Top: Anthony Partos, Brett Aplin and Bryony Marks. Bottom: Caitlin Yeo, David Bridie.
Bryony Marks, Caitlin Yeo, Antony Partos, Brett Aplin and David Bridie have received three nominations each for the upcoming Screen Music Awards, staged by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGCS).
They are among a group of 40 composers who have been nominated across 12 award categories, spanning more than 36 works. The awards will be held in late November in Melbourne, hosted by Justine Clarke.
Nominated for Best Feature Film Score of the Year is Yeo for Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, Partos and Dan Luscombe for I Am Mother; AJ True for Jirga and François Tétaz for Judy & Punch.
Yeo is also nominated for Best Television Theme for The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill and also the category of Best Music for an Advertisement, while Partos is nominated twice for his work on the Stan original drama series Bloom (including a nod with Jackson Milas for Bloom – The Memory Box).
Bridie also appears across three categories: Best Music for a Television Series or Serial for Secret City – Run Little Rabbit, Best Music for a Documentary for Australia’s Lost Impressionist, and Best Soundtrack Album for The Merger.
Marks is recognised twice for her work on Damon Gameau’s 2040 documentary and also in Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for Lambs of God.
Aplin appears twice for his compositions for The Bureau of Magical Things and alongside co-composers Burkhard Dallwitz and Dmitri Golovko in Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries.
First time nominees include Piers Burbrook de Vere, Brontë Horder, Andrew Sampford, AJ True, Sophia Brous, Mirrah Foulkes, Rory Chenoweth and Luke Altmann, alongisde established composers François Tétaz, Michael Yezerski, Amanda Brown, Cezary Skubiszewski, Matteo Zingales, Jed Kurzel, Nerida Tyson-Chew and Paul Kelly among others.
The 2019 Screen Music Awards will be held November 20, Forum Theatre, Melbourne.
The full list of nominees:
Feature Film Score of the Year
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
Composed by Caitlin Yeo
Published by Cas Music Australia obo Copyright Administration Films
I Am Mother
Composed by Dan Luscombe and Antony Partos
Jirga
Composed by AJ True
Judy and Punch
Composed by François Tétaz
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Rubber Music Publishing
Best Music for a Documentary
2040
Composed by Bryony Marks
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP
Australia’s Lost Impressionist
Composed by David Bridie
Published by Mushroom Music
The Cult of the Family
Composed by Amanda Brown
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP
The Leunig Fragments
Composed by Luke Altmann
Best Music for a Short Film
Title Cernunnos
Composed by Rory Chenoweth
For the Girl in the Coffee Shop
Composed by Angela Little
Shiloh
Composed by Freya Berkhout
Sohrab & Rustum
Composed by Burkhard Dallwitz
Best Soundtrack Album
2040
Composed by Bryony Marks
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP
Little Monsters
Composed by Piers Burbrook de Vere
Me and My Left Brain
Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski
The Merger
Composed by David Bridie
Published by Mushroom Music
Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
Be My Girl from The Craft
Composed by Justin Shave
Day by Day from Fourteen
Composed by Brontë Horder
Title Every Day My Mother’s Voice from The Final Quarter
Composed by Paul Kelly
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Title Firesong from Judy and Punch
Composed by Sophia Brous, François Tétaz* and Mirrah Foulkes
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Rubber Music Publishing*
Best Music for Children’s Television
Bill & Tony: Planet of the Socks
Composed by Michael Lira
Bluey: Teasing
Composed by Joff Bush
Published by Universal Music Publishing obo BBCW Music Publishing
The Bureau of Magical Things: End of the Road
Composed by Brett Aplin
The Pilgrims Progress
Composed by Michael Dooley
Best Television Theme
Bloom
Composed by Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music
Dead Lucky
Composed by Michael Yezerski
The Bureau of Magical Things
Composed by Brett Aplin
The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill
Composed by Caitlin Yeo
Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
Bloom: The Memory Box
Composed by Jackson Milas and Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music
Secret City: Run Little Rabbit
Composed by David Bridie
Published by Mushroom Music
Tidelands: Not One of You
Composed by Matteo Zingales
Published by Sonar Music
You Can’t Ask That: Alcoholics
Composed by Andrew Sampford
Published by ABC Music Publishing
Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
Dead Lucky
Composed by Michael Yezerski
Fighting Season
Composed by Daniel Denholm
Lambs of God
Composed by Bryony Marks
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo LilliPilli IP
Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
Composed by Burkhard Dallwitz, Brett Aplin and Dmitri Golovko
Best Music for an Advertisement
Dan Murphy’s
Composed by Adrian Sergovich
Published by Song Zu Publishing
HP Indigo
Composed by Dmitri Golovko
Jewel Changi Airport
Composed by Gerard Fitzgerald
Published by Song Zu Publishing
Where Inspiration Lives: Sydney Opera House
Composed by Caitlin Yeo
Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia*
Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Jay Stewart
Mitch Stewart
Neil Sutherland
Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas*
Alastair Ford
Jed Kurzel
Neil Sutherland
Nerida Tyson-Chew