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The Seventh Australian
Recording Industry Association Music
Awards (generally known as
the ARIA
Music Awards or simply The
ARIAS) was held on 14 April 1993 at
the Entertainment Centre in Sydney.
Host, Richard
Wilkins, was assisted by presenters, James
Reyne, Elle
Macpherson, Billy
Birmingham, Tim Finn, Neil Finn and Daryl
Somers to distribute 24
awards. There were live performances
and the awards were televised.
In addition to
previous categories, a "Special Achievement Award"
was presented to former Countdown host
and music commentator Ian "Molly" Meldrum who
provided one of the longest acceptance speeches in
ARIA history. The ARIA Hall
of Fame inducted: Peter
Allen and Cold
Chisel.
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
- Jesus Christ Superstar
(Cast Recording)
- Highest Selling Single
- Wendy Matthews –
"The Day You Went Away"
- 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 (L.O.V.E.)"
- 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 (EP)
- 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 (I Get Lost)"
- Rick Price –
"Not a Day Goes By"
- The Sharp – Talking Sly (EP)
- 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 (EP)
- 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
(Tribute to Madonna)"
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 (co-writer)
– "One Word" – Baby Animals
- Diesel (co-writer)
– "Tip of My Tongue"
– Diesel
- Neil Finn, Tim Finn –
"Weather With You"
– Crowded House
- Bryan Jones, Jonathan
Jones, Raymond Medhurst (co-writers) – "That Word (L.O.V.E.)"
– Rockmelons featuring Deni Hines
- Producer of the Year[2]
- Simon Hussey – Daryl Braithwaite – "Nothing
to Lose", Company of Strangers – "Daddy's Gonna Make You a
Star", "Motor City (I Get Lost)", "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 (EP)
- 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
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