Awards: Montana Medal: Heather Nicholson, The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand Deutz Medal: Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck Reader's Choice: Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck First Book Awards Fiction: Willian Brandt, Alpha Male Poetry: Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars Non-Fiction: Helen Schamroth, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists See 1999 in art, 1999 in literature, :Category:1999 books Music New Zealand Music Awards Winners are shown first with nominees underneath. Album of the Year: The Feelers - Supersystem Che Fu - 2b S Pacific Neil Finn - Try Whistling This Single of the Year: Che Fu - Scene III The Feelers - Venus Ardijah - Love So Right Top Male Vocalist: Neil Finn Dave Dobbyn James Reid (The Feelers) Top Female Vocalist: Betty-Anne Monga (Ardijah) Sulata Foai (Te Vaka) Alesha Siosiua (Urban Pacifika) Top Group: The Feelers Ardijah Shihad Most Promising Male Vocalist: Andrew Tilby (Breathe) King Kapisi Nathan King (Zed) Most Promising Female Vocalist: Boh Runga (Stellar*) Liz Faalogo (NV) Sina Saipaia Most Promising Group: Stellar* Breathe Zed International Achievement: Bic Runga Neill Finn The Feelers Best Music Video: Reuben Sutherland Wait & See (Shihad) Sima & Makerita Urale- Sub Cranium Feeling (King Kapisi) Mark Tierney & Fiona Champtloup - Unlikely (NV) Best Producer: Malcolm Welsford & The Feelers - Supersystem Eddie Raynor - ENZSO 2 Che Fu & Andy Morton - 2b Spacific (Che Fu) Best Engineer: Andy Morton - 2BS Pacific (Che Fu) Sam Gibson - Try Whistling This (Neil Finn) Malcolm Welsford - Supersystem (The Feelers) Best Jazz Album: Chris White / Aaron Nevezie Quartet - Take Me With You Wil Sargisson - Steppin'Out Rodger Fox Quartet - Back To Being One Best Classical Album: Alexander Ivashkin - Under The Southern Cross Tamas Vesmas - Debussy, Bartok Piano Music New Zealand String Quartet - Bartok The Six Quartets Best Country Album: Barry Saunders - Magnetic South Glen Moffat - A Place To Play Home Tonight - Coalrangers Best Folk Album: Windy City Strugglers - On Top of the World Gallowglass - Sparven Philip Riley & Jayne Elleson - The Blessing Tree Best Gospel Album: Parachute Band - Always & Forever Debbie Harwood and Friends - Angels - The New Zealand Christmas Album Steve Apirana - It's Inevitable Best Mana Maori Album: Moana and the Moa Hunters - Rua Hori Chapman - Toku Reo Waihirere Maori Club - Waihirere -National Champions