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2024 Winners

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award - 'Trail's End'
Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'Blood of the Lamb'
Adelaide Festival Centre's inSpace Fringe Award - 'The Tumour Show'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - 'Kate Dolan: A Different Kind of Unhinged' and 'That's Amore'
Adelaide Fringe Youth Award - 'The Bacchae'
Best Cabaret Award, presented by The List - 'MESSY FRIENDS'
Best Circus Award - 'CIRQUE ALFONSE - ANIMAL'
Best Comedy Award, presented by Adelaide Comedy - 'Elf Lyons - Raven' and 'MOTORBOAT'
Best Dance Award - 'Lien'
Best Eat & Drink Award, presented by Hither & Yon - 'In Pour Taste: A Comedy Wine Tasting Experience'
Best Emerging Producer Award, presented by MILKE - Kylan Ambrum 'Aboriginal Comedy Allstars'
Best Event Award - 'Celestial Gardens: Secret Sounds of Plants'
Best Film & Digital or Interactive Award, presented by kwpx - 'In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats'
Best Kids & Family Award - 'Mario the Maker Magician'
Best Magic Award - 'World Rock Arena'
Best Theatre & Physical Theatre Award - 'Orpheus' and 'Black Is The Color Of My Voice'
Best Visual Art & Design Award, presented by IVISION LASER - 'If Fabrics Could Speak...'
Best Workshops & Talks Award - 'The Cook Up with Adam Liaw LIVE'
Cultural Diversity Award, presented by Australian Refugee Association - 'Dr Ahmed Gets Hitched - My Big Fat Gay Greek Pakistani Wedding'
Edinburgh Fringe Award, presented by Arts SA - 'B.L.I.P.S.'
Fiji Fringe Festival Tour Award, presented by Fiji Airways & Fiji Fringe - 'Oat Milk & Honey'
Holden Street Theatres Award - 'Dirty Energy' by Deus Ex Femina at Carclew and 'Trail's End' by Jannali Jones at Goodwood Theatre
Hollywood Fringe Tour Ready Award, presented by Hollywood Fringe - 'MOTORBOAT'
House of Oz Purse Prize, presented by Georgie Black - 'Gravity and Other Myths - Ten Thousand Hours'; 'Lewis Major - Repertoire'; 'Yozi - No Babies in the Sauna'; Clockfire Theatre - 'Plenty of Fish in the Sea'; and Michelle Pearson - 'Mixtape Australia'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo'
Mental health Awareness Award, presented by mindshare - 'Sam Kissajukian: Museum of Modernia'
My Plan Manager Access Award - 'Smiling Through the Human'
NZ Fringe Festival Wellington Tour Ready Award - 'Fool's Paradise'
One to Watch Award, presented by Matt Tarrant - Ryan Mason, 'Ryan Mason Disappointed His Parents'
Pick of the Fringe - 'Hans: Disco Spektakulär'
Sarah Rohrsheim Adelaide Fringe Fellowship Award - Chloe Castledine with 'So Fresh! Hits of the 2000s' and '80's Ladies'
Science at the Fringe Award, presented by Inspiring SA - 'KABOOM!'
Sustainability Award, presented by Visualcom - 'The End of Winter'
Take a Chance on Adelaide Award, presented by Ray and Conrad Henley-Calvert - 'Virtuoso'
The Eran Svigos Best Visual Art Award for Solo Exhibition - 'Sam Kissajukian: Painting of Modernia'
The Frank Ford Award - Stephen Noonan with 'the Boy & the Ball'
The FRINGE WORLD Tour Ready Award, presented by FRINGE WORLD - 'Maliphant x Major'
The Majorie Fitz-Gerald Encouragement Award for Costuming - 'Fountain Lakes: A Very Foxy Parody Musical'
The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award, presented by Melbourne Fringe - 'Bisexual Intellectuals'
The Sydney Fringe Tour Ready Award, presented by Sydney Fringe - 'Maliphant x Major'
Volunteer of the Year, presented by Lumo Energy SA - Marta Aujard

2023 Winners

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award - 'MoZzi X Inkatja: A New Moon 2023'
Access Award - 'Sheltered'
Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'The Marvellous Elephant Man: The Musical'
Adelaide Festival Centre's inSPACE Award - 'Be A Doll, Won't You'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - 'i know the end'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'Millicent Sarre is Opinionated'
BankSA Best Circus Award - 'Party Ghost'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'Scout Boxall - Buck Wild'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Unfolding' and 'Betwixt'
BankSA Best Eat & Drink Award - 'Comfort Food Cabaret'
BankSA Best Events, Workshops & Talks Award - 'Mali Isabel Art: Workshops'
BankSA Best Film & Digital or Interactive Award - 'Electric Dreams: work.txt'
BankSA Best Kids & Family Award - 'Circus Wonderland - A Neverland Adventure'
BankSA Best Magic Award - 'Ben Hart: Live'
BankSA Best Music Award - 'Come Together - The Beatles Rock Show'
BankSA Best Theatre & Physical Theatre Award - 'A Place That Belongs To Monsters'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Haza'
Best Emerging Producer presented by MILKE - Annie Schofield
Edinburgh Fringe Award - 'Oat Milk & Honey'
Holden Street Theatres Adelaide Fringe Award - 'Bimbo'
John Chataway Innovation Awar - 'Electric Dreams: Torrent'
Lumo Volunteer Award - Judi McLachlan
NZ Fringe Festival Wellington Tour Ready Award - 'Millicent Sarre is Opinionated'
One to Watch Award presented by Matt Tarrant - Olly Lawrence
Pick of the Fringe - 'Paul Dabek Presents - London Calling'
Sarah Rohrsheim Adelaide Fringe Fellowship Award - 'Charlie Caper & Malin Nilsson: More Minor Miracles'
Science at the Fringe Award presented by Inspiring SA - 'You Are A Doughnut'
Sustainability Award presented by Visualcom - 'Biophilia'
The Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - 'Monika Morgenstern: I Dwell In Possibility'
The Frank Ford Award - 'Hew Parham'
The FRINGE WORLD Tour Ready Award, presented by FRINGE WORLD - 'Fool's Paradise'
The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award, presented by Melbourne Fringe - 'The Coconuts - Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside'
The Sydney Fringe Tour Ready Award, presented by Sydney Fringe - 'Lien: One-to-One'

2022 Winners

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award - 'Steven Oliver: Bigger and Blacker'
Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'NAOMI'
Adelaide Festival Centre's InSPACE Fringe Award - 'All The Things I Couldn't Say'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - 'Diane Divine' and 'Kira Yang'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'Extra Ordinary'
BankSA Best Circus Award - 'The Defiant'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'Nurse Georgie Carroll - Sister Flo 2.0'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Evocacion'
BankSA Best Event, Workshops & Talks Award - 'Sky Song'
BankSA Best Film, Digital & Interactive Award - 'Electric Dreams: Goliath Playing with Reality'
BankSA Best Kids & Family Award - 'Return to the Village'
BankSA Best Magic Award - 'Raymond Crowe - UNUSUALISM
BankSA Best Music Award - 'Still Talkin' Bout a Revolution'
BankSA Best Theatre & Physical Theatre Award - 'The Fish Bowl'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Nutritional Index'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe - 'Garry Starr: Greece Lightning'
Best Emerging Producer presented by MILKE - Renee Auciello
Edinburgh Fringe Award presented by Arts South Australia - 'MANBO'
Holden Street Theatres Adelaide Fringe Award - 'The Fish Bowl'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'The BIG Picture Series @ The Port'
Mental Health Awareness Award presented by mindshare - 'NAOMI'
NZ Fringe Festival Wellington Tour Ready Award presented by NZ Fringe - 'EGG'
One to Watch Award presented by Matt Tarrant - 'TA DA - The Ramblings of a Magician'
Science at the Fringe Award presented by Inspiring SA - 'A Flying Photon'
Sustainability Award presented by Visualcom - 'Holy Bin Amoley'
The Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art (for solo exhibition) - 'Telling to move on when it's not over'
The Frank Ford Award - 'Lewis Major'
The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award presented by Melbourne Fringe - 'YOU'RE ALL INVITED TO MY SON SAMUEL'S FOURTH BIRTHDAY PARTY'

2021 Winners

Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'DIRT'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - 'White Rhino'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'Reuben Kaye'
BankSA Best Children's Event Award - 'Don't Mess with The Dummies'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'Barbaroi'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'The Umbilical Brothers - The Distraction'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'HĂśMAN'
BankSA Best Event, Workshop & Talks Award - 'BOREALIS'
BankSA Best Film & Digital and Interactive Award - '7 Days Notice'
BankSA Best Magic Award - 'Nick Nickolas: Gobsmacked'
BankSA Best Music Award - '27 Club' and 'First Nations Voices'
BankSA Best Theatre Award - 'Something in the Water'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'CONTACT'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe - 'INMA'
Best Emerging Producer presented by MILKE - Britt Plummer - 'The Baroque'
Edinburgh Fringe Award presented by Arts South Australia - 'Still Alive (and kicking)'
Holden Street Theatres Adelaide Fringe Award - 'Does It Please You?'
John Chataway Innovation Award - '#BlackBoxLive' and 'Mountain by Stalker'
Mental Health Awareness Award presented by mindshare - 'The Twins'
NZ Fringe Festival Wellington Tour Ready Award - 'The Jack and Annie Show'
Science at the Fringe Award presented by Inspiring SA - 'The Alphabet of Awesome Science'
South Australian Emerging Artist Awards presented by Tomich Wines - Nella
Sustainability Award presented by Visualcom - 'Eating Tomorrow'
The Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - 'The Guildhouse Collections Project: Ritual Nature by Ray Harris'
The Frank Ford Award - 'Patrick Livesey and Wil King - DIRT'
The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award, presented by Melbourne Fringe - 'Janet's Vagrant Love'

2020 Winners

Access Award presented by Deaf Can:Do - 'Wilbur The Optical Whale'
Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'Retrieve Your Jeans'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - HarleQueen
BankSA Best Cabert - 'Haus of Hans: Disco Spektakulär'
BankSA Best Children's - 'When the Mirror Bird Sings'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre - 'Rouge'
BankSA Best Comedy - 'TOM GLEESON - LIGHTEN UP' and 'Bella Green is Charging For It'
BankSA Best Dance - '[MIS]CONCEIVE'
BankSA Best Events, Workshops & Talks - 'Kurruru Contemporary Indigenous Dance Masterclass'
BankSA Best Film & Digital and Interactive Award - 'Mummy's Milk'
BankSA Best Magic - 'Charlie Caper - Magical'
BankSA Best Music - 'Groove Terminator and the Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House'
BankSA Best Theatre - 'Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design - 'Gin States and Desires'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe - 'Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster'
Best Emerging Producer presented by MILKE - 'Friendly Feminism For The Mild Mannered'
Holden Street Theatres Fringe Award - 'Dirty People' and 'Friendly Feminism For The Mild Mannered'
Hong Kong Tour Ready Award presented by Let's Be Together Arts Festival - 'The Final Hours Hour'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'Electric Dreams: Gloomy Eyes'
Made In Adelaide Award - 'FEMME'
NZ Fringe Festival Wellington Tour Ready Award - 'The Hilary Duff Film Re-Enactment Festival'
South Australian Emerging Artist Awards presented by Tomich Wines - 'Beautiful'
South Australia Graduate Award presented by Helpmann Academy - 'Material Girls'
Sustainability Award presented by Visualcom - 'Autoeulogy'
The Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - 'Kate Bohunnis - Material Girls'
The Frank Ford Award - Joanne Hartstone
The FRINGE WORLD Tour Ready Award, presented by FRINGE WORLD Festival - 'Friendly Feminism For The Mild Mannered'
The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award, presented by Melbourne Fringe - 'Disco Conversion Therapy'
The Peace Foundation Award - 'Kafka's Ape'

2019 Winners

Access Award - 'The National Wine Centre'
Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'Games by Henry Naylor'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - '30,000 Notes'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - 'YUCK Circus'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'Hans: Like A German'
BankSA Best Children's Event Award - 'Inside the Walls: A Giant Pop-Up Book Ghost Story'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'Casting Off'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'Justin Hamilton - The Ballad of John Tilt Animus'
BankSA Best Dance Award- 'FEMME'
BankSA Best Event Award - 'Refugee stories, secret recipes and dinner'
BankSA Best Film & Digital, Interactive, Workshops & Talks Award - 'TRUTHMACHINE'
BankSA Best Magic Award - 'RanDom'
BankSA Best Music Award - 'Alex Rossi & Friends: The After Party'
BankSA Best Theatre Award - 'Eurydice'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Proximal Orbit'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe - 'Matt Tarrant: MORE Unsolved'
Best Emerging Producer presented by MILKE - '30,000 Notes'
Eran Svigos Award for Visual Art - 'PLAYgROUNd'
Holden Street Theatres Adelaide Fringe Award - '30,000 Notes'
Hong Kong Tour Ready Award, presented by Let's Be Together Arts Festival - 'TRUTHMACHINE'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'The Maze'
Made in Adelaide Award - 'Just Desserts - Adults Only Tasting'
NZ Fringe Festival Wellington Tour Ready Award - 'The Marvellous Snake Bay'
People's Choice Award - 'Jackson vs Jackson'
South Australian Emerging Artist Award - 'Hand in Hand'
Sustainability Award - 'This Show is NOT Rubbish!'
The Frank Ford Award - 'A Migrant's Son'
The FRINGE WORLD Tour Ready Award - 'JELLY OR JAM'
The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award - 'TRUTHMACHINE'
The Peace Foundation Award - 'Alison Paradoxx presents Floral Peroxide' and 'Grounded'

2018 Winners

Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'Borders by Henry Naylor'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE Development Award - 'Aphrodite and the Invisible Consumer Gods'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - 'Laurie Black - Live' and 'Can I Get An Amen?!'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'Glittery Clittery - a conSENSUAL Party'
BankSA Best Children's Event Award - 'Saltbush - Children's Cheering Carpet'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'Elixir'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'Different Party: Trygve Wakenshaw and Barnie Duncan'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Not Today's Yesterday'
BankSA Best Event Award - 'Dupang Festival'
BankSA Best Film, Digital or Interactive Award - 'Wet Sounds'
BankSA Best Magic Award - 'Kevin Quantum: Anti Gravity'
BankSA Best Music Award - 'Ukulele Death Squad'
BankSA Best Theatre Award - 'Flesh & Bone'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Façade'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe - 'Choir of Man'
Best Emerging Producer, presented by MILKE - Joel Allan, General Manager, Raj House
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - 'Jess Taylor - 2018 Helpmann Academy Graduation Exhibition'
Holden Street Theatres Fringe Award - 'Abandon Ship!'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'Dion'
Made in Adelaide Award - 'Anya Anastasia - The Executioners'
Peace Foundation Award - 'Not Today's Yesterday'
The FRINGE WORLD Tour Ready Award - 'Carla Lippis'
The Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award - '19 Weeks'
The NZ Fringe Festival Wellington Tour Ready Award - 'Garry Starr Performs Everything'
UniSA Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Creative Arts - 'Dijuki Mala'

2017 Winners

Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'Angel by Henry Naylor'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'Stories in the Dark'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - 'Fauna'
Best Cabaret Award - 'Reuben Kaye: Success Story'
Best Children's Event Award - 'Then I Hate Children Children's Show'
Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'Notorious Strumpet and Dangerous Girl'
Best Dance Award - 'M.I.N.D.E.D'
Best Event Award - 'SANAA: A Better World Through Creativity'
Best Film & Digital Award - 'Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror'
Best Interactive Award - 'Wank Bank Masterclass'
Best Magic Award - 'Paul Dabek - Look at Me!'
Best Magic (High Commendation) - 'Kevin Quantum: Illuminations'
Best Music Award - 'YouTunes'
Best Theatre Award - '19 Weeks'
Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Beastly Projects'
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - Jenna Pippett, 'Levitate' (work exhibited in TRACK)
Holden Street Theatre Award - 'The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'GINGZILLA: Glamonster VS The World'
Made in Adelaide Award - 'The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign'
Peace Foundation Award - 'We Live By The Sea' and 'in[nate]ture'
Pick of the Fringe Award - 'Sirqus Alfon: I Am Somebody'
Tour Ready Award supported by Melbourne Fringe - 'GRUMBLE: Sex Clown Save The World'
Tour Ready Award supported by NZ Fringe - 'CULL'
Underbelly Edinburgh Award - 'Demi Lardner - Look What You Made Me Do'

2016 Awards

Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'The Element in the Room: A Radioactive Musical Comedy About the Death and Life of Marie Curie'
Adelaide Critics Circle (Commendation) - 'Echoes by Henry Naylor'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'The Isabetta Project'
Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - Ian Michael 'HART' and 'Total Nonstop Tricks'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'Exposing Edith'
BankSA Best Children's Event Award - 'The Road That Wasn't There'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre - 'Knee Deep'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'The Euology'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Untapped'
BankSA Best Event Award - 'An Evening With Annabel Crabb'
BankSA Best Film & Digital Award - 'Ka-Ching!'
BankSA Best Interactive Award - 'Ghost, Toast and the Things Unsaid'
BankSA Best Magic Award - 'Charlie Caper & Malin Nilsson: Minor Miracles'
BankSA Best Music Award - 'Jamie MacDowell and Tom Thum'
BankSA Best Theatre Award - 'Echoes by Henry Naylor'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Palmer Sculpture Biennial 2016'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe Award - 'California Crooners Club'
BankSA Talk Fringe Award - 'Festival Statesmen: Homecoming'
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - 'GRIT'
Holden Street Theatres Fringe Award - 'Dropped'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'PULPSHOW'
Minter Ellison 'Fringe & Beyond' Award - 'Caetlyn Collins (Who Is Bumble Weaver)'
The Peace Foundation Award - 'Labels by Joe Sellman-Leava'
Tour Ready Award - Supported by Melbourne Fringe - 'Adam Page - Chairman of the Beard'
Underbelly Edinburgh Award - 'GRUMBLE: Sex Clown Save The World - Emma Maye'

2015 Winners

Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'Smashed'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'The Awkward Years'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'Yana Alana - Between the Cracks'
BankSA Best Children's Presentation Award - 'Trash Test Dummies'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'Briefs: The Second Coming'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'Trygve Wakenshaw: KRAKEN'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Djuki Mala (The Chooky Dancers)'
BankSA Best Music Award - 'Tubular Bells For Two'
BankSA Best Theatre Award - 'Fake it 'til you Make it by Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Translucent Shadows'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe Award - 'Velvet'
BankSA Talk Fringe Award - Deception: More Deceit'
Emerging Artist Award - 'Penny Geenhalgh - POP POP'
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - 'Mira Oosterweghel - Uncomfortable Gesture'
Holden Street Theatres Adelaide Fringe Award - 'Antillia'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'Cadence'
Minter Ellison 'Fringe & Beyond' Award - 'McNirt Hates Dirt'
The Peace Foundation Award - 'Blood at the Root by Dominque Morisseau'
Tour Ready Award - Supported by Melbourne Fringe - 'The Colloquy of JG and the Girl' presented by Niki Rydon
Underbelly Edinburgh Award - 'Cut by Duncan Graham and performed by Hannah Norris' and 'Sam Simmons - Spaghetti For Breakfast'

2014 Winenrs

Adelaide Critic Circle Award - 'Notoriously Yours'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'Notoriously Yours'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'In Vogue - Songs by Madonna / Sweet Dreams - SOngs by Annie Lennox'
BankSA Best Children's Presentation Award - 'The Luck Child'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'A Simple Space'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'The Boy with Tape on his Face: MORE TAPE'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Flamenqueando'
BankSA Best Music Award - 'Katie Noonan & Circa: Love-Song-Circus'
BankSA Best Theatre Award - 'The Bunker Trilogy'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Testing Ground'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe Award - 'The Boy with Tape on his Face: MORE TAPE'
BankSA Talk Fringe Award - 'Deception'
Emerging Artist Award - Woodcourt Art Theatre
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - 'New Works by Tsering Hannaford'
Flinders University 'Behind the Scenes' Award - 'Notoriously Yours'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'Now We Can Talk'
Minter Ellison 'Fringe & Beyond' Award - 'A Gaggle of Saints'
The Peace Foundation Award - 'A Sense of Home' and 'A Special Day'
Tour Ready Award - Supported by Melbourne Fringe - 'You Wanna Talk About It'

2013 Winners

Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'Glory Dazed'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'The Book of Loco'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'Tommy Bradson - Sweet Sixteen or The Birthday Party Massacre'
BankSA Best Children's Presentation Award - 'Squaring The Wheel'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'Fright or Flight'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'Kitty Flanagan - Hello Kitty Flanagan'
BankSA Best, Emerging Award - 'Wolf Creek: The Musical'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Life in Miniature'
BankSA Best Music Award - 'The Idea of North'
BankSA Best Theatre Performer Award  - Lucy Hopkins in 'Le Fouland'
BankSA Best Theatre Production Award - 'The Book of Loco'
BankSA Best Venue Award - Birdwood Exhibition Centre
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'TAR'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe Award - 'Circolombia' and 'Limbo'
BankSA Talk Fringe Award - '3'
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art - 'Jess Dare - The Nature of Memory'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'Leo'
Tour Ready Award - Supported by Melbourne Fringe - 'Homage to Uncertainty'

2012 Winners

Adelaide Critics Circle Best in Fringe Award - 'Sons & Mothers'
Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'Sons & Mothers'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'EastEnd Cabaret: The Revolution Will Be Sexual'
BankSA Best Children's Presentation Award - 'Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown - The Kid's Show'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'This is what we do for a living'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'Michael Workman - Mercy'
BankSA Best Comedy, Emerging Award - 'Abandoman'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Where did it all go right?'
BankSA Best Music Award  - 'Rapskallion'
BankSA Best Puppetry Award - 'The Buffoon's Play'
BankSA Best Theatre Performer Award - Pauline Knowles
BankSA Best Theatre Production Award - 'Sons & Mothers'
BankSA Best Venue Award - Queen's Theatre
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design Award - 'Art, Pattern and Complexity'
BankSA Pick of the Fringe Award - 'La Soirée'
BankSA Talk Fringe Award - 'MindBlown'
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art Award - 'Art, Pattern and Complexity'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'Uta Uber Kool Ja'
The Peace Trust Award - 'seven kilometres north-east'
Tour Ready Award - Supported by Melbourne Fringe - 'Sepia'
Underbelly Edinburgh Award - 'Tom Thum'

2011 Winners

Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'Rocket Town'
BankSA Best Cabaret Award - 'The Damsel In Shining Armour'
BankSA Best Children's Presentation Award - 'Scaredy Kat'
BankSA Best Circus & Physical Theatre Award - 'Mothlight'
BankSA Best Comedy Award - 'Sam Simmons and The Precise History of Things'
BankSA Best Comedy, Emerging Award - 'Beer and Loathing'
BankSA Best Dance Award - 'Min Min'
BankSA Best Music Award - 'Adam Page Solo'
BankSA Best Puppetry Award - 'Sticks Stones Broken Bones'
BankSA Best Theatre Performer Award - 'Bound (The Ensemble)'
BankSA Best Theatre Production Award - 'Nothing Is Really Difficult: Neits Is Echt Moeilijk'
BankSA Best Venue Award - 'Tuxedo Cat'
BankSA Best Visual Art & Design, Emerging Award - 'Micromachina - Scott Bain'
BankSA Best Innovation Award - 'Cantina'
BankSA Best TalkFringe.com People's Choice Award - Sound & Fury's 'Spaceship Man'
Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art Award - 'Home Stories - Adelaide Central Gallery'
John Chataway Innovation Award - 'Skip Miller's Hit Songs'
Peace Trust Award - 'Trapped'
The Advertiser and Adelaide Critics Circle Award - 'Catina'
Tour Ready Award - Supported by Melbourne Fringe - 'Freefall'
Underbelly Edinburgh Award - 'The Lounge Room Confabulators'

2010 Winners

Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE: Development Award - 'Too Far Again, Not Far Enough'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Cabaret - 'Where Was I?'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Circus - 'Freefall'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Dance - 'Too Far Again, Not Far Enough'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Emerging Comedian - 'Granny Flaps - Opens Up'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Established Comedian - 'Stephen Sheehan' and 'Stevl Shefen and his Translator Fatima'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Exhibition By A Collective - 'Format Festival'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Fringe Venue Operation - Arcade Lane
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Music - 'C.W. Stoneking'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Puppetry - 'The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Theatre Performer - David Calvitto 'The Event'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Theatre Production - 'en route'
BankSA People's Choice Award - 'Words They Make With Their Mouths'
BankSA Support Act Award - 'When The Sex is Gone'
Eran Svigos Award for Best Body of Work By An Individual - Violet Cooper 'The Cars That Ate Screamdance'

2009 Winners

Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Cabaret - 'The Wet Spots'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Emerging Comedian - 'Insecuriosity'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Established Comedian - 'The Boy With Tape On His Face'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Exhibition By A Collective - 'Revealing Meaning In Cloth'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Music - 'Dallas Frasca'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Theatre Performance - 'Hannah Norris: After The End'
Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Theatre Production - 'Six Minutes Soul Mate'
BankSA Support Act Award - 'The Boy With Tape On His Face'
Eran Svigos Award for Best Exhibition By An Individual - 'Touching Base'

2008 Winners

Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Cabaret - 'MEOW MEOW IN BEYOND GLAMOUR: THE ABSINTHE TOUR'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Comedy - 'Mark Watson - Can I Briefly Talk to You About the Point of Life?'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Dance - 'Seven'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Exhibition by a Collective - 'C E L L A R SWEATSHOP'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Performing Arts Venue - Holden Street Theatres
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Puppetry - 'Grandpa Sol & Lily's Grandma Rosie'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Theatre - 'The Smile Off Your Face'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Theatre (emergin artist commendation) - Edwin Kemp-Attrill
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Visual Arts Venue - Higher Ground
BankSA Support Act Award - 'Trouble on the Planet Earth'
BankSA TalkFringe Rave Review Award - 'Sound & Fury's Cyranose'
Eran Svigos Award: Best Exhibition by an Individual - 'Red Moon Mountain Bloom'
Heineken Award for Shameless Self-Promotion - Penny Ashton
MySpace Award for Best Music at Adelaide Fringe - 'The Twoks'
Spirit of the Fringe Award - The Garden of Unearthly Delights

2007 Winners

Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Cabaret by an Emerging Artist - 'Introducing Beau Heartbreaker'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Cabaret by an Established Artist - 'Women with Standards'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Dance/Physical Theatre/Circus by Emerging Artist - 'Menagerie'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Dance/Physical Theatre/Circus by Established Artist - 'Tarnished'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Emerging Comedy - 'Wrong and Broken'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Established Comedy - 'Shame 101'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Music Venue - The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Theatre - 'Politely Savage' and 'Rubeville'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Theatre Venue - The Black Lung
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Visual Art Exhibition - 'Mint'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Visual Arts Venue - The Drill Hall, Torrens Training Ground
BankSA Support Act Award - 'Hannah Gadsby'
Spirit of the Fringe Award - 'Higher Ground'

2006 Winners

Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Cabaret - 'Eddie Perfect: Drink Pepsi, Bitch'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Circus/Physical Theatre - 'Circus Ole'
Adelaide Fringe Award: Best Theatre - 'Angry Young Man'
Adelaide Fringe Yep Award - 'Inna Thigh - The Sista She Story'
Adelaide Fringe Youth Award - 'Landed'
BankSA Support Act Award - 'Black Crow Lullabies - One Long Night in the Land of Nod'
Individual Award - 'Sarah Niles - The Bogus Woman'
Off the Couch Music Award - 'Mr Wednesday'
Spirit of the Fringe Award: Show - 'Highway Rock 'n' Roll Disaster'
Spirit of the Fringe Award: Venue - Sideshow Paradiso
Banner image: The Defiant. Photo: Jenny Kwok, Adelaide Fringe 2023