Album of the Year

Go Farther In Lightness

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Album of the Year

Reclaim Australia

Reclaim Australia

A.B. Original

Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia
Night Thinker

Night Thinker

Amy Shark

Wonderlick Recording Company
Go Farther In Lightness

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music Australia
Two Degrees

Two Degrees

Illy

ONETWO/Warner Music Australia
Life Is Fine

Life Is Fine

Paul Kelly

EMI

Song Of The Year

Stranger (feat. Elliphant)

Stranger (feat. Elliphant)

Peking Duk

Sony Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Song Of The Year

Adore

Adore

Amy Shark

Wonderlick Recording Company
Moments (feat. Gavin James)

Moments (feat. Gavin James)

Bliss N Eso

Illusive
Waves

Waves

Dean Lewis

Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia
Set In Stone

Set In Stone

Guy Sebastian

Sony Music Australia
Catch 22 (feat. Anne-Marie)

Catch 22 (feat. Anne-Marie)

Illy

ONETWO/Warner Music Australia
Fallin

Fallin

Jessica Mauboy

Sony Music Australia
Stranger (feat. Elliphant)

Stranger (feat. Elliphant)

Peking Duk

Sony Music Australia
Chameleon

Chameleon

Pnau

etc etc Music
The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

Sia

Inertia Music
Call On Me (Ryan Riback Remix)

Call On Me (Ryan Riback Remix)

Starley

Tinted Records/Universal

Best Female Artist

The Greatest feat. Kendrick Lamar

Sia

Inertia Music

Nominees

Nominees for Best Female Artist

Night Thinker

Night Thinker

Amy Shark

Wonderlick Recording Company
The Secret Daughter (Songs from the Original TV Series)

The Secret Daughter (Songs from the Original TV Series)

Jessica Mauboy

Sony Music Australia
Don’t Let The Kids Win

Don’t Let The Kids Win

Julia Jacklin

Liberation Music
Low Blows

Low Blows

Meg Mac

littleBIGMAN Records/EMI
The Greatest feat. Kendrick Lamar

The Greatest feat. Kendrick Lamar

Sia

Inertia Music

Best Male Artist

Life Is Fine

Life Is Fine

Paul Kelly

EMI

Nominees

Nominees for Best Male Artist

Utopia Defeated

Utopia Defeated

D.D Dumbo

Liberation Music
Killer

Killer

Dan Sultan

Liberation Music
Two Degrees

Two Degrees

Illy

ONETWO/Warner Music Australia
Life Is Fine

Life Is Fine

Paul Kelly

EMI
Lay It On Me

Lay It On Me

Vance Joy

Liberation Music

Best Group

Go Farther In Lightness

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang Of Youths

Mosy Records/Sony Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Best Group

Reclaim Australia

Reclaim Australia

A.B Original

Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia
Go Farther In Lightness

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang Of Youths

Mosy Records/Sony Music Australia
Flying Microtonal Banana

Flying Microtonal Banana

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Flightless Records/Remote Control Records
Skeleton Tree

Skeleton Tree

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt Music Australia
Stranger (feat. Elliphant)

Stranger (feat. Elliphant)

Peking Duk

Sony Music Australia

Breakthrough Artist

Night Thinker

Night Thinker

Amy Shark

Wonderlick Recording Company

Nominees

Nominees for Breakthrough Artist

Reclaim Australia

Reclaim Australia

A.B Original

Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia
Night Thinker

Night Thinker

Amy Shark

Wonderlick Recording Company
Waves

Waves

Dean Lewis

Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia
Notion

Notion

Tash Sultana

Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music Australia
TKAY

TKAY

Tkay Maidza

Dew Process

Best Independent Release

Reclaim Australia

Reclaim Australia

A.B. Original

Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Best Independent Release

Reclaim Australia

Reclaim Australia

A.B. Original

Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia
Killer

Killer

Dan Sultan

Liberation Music
The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

Sia

Inertia Music
Notion

Notion

Tash Sultana

Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music Australia
Lay It On Me

Lay It On Me

Vance Joy

Liberation Music

Best Adult Contemporary Album

Life Is Fine

Life Is Fine

Paul Kelly

EMI

Nominees

Nominees for Best Adult Contemporary Album

Brutal Dawn

Brutal Dawn

Bernard Fanning

Dew Process
Utopia Defeated

Utopia Defeated

D.D Dumbo

Liberation Music
Skeleton Tree

Skeleton Tree

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt Music Recordings
Life Is Fine

Life Is Fine

Paul Kelly

EMI
Camacho

Camacho

Pete Murray

Sony Music Australia

Best Children's Album

Och Aye the G’Nu!

Jimmy Barnes

ABC Music/Universal

Nominees

Nominees for Best Children's Album

Och Aye the G’Nu!

Och Aye the G’Nu!

Jimmy Barnes

ABC Music/Universal
Having Fun!

Having Fun!

Lah-Lah

Sony Music
Live It Up

Live It Up

Peter Combe

Peter Combe Music/Planet
A Piece of Quiet [The Hush Collection, Vol 16]

A Piece of Quiet [The Hush Collection, Vol 16]

The Idea of North, Lior & Elena Kats-Chernin

ABC Music/Universal
The Wiggles Duets

The Wiggles Duets

The Wiggles

ABC Music/Universal

Best Comedy Release

Clarke’s Classics

John Clarke

ABC Classics/Universal Music

Nominees

Nominees for Best Comedy Release

Get In My Head

Get In My Head

Arj Barker

Universal Pictures Australasia/Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
More Rubbish

More Rubbish

Buddy Goode

ABC Music/Universal
Clarke’s Classics

Clarke’s Classics

John Clarke

ABC Classics/Universal Music
Seriously?

Seriously?

Kitty Flanagan

Universal Pictures Australasia/Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Rhys Nicholson Live at The Eternity Playhouse

Rhys Nicholson Live at The Eternity Playhouse

Rhys Nicholson

Century Entertainment

Best Country Album

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

Kasey Chambers

Essence Music/Warner Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Best Country Album

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

Kasey Chambers

Essence Music/Warner Music Australia
The 25th Anniversary Album

The 25th Anniversary Album

Lee Kernaghan

ABC Music/Universal
61-615

61-615

O’Shea

Sony Music Australia
Love And Blood

Love And Blood

Shane Nicholson

Lost Highway Australia/Universal Music Australia
Endless

Endless

The McClymonts

Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia

Best Dance Release

Chameleon

Chameleon

Pnau

etcetc Music

Nominees

Nominees for Best Dance Release

Be Randy

Be Randy

Dom Dolla & Torren Foot

Club Sweat/Xelon
Every Now & Then

Every Now & Then

Jagwar Ma

Future Classic
Stranger (feat. Elliphant)

Stranger (feat. Elliphant)

Peking Duk

Sony Music
Chameleon

Chameleon

Pnau

etcetc Music
The Kite String Tangle

The Kite String Tangle

The Kite String Tangle

Warner Music Australia/ Exist Recordings

Best Pop Release

Night Thinker

Night Thinker

Amy Shark

Wonderlick Recording Company

Nominees

Nominees for Best Pop Release

Night Thinker

Night Thinker

Amy Shark

Wonderlick Recording Company
Waves

Waves

Dean Lewis

Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia
Fallin’

Fallin’

Jessica Mauboy

Sony Music Australia
The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

Sia

Sony Music Australia
Perennial

Perennial

Vera Blue

Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia

Best Rock Album

Go Farther In Lightness

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Best Rock Album

Killer

Killer

Dan Sultan

Liberation Music
The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit

The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit

Dune Rats

Ratbag Records
Go Farther In Lightness

Go Farther In Lightness

Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music Australia
Alright Already

Alright Already

Polish Club

Double Double/Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia
Girlhood

Girlhood

The Preatures

Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia

Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album

Mesmer

Mesmer

Northlane

UNFD/Warner Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album

Breaking Outta Hell

Breaking Outta Hell

Airbourne

Spinefarm Records/Caroline Australia
Hi-Vis High Tea

Hi-Vis High Tea

Frenzal Rhomb

Caroline Australia
Murder Of The Universe

Murder Of The Universe

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

FLIGHTLESS/Inertia
Mesmer

Mesmer

Northlane

UNFD/Warner Music Australia
Made of Breath Only

Made of Breath Only

Sleepmakeswaves

Bird’s Robe Records/MGM

Best Video

Moments (feat. Gavin James)

Bliss N Eso

Illusive

Nominees

Nominees for Best Video

Drive You Mad

Drive You Mad

Amy Shark

Wonderlick Recording Company
Moments (feat. Gavin James)

Moments (feat. Gavin James)

Bliss N Eso

Illusive
A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair

Client Liaison

Dot Dash Recordings/Remote Control Records
Off White Limousine

Off White Limousine

Client Liaison

Dot Dash Recordings/Remote Control Records
Waves

Waves

Dean Lewis

Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia
The Deepest Signs, the Frankest Shadows

The Deepest Signs, the Frankest Shadows

Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music
You Say When (feat. Marko Penn)

You Say When (feat. Marko Penn)

Illy

ONETWO/Warner Music Australia
Fallin’

Fallin’

Jessica Mauboy

Sony Music Australia
S.A.D

S.A.D

Kirin J Callinan

EMI
The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

Sia

Inertia Music

Best Australian Live Act

Illy

ONETWO/Warner Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Best Australian Live Act

Client Liaison

Dot Dash Recordings/Remote Control Records

Flume

Future Classic

Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music

Illy

ONETWO/Warner Music Australia

Jessica Mauboy

Sony Music

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

FLIGHTLESS/Inertia

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt Music Recordings

Peking Duk

Sony Music

Tash Sultana

Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music

Violent Soho

I OH YOU

Best Classical Album

Bach: Cello Suites Volume I

Bach: Cello Suites Volume I

Slava Grigoryan

ABC Classics/Universal Music

Nominees

Nominees for Best Classical Album

Songs Without Words

Songs Without Words

Grigoryan Brothers

ABC Classics/Universal
Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2

Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2

Jayson Gillham, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Northey

ABC Classics/Universal Music
Live at the Sydney Opera House

Live at the Sydney Opera House

Kate Miller-Heidke & Sydney Symphony Orchestra

ABC Music/Universal Music
Bach: Cello Suites Volume I

Bach: Cello Suites Volume I

Slava Grigoryan

ABC Classics/Universal Music
Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters - Meditations on Erik Satie

Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters - Meditations on Erik Satie

Tamara-Anna Cislowska

ABC Classics/Universal Music

Best Jazz Album

The Great American Songbook

James Morrison, BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, Harry Morrison & William Morrison

ABC Jazz/Universal Music

Nominees

Nominees for Best Jazz Album

Water Pushes Sand

Water Pushes Sand

Australian Art Orchestra

Jazzhead
James Morrison With His Academy Jazz Orchestra

James Morrison With His Academy Jazz Orchestra

James Morrison & James Morrison Academy Jazz Orchestra

ABC Jazz/Universal Music
The Great American Songbook

The Great American Songbook

James Morrison, BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, Harry Morrison & William Morrison

ABC Jazz/Universal Music
Sketches Of Brunswick East

Sketches Of Brunswick East

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Flightless/Inertia
The Vampires meet Lionel Loueke

The Vampires meet Lionel Loueke

The Vampires

Earshift/Planet

Best World Music Album

Songs of the Latin Skies

Songs of the Latin Skies

Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp

KIN Music/Universal Music

Nominees

Nominees for Best World Music Album

Live at Abbey Road

Live at Abbey Road

Joseph Tawadros

Independent/Planet
Songs of the Latin Skies

Songs of the Latin Skies

Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp

KIN Music/Universal Music
Saturn Return

Saturn Return

Melbourne Ska Orchestra

ABC Music/Universal
Migration

Migration

Slava Grigoryan & Australian String Quartet

ABC Classics/Universal Music
Black Peak

Black Peak

Xylouris White

Caroline Australia

Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album

Ali's Wedding

Ali's Wedding

Nigel Westlake & Sydney Symphony Orchestra, with Joseph Tawadros, Slava Grigoryan & Lior

ABC Classics/Universal Music

Nominees

Nominees for Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album

Dream Lover

Dream Lover

Australian Cast Recording feat. David Campbell

Sony Music
Red Dog: True Blue OST

Red Dog: True Blue OST

Cezary Skubiszewski

Decca Records/Universal Music Australia
The Secret Daughter (Songs from the Original TV Series)

The Secret Daughter (Songs from the Original TV Series)

Jessica Mauboy

Sony Music
Ali's Wedding

Ali's Wedding

Nigel Westlake & Sydney Symphony Orchestra, with Joseph Tawadros, Slava Grigoryan & Lior

ABC Classics/Universal Music
Mountain

Mountain

Richard Tognetti & Australian Chamber Orchestra

ABC Classics/Universal Music

Best Cover Art

Peter Salmon-Lomas & Steve Young

Peter Salmon-Lomas & Steve Young

Life Is Fine - Paul Kelly

EMI

Nominees

Nominees for Best Cover Art

Lee McConnell

Lee McConnell

The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit - Dune Rats

Ratbag Records
Nathan Cahyadi

Nathan Cahyadi

Go Farther In Lightness - Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music
Nick McKinlay

Nick McKinlay

Don't Let The Kids Win - Julia Jacklin

Liberation Music
Mitchell Storck

Mitchell Storck

The Overflow Tank - Midnight Oil

Sony Music
Peter Salmon-Lomas & Steve Young

Peter Salmon-Lomas & Steve Young

Life Is Fine - Paul Kelly

EMI

Engineer Of The Year

Steven Schram

Steven Schram

Life Is Fine - Paul Kelly

EMI

Nominees

Nominees for Engineer Of The Year

Oliver Hugh Perry & Fabian Prynn

Oliver Hugh Perry & Fabian Prynn

Utopia Defeated - D.D Dumbo

Liberation Music
John Castle

John Castle

Lose My Mind - Dean Lewis

Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia
Adrian Breakspear

Adrian Breakspear

Go Farther In Lightness - Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music
Bob Scott

Bob Scott

Live at the Sydney Opera House - Kate Miller-Heidke & Sydney Symphony Orchestra

ABC Music/Universal Music
Steven Schram

Steven Schram

Life Is Fine - Paul Kelly

EMI

Producer Of The Year

Gang Of Youths and Adrian Breakspear

Gang Of Youths and Adrian Breakspear

Go Farther In Lightness - Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music

Nominees

Nominees for Producer Of The Year

Daniel Rankine

Daniel Rankine

Reclaim Australia - A.B. Original

Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia
Tom Iansek

Tom Iansek

Animal - Big Scary

Pieater/Inertia
Oliver Hugh Perry & Fabian Prynn

Oliver Hugh Perry & Fabian Prynn

Utopia Defeated - D.D Dumbo

Liberation Music
Gang Of Youths and Adrian Breakspear

Gang Of Youths and Adrian Breakspear

Go Farther In Lightness - Gang Of Youths

Mosy Recordings/Sony Music
Steven Schram and Paul Kelly

Steven Schram and Paul Kelly

Life Is Fine - Paul Kelly

EMI

Best International Artist

Harry Styles

Harry Styles

Harry Styles

Columbia/Sony Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Best International Artist

25

25

Adele

XL Recordings/Inertia
24K Magic

24K Magic

Bruno Mars

Atlantic Records/Warner Music
÷ and Loose Change

÷ and Loose Change

Ed Sheeran

Warner Music
Harry Styles

Harry Styles

Harry Styles

Columbia/Sony Music Australia
DAMN” and Untitled Unmastered

DAMN” and Untitled Unmastered

Kendrick Lamar

Interscope/Universal Music Australia
Melodrama

Melodrama

Lorde

Universal Music International/Universal
Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

Metallica

Virgin/EMI
Illuminate

Illuminate

Shawn Mendes

Island Records/Universal Music Australia
Blue & Lonesome

Blue & Lonesome

The Rolling Stones

Polydor Records/Universal Music Australia
Starboy

Starboy

The Weeknd

Universal Music International/Universal

Telstra ARIA Music Teacher Award

Woodcroft College, Morphett Vale SA

Renee McCarthy

Nominees

Nominees for Telstra ARIA Music Teacher Award

Asquith Girls High School, Asquith NSW

Asquith Girls High School, Asquith NSW

Alex Manton

Crescent Lagoon State School, Rockhampton QLD

Crescent Lagoon State School, Rockhampton QLD

Julie Layt

Woodcroft College, Morphett Vale SA

Woodcroft College, Morphett Vale SA

Renee McCarthy

Bellarine Secondary College, Drysdale VIC

Bellarine Secondary College, Drysdale VIC

Stephen Mcewan

Best Urban Album

Reclaim Australia

Reclaim Australia

A.B. Original

Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia

Nominees

Nominees for Best Urban Album

Reclaim Australia

Reclaim Australia

A.B. Original

Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia
Two Degrees

Two Degrees

Illy

ONETWO/Warner Music Australia
Divas & Demons

Divas & Demons

REMI

House of Beige/UNFD
Everyone We Know

Everyone We Know

Thundamentals

High Depth/Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia
TKAY

TKAY

Tkay Maidza

Dew Process

Best Blues and Roots Album

When We Fall

When We Fall

All Our Exes Live In Texas

ABC Music/Universal Music

Nominees

Nominees for Best Blues and Roots Album

When We Fall

When We Fall

All Our Exes Live In Texas

ABC Music/Universal Music
Let Love Rule

Let Love Rule

Archie Roach

Liberation Music
Postcards From The Shell House

Postcards From The Shell House

Busby Marou

Warner Music Australia
Death’s Dateless Night

Death’s Dateless Night

Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen

Gawdaggie/Universal Music Australia
Notion

Notion

Tash Sultana

Lonely Lands Records/Sony Music

Hall Of Fame

Daryl Braithwaite

Nominees

Nominees for Hall Of Fame

Daryl Braithwaite