APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) are thrilled to announce the nominees for the 2022 Screen Music Awards.

The nominees have created memorable music accompaniments spanning 12 categories including documentary, short film, children’s programming, advertising, soundtrack albums and feature films.

Composer Caitlin Yeo leads the nominee list with five nods for her work across multiple categories. Caitlin is recognised in Best Music for a Documentary along with co-composer Andrew Scott for Ms Represented with Annabel Crabb. Caitlin’s work appears twice in Best Television Theme for The PM’s Daughter (along with co-composer Basil Hogios) and for her work on the acclaimed SBS drama mini-series New Gold Mountain, which has also landed Caitlin nominations for Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie and Best Soundtrack Album.

Brett Aplin is a three-time nominee in 2022, with The Bureau of Magical Things nominated for Best Music for Children’s Programming. In a change of pace, his work on the Stan original No Mercy, No Response sees him acknowledged for Best Music for a Documentary and Best Soundtrack Album.

Blue Mountains-based composer Piers Burbrook de Vere has also scored a nominations hat trick. He appears in the category of Best Soundtrack Album twice – for comedy-drama Wolf Like Me and for River with co-composers William Barton and Richard Tognetti. The musical partnership of Tognetti, Barton and Burbrook de Vere is acknowledged again in Best Original Song Composed for the Screen for Spirit Voice of the Enchanted Waters from River, created in collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, which explores the remarkable relationship between humans and rivers.

His two nominations for River mark composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and leading didgeridoo player William Barton’s Screen Music Awards debut. He is joined by a fresh collection of first-time nominees including Sophia Christopher, Lance Gurisik, Joshua Pearson, Nicholas Routledge, Andrew Scott, Joseph Twist, Wil Hughes and Salliana Seven Campbell, who in her first screen composition outing has landed in the Feature Film Score of the Year category for The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson.

Rounding out Feature Film Score of the Year is 2021 winner Brian Cachia for Bosch and Rockit. Michael Lira is nominated for Interceptor, which was a Top 10 Netflix streaming hit in 93 countries on release, while Angela Little is recognised for her delightful work on the heartwarming film A Stitch in Time.

Angela is one of several nominees who have received dual nods for the 2022 Awards. Others are Nerida Tyson Chew, Amanda Brown, Matteo Zingales, Adam Gock, Dinesh Wicks and Jackson Milas. The nominees list also features well-known pop composers Missy Higgins, Kate Miller-Heidke, Keir Nuttall, Jono Ma and Josh Pyke.

PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR THE COMPLETE LIST OF NOMINEES

Feature Film Score of the Year

Title: A Stitch in Time

Composed by Angela Little

Published by Peer Music

Title: Bosch and Rockit

Composed by Brian Cachia

Title: Interceptor    

Composed by Michael Lira

Published by Universal Music Publishing obo Ambience Entertainment

Title: The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

Composed by Salliana Seven Campbell

Best Music for a Documentary

Title: A Fire Inside

Composed by Matteo Zingales

Published by Sonar Music

Title: Ms Represented with Annabel Crabb

Composed by Andrew Scott & Caitlin Yeo

Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title: No Mercy, No Remorse

Composed by Brett Aplin

Title: Puff: Wonders of the Reef

Composed by Hylton Mowday

Published by We Love Jam Studios

Best Music for a Short Film

Title: Bellysaurus

Composed by Dmitri Golovko

Title: Finding X

Composed by Cassie To

Title: Still Life

Composed by Wil Hughes

Title: Tarneit

Composed by Nerida Tyson-Chew

Best Soundtrack Album

Title: New Gold Mountain

Composed by Caitlin Yeo

Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title: No Mercy, No Remorse
Composed by Brett Aplin

Title: River

Composed by Richard Tognetti with William Barton* & Piers Burbrook de Vere

Published by G Schirmer*

Title: Wolf Like Me

Composed by Piers Burbrook de Vere

Published by Universal/MCA Music Publishing

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

Title: I Am My Own Panther Now from Preppers

Composed by Kate Miller-Heidke & Keir Nuttall

Published by Sony Music Publishing

Title: Silver Linings from MumLife

Composed by Sophia Christopher

Title: Spirit Voice of the Enchanted Waters from River

Composed by William Barton*, Piers Burbrook de Vere & Richard Tognetti

Published by G Schirmer*

Title: Bloody Game from Total Control

Composed by Missy Higgins

Published by Mushroom Music

Best Music for Children’s Programming

Title Destroy the Invisibility Jacket

Composed by Joseph Twist

Title Space Nova: Dark Ice

Composed by Russell Thornton

Title The Bureau of Magical Things

Composed by Brett Aplin

Title The Deep

Composed by Nerida Tyson-Chew

Published by A Stark Production

Best Television Theme

Title Books That Made Us

Composed by Jackson Milas

Published by Sonar Music

Title New Gold Mountain

Composed by Caitlin Yeo

Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title The PM’s Daughter

Composed by Basil Hogios & Caitlin Yeo*

Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP*

Title Troppo

Composed by Josh Pyke

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

Title Total Control

Composed by Antony Partos & Matteo Zingales

Published by Sonar Music

Title Blind Spotting

Composed by Michael Yezerski & Ambrose Akinmusire

Published by Snoot Music

Title The Newsreader

Composed by Cornel Wilczek

Title RFDS

Composed by Amanda Brown

Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie

Title Books That Made Us

Composed by Jackson Milas

Published by Sonar Music

Title New Gold Mountain

Composed by Caitlin Yeo

Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title The Twelve

Composed by Rafael May

Published by Cooking Vinyl Publishing

Title Underbelly Vanishing Act

Composed by Amanda Brown

Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Best Music for an Advertisement

Title Ausfilm: The Australian Job

Composed by Angela Little

Title Destination NSW: Feel New

Composed by Lance Gurisik

Title Ostelin Strong Women

Composed by Ack Kinmonth                          

Title Samsung MFF: Walk the Night

Composed by Nicholas Routledge, Joshua Pearson & Jono Ma

Published by Sonar Music

Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia

Composers: Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks

For: MasterChef, Anh’s Brush with Fame, Beauty and the Geek Australia

Composer: Damian de Boos-Smith

For: Better Homes and Gardens, Lego Masters, The Block

Composer: Jay Stewart

For: The Block, Better Homes and Gardens, House Rules

Composer: Mitch Stewart

For: MasterChef, Travel Guides, Love on the Spectrum

Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas

Composers: Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks

For: MasterChef, Legomasters Australia

Composer: Alastair Ford

For: McLeod’s Daughters

Composer: Joff Bush

For: Bluey

Composer: Neil Sutherland

For: Border Security, MythBusters, Bondi Vet 

2022 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS

Forum Melbourne, Naarm

Tuesday 15 November 2022

With co-hosts Akina Edmonds and Anne Edmonds

Musical Director Jessica Wells

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