Nominees for the 2017 Screen Music Awards have been announced by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, and will be recognised at the official ceremony being held at Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday Monday 13 November.
The awards celebrate the achievements in music composition for documentaries, short films, children’s television, advertising, film and television soundtrack albums, as well as feature film.
Playing host is comedienne, actor and writer Denise Scott, and joining her is first time Musical Director Jessica Wells, who will lead orchestral performances of excerpts of nominated compositions.
In the running are well-known contemporary musicians including Missy Higgins, Sarah Blasko, Jed Kurzel, Briggs, Daniel Johns, Josh Abrahams, Dustin Tebbutt, Charlton Hill, Nathan Cavaleri, Kit Warhurst and Roger Mason. Alongside, are renowned screen composers including Lisa Gerrard, Cezary Skubiszewski, Antony Partos, Nerida Tyson-Chew and Matteo Zingales.
Receiving multiple nods are Kurzel, Partos and Elliott Wheeler who lead with three apiece. Bryony Marks, Skubiszewski, Tyson-Chew, Ash Gibson Greig, Jonathan Bush, Charlton Hill, Justin Shave and composers Jay Stewart and Neil Sutherland each have two nominations. Blasko, as well as co-composers Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks are also recognised twice.
The nominated compositions appeared in screen offerings from Seven Types of Ambiguity, Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down, Barracuda and Shaun Micallef’s Stairway to Heaven, to High Life and Australian Survivor and feature films Jasper Jones and Alien: Covenant.
Here is the full run down on nominations:
Feature Film Score of the Year
Title: 2:22
Composed by: James Orr and Lisa Gerrard
Published by: Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust)
Title: Alien: Covenant
Composed by: Jed Kurzel
Published by: Sony/ATV/FOX Music obo TCF Music Publishing
Title: Berlin Syndrome
Composed by: Bryony Marks
Published by: Kobalt Music Publishing (Aust) obo Lillipilli IP
Title: Jasper Jones
Composed by: Antony Partos
Best Television Theme
Title: Fox League Super Saturday
Composed by: Briggs, Charlton Hill and Justin Shave
Published by: Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust)
Title: High Life
Composed by: Sarah Blasko
Published by: Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust)
Title: Rosehaven
Composed by: Kit Warhurst
Published by: Mushroom Music
Title: Skinford
Composed by: Michael Lira
Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
Title: Australian Survivor
Composed by: David Barber, Jonathan Bush, Helena Czajka, Charlton Hill and Justin Shave
Published by: Shine Australia
Title: Seven Types of Ambiguity
Composed by: Stephen Rae and Jonathan Wilson
Title: The Code
Composed by: Roger Mason
Title: The Get Down
Composed by: Elliott Wheeler
Published by: Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust) obo Twenty Fifteen Avenue Music
Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
Title: Barracuda
Composed by: Bryony Marks
Published by: Kobalt Music Publishing (Aust) obo Lillipilli IP
Title: High Life
Composed by: Sarah Blasko
Published by: Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust)
Title: Shaun Micallef’s Stairway to Heaven
Composed by: Ash Gibson Greig
Best Music for an Advertisement
Title: Good Mood Water: The Bad Choice
Composed by: Lindsay Jehan and Nathan Cavaleri
Published by: Song Zu Publishing
Title: Hennessy: Classivm
Composed by: Josh Abrahams and Davide Carbone
Title: Swisse: Power Your Passion
Composed by: Matteo Zingales
Published by: Sonar Music
Title: Volkswagen: Tiguan 2017
Composed by: Elliott Wheeler
Best Music for a Documentary
Title: Deep Water: The Real Story
Composed by: Antony Partos
Published by: Sonar Music
Title: Monsieur Mayonnaise
Composed by: Cezary Skubiszewski
Published by: Origin Music Publishing
Title: Mother With A Gun
Composed by: Dale Cornelius
Published by: Native Tongue Music Publishing
Title: Whiteley
Composed by: Ash Gibson Greig
Best Music for a Short Film
Title: Face
Composed by: Jonathan Bush
Title: Last Tree Standing
Composed by: Me-Lee Hay
Title: Red
Composed by: Tom Schutzinger
Title: Sarah Chong Is Going To Kill Herself
Composed by: Aaron Kenny
Best Soundtrack Album
Title: Alien: Covenant
Composed by: Jed Kurzel
Published by: Sony/ATV/FOX Music obo TCF Music Publishing
Title: Assassin’s Creed
Composed by: Jed Kurzel
Published by: Sony/ATV/NEW Regency obo New Regency Music
Title: Jasper Jones
Composed by: Antony Partos
Title: Monsieur Mayonnaise
Composed by: Deborah Morgan and Cezary Skubiszewski
Published by: Origin Music Publishing
Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
Title: Atlas in Your Eye from Jasper Jones
Composed by: Dustin Tebutt
Title: Power from The Get Down
Composed by: Baz Luhrmann*, Donna Missal, Homer Steinweiss* and Elliott Wheeler*
Published by: Kobalt Music Publishing (Aust), Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust) obo Twenty Fifteen Avenue Music and Twenty Fifteen Boulevard Music*
Title: Torchlight from Don’t Tell
Composed by: Missy Higgins
Title: Visible from The Pretend One
Composed by: Hayden Calnin
Published by: Gaga Music
Best Music for Children’s Television
Title: Beat Bugs: When I’m 64
Composed by: Daniel Denholm and Daniel Johns
Published by: Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust)
Title: Bottersnikes & Gumbles: The Ugly Pageant
Composed by: Michael Szumowski
Published by: BMG AM and Cheeky Little Media
Title: Kazoops: Middle of Somewhere
Composed by: Scott Langley
Published by: Kobalt Music Publishing (Aust) obo Cheeky Little Media
Title: The Deep: Tartaruga
Composed by: Nerida Tyson-Chew
Published by: Red Music Publishing
Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia
Composers: Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Composer: Damian De Boos Smith
Composer: Jay Stewart
Composer: Neil Sutherland
Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas
Composers: Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Composer: Jay Stewart
Composer: Neil Sutherland
Composer: Nerida Tyson-Chew
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