2020 ANZ People’s Choice award winner Angus McDonald for his work “Behrouz Boochani”. Photo: Mim Stirling, AGNSW SIX-TIME Archibald Prize finalist Angus McDonald was awarded the $3500 People’s Choice award chosen from entries to the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. He won for his portrait of Kurdish-Iranian writer, poet, filmmaker and journalist Behrouz Boochani, who now lives in New Zealand after being granted refugee status in July. McDonald, who is based in Lennox Head, NSW, first made contact with Boochani in 2018 while he was creating his short film “Manus” about Manus Island, where Boochani was held by the federal government for over six years as a refugee.