ARIA Music Awards of 2003

The 17th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards) were held in 2003.

The following list includes the winners highlighted in bold, and the nominations below them.

Awards

*ARIA award for Best Album
**Powderfinger for "Vulture Street"
**Delta Goodrem for "Innocent Eyes"
**The Sleepy Jackson for "Lovers"
**Something for Kate for "The Official Fiction"
**The Waifs for "Up All Night"

*ARIA award for Best Single
**Delta Goodrem for "Born To Try"
**Amiel for "Lovesong"
**Powderfinger for "On My Mind"
**Silverchair for "Luv Your Life"
**The Waifs for "Lighthouse"

*ARIA award for Best Male Artist
**Alex Lloyd
**Ben Lee
**John Butler
**Nick Cave
**Tex Perkins

*ARIA award for Best Female Artist
**Delta Goodrem
**Amiel
**Kylie Minogue
**Renée Geyer
**Sarah Blasko

*ARIA award for Best Group
**Powderfinger
**Grinspoon
**Silverchair
**Something for Kate
**The Waifs

*Take 40 ARIA award for Highest Selling Single
**Delta Goodrem for "Born To Try"
**Amiel for "Lovesong"
**The Androids for "Do It With Madonna"
**Delta Goodrem for "Innocent Eyes"
**Delta Goodrem for "Lost Without You"

*ARIA award for Best Breakthrough Artist (Single)
**Delta Goodrem for "Born To Try"
**Candice Alley for "Falling"
**The Casanovas for "Shake It"
**Rogue Traders for "One Of My Kind"
**The Sleepy Jackson for "Vampire Racecourse"

*ARIA award for Best Breakthrough Artist (Album)
**Delta Goodrem for "Innocent Eyes"
**Amiel for "Audio Out"
**Pete Murray for "Feeler"
**The Sleepy Jackson for "Lovers"
**The Waifs for "Up All Night"

*ARIA award for Best Independent Release
**The Waifs for "Up All Night"
**1200 Techniques for "Eye Of The Storm"
**Diesel for "Hear"
**John Butler Trio for "Living"
**The Mess Hall for "Feeling Sideways"

*ARIA award for Best Adult Contemporary Album
**John Farnham for "The Last Time"
**Blackeyed Susans for "Shangri-La"
**David Bridie for "Hotel Radio"
**The Go-Betweens for "Bright Yellow Bright Orange"
**Renée Geyer for "Tenderland"

*ARIA award for Best Rock Album
**Powderfinger for "Vulture Street"
**Magic Dirt for "Tough Love"
**Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for "Nocturama"
**The Sleepy Jackson for "Lovers"
**Something for Kate for "The Official Fiction"

*ARIA award for Best Country Album
**Keith Urban for "Golden Road"
**Adam Harvey for "Cowboy Dreams"
**Beccy Cole for "Little Victories"
**Bill Chambers for "Sleeping with the Blues"
**Sara Storer for "Beautiful Circle"

*ARIA award for Best Blues and Roots Album
**The Waifs for "Up All Night"
**John Butler Trio for "Living 2001-2002"
**Mia Dyson for "Cold Water"
**Pete Murray for "Feeler"
**The Revelators for "The Revelators"

*ARIA award for Best Pop Release
**Delta Goodrem for "Innocent Eyes"
**Amiel for "Audio Out"
**The Androids for "Do It With Madonna"
**Dannii Minogue for "Neon Nights"
**Kylie Minogue for "Come Into My World"

*ARIA award for Best Dance Release
**Rogue Traders for "One Of My Kind"
**1200 Techniques for "Eye Of The Storm"
**Disco Montego for "Disco Montego"
**Gerling for "Who's Ya Daddy?"
**Wicked Beat Sound System for "New Soul Breaks"

*ARIA award for Best Children's Album
**Hi-5 for "Celebrate"
**Play School for "Hip-Hip Hooray"
**The Saddle Club for "On Top Of The World"
**The Wiggles for "Go To Sleep Jeff"
**The Wiggles for "Whoo hoo! Wiggly Gremlins"

*ARIA award for Best Comedy Release
**Merrick and Rosso for "From Us To Youse"
**Dave Hughes for "Whatever"
**The Drugs for "Music's In Trouble"
**Rodney Rude for "Rude Bastard"
**Tripod for "About An Hour Of Song In An Hour"

Artisan Awards

*ARIA Award for Best Cover
**Steven Gorrow - Revolution Design for "Vulture Street" by Powderfinger

*ARIA Award for Best Engineer
**Chris Thompson for "Up All Night" by The Waifs

*ARIA Award for Best Video
**Bart Borghesi for "Do It With Madonna" by The Androids

*ARIA Award for Best Producer
**Chris Thompson for "Up All Night" by The Waifs

Awards for Fine Arts

*ARIA Award for Best World Music Album
**Monsieur Camembert for "Absynthe"
**All India Radio for "All India Radio"
**David Bridie for "West Papua: Sound Of The Morning Star"
**Kavisha Mazzella for "Silverhook Tango"
**Zulya for "Elusive"

*ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album
**Andrew Keller for "Mikrokosmos"
**Andrew Robson for "On"
**Kevin Hunt Trio for "Love Walked In"
**The Necks for "Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab"
**The World According To James for "Wayback"

*ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack Production Recording
**Mick Harvey for "Australian Rules"
**Cezary Skubiszewski for "After The Deluge (Original Television Mini-series Soundtrack)"
**Dave Graney & Clare Moore for "Music from the Motion Picture - Bad Eggs"
**The Saddle Club for "On Top Of The World"
**Various artists for "The Secret Life Of Us Volume 3"

*ARIA Award for Best Classical Album
**Saffire for "Saffire - The Australian Guitar Quartet"
**Marshall McGuire for "The 20th Century Harp"
**Slava Grigoryan and Leonard Grigoryan for "Play"
**Teddy Taku Rhodes for "Mozart Arias"
**Yvonne Kenny for "Make Believe"

Hall of Fame Inductee

"John Farnham" was inducted into to ARIA Hall of Fame.

Career Highlights:
*Sadie - the first album in 1967
*Looking Through a Tear - the album featuring "One" and "Raindrops"
*World Song Contest, Tokyo - 1972
*Uncovered - the multi-platinum album featuring "Help" in 1980
*Lead Singer of Little River Band - 1982-1986
*Whispering Jack - the comeback album in 1985
*Australian Of The Year - 1987
*Age of Reason - the multi-platinum album in 1988
*Touring with the Melbourne Sydney Orchestra
*Chain Reaction - the multi-platinum album in 1990
*The Main Event Tour - with Olivia Newton-John and Anthony Warlow
*I Can't Believe He's 50 Tour - 1999
*Tour Of Duty Concert - with Kylie Minogue and the Living End in 1999
*Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
*The Last Time Tour - November 2002-June 2003

ee also

*Australian music