Winners for 2001
Nicholas HardingJohn Bell as King Lear
Winner: Archibald Prize 2001
Paul NewtonRoy and HG (John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver)
Winner: People's Choice 2001
Winner: Packing Room Prize 2001
Finalists for 2001
- Bruce Armstrong - Peter Carey in Kelly country
- Michael Bell - Kingo and Boofhead , Lavendar Bay
- Danelle Bergstrom - The portrait and the painter (John Firth-Smith)
- David Bromley - Long Tom
- Tom Carment - John Gaden - summer portrait
- Brendon Ross Darby - Ian Parmenter
- Julie Dowling - Sister girl - Carol Dowling
- Geoffrey Dyer - The director John Clark
- Martine Emdur - Laughing on the inside
- Paul Fairweather - Exhibitors of exuberance, Mostyn Bramley-Moore: a tribute to Michael Milburn
- Margarita Georgiadis - Excelle - Libbi Gorr
- Guo Hua Cai - Lee Lin Chin
- Robert Hannaford - Richard Maurovic
- Nicholas Harding - John Bell as King Lear
- Cherry Hood - Matthys
- Bill Leak - Robert Hughes - nothing if not critical
- Kerrie Lester - Contemplating the emperor's new clothes
- Mathew Lynn - Hetti Perkins
- Lewis Miller - Self portrait
- Henry Mulholland - Michael Snape
- David Naseby - A blackguard rehearsing - Max Cullen
- Paul Newton - Roy and HG (John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver)
- Rodney Pople - Head study - Richard Goodwin
- Sally Robinson - Antony Walker
- Jenny Sages - Jackie and Kerryn
- Michael Snape - Paul Hopmeier and Ron Robertson-Swann
- Kim Spooner - and see the light surrounding you (Daniel Johns)
- Branca Uzur - Tetsuya Wakuda
- John R Walker - Portrait of Tony Bilson
- Greg Warburton - The Public Defender - portrait of John Nicholson S.C.
- Dick Watkins - Adam Cullen