Custard Frontman David McCormack Wins Screen Music Award

David McCormack, established composer and the frontman of defunct long-serving Brisbane rockers Custard, has walked away a winner from tonight's 2014 Screen Music Awards, an annual celebration of the best and brightest in Australian composing for cinema and television.

McCormack picked up his award alongside composing collaborator Antony Partos for their work on widely acclaimed ABC series Rake, with their song Don't Let Go earning them the win in the category of Best Original Song Composed For The Screen.

Former Models/Icehouse keyboardist Roger Mason has emerged victorious, too, winning the Best Music For A Mini-Series Or Telemovie category for ABC telemovie The Outlaw Michael Howe.

Other particularly notable victors on the evening include multiple prizewinner Cezary Skubiszewski, who picked up wins in three categories — Best Music For A Documentary (Once My Mother), Best Soundtrack Album (The Broken Shore), and Best Music For A Television Series Or Serial (Serangoon Road, with son Jan) — and Oscar-nominated composer David Hirschfelder, who took his total Screen Music Award prize pool up to six with his win in the coveted Feature Film Score Of The Year category.

The award ceremony, which was hosted by Rob Carlton and featured performances from The Bamboos and Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes, was staged jointly by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers at Sydney's City Recital Hall, and recognised composers across screens both big and small in thirteen different categories. See the full list of winners below.

2014 screen music awards winners   

International Achievement Award

Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks (The D.A’s Office)

Feature Film Score of the Year

Title        The Railway Man
Composed by    David Hirschfelder
Published by    Native Tongue Music Publishing    

Best Music for a Documentary

Title        Once My Mother
Composed by    Cezary Skubiszewski

Best Music for a Short Film

Title        Where Do Lilacs Come From 
Composed by     Luke Howard

Best Soundtrack Album

Title         The Broken Shore
Composed by    Cezary Skubiszewski

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

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

Best Music for Children’s Television

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

Best Television Theme

Title        Fat Tony & Co        
Composed by    Burkhard Dallwitz           

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

Title        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

Title        The Outlaw Michael Howe
Composed by    Roger Mason

Best Music for an Advertisement

Title        Where Australia Shines
Composed by    Ryan Walsh

Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia

Composer    Jay Stewart

Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas

Composer    Neil Sutherland