Screen Music Awards: Matteo Zingales, Antony Partos & Caitlin Yeo lead nominations

Rome-born Sydney-based Matteo Zingales has the most amount of nominations for this year’s Screen Music Awards, garnering six nods.

He is followed by his collaborator Antony Partos who runs Sydney’s Sonar Music with five, and Sydney composer and academic Caitlin Yeo with five.

All three are up for Feature Film Score of the Year.

Zingales & Partos for Fahrenheit 451 about a fireman in futuristic America whose job is to burn books (Universal/MCA Music Publishing obo T-L Music Publishing) and Yeo for The Butterfly Tree about a father and son vying for the affections of a former burlesque queen.

Also in the category are veteran composer Christopher Gordon for the Bruce Beresford directed Ladies in Black, about a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney (Sony/ATV Music Publishing obo Twenty Fifteen Avenue Music) and one time Boom Crash Opera guitarist and songwriter Richard Pleasance for the dark comedy Brothers’ Nest about two brothers planning to kill their stepfather (Kobalt Music Publishing).

Up for Best Original Song Composed for the Screen are:

Everywhere’s A Dance Floor from The Justine Clarke Show, composed by Justine Clarke and Sean Peter (Sony/ATV Music Publishing)

Grace Beside Me composed by Amanda Brown and Emily Wurramara (Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP and Mushroom Music)

Now I Know from Pulse by Oscar Joe Gross (ABC Music Publishing)

Prison Bound from Brothers’ Nest by Richard Pleasance and Jojo Rainwater (Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP)

The Awards staged jointly by APRA AMCOS and the AGSC, celebrate achievements in music composition for documentaries, short films, children’s television, advertising, film and television soundtrack albums, as well as feature films.

The full list of nominees is available at the official APRA AMCOS website.

AGSC president Caitlin Yeo said, “The Screen Music Awards are a highlight for our screen composers every year.

“While it is most certainly a celebration of our craft it is also an opportunity to gather together, debrief and learn from each other.

“This is now more important than ever. In our rapidly changing globalised industry, with tighter schedules and shrinking resources, the challenges we face in producing world-class scores are immense.

“If our industry is to survive and thrive then it will be, in part, through shared experiences such as these and by supporting and celebrating each other.”

The awards are held in Sydney at the City Recital Hall on Monday, November 19.

Musical director Jessica Wells will lead a live orchestra that will perform a selection of nominated compositions and Denise Scott will host the ceremony.