Screen Music Awards 2020: winners

Composers for The Secrets She Keeps, Unorthodox and Thalu were amongst those honoured last night in the 2020 Screen Music Awards.

Justine Clarke, Meyne Wyatt and Claudia Karvan presented the virtual awards. Musical Director Jessica Wells led an orchestra  joined by actress, singer and playwright Ursula Yovich.

Long-time composing duo Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks took out Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia for the seventh time, having on projects such as MasterChef, The Biggest Loser, Lego Masters and Gogglebox.

Neil Sutherland received the award for Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas for a record-breaking 13th consecutive year -his body of work includes Border Security, MythBusters, Dancing with the Stars, Getaway and Bondi Vet.

Composer Nerida Tyson-Chew received the Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen, an honour determined by the APRA Board of Directors.

APRA AMCOS and the AGSC congratulation all the winners of the 2020 Screen Music Awards.

TV and related winners in bold:

Best Television Theme

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

Title Operation Buffalo
Composed by Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music

Title The Commons
Composed by Roger Mason

Title Unorthodox
Composed by Antonio Gambale
Published by BMG Rights Management obo Maisie Anthems

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

Title Everything’s Gonna Be Ok: Seven-Spotted Ladybug
Composed by Bryony Marks
Published by Native Tongue Music Publishing obo Avalon Management Group

Title Glitch: Perfectly Safe
Composed by Cornel Wilczek

Title The Secrets She Keeps
Composed by Amanda Brown
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title You Can’t Ask That: Killed Someone
Composed by Andrew Sampford
Published by Universal Music Publishing obo ABC Music Publishing

Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie

Title Operation Buffalo
Composed by Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music

Title Stateless
Composed by Cornel Wilczek / Tom Rouch* / Pascal Babare
Published by Native Tongue Music Publishing*

Title The Commons
Composed by Roger Mason

Title Unorthodox
Composed by Antonio Gambale
Published by BMG Rights Management obo Maisie Anthems

Best Music for a Documentary

Title Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator
Composed by Cornel Wilczek / Pascal Babare
Published by BMG Rights Management obo Maisie Anthems

Title Machine
Composed by Matteo Zingales
Published by Sonar Music

Title Maralinga Tjarutja
Composed by Antony Partos
Published by Sonar Music

Title Quilty: Painting the Shadows
Composed by Damien Lane / Amanda Brown
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title The Sand That Ate the Sea
Composed by Luke Howard
Published by Secretly Canadian Publishing

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

Title Ballad of the Bridge-Builders from The Skin of Others
Composed by David Bridie*/Tom Murray
Published by Mushroom Music*

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

Title Carry You from Upright
Composed by Tim Minchin
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Navel Enterprises

Title Edge of Something from Total Control
Composed by Missy Higgins*/Antony Partos/Matteo Zingales
Published by Mushroom Music* / Sonar Music

Best Music for Children’s Television

Title Alice Miranda: Friends Forever
Composed by Ryan Grogan

Title Bluey: Flatpack
Composed by Joff Bush
Published by Universal Music Publishing obo BBC Worldwide Limited

Title Thalu: Shadow Boxer
Composed by Ned Beckley/Josh Hogan

Title The Strange Chores: Train Snorp
Composed by Joff Bush
Published by Ludo Studio Pty Ltd

Best Soundtrack Album

Title Hearts and Bones
Composed by Rafael May
Published by Cooking Vinyl Publishing

Title Judy & Punch
Composed by François Tétaz
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Title Lambs of God
Composed by Bryony Marks
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Lillipilli IP

Title The Letdown
Composed by Sally Seltmann*/Darren Seltman
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing*

Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia

Composers: Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Composer: Anthony El-Ammar
Composer: Jay Stewart
Composer: Mitch Stewart

Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas

Composer: Jed Kurzel
Composer: Michael Yezerski
Composer: Neil Sutherland
Composer: Nerida Tyson-Chew

Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen

Composer Nerida Tyson-Chew