2002 Te Pukaemi o te Tau Album of the Year Anika Moa – Thinking Room Neil Finn – One Nil Salmonella Dub – Inside The Dub Plates Communicate – The Feelers
2002 Te Tino Waiata o te Tau Single of the Year Aaria – Kei A Wai Ra Te Kupu Anika Moa – Youthful Nesian Mystik – Nesian Style Salmonella Dub – Love Your Ways
2002 Te Tino Kāhui Manu Taki o te Tau Best Group The Feelers - Communicate Zed - Silencer
2002 Mana Reo Brannigan Kaa -Taputapu T-Sistaz -Whakamanahia
2002 Te Kaituhura Puoro Toa o te Tau Breakthrough Artist K'Lee – Broken Wings Pluto – Red Light Syndrome
2002 Tohu Tutuki o te Ao International Achievement Nathan Haines Anika Moa
2002 Children’s Kids Music Company Singers - On A High Note II Michelle Scullion - Peaks To Plains
2002 Classical New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Landscapes Gareth Farr - Warriors From Pluto
2002 Country Beau Redding -Dime Box Dennis Marsh - Faded Love
2002 Electronic Rhian Sheehan - Paradigm Shift Shapeshifter - Real Time
2002 Te Manu Taki Ahurea o te Tau Best Folk Artist Beverley Young – The Tinkerman's Daughter Jacky Tarr - Defenestration Phil Garland - Swag O' Dreams
2002 Urban / Hip Hop Dark Tower – Canterbury Drafts
2002 Jazz Nathan Haines - Sound Travels The Rodger Fox Big Band - Warriors
2002 Te Taumata o te Pūkenga Oro Best Engineer Luke Tomes - Magic Line (Stellar*) Simon Holloway - Broken Wings (K-Lee)
2002 Music Video Garry Sullivan - Seed (Dimmer) Ed Davis and Paul McLaney - Complicated (Gramsci)
2002 Producer Malcolm Welsford -Scorpio Writing (Garageland) Paddy Free & Salmonella Dub - Inside The Dub Plates (Salmonella Dub)
2002 NZ Music Radio Programmer Dallas Gurney - ZM Network David Ridler - Channel Z Marty Lindsay - Star FM Wanganui
2002 Album Cover Che Fu, Kelvin Soh – Navigator (Che Fu) Shayne Carter, Andrew B. White – I Believe You Are A Star (Dimmer)
2002 Best Male Vocalist Neil Finn – One Nil Tiki Taane – Inside The Dubplates
2002 Film Soundtrack / Cast Recording / Compilation Th Dudes - Where Are Th Girls Various - Live At Helens
2002 Lifetime Achievement
2002 Mana Māori Ruia and Ranea - Waiata Of Bob Marley Te Ati Kimihia -Te Ati Kimihia and The Children Of Tane
2002 Most Promising Female Boh Runga - Magic Line Hayley Westenra - Hayley Westenra
2002 Songwriter Che Fu – Fade Away James Reid and Donald Reid – Communicate (The Feelers)
2002 Worship Felt - Colour Of The Sky Parachute Band - Amazing