‘It’s more internal than external’: feature film score of the year nominee Jed Kurzel on composing action for ‘Monkey Man’

Jed Kurzel

Jed Kurzel is no stranger to the Screen Music Awards, having taken home Feature Film Score of Year twice, first in 2011 for Snowtown, and again in 2015 for Slow West.

Kurzel is now nominated for a third time for original music in Dev Patel’s Monkey Man.

Patel wrote, directed, and starred in the action thriller, which follows a story of spirituality and violence as a young man seeks vengeance against his city’s elites who wronged him.

Patel asked Kurzel to compose the score after b...