In 2006 Hilltop Hoods were nominated for five ARIA Awards – the first ever for an Australian hip hop group – winning in two categories : ' Best Urban Release ' and ' Best Independent Release ' . The following year they won ' Best Urban Release ' at the ARIA Awards for '' The Hard Road : Restrung '' . The album was also nominated for ' Best Independent Release ' and ' Best Cover Art ' by John Engelhardt . The DVD '' City of Light '' was nominated as ' Best Music DVD ' at the 2008 ARIA awards . At the 2009 ARIA Awards they won ' Best Urban Album ' for a third time – for '' State of the Art '' and DJ Debris won an award for ' Engineer of the Year ' for his work on that album . At the ARIA Music Awards of 2012 , Hilltop Hoods won its fourth award in the ' Best Urban Album ' category for '' Drinking from the Sun '' ; as of November 2012 , the group has won six awards from twenty nominations . At the 2012 ARIA Awards , established Aboriginal Australian band , Yothu Yindu , was inducted into the Hall of Fame . A photograph of Suffa holding the award in the presence of the band was posted on the Hilltop Hoods ' Instagram profile , accompanied by the following comment : " A memory I 'll take to the grave . Meeting Yothu Yindi and having them let me hold their Hall of Fame ARIA . What a beautiful induction . " The band was nominated in three ARIA categories in 2014 : Best Group , Best Urban Album , and Engineer Of The Year . In an October 2014 radio interview , Smith said that the band does not expect to win an award , but wishes the best for the winners ; however , the Best Urban Album award was given to the band on 26 November 2014 , providing the band with their seventh ARIA award
ARIA Music Awards of 2012
ARIA Music Awards of 2012
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