Awards
The Phoenix Foundation's first award was for the song "The Drinker", which won Best Unreleased Song at the 2002 bNet Awards. Their first album, Horsepower was one of the most acclaimed New Zealand albums of 2003. It was the only album to be nominated for 'Best Album' at both the Vodafone NZ Music Awards and the bNet Awards. It was also voted the 'Best New Zealand Album' of 2003 by nzmusic.com, and was the only New Zealand album selected in The New Zealand Listener's 'Top Ten Albums of 2003'.
The video for the album's first single "Let Me Die A Woman" was made by Richard Bell and went on to win the 'Knack Award' (best video made for under $5000) at the 2003 NZ Kodak Music Clip Awards. The follow-up video for "Going Fishing", also directed by Richard Bell, also won the 2004 'Knack Award', as well as 'Best Cinematography' at the 2004 Handle The Jandal Awards.
The band's second album Pegasus has achieved Gold status sales in New Zealand and was nominated for a New Zealand Music Award. The single, "Damn the River", won Best Pop Track at the 2006 bNet Awards.
Happy Ending brought more nominations and awards. The Phoenix Foundation got five nominations for the 2008 VNZMA (in Single of the Year - for the song "Bright Grey", Best Group, Best Rock Album, Best Engineer and Best Producer) out of which they received two Technical Awards. Both went to Lee Prebble of The Surgery.
Buffalo, the most recent album, was nominated for 8 'Tuis'. They won all three Technical Awards announced on 1 September 2010: Best Producer (the band for producing the album Buffalo), Best Engineer (Lee Prebble for the album Buffalo) and Best Album Cover (Paul Johnson for Buffalo). On 7 October, The Phoenix Foundation won the NZ Music Award for Best Group (they were also nominated in Album of the Year, Single of the Year - for the song Buffalo, Best Rock Album and Best Music Video - Nathan Hickey for the music video Buffalo).
The band's soundtrack for Boy won Best Original Music in a Feature Film at the Qantas Film and Television Awards 2010.
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