Helpmann Award for Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production
The Helpmann Award for Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production is a theatre award presented by Live Performance Australia at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001. The Helpmann Awards are Australia's national awards for live performance.
The award typically covers productions of physical theatre, circus, puppetry and other visual theatre.
Winners and nominees
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| Year | Title | Production company |
| 2001 (1st) | - | - |
| 2001 (1st) | Slava’s Snowshow | Back Row Productions and International Management Group |
| 2001 (1st) | Pom Pom | Patch Company |
| 2001 (1st) | Circus Oz | Circus Oz |
| 2001 (1st) | The Hobbit | Malcolm C. Cooke & Associates and Ztudio Pty Ltd |
| 2002 (2nd) | - | - |
| 2002 (2nd) | Same, Same But Different | Performing Lines in association with Sydney Festival |
| 2002 (2nd) | Circus Oz Sydney Season | Circus Oz |
| 2002 (2nd) | Puppetry of the Penis | Ross Mollison Productions |
| 2002 (2nd) | Stringraphy Ensemble | Melbourne Festival in association with Victorian Arts Centre |
| 2003 (3rd) | - | - |
| 2003 (3rd) | Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish | Windmill Performing Arts |
| 2003 (3rd) | Circus Oz 2003 Season | Circus Oz |
| 2003 (3rd) | Still Angela | Playbox Theatre |
| 2003 (3rd) | Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters | Zen Zen Zo |
| 2004 (4th) | - | - |
| 2004 (4th) | acrobat | Melbourne International Festival |
| 2004 (4th) | Eora Crossing | Sydney Festival, Legs on the Wall, Museum of Sydney |
| 2004 (4th) | H2O - a fantastical voyage | Spare Parts Puppet Theatre |
| 2005 (5th) | - | - |
| 2005 (5th) | Compagnie Philippe Genty Vanishing Point | Arts Projects Australia |
| 2005 (5th) | The Lazy Kings | Sydney Festival |
| 2005 (5th) | Provenance | Melbourne International Arts Festival and Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes |
| 2005 (5th) | The Red Tree | Queensland Performing Arts Centre's Out of the Box Festival of Early Childhood Learning |
| 2006 (6th) | - | - |
| 2006 (6th) | On the Case | Legs on the Wall |
| 2006 (6th) | Bright Abyss | La Compagnie du Hanneton presented by Sydney Festival |
| 2006 (6th) | PreTender | Buzz Dance Theatre |
| 2007 (7th) | - | - |
| 2007 (7th) | Honour Bound | Sydney Opera House |
| 2007 (7th) | The 7 Fingers | The Arts Centre |
| 2007 (7th) | La Clique | Spiegletent International presented by Sydney Festival and the Victorian Arts Centre |
| 2007 (7th) | The Space Between | Circa presented by Sydney Festival |
| 2008 (8th) | - | - |
| 2008 (8th) | Mortal Engine | Chunky Move presented by Sydney Festival |
| 2008 (8th) | Au Revoir Parapluie | Presented by Sydney Festival |
| 2008 (8th) | Paradise City | Branch Nebula produced by Performing Lines |
| 2008 (8th) | Secret | Cirque Ici presented by Sydney Festival |
| 2009 (9th) | - | - |
| 2009 (9th) | Compagnie Philippe Genty - Lands End | Arts Projects Australia |
| 2009 (9th) | 30th Birthday Bash | Circus Oz |
| 2009 (9th) | At First Sight | National Institute of Circus Arts |
| 2009 (9th) | Cinderella On Ice | Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, Tony Mercer, David Atkins Enterprises and Vladislav Olenin |
| 2010 (10th) | - | - |
| 2010 (10th) | This Kind of Ruckus | version 1.0 inc |
| 2010 (10th) | Africa | Malthouse Theatre and My Darling Patricia |
| 2010 (10th) | Metamorphosis | Ten Days on the Island |
| 2010 (10th) | Traces | Arts Projects Australia |
| 2011 (11th) | - | - |
| 2011 (11th) | Not In A Million Years | Force Majeure |
| 2011 (11th) | Propaganda | HotHouse Theatre and Acrobat |
| 2011 (11th) | Shanghai Lady Killer | Stalker Theatre presented by Brisbane Festival |
| 2011 (11th) | Wunderkammer | Brisbane Festival presents |
| 2012 (12th) | - | - |
| 2012 (12th) | CIRCA | Circa |
| 2012 (12th) | The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik:Deep Sea Explorer | Perth Theatre Company presents a Weeping Spoon production |
| 2012 (12th) | The Man the Sea Saw by Wolfe Bowart | SpoonTree Productions |
| 2012 (12th) | Raoul | La Compagnie du Hanneton presented by Perth International Arts Festival |
| 2013 (13th) | - | - |
| 2013 (13th) | S | Circa |
| 2013 (13th) | Concrete & Bone Sessions | Branch Nebula and Performing Lines presented by Sydney Festival |
| 2013 (13th) | It's Dark Outside | Tim Watts, Arielle Gray and Chris Isaacs presented by Perth Theatre Company |
| 2013 (13th) | Murder | Erth Visual & Physical Inc, produced by Intimate Spectacle, presented by Adelaide Festival, Sydney Festival & Ten Days on the Island |
| 2014 (14th) | - | - |
| 2014 (14th) | Whelping Box | Branch Nebula, Matt Prest & Clare Britton, produced by Intimate Spectacle & Performing Lines, presented by Performance Space & Arts House |
| 2014 (14th) | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Dmitry Krymov's Laboratory and Perth International Arts Festival |
| 2014 (14th) | Circus Under My Bed | Sydney Opera House, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus |
| 2014 (14th) | Opus | Circa, a Nuits de Fourvière production/ Département du Rhône, coproduced with Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg, GREC Festival of Barcelona, Le Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf, Düsseldorf Festival, Barbican Theatre, CACCV Espace Jean Legendre-Compiegne, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Brisbane Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and Melbourne Festival |
| 2015 (15th) | - | - |
| 2015 (15th) | The Paper Architect | Davy and Kristin McGuire and Perth International Arts Festival |
| 2015 (15th) | Beyond by Circa | Arts Centre Melbourne and Circa |
| 2015 (15th) | Dislocate's If These Walls Could Talk | Marguerite Pepper Productions presented by Melbourne Festival |
| 2015 (15th) | Tabac Rouge | Compagnie du Hanneton presented by Sydney Festival |
| 2016 (16th) | - | - |
| 2016 (16th) | Il Ritorno | Brisbane Festival and Circa |
| 2016 (16th) | Tangi Wai... the cry of water | Victoria Hunt, Artful Management and Performance Space |
| 2016 (16th) | Plexus | Compagnie 111 – Aurélien Bory and Perth International Arts Festival |
| 2016 (16th) | The Last Blast | The Farm and Bleach* Festival |
| 2017 (17th) | - | - |
| 2017 (17th) | Snake Sessions | Branch Nebula and Intimate Spectacle toured by Arts on Tour |
| 2017 (17th) | Mermermer | Chunky Move |
| 2017 (17th) | Sediment | Company 2 |
| 2017 (17th) | Still Life | Dimitris Papaioannou and Sydney Festival |
| 2018 (18th) | - | - |
| 2018 (18th) | TIDE | Bleach* Festival and The Farm |
| 2018 (18th) | Limbo Unhinged | Strut and Fret Production House |
| 2018 (18th) | Carrion | Justin Shoulder |
| 2018 (18th) | White Spirit | Zaman Production and Galerie Itinerrance in collaboration with the Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac |
| 2019 (19th) | - | - |
| 2019 (19th) | Out of Chaos... | Gravity and Other Myths |
| 2019 (19th) | PLAYLIST | PYT Fairfield |
| 2019 (19th) | Personal | Jodee Mundy Collaborations |
| 2019 (19th) | Man With The Iron Neck | Legs On The Wall |