Who will get the gongs in tonight's star-studded affair?
Join us for live updates from the big night at Auckland's SkyCity as the best in New Zealand rugby is celebrated.
Image 1 of 24: Justin Marshall and wife Nicolle
10:36pm: The world's best rugby player is now confirmed as New Zealand's best rugby player - Beauden Barrett takes the coveted Kelvin Tremain Memorial Trophy .
10:25pm: Steve Hansen and, by extension, his team, the All Blacks, have won their respective categories (team and coach) at tonight's ASB Rugby Awards.
That is unsurprising, as they also cleaned up at last month's World Rugby Awards.
Hansen has nailed his fifth successive New Zealand coach of the year gong as All Blacks coach.
The All Blacks, one of world sport's most successful teams, went 13-1 for 2016 and chalked up a new tier one winning streak of 18 tests, taking their attacking game through the Rugby Championship to new heights.
An honourable mention to Chris Boyd, Steve Jackson and Scott Robertson, who were coaching finalists.
The All Blacks were always going to win the nod, but it was strange how the championship-winning Counties Manukau Heat women did not make the cut for the team of the year finalists.
10:08pm: Selica Winiata has headed off some strong competition from Fiao'o Fa'amausili and Kendra Cocksedge to win her first women's player of the year award.
The 30-year-old Black Ferns fullback scored nine tries in just five outings for the national side to underline her worth ahead of next year's Women's Rugby World Cup, not to mention nine tries for the Manawatu Cyclones in the Farah Palmer Cup. She shed her shoes for the interview, obviously more at ease in boots.
Gavin Service was awarded the Steinlager Salver for his outstanding contribution to the game.
He was a pioneer of live television rugby coverage in New Zealand and continues to be an innovator. Grant Nisbett read the citation with warmth and admiration for his colleague, a "world-class" performer in his field.
9:51pm: The Hurricanes duo of Beauden Barrett and Dane Coles are among the NZ Rugby awards tonight in Auckland.
Barrett, not to be outdone by little brother Jordie, who has won two awards already, has clinched the Super Rugby top player honour, while Coles has taken the Tom French Memorial Cup as the best player with Maori blood in the land.
Barrett racked up 223 points for the champion Hurricanes, playing with aplomb and not just in the playoffs, while Coles battled a painful rib injury to lead his franchise to glory. Both were at the top of their games for the All Blacks later in the season.
Barrett saw off some stiff competition in teammate Ardie Savea and the Chiefs' sparky Damian McKenzie, while Coles headed Rieko Ioane and TJ Perenara, who had a breakthrough 2016.
Both have a chance later this evening to win their second award for the Kelvin Tremain Memorial Trophy.
9:35pm: College rugby has its moment in the sun with the SKY TV fans' try of the year going to Isaiah Punivai of Christ's College.
The left wing scored a cracking try in the televised UC Championship clash with Christchurch BHS, finishing a movement that went through several pairs of hands from 80m. Punivai's try edged Dan Pryor for the Highlanders against the Chiefs and Selica Winiata for the Black Ferns against the Australian Wallaroos.
Sarah Goss is the Black Ferns Sevens player of the year. The skipper led from the front, guiding her team to silver in Rio and then, just 12 days ago, leading her side to the Dubai title.
She has committed to the union and the sevens programme until 2018. Goss presented the first two awards of the evening to Jordie Barrett and Gary Donovan.
8:20pm: Jordie Barrett has annexed his second award in less than 40 minutes at rugby's night out in Auckland.
Barrett the younger scored 123 points to help Canterbury to their eighth Premiership title in nine years.
That was enough to clinch him, at just 19, the award for the Mitre 10 Cup player of the year, heading off another teenager, Rieko Ioane of Auckland, and Michael Little of North Harbour.
The latter pair were prolific tryscorers with Ioane crossing for 10, but Barrett's allround game, which included five trues, were hard to peg.
Barrett had earlier secured the age grade player of the year.
Ioane was not to be denied for long, taking the Richard Crawshaw Memorial All Blacks Sevens player of the year for some sparkling play during the 2015-16 World Series and into the Rio Olympics which yielded some 28 tries.
8:07pm: Glen Jackson has confirmed his clear status as New Zealand's No 1 whistler by winning his fourth referee of the year honour at tonight's ASB Rugby Awards in Auckland.
In fairness, it was not a stellar year for New Zealand's match officials, but Jackson, who will be on Six Nations duty in a few weeks, headed Richard Kelly and Rebecca Mahoney for the award.
Te Rangitira Waitokia has made a big splash in the Heartland Championship, winning the player of the year for that competition at the tender age of 20.
He ran in 12 tries for Wanganui, the eventual Meads Cup champions, including a quartet against Poverty Bay, and then toured Fiji with the national Heartland XV.
7:57pm: The Charles Monro volunteer of the year honour at tonight's ASB Rugby Awards has gone to Gary Donovan, long-time stalwart of the Suburbs club in Auckland.
He will have special reason to smile when he reflects on the 2016 season, with Suburbs having broken a 24-year drought to win the coveted Gallaher Shield for Auckland premier club rugby supremacy.
Justin 'Gus' Collins has won a new award, the New Zealand Rugby Players' Association Kirk Award, named after David Kirk, the 1987 RWC-winning All Blacks skipper.
The 42-year-old Collins had a 16-year professional career in New Zealand as a loose forward and has more recently done sterling work on the board of the NZRPA.
Jordie Barrett and partner Alice Marshal on the red carpet at the NZ Rugby Awards 2016. Photo / www.photosport.co.nz
7:50pm: Jordie Barrett has taken the first gong at tonight's ASB Rugby Awards in Auckland.
The 19-year-old younger brother of All Black Beauden Barrett was named the New Zealand Rugby age grade player of the year, chiefly for his exploits in the No 12 jersey in June for the New Zealand Under 20s at the world champs in England.
Barrett, who has signed with the Hurricanes and Taranaki for 2017, will be eligible for the Under 20s again next season. His versatility and goalkicking ability were to the fore for the national age grade team, though not in a championship-winning cause.
