television New Zealand, since 1969, and the ceremony televised live from the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington was the sixteenth presentation.
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