Outrageous Fortune stole the show at the 2005 Qantas Television Awards taking out the top award for Best Drama as well as Best Actress and Best Actor. South Pacific Pictures' stablemate Shortland Street was voted Favourite New Zealand Show in the Woman's Day Reader's Choice section of the Awards.

Lead, Robyn Malcolm (Cheryl), won Best Actress and also took away the Woman's Day Readers' Choice Award for favourite New Zealand Female Personality. The two awards take Robyn's tally for the year to four. She won Best Actress at the Screen Awards earlier in the year for her work on Serial Killers, and was also voted Best Actress in the recent TV Guide People's Choice Awards.

Best Actor went to Antony Starr for his work as the twins Jethro and Van West, and the series' lead director Mark Beesley won Best Director. Outrageous Fortune co-creator Rachel Lang won the Best Script Award, and editor Nicola Smith won Best Editing (non factual).

Outrageous Fortune's Qantas TV Awards haul comes on top of their win in the Best Drama category of the TV Guide People's Choice Awards, in which Shortland Street was a close runner up. Shortland Street newcomer Emily Robins won the Rising Star award in the TV Guide Awards for her work as troubled teenager Claire Solomon, and Satellite Media's Top Of The Pops won the coveted Best Music Show award for the second year in a row.