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Paul Kelly, David Bridie, Sophia Brous Nominated For APRA Screen Music Awards

by Paul Cashmere on October 17, 2019

in News

Paul Kelly, David Bridie and Sophia Brous are a few of the names nominated for Screen Music Awards for 2019.

Paul Kelly’s ‘My Mother’s Voice’ features in The Final Quarter, David Bridie’s is up for Best Music in a Documentary for Australia’s Lost Impressionist and Sophia Brous received a nomination for ‘Firesong’ from Judy and Punch.

The 2019 Screen Music Awards have 12 categories with 36 works from 40 composers focused on achievements in music for documentaries, short films, children’s television, advertising, film and television soundtrack albums, as well as feature films.

The 2019 Screen Music Awards will be held on 20 November at the Forum in Melbourne.

2019 Screen Music Awards Nominations

Feature Film Score of the Year

Title Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
Composed by Caitlin Yeo
Published by Cas Music Australia obo Copyright Administration Films

Title I Am Mother
Composed by Dan Luscombe and Antony Partos

Title Jirga
Composed by AJ True

Title Judy and Punch
Composed by François Tétaz
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Rubber Music Publishing

Best Music for a Documentary

Title 2040
Composed by Bryony Marks
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title Australia’s Lost Impressionist
Composed by David Bridie
Published by Mushroom Music

Title The Cult of the Family
Composed by Amanda Brown
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title The Leunig Fragments
Composed by Luke Altmann

Best Music for a Short Film

Title Cernunnos
Composed by Rory Chenoweth

Title For the Girl in the Coffee Shop
Composed by Angela Little

Title Shiloh
Composed by Freya Berkhout

Title Sohrab & Rustum
Composed by Burkhard Dallwitz

Best Soundtrack Album

Title 2040
Composed by Bryony Marks
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title Little Monsters
Composed by Piers Burbrook de Vere

Title Me and My Left Brain
Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski

Title The Merger
Composed by David Bridie
Published by Mushroom Music

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

Title Be My Girl from The Craft
Composed by Justin Shave

Title 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

Title Bill & Tony: Planet of the Socks
Composed by Michael Lira

Title Bluey: Teasing
Composed by Joff Bush
Published by Universal Music Publishing obo BBCW Music Publishing

Title The Bureau of Magical Things: End of the Road
Composed by Brett Aplin

Title The Pilgrims Progress
Composed by Michael Dooley

Best Television Theme

Title Bloom
Composed by Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music

Title Dead Lucky
Composed by Michael Yezerski

TitleThe Bureau of Magical Things
Composed by Brett Aplin

Title The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill
Composed by Caitlin Yeo

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

Title Bloom: The Memory Box
Composed by Jackson Milas and Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music

Title Secret City: Run Little Rabbit
Composed by David Bridie
Published by Mushroom Music

Title Tidelands: Not One of You
Composed by Matteo Zingales
Published by Sonar Music

Title You Can’t Ask That: Alcoholics
Composed by Andrew Sampford
Published by ABC Music Publishing

Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie

Title Dead Lucky
Composed by Michael Yezerski

Title Fighting Season
Composed by Daniel Denholm

Title Lambs of God
Composed by Bryony Marks
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo LilliPilli IP

Title Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries
Composed by Burkhard Dallwitz, Brett Aplin and Dmitri Golovko

Best Music for an Advertisement

Title Dan Murphy’s
Composed by Adrian Sergovich
Published by Song Zu Publishing

Title HP Indigo
Composed by Dmitri Golovko

Title Jewel Changi Airport
Composed by Gerard Fitzgerald
Published by Song Zu Publishing

Title 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

*Determined by statistical analysis

2019 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS
Wednesday 20 November, 2019
Forum Melbourne
Hosted by Justine Clarke
Musical Director Jessica Wells

@apraamcos
#ScreenMusicAwards

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