It's always the cast of a TV show, or stars of documentaries and movies, that get most of the credit and accolades when it comes to praise from the general public. It's fortunate, then, that the Screen Music Awards go such a long way towards ensuring recognition for the folks who make the whole thing sound so damn magnificent, today revealing their list of nominees for 2014's prestigious ceremony.

Leading the charge of composers up for awards are Antony Partos and Cezary Skubiszewski, whose music you're probably more familiar with than their names — the former has provided compositions for Animal Kingdom, The Rover, the Janet King series, the Jack Irish: Dead Point TV movie, Rake, Redfern Now and a bunch of other well-known titles, while Skubiszewski's work has included Red Dog, The Sapphires, Two Hands, The Wog Boy, Hating Alison Ashley and more.

The pair of virtuosos each have six nominations to their names, with nods falling across categories in television, soundtrack, miniseries, documentary and advertising. Partos has solo nominations as well as alongside collaborating composers David McCormack and Matteo Zingales; Skubiszewski is also up for awards alone and with his son, Jan.

Fellow composer David Hirschfelder also picked up multiple nominations, with two in the highly prized Feature Film Score Of The Year category (for Healing and The Railway Man), alongside Christopher de Groot's work on Sororal and Christopher Gordon for scoring Adoration, starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright.

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Multiple nods also go to musical masterminds Basil Hogios, David McCormack, Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks, Ricky Edwards and Neil Sutherland. In addition, Jack Moffitt (of The Preatures), guitarist Jeff Lang, Christopher de Groot, Edward Primrose, Jan Skubiszewski, Luke Howard and Alejandro Gomez Sanchez all make their inaugural appearances among the list of contenders.

The awards are a joint effort between APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), and will this year be held on Wednesday, November 12, at Sydney's City Recital Hall. The ceremony, hosted by Rob Carlton, will feature orchestral performances of select nominated compositions, directed by Emmy-winning composer Ashley Irwin.

Shows represented among this year's nominees include Rake, Giggle And Hoot, Redfern Now, Wentworth, Fat Tony & Co., The Doctor Blake Mysteries, The Moodys, Serangoon Road and tele-movies The Killing Field and The Broken Shore. See the full list of nominees below.

NOMINATIONS, 2014 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS

Feature Film Score of the Year

Adoration
Composed by Christopher Gordon

Healing
Composed by David Hirschfelder

The Railway Man
Composed by David Hirschfelder
Published by Native Tongue Music Publishing obo 3AM Music Limited and Starr Score Songs

Sororal
Composed by Christopher de Groot

Best Music for a Documentary

The Dancer from the Dance
Composed by Edward Primrose

Fallout
Composed by Antony Partos

I Am A Girl
Composed by John Gray

Once My Mother
Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski

Best Music for a Short Film

Blood Pulls a Gun
Composed by Basil Hogios and Jack Moffitt

The iMom
Composed by Haydn Walker

Scission
Composed by Jonathan Dreyfus
Published by Source Music

Where Do Lilacs Come From
Composed by Luke Howard

Best Soundtrack Album

Adoration
Composed by Christopher Gordon and Antony Partos

The Broken Shore
Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski

Healing
Composed by David Hirschfelder

The Railway Man
Composed by David Hirschfelder
Published by Native Tongue Music Publishing obo 3 AM Music Limited and Starr Score Songs

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

Don’t Let Go from Rake
Composed by David McCormack and Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music Pty Ltd

Giggle Galaxy from Giggle & Hoot
Composed by Terry Mann
Published by ABC Music Publishing

God Knows I Would from The Moodys
Composed by Cameron Bruce

The Harvest & The Glory from The Outlaw Michael Howe
Composed by Roger Mason

Best Music for Children’s Television

Get Ace - Series 1
Composed by Russell Thornton
Published by Galaxy Pop

Mako: Island of Secrets - Series 1: Battlelines
Composed by Brett Aplin and Ricky Edwards

Time Tremors - Series 1
Composed by Benjamin Speed

Transformers Rescue Bots - Space Bots
Composed by Christopher Elves
Published by Fintage Publishing Australia B.V obo Britteridge Publishing LLC

Best Television Theme

Fat Tony & Co
Composed by Burkhard Dallwitz

The Gods of Wheat Street
Composed by Jeff Lang
Published by Insync Music Publishing

Serangoon Road
Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski and Jan Skubiszewski*
Published by Mushroom Music Pty Ltd*

Wentworth Series 2
Composed by Richard Pleasance
Published by Insync Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing MGB Australia Pty Ltd obo FremantleMedia Australia

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

The Doctor Blake Mysteries - Series 2 episode 10: An Invincible Summer
Composed by Dale Cornelius
Published by Native Tongue Music Publishing

Rake - Series 3 episode 1
Composed by David McCormack and Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music Pty Ltd

Redfern Now - Series 2 : Babe in Arms
Composed by Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music Pty Ltd

Serangoon Road - Episode 6
Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski and Jan Skubiszewski*
Published by Mushroom Music Pty Ltd*

Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie

The Broken Shore
Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski

The Killing Field
Composed by Basil Hogios and Caitlin Yeo
Published by Red Music Publishing Pty Ltd

The Outlaw Michael Howe
Composed by Roger Mason

Parer’s War
Composed by Cezary Skubiszewski

Best Music for an Advertisement

Canon - Seeing
Composed by Ramesh Sathiah
Published by Song Zu Publishing Pty Ltd

Replay - Eco Warriors
Composed by Alejandro Gomez Sanchez

Tiger Beer - Charlie Ruedpokanon Stuntman
Composed by Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales
Published by Sonar Music Pty Ltd

Where Australia Shines
Composed by Ryan Walsh

Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia

Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Brenton White
Jay Stewart
Neil Sutherland

Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas

Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Garry McDonald and Laurie Stone
Neil Sutherland
Ricky Edwards

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