The nominees for the 2016 Screen Music Awards have been announced, with the score for The Dressmaker leading the pack. David Hirschfelder, who composed the score for the Kate Winslet-starring film, has been nominated for both Feature Film Score Of The Year and Best Soundtrack Album.
Feature Film Score Of The Year is the awards’ top honour, and this year Hirschfelder is joined by Cezary Skubieszewski (Oddball), Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales (99 Homes) and Timothy Cheel and Christopher Lakin (Crew Cut).
The awards are due to be held at Sydney’s City Recital Hall on Tuesday, 8th November and are run by APRA AMCOS and the AGSC (Australian Guild Of Screen Composers). It’s not only a celebration of the best film scores but also television, advertisements, short films and documentaries.
Among the other nominees in the other categories are Aussie singer-songwriter Sally Seltmann and ex-The Avalanches member Darren Seltmann, who have picked up a nomination for Best Original Song Composed For Screen for their track Dancing In The Darkness from The Letdown.
TV theme scores for shows including Compass, Tomorrow When The War Began and Here Come The Habibs have also been given nods.
The winners will be decided by a panel of Aussie film and television composers while the award ceremony will be hosted by The Chaser’s Chris Taylor and Andrew Hanson. Check out the full list of nominees, below.
2016 Screen Music Award Nominations:
Feature Film Score of the Year:
99 Homes (Composed by Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales)
Crew Cut (Composed by Timothy Cheel and Christopher Larkin)
Oddball (Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski)
The Dressmaker (Composed by David Hirschfelder)
Best Music for a Documentary
Title Getting Frank Gehry (Composed by Caitlin Yeo)
Title Neon (Composed by Antony Partos)
Putuparri and the Rainmakers (Composed by David Bridie, Published by Mushroom Music)
Title The Will to Fly (Composed by Tom Rouch, Published by Native Tongue Music Publishing)
Best Music for a Short Film
Banana Boy
Composed by Adam Moses
Daisy Chain
Composed by Hylton Mowday
Letting Blood
Composed by Nicholas Robert Thayer
Ravens
Composed by Michael Yezerski with additional music by Helen Grimley
Best Soundtrack Album
All About E
Composed by Basil Hogios
Only the Dead
Composed by Michael Yezerski
Sherpa
Composed by Antony Partos
The Dressmaker
Composed by David Hirschfelder
Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
Dancing in the Darkness from The Letdown
Composed by Darren Seltmann and Sally Seltmann*
Published by Sony ATV Music Publishing Australia*
Maurice’s Big Adventure from Big Adventure
Composed by Sean Peter
Published by ABC Music Publishing
Those Friends of Mine from Pawno
Composed by Tristan Dewey, Tai Jordan and Mark Pearl
Title When You Were on the Run from No Activity
Composed by Cameron Bruce
Best Music for Children’s Television
Bottersnikes & Gumbles: Up, Up and Away
Composed by Michael Szumowski
Published by J Albert & Son and Cheeky Little Media
Mako: Island of Secrets: Homecoming
Composed by Ricky Edwards and Brett Aplin
Transformers Rescue Bots: The Last of Morocco
Composed by Christopher Elves
Published by Mushroom Music obo Britteridge Publishing / BMG Platinum Songs
The New Adventures of Figaro Pho: Odd Socks
Composed by Michael Darren, Luke Jurevicius and Christopher Larkin
Best Television Theme
Compass
Composed by Caitlin Yeo
Published by ABC Music Publishing
Here Come the Habibs
Composed by Kyls Burtland
Nos Youm
Composed by Peter Cavallo
Tomorrow When the War Began
Composed by Cameron Giles-Webb and Colin Simkins
Published by Universal Music Publishing obo Ambience Entertainment
Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
Glitch: There Is No Justice
Composed by Cornel Wilczek
Janet King: The Invisible Wound
Composed by Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music
The Principal: Revolution School
Composed by Roger Mason
Wanted: Series 1 Episode 6
Composed by Michael Yezerski
Published by Red Music Publishing
Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
DNA Nation
Composed by Matteo Zingales
Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door
Composed by Michael Yezerski and Ashley Irwin
Published by Shine Australia
Secret City
Composed by David Bridie
Published by Mushroom Music
The Beautiful Lie
Composed by Alan John
Best Music for an Advertisement
2016 AICP Opening
Composed by Jeremy Yang
Cadbury Marvellous Creations
Composed by Rafael May
Country Racing Victoria: It’s Got it All
Composed by Robert Upward
Published by Mushroom Music
Rio 2016 Olympics
Composed by Sarah Aarons*, Anthony Egizii^, David Musumeci^ and Graham Donald~
Published by Sony ATV Music Publishing Allegro*, Sony ATV Music Publishing Australia^ and Red Music Publishing~
Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia
Composers Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Composer Jay Stewart
Composer Neil Sutherland
Composer Nick Perjanik
Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas
Composer Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Composer Alastair Ford
Composer Neil Sutherland
Composer Ricky Edwards
