ARIA Award for Best Video
The ARIA Award for Best Video, is presented at the annual ARIA Awards, which recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association, an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry." The award is given to a director of a music video by an Australian-based group or solo artist, which was released within the eligibility period. Initially, it was voted for by a judging academy, which consisted of 1000 members from different areas of the music industry.
From 2012, onwards the winner has instead been determined by the general public. The final nominees are the top ten most played music videos, during the eligibility period, performed by an Australian-based artist. According to an ARIA representative, "Concept, direction and performance of the video are major criteria, not necessarily the excellence of the music. This Award is presented to the Director of the entered video who must meet the general eligibility criteria for artists. If the single was not commercially released, then the media servicing date must fall within the eligibility period." The public votes are tallied by ARIA, with the winner announced at the awards ceremony.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the other final nominees, where known, are not highlighted or in boldface.Peer voted
| Year | Winner | Video Title |
| 1987 | - | - |
| 1987 | Alex Proyas for Crowded House | "Don't Dream It's Over" |
| 1987 | Alex Proyas for INXS | "Kiss the Dirt" |
| 1987 | Julie Stone Productions for Big Pig | "Hungry Town" |
| 1987 | Kimble Rendall for Boom Crash Opera | "Hands up in the Air" |
| 1987 | Tony Leitch and Andrew de Groot for Hunters & Collectors | "Everything's on Fire" |
| 1988 | Claudia Castle for Paul Kelly | "To Her Door" |
| 1989 | - | - |
| 1989 | Richard Lowenstein for INXS | "Never Tear Us Apart" |
| 1989 | Claudia Castle for Big Pig | "Big Hotel" |
| 1989 | Andrew de Groot for Midnight Oil | "Dreamworld" |
| 1989 | Paul Elliott for Crowded House | "When You Come" |
| 1989 | Stephen Priest and Steve Hopkins for John Farnham | "Age of Reason" |
| 1990 | Geoff Barter for 1927 | "Compulsory Hero" |
| 1991 | Claudia Castle for Midnight Oil | "Blue Sky Mine" |
| 1992 | - | - |
| 1992 | John Hillcoat for Crowded House | "Chocolate Cake" |
| 1992 | Paul Elliott for Boom Crash Opera | "Holywater" |
| 1992 | Stephen Johnson for Yothu Yindi | "Treaty " |
| 1992 | Marcel Lunam for Died Pretty | "D.C." |
| 1992 | Brendon Young for Tall Tales and True | "Lifeboat" |
| 1993 | - | - |
| 1993 | Stephen Johnson for Yothu Yindi | "Djäpana " |
| 1993 | Robbie Douglas-Turner for Frente! | "Ordinary Angels" |
| 1993 | Paul Elliott for Boom Crash Opera | "Bettadaze" |
| 1993 | Paul Goldman for Lisa Edwards | "Cry" |
| 1993 | Chris Langman for The Sharp | "Talking Sly" |
| 1994 | - | - |
| 1994 | Richard Lowenstein for INXS | "The Gift" |
| 1994 | Andrew Dominik for The Cruel Sea | "The Honeymoon Is Over" |
| 1994 | Paul Elliott for Midnight Oil | "Outbreak of Love" |
| 1994 | Paul Elliott and Sally Bongers for Christine Anu and Paul Kelly | "Last Train" |
| 1994 | Craig Griffin for John Farnham | "Seemed Like a Good Idea " |
| 1995 | - | - |
| 1995 | Keir McFarlane for Kylie Minogue | "Put Yourself in My Place" |
| 1995 | Robbie Douglas-Turner for You Am I | "Jewels & Bullets" |
| 1995 | Bob Ellis for Electric Hippies | "Greedy People" |
| 1995 | Paul Elliott for Max Sharam | "Coma" |
| 1995 | Tony Mahoney for Dave Graney & the Coral Snakes | "I'm Gonna Release Your Soul" |
| 1996 | - | - |
| 1996 | Andrew Lancaster for You Am I | "Soldiers" |
| 1996 | Robbie Douglas-Turner for The Cruel Sea | "Too Fast for Me" |
| 1996 | John Fransic for Swoop | "Apple Eyes" |
| 1996 | John Hillcoat and Polly Borland for Frente! | "Sit on My Hands" |
| 1996 | John Witteron for Hoodoo Gurus | "Waking up Tired" |
| 1997 | - | - |
| 1997 | Tony Mahony for Dave Graney & the Coral Snakes | "Feelin' Kinda Sporty" |
| 1997 | Greg Harrington and Ross Fraser for John Farnham | "All Kinds of People" |
| 1997 | Janet English for Spiderbait | "Calypso" |
| 1997 | Jeff Darling for Crowded House | "Not the Girl You Think You Are" |
| 1997 | Mark Hartley for You Am I | "Good Mornin'" |
| 1997 | Tony McGrath for Savage Garden | "To the Moon and Back" |
| 1998 | - | - |
| 1998 | Baz Luhrmann for Christine Anu, David Hobson and Royce Doherty | "Now Until the Break of Day" |
| 1998 | Chris Bently for Groove Terminator | "Losing Ground" |
| 1998 | Mark Hartley for The Cruel Sea"Takin' All Day" | "Takin' All Day" |
| 1998 | Jeremy Hydnes and George Pinn for Regurgitator | "Polyester Girl" |
| 1998 | Quan Yeomans for Regurgitator | "Black Bugs" |
| 1999 | - | - |
| 1999 | Andrew Lancaster and David McCormick for Custard | "Girls Like That " |
| 1999 | Cate Anderson for Silverchair | "Ana's Song " |
| 1999 | Andrew Dominik for The Cruel Sea | "You'll Do" |
| 1999 | Craig Melville and David Curry for Josh Abrahams | "Addicted to Bass" |
| 1999 | Tony McGrath for Regurgitator | "! " |
| 2000 | - | - |
| 2000 | Mark Hartley for Madison Avenue | "Who the Hell Are You" |
| 2000 | Bart Borghese for Nokturnl | "Neva Mend" |
| 2000 | Mark Hartley for Bardot | "Poison" |
| 2000 | Mark Hartley for Madison Avenue | "Don't Call Me Baby" |
| 2000 | Paul Butler and Scott Walton for Regurgitator | "Happiness " |
| 2001 | - | - |
| 2001 | Ben Saunders for Eskimo Joe | "Wake Up" |
| 2001 | Bart Borghesi for Something for Kate | "Monsters" |
| 2001 | Mark Hartley for Human Nature | "He Don't Love You" |
| 2001 | Mark Hartley for Invertigo | "Chances Are" |
| 2001 | Paul Butler and Scott Walton for Gerling | "The Deer in You" |
| 2001 | Paul Butler and Scott Walton for Powderfinger | "Like a Dog" |
| 2001 | Kelley Abbey for Scandal'us | "Me, Myself & I" |
| 2002 | - | - |
| 2002 | Michael Gracey and Babyfoot Productions for 1200 Techniques | "Karma " |
| 2002 | Jolyon Watkins for Gerling | "Dust Me Selecta" |
| 2002 | Michael Spiccia and Prodigy Films for Disco Montego | "Beautiful" |
| 2002 | Nash Edgerton for Eskimo Joe | "Liar" |
| 2002 | Square-Eyed Films for Silverchair | "The Greatest View" |
| 2003 | - | - |
| 2003 | Bart Borghesi for The Androids | "Do It with Madonna" |
| 2003 | Paul Butler, Scott Walton and 50/50 Films for Gerling | "Who's Ya Daddy?" |
| 2003 | Paul Butler, Scott Walton and 50/50 Films for Powderfinger | " On My Mind" |
| 2003 | Sam Bennetts and Rising Sun Pictures for Rogue Traders | "One of My Kind" |
| 2003 | Sean Gilligan and Sarah-Jane Woulahan for Silverchair | "Across the Night" |
| 2004 | - | - |
| 2004 | James Hackett for The Dissociatives | "Somewhere Down the Barrel" |
| 2004 | Claudia Castle for Pete Murray | "So Beautiful" |
| 2004 | Nash Edgerton for The Sleepy Jackson | "Good Dancers" |
| 2004 | Paul Butler, Scott Walton and 50/50 Films for Spiderbait | "Black Betty" |
| 2004 | Squareyed Films for Missy Higgins | "Scar" |
| 2005 | - | - |
| 2005 | Ben Quinn for End of Fashion | "O Yeah" |
| 2005 | Adrian Van De Velde for Thirsty Merc | "In the Summertime" |
| 2005 | Ben Joss and Tribal for The John Butler Trio | "Something's Gotta Give" |
| 2005 | Ben Quinn for The Cat Empire | "The Car Song" |
| 2005 | Sam Bennetts and Mad Angel for Rogue Traders | "Voodoo Child" |
| 2006 | - | - |
| 2006 | Head Pictures for Bernard Fanning | "Wish You Well" |
| 2006 | Andy Cassell for Youth Group | "Forever Young" |
| 2006 | Bart Borghessi for Eskimo Joe | "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" |
| 2006 | Kim Moyes for The Presets | "Are You the One" |
| 2006 | Sean Gilligan and Sarah-Jane Woulahan for The Living End | "Wake Up" |
| 2007 | - | - |
| 2007 | Paul Goldman and Alice Bell for Silverchair | "Straight Lines" |
| 2007 | Ben Saunders and Germain McMicking for Augie March | "The Cold Acre" |
| 2007 | Brendan Cook for Gotye | "Heart's a Mess" |
| 2007 | Damon Escott and Stephan Lance for Powderfinger | "Lost and Running" |
| 2007 | Angus McDonald and Daimon Downey for Sneaky Sound System | "Pictures" |
| 2008 | - | - |
| 2008 | Kris Moyes for The Presets | "My People" |
| 2008 | Adam Callen for Sneaky Sound System | "Kansas City" |
| 2008 | Angus Stone, Julia Stone and Josh Groom for Angus & Julia Stone | "Just a Boy" |
| 2008 | Damon Escott and Stephen Lance for Silverchair | "If You Keep Losing Sleep" |
| 2008 | James Littlemore – Pnau – "Baby" | "Black and Gold" |
| 2009 | - | - |
| 2009 | Josh Logue of Mathematics for Empire of the Sun | "Walking on a Dream" |
| 2009 | Josh Logue of Mathematics for Empire of the Sun | "We Are the People" |
| 2009 | Head Pictures, Damon Escott and Stephen Lance for Sarah Blasko | "All I Want" |
| 2009 | Mark Alston for Kate Miller-Heidke | "The Last Day on Earth" |
| 2009 | Sam Bennetts for Bluejuice | "Broken Leg" |
| 2010 | - | - |
| 2010 | Kris Moyes for Sia | "Clap Your Hands" |
| 2010 | Alex Roberts for Art vs. Science | "Magic Fountain" |
| 2010 | Krozm for Sarah Blasko | "Bird on a Wire" |
| 2010 | Head Pictures for Powderfinger | "All of the Dreamers" |
| 2010 | Kiku Ohe for Angus & Julia Stone | "Big Jet Plane" |
| 2011 | - | - |
| 2011 | Natasha Pincus for Gotye featuring Kimbra | "Somebody That I Used to Know" |
| 2011 | Bart Borghesi for Eskimo Joe | "Love Is a Drug" |
| 2011 | Carlo Santone for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu | "Gopuru" |
| 2011 | David Michod and Flood Projects for Children Collide | "Loveless" |
| 2011 | Guy Franklin for Kimbra | "Cameo Lover" |
| 2011 | - | - |
Publicly voted
| Year | Winner | Song title |
| 2012 | - | - |
| 2012 | Natasha Pincus for Missy Higgins | "Everyone's Waiting" |
| 2012 | Alex Weltlinger for 360 featuring Gossling | "Boys like You" |
| 2012 | Luci Schroder for Alpine | "Hands" |
| 2012 | Animal Logic for Hilltop Hoods featuring Sia | "I Love It" |
| 2012 | Brent "Quincy" Buchanan and The Grindhouse for Jackson Firebird | "Cock Rockin'" |
| 2012 | Emma Tomelty for Hermitude | "Speak of the Devil" |
| 2012 | Darcy Prendergast and Kate Miller-Heidke for Kate Miller-Heidke | "I'll Change Your Mind" |
| 2012 | Josh Logue for Lanie Lane | " That's What You Get " |
| 2012 | Sam Bennetts for Bluejuice | "Act Yr Age" |
| 2012 | Josh Logue for The Rubens | "My Gun" |
| 2013 | - | - |
| 2013 | Christopher Frey for Samantha Jade | "Firestarter" |
| 2013 | Bryce Jepson for Matt Corby | "Resolution" |
| 2013 | Josh Logue for Birds of Tokyo | "Lanterns" |
| 2013 | Dave Ma for Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg | "Clair De Lune" |
| 2013 | Joe Nappa for Flume | "Holdin On" |
| 2013 | Marc Furmie for Justice Crew | "Best Night" |
| 2013 | John Hillcoat for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | "Jubilee Street" |
| 2013 | Andrew Nowrojee for San Cisco | "Fred Astaire" |
| 2013 | Marc Furmie and Elisa Mercurio for Timomatic | "Parachute" |
| 2013 | Dimitri Basil for Vance Joy | "Riptide" |
| 2014 | - | - |
| 2014 | Sia Furler and Daniel Askill for Sia | "Chandelier" |
| 2014 | Christian J Henrich and Nicholas Rabone for Bluejuice | "SOS" |
| 2014 | Renny Wijeyamohan for Busby Marou | "My Second Mistake" |
| 2014 | Toby and Pete for Chet Faker | "Talk Is Cheap" |
| 2014 | Charlie Ford for Courtney Barnett | "Avant Gardener" |
| 2014 | Lawrence Lim for Jessica Mauboy | "Never Be the Same" |
| 2014 | Ben Young for John Butler Trio | "Only One" |
| 2014 | Lawrence Lim for Justice Crew | "Que Sera" |
| 2014 | Toby Morris for Sheppard | "Geronimo" |
| 2014 | Dan Graetz for Violent Soho | "Covered in Chrome" |
| 2015 | - | - |
| 2015 | Matt Sharp and Daniel James for The Veronicas | "You Ruin Me" |
| 2015 | Prad Senanayake for Alison Wonderland featuring Wayne Coyne | "U Don't Know" |
| 2015 | Charlie Ford for Courtney Barnett | "Pedestrian at Best" |
| 2015 | Lorin Askill for Daniel Johns | "Aerial Love" |
| 2015 | Anthony Rose for Delta Goodrem | "Wings" |
| 2015 | Clemens Habicht for Flume featuring Andrew Wyatt | "Some Minds" |
| 2015 | Kess Broekman-Dattner for Hermitude featuring Young Tapz | "Through the Roof" |
| 2015 | Duncan Toombs for Lee Kernaghan | "Spirit of the Anzacs" |
| 2015 | Filmery for Shane Nicholson | "Secondhand Man" |
| 2015 | Luci Schroder for Vance Joy | "Georgia" |
| 2016 | - | - |
| 2016 | Made in Katana for Troye Sivan | "Youth" |
| 2016 | Anthony Rose for Delta Goodrem | "Dear Life" |
| 2016 | Clemens Habicht for Flume featuring Kai | "Never Be Like You" |
| 2016 | Dan Graetz for Violent Soho | "Like Soda" |
| 2016 | Danny Cohen and Jason Galea for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | "People-Vultures" |
| 2016 | Dean Bates for Illy featuring Vera Blue | "Papercuts" |
| 2016 | Matt Sharp for Guy Sebastian | "Black & Blue" |
| 2016 | Richard Coburn for Hilltop Hoods featuring Montaigne and Thom Thum | "1955" |
| 2016 | Sia Furler and Daniel Askill for Sia | "Cheap Thrills" |
| 2016 | Sunny Leunig for Courtney Barnett | "Elevator Operator" |
| 2017 | - | - |
| 2017 | Allan Hardy and Tom MacDonald for Bliss n Eso featuring Gavin James | "Moments" |
| 2017 | Tim White for Client Liaison | "A Foreign Affair" |
| 2017 | Tobias Willis and Zachary Bradtke for Client Liaison | "Off White Limousine" |
| 2017 | Daniel and Jared Daperis for Gang of Youths | "The Deepest Signs, the Frankest Shadows" |
| 2017 | Danny Cohen for Kirin J. Callinan | "S.A.D" |
| 2017 | Amy Billings for Amy Shark | "Drive You Mad" |
| 2017 | Michael Jones for Dean Lewis | "Waves" |
| 2017 | Mark Alston for Illy featuring Anne-Marie | "Catch 22" |
| 2017 | Emma Tomelty for Jessica Mauboy | "Fallin’" |
| 2017 | Sia Furler and Daniel Askill for Sia featuring Kendrick Lamar | "The Greatest" |
| 2018 | - | - |
| 2018 | Jessie Hill for Dean Lewis | "Be Alright" |
| 2018 | Amy Billings and Nicholas Waterman for Amy Shark | "I Said Hi" |
| 2018 | Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore for Mojo Juju | "Native Tongue" |
| 2018 | Danny Cohen for Courtney Barnett | "Need a Little Time" |
| 2018 | David Porte Beckefeld for Client Liaison | "Survival in the City" |
| 2018 | Glenn Mossop and Tash Sultana for Tash Sultana | "Salvation" |
| 2018 | Kris Moyes for The Presets | "Do What You Want" |
| 2018 | Patrick Rohl for Gang of Youths | "The Heart Is a Muscle" |
| 2018 | Ryan Sauer for Peking Duk | "Fire" |
| 2018 | Toby Pike and Nick Littlemore for Pnau | "Go Bang" |
| 2019 | - | - |
| 2019 | James Chappell for Guy Sebastian | "Choir" |
| 2019 | Benn Jae for Jessica Mauboy | "Little Things" |
| 2019 | Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore for Thelma Plum | "Better in Blak" |
| 2019 | Clemens Habicht for Pnau | "Solid Gold" |
| 2019 | Dylan River for Briggs featuring Greg Holden | "Life Is Incredible" |
| 2019 | G Flip for G Flip | "Drink Too Much" |
| 2019 | Gabriel Gasparinatos for Baker Boy | "Cool as Hell" |
| 2019 | Liam Kelly & Nick Kozakis for Tones and I | "Dance Monkey" |
| 2019 | Richard Coburn for Hilltop Hoods featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal | "Exit Sign" |
| 2019 | Sanjay De Silva for Sampa the Great | "Final Form" |