 These include the Best New Talent at the 1984 Feltex Television Awards, several awards from the New Zealand Film and TV Awards (1993) for Best Dramatic Performance and a Best Actor award for "Talk of the Town", which he also directed, at the Dream Maker Festival in Ontario, Canada.He was also finalist for the Male Performance Supporting Role at the 1986 Listener Film Television Awards for his work in the film "Send a Gorilla", and was nominated for Best Actor in 1985.Tupu participated in the foundation of an Australian theatre group called "The Walkers and Talkers", which is no longer running, and has also served as an acting coach and taught "Acting for the Camera" in Australia and New Zealand.