Screen Music Awards return to in-person event

After two years of virtual events, the Screen Music Awards are returning to an in-person presentation in Melbourne in November.

The annuual APRA AMCOS and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) event honours composers in film, television, documentary and advertising.

Hosting are comedian Anne Edmonds (Have You Been Paying Attention?, What’s Wrong With You?) and singer and actor Akina Edmonds (Hairspray, The Lion King, Hamilton) with Jessica Wells as Musical Director.

The award ceremony will feature interpretations of the four Feature Film Score of the Year nominations performed live by the Screen Awards orchestra, led by the event’s incomparable Musical Director, Jessica Wells whose compositions cross many genres in the classical, commercial and film music worlds. Jessica has worked with some of Australia’s best composers as an orchestrator, arranger, and copyist.

Panels of widely respected Australian screen composers will determine four nominees for 10 categories. The winners of Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia and Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas are decided through analysis of performance activity reflected by royalty earnings. The prestigious Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen Award (as determined by the APRA Board of Directors) will also be presented at the event. Previous recipients include Martin Armiger, Robert Connolly, and Nerida Tyson-Chew.

Nominees will be announced on Thursday 13 October in the following categories:

• Best Music for an Advertisement
• Best Music for Children’s Programming
• Best Music for a Documentary
• Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
• Best Music for a Short Film
• Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
• Best Television Theme
• Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
• Best Soundtrack Album
• Feature Film Score of the Year
• Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia*
• Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas*
• Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen^

* Determined by statistical analysis
^ Awarded at the discretion of the APRA Board of Directors

2022 Screen Music Awards
Forum Melbourne, Naarm
Tuesday 15 November 2022