Logies 2022 as it happened: Hamish Blake wins Gold; Tony Armstrong nabs first Logie

We’re all done, folks. Thanks so much for keeping us company! I hope we entertained you, or at least kept you awake. As Richard Wilkins said when closing out the ceremony, “Everyone go to bed” (or at least that’s what I assume he said – I was already half asleep).

For all the red carpet looks, click through our extensive gallery here. And for a final wrap of the entire event, you can read Michael Idato’s recap here. Thanks again for joining us!

With a long list of broadcast interviews to get to, 2022 Gold Logie winner Hamish Blake didn’t have time to dillydally in the media room – though he did manage to squeeze in extra thanks and more gags.

“This is the bit where you realise all the things you didn’t say, and I didn’t get to thank all of the nominees. They deserve a massive nod,” Blake said. “I personally would’ve loved to see Ray Meagher win again, he would’ve been great – he’s been on Home and Away for 37 years, and he was my age when he won. So yeah, Ray has done well.

“I forgot to also thank Andy Lee, but he knows, he has a long-standing thanks for all my success. It’s crazy, this time 10 years ago I won and the papers ran a story of me holding the Gold Logie under the headline: Fool’s Gold. Well, jokes on them – now they can run Fooled me twice.”

Tony Armstrong is living the dream. Not only has he just won his first Logie for most popular new talent, he’s just got the best possible shoutout from Rove McManus while Facetiming his mum: “Rove, sorry to do this, but could you please say hi to my mum for me?” he said, before screaming in pure delight.

The above video from his colleague Lucy Carter should honestly get a Logie of its own.

Hugo Weaving, Love Me, Binge and Foxtel

Jamie Dornan, The Tourist, Stan

Richard Roxburgh, Fires, ABC

Sam Reid, The Newsreader, ABC

Scott Ryan, Mr Inbetween, Foxtel

Winner: Richard Roxburgh, Fires

The Project has won the Logie for most outstanding news coverage or public affairs report for Lisa Wilkinson’s on-air interview with Brittany Higgins. This is the first time the show has won in this category.

“After 40 years in journalism, this interview is by far the most important work I’ve ever done,” Wilkinson said, accepting the award. “As Brittany warned me [before doing the interview], her story would be seen not as a human problem but a political problem … Governments like political problems to go away, but Brittany never did.

“This honour belongs to Brittany. It belongs to a 26-year-old woman’s unwavering courage. It belongs to a woman who said ‘enough’. It belongs to hundreds of thousands of women and men who took to the streets to roar – in numbers too big to ignore.”

This win followed another first in the news categories: NITV won its first ever Logie Award for the documentary Incarceration Nation.

Director Dean Gibson thanked the channel for having the “courage to tell this story”, and dedicated the win to the people who told their stories of injustice and “revisited the trauma” of losing family members. Gibson was the second person on stage, after Tony Armstrong, to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land the event is taking place on.

Most outstanding actor
Should win: Richard Roxburgh
In any other year we’d be backing Scott Ryan, who pulled the pin on his superb series Mr Inbetween while audiences still wanted more. But in a field packed with exceptional talent it is Roxburgh’s turn as a farmer who has lost everything to bushfires that stands tallest.
Will win: Hugo Weaving
Everybody loves Weaving, and his gorgeous turn as a widower struggling to accept that he’s found fresh love indecently soon after his wife’s death could prove a sentimental favourite.

Most outstanding actress
Should win: Miranda Otto
Another category stacked to the rafters with superb work, and any of them would be worthy winners. But in the end it’s likely to come down to two: Deborah Mailman’s fierce tyro politician Alex Irving in Total Control and Otto’s grieving farmer in Fires.
Will win: Deborah Mailman
We just hope ABC pollster Antony Green’s head doesn’t explode as the count goes down to the wire.