ARIA Music Awards of 1993

Ceremony details

Awards

ARIA Awards

• Album of the Year
• *Diesel – Hepfidelity
• **Hunters & Collectors – Cut
• **Ed Kuepper – Black Ticket Day
• **Wendy Matthews – Lily
• **Rockmelons – Form 1 Planet
• Single of the Year
• *Wendy Matthews – "The Day You Went Away"
• **Baby Animals – "One Word"
• **Crowded House – "Weather with You"
• **Diesel – "Tip of My Tongue"
• **Weddings Parties Anything – "Father's Day"
• Highest Selling Album
• *Australian Cast Recording – Jesus Christ Superstar
• **Diesel – Hepfidelity
• **Rockmelons – Form 1 Planet
• **Noiseworks – Greatest Hits
• **Wendy Matthews – Lily
• **Hoodoo Gurus – Electric Soup/Gorilla Biscuit
• Highest Selling Single
• *Wendy Matthews – "The Day You Went Away"
• **Euphoria – "One in a Million"
• **John Paul Young – "Love Is in the Air"
• **Frente! – "Accidently Kelly Street"
• **Girlfriend – "Take It From Me"
• **Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens, John Farnham – "Everything's Alright"
• Best Group
• *Crowded House – "Weather with You"
• **Baby Animals – "One Word"
• **The Black Sorrows – Better Times
• **The Cruel Sea – This Is Not the Way Home
• **INXS – Welcome to Wherever You Are
• Best Female Artist
• *Wendy Matthews – Lily
• **Kate Ceberano – "I Don't Know How to Love Him"
• **Deborah Conway – "Release Me"
• **Deni Hines – "That Word "
• **Margaret Urlich – Chameleon Dreams
• Best Male Artist
• *Diesel – Hepfidelity
• **Jimmy Barnes – "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
• **Paul Kelly – Paul Kelly Live
• **Jon Stevens – "Superstar"
• **Chris Wilson – Landlocked
• Best New Talent
• *Things of Stone and Wood – Share This Wine
• **Caligula – Caligula
• **Girlfriend – "Make It Come True"
• **Rick Price – "Not a Day Goes By"
• **Tiddas – Inside My Kitchen
• Breakthrough Artist – Album
• *Frente! – Marvin the Album
• **Company of Strangers – Company of Strangers
• **The Dukes – Harbour City
• **Rick Price – Heaven Knows
• **Chris Wilson – Landlocked
• Breakthrough Artist – Single
• *Frente! – "Ordinary Angels"
• **Company of Strangers – "Motor City "
• **Rick Price – "Not a Day Goes By"
• **The Sharp – Talking Sly
• **Things of Stone and Wood – "Share This Wine"
• Best Country Album
• *Lee Kernaghan – The Outback Club
• **James Blundell – This Road
• **Colin Buchanan – Hard Times
• **Keith Urban & Slim Dusty – "Lights on the Hill"
• **Brent Parlane – Brent Parlane
• Best Independent Release
• *Ed Kuepper – Black Ticket Day
• **The Jackson Code – Strange Cargo
• **Def FX – Blink
• **Melanie Oxley & Chris Abrahams – Welcome to Violet
• **TISM – Beasts of Suburban
• Best Indigenous Release
• *Yothu Yindi – "Djäpana "
• **Kev Carmody – Street Beat
• **Coloured Stone – Inma Juju
• **Gondwanaland – Wide Skies
• **Tiddas – Inside My Kitchen
• Best Adult Contemporary Album
• *Andrew Pendlebury – Don't Hold Back that Feeling
• **Marina Prior – Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber
• **Various – Stairways to Heaven
• **Various – Strictly Ballroom
• **Anthony Warlow – On the Boards
• Best Comedy Release
• *Various – Stairways to Heaven
• **The 12th Man – Still the 12th Man
• **Agro – Agro Kids Dance Album
• **Andrew Denton & the Cast of Live & Sweaty'' – "I Don't Care As Long As We Beat New Zealand"
• **Norman Gunston featuring Effie – "Amigos Para Siempre"/"Venereal Girl "

  Fine Arts Awards

• Best Jazz Album
• *Bernie McGann – Ugly Beauty
• **Judy Bailey – Notwithstanding
• **Paul Grabowsky – Tee Vee
• **Vince Jones – Future Girl
• **James Morrison & Ray Brown – Two the Max!
• Best Classical Album
• *Australian Chamber Orchestra & Richard Tognetti – Janáček: Kreutzer Sonata for Strings, Barber: Adagio for Strings, Walton: Sonata for Strings
• **The Brandenburg Orchestra – The Brandenburg Orchestra
• **West Australian Symphony Orchestra – The Transposed Heads
• **Geoffrey Lancaster – Mozart Sonatas for Fortepiano
• **Roger Woodward – The Music of Frédéric Chopin
• Best Children's Album
• *ABC Symphony Orchestra – Classic Kids
• **Franciscus Henri – Walking on the Milky Way
• **Mike Jackson – Rufty Tufty
• **George Spartels – George from Play School
• **The Tin Lids – Snakes & Ladders
• Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording
• *John Clifford White – Romper Stomper'
• **Australian Cast Recording – Jesus Christ Superstar
• **Ricky Fataar & Others – Spotswood
• **Paul Grabowsky – The Last Days of Chez Nous
• **Various – Strictly Ballroom
• **Nigel Westlake – Antarctica''

  Artisan Awards

• Song of the Year
• *Mick Thomas – "Father's Day" – Weddings Parties Anything
• **Suze De Marchi – "One Word" – Baby Animals
• **Diesel – "Tip of My Tongue" – Diesel
• **Neil Finn, Tim Finn – "Weather With You" – Crowded House
• **Bryan Jones, Jonathan Jones, Raymond Medhurst – "That Word " – Rockmelons featuring Deni Hines
• Producer of the Year
• *Simon Hussey – Daryl Braithwaite – "Nothing to Lose", Company of Strangers – "Daddy's Gonna Make You a Star", "Motor City ", "Sweet Love"
• **David Hirschfelder – John Farnham, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens – "Everything's Alright", Kate Ceberano – "I Don't Know How to Love Him"
• **Joe Camilleri – Black Sorrows – "Ain't Love the Strangest Thing", "Better Times", "Come on, Come On" – The Revelators – "Caribbean Wind"
• **Rockmelons – "Form one Planet", "It's not Over"
• **Tony Cohen – The Cruel Sea – This Is Not the Way Home, TISM – "Get Thee to a Nunnery"
• Engineer of the Year
• *Greg Henderson – Yothu Yindi – "Dharpa", "Tribal Voice"
• **Adrian Bolland – Margaret Urlich – "Boy in the Moon", "Cover to Cover"; – Teen Queens – "Can't Help Myself", "Love How You Love Me"
• **Doug Brady – 1927 – "Scars"; – Eve – "What a Lover"; – Lisa Edwards – "Cry", "So Dangerous"
• **Doug Roberts – Stephen Cummings – "Keep the Ball Rolling"
• **Niven Garland – INXS – "Baby Don't Cry", "Heaven Sent", "Taste It"
• Best Video
• *Stephen Johnson – Yothu Yindi – "Djäpana"
• **Robbie Douglas-Turner – Frente! – "Ordinary Angels"
• **Paul Elliott – Boom Crash Opera – "Bettadaze"
• **Paul Goldman – Lisa Edwards – "Cry"
• **Chris Langman – The Sharp – Talking Sly
• Best Cover Art
• *Paul McNeil, Richard All – Hoodoo Gurus – Electric Soup / Gorilla Biscuit
• **Angie Hart, Louise Beach – Frente! – Marvin the Album
• **Ian Martin, Adrienne Overall – Diesel – Hepfidelity
• **Midnight Oil, Neo One Design – Midnight Oil – Scream in Blue
• **Pascoe & Gray Design, Eryk Photography – The Black Sorrows – Better Times

  Special Achievement Award

• Ian "Molly" Meldrum

  ARIA Hall of Fame inductees

• Peter Allen
• Cold Chisel

  Performers

• INXS
• Crowded House
• Rick Price
• Hunters & Collectors