Representing 12 award categories are 40 composers, and 36 works which showcase the very best in Australian screen music for the past year.
Leading with three nominees a-piece are composers Bryony Marks, Caitlin Yeo, Antony Partos, Brett Aplin and David Bridie.
Yeo’s work has been nominated for Feature Film Score of the Year for Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, 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.
David Bridie was nominated for 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.
Bryony 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.
Brett 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.
Antony Partos appears twice for his work on the Stan original drama series Bloom (including a nod with Jackson Milas for Bloom: The Memory Box). Antony rounds out his nominations with co-writer Dan Luscombe in the Feature Film Score of the Year category with science fiction thriller film I Am Mother.
An independent panel of highly respected Australian film and television composers and industry practitioners have decided the nominees across 10 of the award categories. Nominees for Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia and Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas have been determined by analysis of performance activity.
The Awards will be held on Wednesday 20 November at the Forum Melbourne. It is the only Australian event where the music and screen industry gather to celebrate the behind-the-scenes heroes of music composition for the large and small screen.
2019 Screen Music Awards Nominations
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
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
Every Day My Mother’s Voice from The Final Quarter
Composed by Paul Kelly
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing
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
Composers Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Composer Jay Stewart
Composer Mitch Stewart
Composer Neil Sutherland
Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas*
Composer Alastair Ford
Composer Jed Kurzel
Composer Neil Sutherland
Composer Nerida Tyson-Chew