| Year | Title | Nominee | Genre |
2001
| - | - | - |
2001
| Skin | Stephen Page | Ballet or Dance |
2001
| The Boy From Oz | Nick Enright | Musicals |
2001
| Life After George | Hannie Rayson | Theatre |
2001
| The Theft of Sita | Nigel Jamieson | |
2002
| - | - | - |
2002
| Batavia | Richard Mills and Peter Goldsworthy | Opera |
2002
| Corroboree | Stephen Page | Ballet or Dance |
2002
| Mavis Goes to Timor | Angela Chaplin, Katherine Thomson and Kavisha Mazzella | Theatre |
2002
| A Man with Five Children | Nick Enright | Theatre |
2003
| - | - | - |
2003
| Walkabout | Stephen Page and Frances Rings | Ballet or Dance |
2003
| Bill and Mary | Bille Brown | Theatre |
2003
| Love in the Age of Therapy | Paul Grabowsky and Joanna Murray-Smith | Opera |
2003
| Oboe Concerto for Diana Doherty | Ross Edwards | Classical Music |
2004
| - | - | - |
2004
| Inheritance | Hannie Rayson | Theatre |
2004
| Phobia | Douglas Horton and Gerry Brophy | |
2004
| Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scenes | Stephen Sewell | Theatre |
2004
| Held | Garry Stewart, ADT Dancers and Lois Greenfield | Ballet or Dance |
2005
| - | - | - |
2005
| The Sapphires | Tony Briggs | Theatre |
2005
| Madeline Lee | John Haddock with Michael Campbell | Opera |
2005
| Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed | David Brown | Theatre |
2005
| Through the Wire | Ros Horin | Theatre |
2006
| - | - | - |
2006
| Devolution | Garry Stewart | Ballet or Dance |
2006
| On the Case | Debra Batton and Mark Murphy | Physical or Visual Theatre |
2006
| Small Metal Objects | Bruce Gladwin, Simon Laherty, Sonia Teuben, Genevieve Morris and Jim Russel | Theatre |
2006
| Sydney Symphony Contemporary Music Festival: Mysterium Cosmographicum | Michael Smetanin | Classical Music |
2007
| - | - | - |
2007
| The Lost Echo | Barrie Kosky and Tom Wright | Theatre |
2007
| The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom | Alan John and John Clarke with Doug MacLeod | Musicals / Presentation for Children |
2007
| Structure and Sadness | Lucy Guerin | Ballet or Dance |
2007
| Honour Bound | Nigel Jamieson | Visual or Physical Theatre |
2007
| The Love of the Nightingale | Richard Mills and Timberlake Wertenbaker | Opera |
2007
| Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott | Musicals |
2008
| - | - | - |
2008
| Toy Symphony | Michael Gow | Theatre |
2008
| Parramatta Girls | Alana Valentine | Theatre |
2008
| Glow | Gideon Obarzanek | Ballet or Dance |
2008
| When the Rain Stops Falling | Andrew Bovell | Theatre |
2009
| - | - | - |
2009
| Shane Warne: The Musical | Eddie Perfect | Musicals |
2009
| Just Macbeth! | Andy Griffiths | Theatre / Presentation for Children |
2009
| FOOD COURT | Back to Back Theatre with The Necks | Theatre |
2009
| Metro Street | Matthew Robinson | Musicals |
2010
| - | - | - |
2010
| Smoke and Mirrors | Sydney Festival, Spiegeltent International, Craig Ilott and iOTA | Cabaret |
2010
| Miracle | BalletLab and Phillip Adams | Ballet or Dance |
2010
| Bliss | Brett Dean and Amanda Holden | Opera |
2010
| Dirtsong | The Black Arm Band with Steven Richardson and Alexis Wright | |
2011
| - | - | - |
2011
| Tim Minchin Vs Sydney Symphony | Tim Minchin and Sydney Symphony | Comedy |
2011
| Finucane and Smith's Carnival of Mysteries | Finucane and Smith | Cabaret |
2011
| Silent Disco | Lachlan Philpott | Theatre |
2011
| Moth | Declan Greene | Theatre |
2011
| Where the Heart Is | Expressions Dance Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre | Ballet or Dance |
2011
| Songs from the Middle | Eddie Perfect | |
2012
| - | - | - |
2012
| Angela's Kitchen | Paul Capsis, Julian Meyrick and Hilary Bell | Theatre |
2012
| Kursk: An Oratorio Requiem | David Chisholm | Classical Music |
2012
| Ganesh Versus the Third Reich | Mark Deans, Marcia Ferguson, Bruce Gladwin, Nicki Holland, Simon Laherty, Sarah Mainwaring, Scott Price, Kate Sulan, Brian Tilley and David Woods | Theatre |
2012
| Symphonia Eluvium | Elena Kats-Chernin | Classical Music |
2012
| Songs for Nobodies | Joanna Murray-Smith | Theatre |
2013
| - | - | - |
2013
| The Secret River | Kate Grenville. Adapted for the stage by Andrew Bovell | Theatre |
2013
| Midnight Son | Gordon Kerry and Louis Nowra | Opera |
2013
| The Happiest Refugee | Anh Do | |
2013
| King Kong | Craig Lucas, Marius de Vries, Michael Mitnick and Richard Thomas, featuring Songs and Original Compositions by 3D, Guy Garvey, Sarah McLachlan, Justice and The Avalanches | Musicals |
2013
| Medea | Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks | Theatre |
2013
| School Dance | Matthew Whittet | Theatre |
2014
| - | - | - |
2014
| Pinocchio | Rosemary Myers with Julianne O'Brien | Musicals / Presentation for Children |
2014
| Wulamanayuwi & the Seven Pamanui | Jason De Santis & Eamon Flack | Theatre / Presentation for Children |
2014
| The Shadow King | Tom E. Lewis and Michael Kantor | Theatre |
2014
| Black Diggers | Tom Wright | Theatre |
2015
| - | - | - |
2015
| The Rabbits | Kate Miller-Heidke, Lally Katz and Iain Grandage | Opera / Presentation for Children |
2015
| Little Bird | Nicki Bloom, Quentin Grant and Cameron Goodall | |
2015
| What Rhymes with Cars and Girls | Aidan Fennessy and Tim Rogers | Theatre |
2015
| Marlin | Damien Millar | Theatre / Presentation for Children |
2015
| Switzerland | Joanna Murray-Smith | Theatre |
2015
| Endings | Tamara Saulwick & Peter Knight | |
2016
| - | - | - |
2016
| Ladies in Black | Carolyn Burns and Tim Finn with Simon Phillips | Musicals |
2016
| Prize Fighter | Future D. Fidel | Theatre |
2016
| Bambert's Book of Lost Stories | Dan Giovannoni and Luke Kerridge | Theatre / Presentation for Children |
2016
| The Gallipoli Symphony | Christopher Latham, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Gareth Farr, Richard Nunns, Graeme Koehne AO, Peter Sculthorpe AO OBE, Elena Kats-Chernin, Kamran Ince, Ross Harris, Andrew Schultz, Ross Edwards and Demir Demirkan | Classical Music |
2016
| lore | Frances Rings, Deborah Brown and Waangenga Blanco | Dance |
2016
| Picnic at Hanging Rock | Tom Wright | Theatre |
2017
| - | - | - |
2017
| The Drover's Wife | Leah Purcell | Theatre |
2017
| Hot Brown Honey | Busty Beatz and Lisa Fa’alafi | Cabaret |
2017
| The Wider Earth | David Morton | Theatre |
2017
| Jasper Jones | Kate Mulvany | Theatre |
2017
| Backbone | Darcy Grant, Elliot Zoerner, Shenton Gregory, Geoff Cobham, Jacob Randell, Jascha Boyce, Simon McClure, Lachlan Binns, Mieke Lizotte, Lewie West, Martin Schreiber, Joanne Curry, Lachlan Harper, Jackson Manson, Triton Tunis-Mitchell and Lewis Rankin | Visual or Physical Theatre |
2017
| Girl Asleep | Matthew Whittet | Theatre |
2018
| - | - | - |
2018
| Bennelong | Stephen Page | Ballet or Dance |
2018
| Hamlet | Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn | Opera |
2018
| Muriel's Wedding The Musical | PJ Hogan, Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall | Musicals |
2018
| Black is the New White | Nakkiah Lui | Theatre |
2018
| Laser Beak Man | Nicholas Paine, David Morton, Tim Sharp and Sam Cromack | Theatre |
2018
| Lano & Woodley — Fly | Colin Lane and Frank Woodley | Comedy |
2019
| - | - | - |
2019
| Counting and Cracking | S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack | Theatre |
2019
| Spinifex Gum | Felix Riebl | Contemporary Music |
2019
| Barbara and the Camp Dogs | Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine | Musicals |
2019
| Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death | Nakkiah Lui | Theatre |
2019
| The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two | Kate Mulvany | Theatre |
2019
| Lé Nør | The Last Great Hunt and Artistic Collaborators | Theatre |