News October 12, 2017

The 2017 Screen Music Awards nominees are out – with twice as many women as last year’s list

Charts & Music Manager

The official nominees list is finally out for the APRA Screen Music Awards 2017.

The list, unveiled by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers earlier today, includesAustralian composers who’ve worked on productions ranging from international blockbusters to Aussie indies, as well as performing artists like Briggs, Sarah Blasko and Missy Higgins.

Women are represented in eight of the twelve categories, including Most Performed Composer Overseas and Feature Film Score Of The Year.

The number of women nominated has nearly doubled compared to 2016– 17.4% of nominees this year are women, comparied to 9.8% last year and 12.5% in 2015.

While the submissions for this year’s awards were made before APRA’s latest push to increase the number of womenin their membership ranks – and raise the proportion of female-identifying registered screen composers from a measly 13% – APRA AMOCS Writer Services director Jana Gibson says thenumber of women represented is still something to be proud of.

“Since we announced the research findings in August, APRA AMCOS has taken steps to further support and encourage women who write and compose music,” Gibson told TMN.

“We made a firm commitment to greater female participation in our programs and there are more initiatives in the pipeline. The women nominated in this year’s Screen Music Awards have created a high calibre of work across a range of categories, which indicates the exciting potential for this sector of the music industry.”

Previously: Ella Hooper on why “we need a Hans Zimmer who’s a woman!”

The full list:

Feature Film Score of the Year

2:22 – James Orr and Lisa Gerrard (Sony/ATV Music Publishing)

Alien: Covenant – Jed Kurzel (Sony/ATV/Fox Music obo TCF Music Publishing)

Berlin Syndrome – Bryony Marks (Kobalt Music Publishing (Aust) obo Lillipilli IP)

Jasper Jones – Antony Partos

Best Television Theme

Fox League Super Saturday – Briggs, Charlton Hill and Justin Shave (Sony/ATV Music Publishing)

High Life – Sarah Blasko (Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust))

Rosehaven – Kit Warhurst (Mushroom Music)

Skinford – Michael Lira

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

Australian Survivor – David Barber, Jonathan Bush, Helena Czajka, Charlton Hill and Justin Shave Shine Australia

Seven Types of Ambiguity – Stephen Rae and Jonathan Wilson

The Code – Roger Mason

The Get Down – Elliott Wheeler (Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust) obo Twenty Fifteen Avenue Music)

Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie

Barracuda – Bryony Marks (Kobalt Music Publishing (Aust) obo Lillipilli IP)

High Life – Sarah Blasko (Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust))

Shaun Micallef’s Stairway to Heaven – Ash Gibson Greig

Best Movie for an Advertisement

Good Mood Water: The Bad Choice – Lindsay Jehan and Nathan Cavaleri (Song Zu Publishing)

Hennessy: Classivm – Josh Abrahams and Davide Carbone

Swisse: Power Your Passion – Matteo Zingales (Sonar Music)

Volkswagen: Tiguan 2017 – Elliott Wheeler

Best Music for a Documentary

Deep Water: The Real Story – Antony Partos (Sonar Music)

Monsieur Mayonnaise – Cezary Skubiszewski

Mother With A Gun – Dale Cornelius (Native Tongue Music Publishing)

Whiteley – Ash Gibson Greig

Best Music for a Short Film

Face – Jonathan Bush

Last Tree Standing – Me-Lee Hay

Red – Tom Schutzinger

Sarah Chong Is Going To Kill Herself – Aaron Kenny

Best Soundtrack Album

Alien: Covenant – Jed Kurzel (Sony/ATV/FOX Music obo TCF Music Publishing)

Assassin’s Creed – Jed Kurzel (Sony/ATV/NEW Regency obo New Regency Music)

Jasper Jones – Antony Partos

Monsieur Mayonnaise – Deborah Morgan and Cezary Skubiszewski (Origin Music Publishing)

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

’Atlas in Your Eye’ from Jasper Jones – Dustin Tebbutt

’Power’ from The Get Down – Baz Luhrmann*, Donna Missal, Homer Steinweiss* and Elliott Wheeler* (Kobalt Music Publishing (Aust), Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust) obo Twenty Fifteen Avenue Music and Twenty Fifteen Boulevard Music*)

’Torchlight’ from Don’t Tell – Missy Higgins

’Visible’ from The Pretend One – Hayden Calnin (Gaga Music)

Best Music for Childrens Television

Beat Bugs: ’When I’m 64’ – Daniel Denholm and Daniel Johns (Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Aust))

Bottersnikes & Gumbles: ’The Ugly Pageant’ – Michael Szumowski (BMG AM and Cheeky Little Media)

Kazoops: ’Middle of Somewhere’ – Scott Langley (Kobalt Music Publishing (Aust) obo Cheeky Little Media)

The Deep: ’Tartaruga’ – Nerida Tyson-Chew (Red Music Publishing)

Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia

Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks

Damian De Boos Smith

Jay Stewart

Neil Sutherland