Daniel Johns, Briggs, Missy Higgins & More Score 2017 Screen Music Award Nominations

12 October 2017 | 8:58 am | Staff Writer

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The 2017 Screen Music Awards nominations has been unveiled today and it features a number of Australia's biggest contemporary musicians. 

Confirmed on this year's list includes the likes of Daniel Johns, Briggs, Missy Higgins, Sarah Blasko and Dustin Tebbutt.

Also named this morning include a string of renowned screen composers such as Lisa Gerrard, Cezary Skubiszewski, Antony Partos, Nerida Tyson-Chew and Matteo Zingales.

The winners will be announced on Monday 13 November at Melbourne Recital Centre. 

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Check out all of the 2017 categories and nominees below. 

feature film score of the year

2:22 — James Orr & Lisa Gerrard

Alien: Covenant — Jed Kurzel

Berlin Syndrome — Bryony Marks

Jasper Jones — Antony Partos

best television theme

Fox League Super Saturday — Briggs, Charlton Hill and Justin Shave

High Life — Sarah Blasko

Rosehaven — Kit Warhurst

Skinford — Michael Lira

best music for a television series or serial

Australian Survivor — David Barber, Jonathan Bush, Helena Czajka, Charlton Hill and Justin Shave

Seven Types Of Ambiguity — Stephen Rae & Jonathan Wilson

The Code — Roger Mason

The Get Down — Elliott Wheeler

best music for a mini-series or telemovie

Barracuda — Bryony Marks

High Life — Sarah Blasko

Shaun Micallef's Stairway To Heaven — Ash Gibson Greig

best music for an advertisement 

Good Mood Water: The Bad Choice — Lindsay Jehan & Nathan Cavaleri

Hennessy: Classivm — Josh Abrahams & Davide Carbone

Swisse: Power Your Passion — Matteo Zingales

Volkswagen: Tiguan 2017 — Elliott Wheeler

best music for a documentary

Deep Water: The Real Story — Antony Partos

Monsieur Mayonnaise — Cezary Skubiszewski

Mother With A Gun — Dale Cornelius

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

Assassin's Creed — Jed Kurzel

Jasper Jones — Antony Partos

Monsieur Mayonnaise — Deborah Morgan & Cezary Skubiszewski

best original song composed for the screen

Atlas In Your Eye (Jasper Jones) — Dustin Tebbutt

Power (The Get Down) — Baz Luhrmann, Donna Missal, Homer SteinweissElliott Wheeler

Torchlight (Don't Tell) — Missy Higgins

Visible (The Pretend One) — Hayden Calnin

best music for children's television

Beat Bugs: When I'm 64 — Daniel Denholm & Daniel Johns

Bottersnikes & Gumbles: The Ugly Pageant — Michael Szumowski

Kazoops: Middle Of Somewhere — Scott Langley

The Deep: Tartaruga — Nerida Tyson-Chew

most performed screen composer — australia

Adam Gock & Dinesh Wicks

Damian De Boos Smith

Jay Stewart

Neil Sutherland

most performed screen composer — overseas

Adam Gock & Dinesh Wicks

Jay Stewart

Neil Sutherland

Nerida Tyson-Chew