ARIA Music Awards of

Th 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
  • Renee 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
  • Black-Eyed Susans for Shangri-La
  • David Bridie for Hotel Radio
  • The Go-Betweens for Bright Yellow, Bright Orange
  • Renee 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 (album)
  • 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 were inducted into to ARIA Hall of Fame.

See Also

• Australian music
• List of Australian musicians

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