New Zealand Music Awards
Winners are shown first with nominees underneath.
- ALBUM OF THE YEAR DD Smash - Deep In The Heart Of Taxes
- Herbs - Light Of The Pacific
- Dance Exponents - The Legionaires - Live At Mainstreet
- SINGLE OF THE YEAR DD Smash - Outlook For Thursday
- Monte Video - Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang
- Coconut Rough - Sierra Leone
- TOP MALE VOCALIST Dave Dobbyn (DD Smash)
- Malcolm McNeill
- Monte Video
- TOP FEMALE VOCALIST Suzanne Prentice
- Trudi Green
- Patsy
- TOP GROUP OF THE YEAR DD Smash
- Herbs
- The Narcs
- MOST PROMISING MALE VOCALIST Andrew Mclennan (Coconut Rough)
- Dick Driver (Hip Singles)
- Gary Smith (The Body Electric)
- MOST PROMISING FEMALE VOCALIST Sonya Waters
- Rhonda Jones
- Bronwyn Jones (Precious)
- MOST PROMISING GROUP Coconut Rough
- Hip Singles
- The Body Electric
- BEST POLYNESIAN ALBUM The Radars - Chulu Chululu
- Patea Maori Club (featuring Dalvanius) - Poi E
- Kaiwhaiki Cultural Club - The Valley Of Voices Vol 2
- BEST FILM SOUNDTRACK/ CAST RECORDING/ COMPILATION Sharon O'Neill - Smash Palace
- Schtung - The Scarecrow
- John Charles - Utu
- BEST MUSIC VIDEO Andrew Shaw - Outlook For Thursday (DD Smash)
- Greg Rood - Sierra Leone (Coconut Rough)
- Mark Ackerman, Craig Howard - Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang (Monte Video)
- ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Dave Marett - Sierra Leone (Coconut Rough)
- Graeme Myhre - Live: Deep In The Heart Of Taxes (DD Smash)
- Paul Streekstra - Outlook For Thursday (DD Samsh)
- PRODUCER OF THE YEAR Dave Marett - Sierra Leone (Coconut Rough)
- Dave Dobbyn - Outlook For Thursday (DD Smash)
- Monte Video/ Bruce Lynch - Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang (Monte Video)
- MOST POPULAR SONG Patsy Riggir - Beautiful Lady
- MOST POPULAR ARTIST DD Smash
- OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION Murray Cammick
- BEST COVER DESIGN Simon & Suzy Clark - Daring Feats
- Matthew Aitken - The Tin Syndrome
- Van Heusen/ O'Neill-Joyce - Space Case Two
- CLASSICAL RECORD OF THE YEAR Louise Malloy – Louise
- Kiri Te Kanawa/ National Youth Choir of New Zealand - Royal Occasion
- Schools Polyphonics of Wellington - Tenebrae Responsorie 1585
- JAZZ RECORD OF THE YEAR Rodger Fox Big Band - Heavy Company
- Space Case - Space Case Two
- Phil Broadhurst - Sustenance
- COUNTRY RECORD OF THE YEAR Suzanne Prentice - When I Dream
- Patsy Riggir - Are You Alone
- Brendan Duggan - Hands On The Wheel
See: 1983 in music
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