Country Australia | First awarded 2013 Instituted 2013 | |
Winners & Nominees MasterChef AustraliaMarty Benson - Tim Toni - Rob Wallace, MasterChef Australia, Winner, My Kitchen RulesRikkie Proost - Joe Herdman - Matthew Apps, My Kitchen Rules, Nominee, First DatesGeraldine Orrock - Rikkie Proost - Brad Gustafson, First Dates, Nominee, The RecruitDuane Hatherly - Lara Hopkins - Frances O'Riordan -, The Recruit, Nominee, MasterChef AustraliaMarty Benson - Tim Toni - Margaret Bashfield -, MasterChef Australia, Winner, My Kitchen RulesEvan Wilkes - Rikkie Proost - Matthew Apps, My Kitchen Rules, Nominee, The Voice (AU)Richard Rietveld, The Voice (AU), Nominee, The Real Housewives of MelbourneKylie Washington-Brook - Virginia Hodgson - Lisa Potasz, The Real Housewives of Melbourne, Nominee, The X Factor (Australia)Digby Mitchell, The X Factor (Australia), Nominee, The Voice (AU)Julie Ward, The Voice (AU), Winner, MasterChef AustraliaKeely Sonntag - Dave Forrester - David McDonald -, MasterChef Australia, Nominee, The X Factor (Australia)Jonathon Summerhayes, The X Factor (Australia), Nominee, The Voice KidsJulie Ward, The Voice Kids, Nominee, MasterChef Australia: The ProfessionalsTim Toni - David McDonald - Margaret Bashfield -, MasterChef Australia: The Professionals, Winner, My Kitchen RulesEvan Wilkes - Rikkie Proost - Greg Swanborough -, My Kitchen Rules, Nominee, The X Factor (Australia)Jonathon Summerhayes, The X Factor (Australia), Nominee, Australia's Got TalentGreg Beness - Steve Kelly, Australia's Got Talent, Nominee, The Amazing Race AustraliaMichael McKay - Matthew Kowald - David Gardner -, The Amazing Race Australia, Winner, My Kitchen RulesEvan Wilkes - Greg Swanborough - Matthew Apps, My Kitchen Rules, Nominee, The VoiceJulie Ward, The Voice, Nominee, MasterChef AustraliaTim Toni, MasterChef Australia, Nominee | ||
The AACTA Award for Best Reality Television Series is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television." The award is presented at the annual AACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films. The award was first introduced in 2012, for the 2nd AACTA Awards in 2013, due to the growth of reality television productions in Australia. Reality television productions could previously be submitted in the Best Light Entertainment Series category.
To be eligible, the production being submitted must: be significantly non-scripted; "involve participants being placed in an environment or format in which the premise, circumstances or situations they encounter are manipulated for the purposes of creating the program"; be no less than four episodes of at least half an hour in length; not be a news, current affairs, light entertainment or documentary series; and not be a production that requires a producer to set up a situation "that is then observed with minimal further intervention by the producers". The winner of the award is the producer of the program.
Masterchef Australia has received two wins from four nominations, more than any other program. Programs from the Seven Network have received the most nominations with seven.