Missy Higgins, Tim Minchin & Former Go-Between Amanda Brown Score Screen Music Award Nominations

The Screen Music Awards nominations have been announced today and it's shaping up to be another big year! 

Composer Antony Partos picks up four nominations this year for his work, including Best Music For A Documentary for Maralinga Tjarutja, Best Original Song Composed For The Screen for his work on Total Control with co-writers Missy Higgins and Matteo Zingales, and more. 

Tim Minchin is also nominated for Best Original Song Composed For The Screen for his track Carry You from Upright. 

Former Go-Between Amanda Brown picks up two nominations; Best Music For A Television Series Or Serial for The Secrets She Keeps and Best Music For A Documentary with Damien Lane for Quilty: Painting The Shadows. 

Thandi Phoenix picks up a nomination alongside Brendan Tuckerman, Matt Ford and Jack Steele for Best Music For An Advertisement for Klarna: Get What I Love, while Sally and Darren Seltmann pick up a nomination for Best Soundtrack Album for The Letdown.

Jed Kurzel is nominated for Feature Film Score Of The Year for True History Of The Kelly Gang, as well as Most Performed Screen Composer - Overseas. 

The Screen Music Awards take place on Tuesday 1 December from 7pm on YouTube Premiere. Head here for all the info and to RSVP. 

2020 Screen Music Awards Nominees

FEATURE FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR

Escape from Pretoria
Composed by David Hirschfelder

Nekrotronic
Composed by Michael Lira

The Vigil
Composed by Michael Yezerski

True History Of The Kelly Gang
Composed by Jed Kurzel

BEST MUSIC FOR AN ADVERTISEMENT

Georgetown Optician: Eyes Say More Than Words
Composed by Scott Langley

Klarna: Get What I Love
Composed by Brendan Tuckerman* / Thandi Phoenix~ / Matt Ford / Jack Steele

Nippon Steel: Stuck On You
Composed by Jonathan Dreyfus / Amy Andersen

Women With Agency: Women Run
Composed by Angie Coffey

BEST MUSIC FOR CHILDREN'S TELEVISION

Alice Miranda: Friends Forever
Composed by Ryan Grogan

Bluey: Flatpack
Composed by Joff Bush

Thalu: Shadow Boxer
Composed by Ned Beckley / Josh Hogan

The Strange Chores: Train Snorp
Composed by Joff Bush

BEST MUSIC FOR A DOCUMENTARY

Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator
Composed by Cornel Wilczek / Pascal Babare

Machine
Composed by Matteo Zingales 

Maralinga Tjarutja
Composed by Antony Partos

Quilty: Painting the Shadows
Composed by Damien Lane / Amanda Brown

BEST MUSIC FOR A MINI-SERIES OR TELEMOVIE

Operation Buffalo
Composed by Antony Partos

Stateless
Composed by Cornel Wilczek / Tom Rouch* / Pascal Babare

The Commons
Composed by Roger Mason

Unorthodox
Composed by Antonio Gambale 

BEST MUSIC FOR A SHORT FILM

Bolzmann
Composed by Jonathan Dreyfus / Amy Andersen

I Want To Make A Film About Women
Composed by Caitlin Yeo

The Hammerstone
Composed by Jackson Milas

The Sand That Ate The Sea
Composed by Luke Howard

BEST MUSIC FOR A TELEVISION SERIES OR SERIAL

Everything’s Gonna Be Ok
Composed by Bryony Marks

Glitch
Composed by Cornel Wilczek

The Secrets She Keeps
Composed by Amanda Brown

You Can’t Ask That
Composed by Andrew Sampford

BEST ORIGINAL SONG COMPOSED FOR SCREEN

Ballad Of The Bridge-Builders from The Skin Of Others
Composed by David Bridie* / Tom Murray

Bear’s Theme from Bear: Koala Hero
Composed by Adam Gock / Brontë Horder / Mitch Stewart / Dinesh Wicks

Carry You from Upright
Composed by Tim Minchin

Edge Of Something from Total Control
Composed by Missy Higgins* / Antony Partos / Matteo Zingales

BEST SOUNDTRACK ALBUM

Hearts & Bones
Composed by Rafael May

Judy & Punch
Composed by François Tétaz

Lambs Of God
Composed by Bryony Marks

The Letdown
Composed by Sally Seltmann* / Darren Seltmann

BEST TELEVISION THEME

Thalu (Ngarndu Ngurra)
Composed by Ned Beckley / Josh Hogan / Tyson Mowarin

Operation Buffalo
Composed by Antony Partos

The Commons
Composed by Roger Mason

Unorthodox
Composed by Antonio Gambale 

MOST PERFORMED SCREEN COMPOSER - AUSTRALIA

Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks

Anthony El-Ammar

Jay Stewart

Mitch Stewart

MOST PERFORMED SCREEN COMPOSER - OVERSEAS

Jed Kurzel

Michael Yezerski

Neil Sutherland

Nerida Tyson-Chew

Antony Partos

Missy Higgins

Matteo Zingales

Tim Minchin

Amanda Brown

Damien Lane

Thandi Phoenix

Brendan Tuckerman

Matt Ford

Sally & Darren Seltmann

Jed Kurzel