The 2011 ARIA Awards was a big one for Gotye and Boy & Bear.
Kimbra - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
The ARIA Awards were handed out this evening in Sydney at Allphones Arena.
Boy & Bear picked up Album of the Year for ‘Moonfire. Gotye was Best Male Artist. Kimbra Best Female Artist and Gotye and Gotye feat. Kimbra won Single of the Year for ‘Someone That I Used To Know’.
Artist who picked up ARIA’s tonight were:
ALBUM OF THE YEAR – Boy & Bear, Moonfire
SINGLE OF THE YEAR – Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
BEST MALE ARTIST – Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
BEST FEMALE ARTIST – Kimbra, Cameo Lover
BEST GROUP – Boy & Bear, Moonfire
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST (ALBUM) – Boy & Bear, Moonfire
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST (SINGLE) – Boy & Bear, Feeding Line
BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE – Art vs Science, The Experiment
BEST ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM – Boy & Bear, Moonfire
BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM – Billy Thorpe, Billy Thorpe’s Tangier
BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM – The Audreys, Sometimes the Stars
BEST CHILDREN’S ALBUM – The Wiggles, Ukulele Baby!
BEST COMEDY RELEASE – Hamish & Andy, Celebrating 50 Glorious Years
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM – Kasey Chambers, Little Bird
BEST DANCE RELEASE – Cut Copy, Zonoscope
BEST HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL ALBUM – Front End Loader, Ritardando
BEST POP RELEASE – Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
BEST ROCK ALBUM – The Living End, The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating
BEST URBAN ALBUM – Drapht, The Life of Riley
HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM – Altiyan Childs, Altiyan Childs
HIGHEST SELLING SINGLE – Guy Sebastian, Who’s that Girl (featuring Eve)
BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM – Sally Whitwell, Mad Rush: Piano Music of Philip Glass
BEST JAZZ ALBUM – Elixir featuring Katie Noonan, First Seed Ripening
BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK/CAST/SHOW ALBUM – Chris Lilley, Angry Boys – Official Soundtrack Album
BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Rrakala
BEST MUSIC DVD – AC/DC, AC/DC – Live at River Plate
BEST COVER ART – Alter, for Cut Copy, Zonoscope
BEST VIDEO – Natasha Pincus for Starkraving Productions, for Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
ENGINEER OF THE YEAR – Francois Tetaz, for Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR – Wally De Backer, for Gotye, Somebody That I Used to Know (featuring Kimbra)
2011 PUBLIC VOTED ARIA AWARD WINNERS
MOST POPULAR AUSTRALIAN ARTIST – Birds of Tokyo
MOST POPULAR INTERNATIONAL ARTIST – P!nk
MOST POPULAR AUSTRALIAN LIVE ARTIST – The Living End
