2 December 2020
2020 Screen Music Awards - winners
Winners of the 2020 Screen Music Awards include the AMC-represented artists Amanda Brown and Nerida Tyson-Chew, recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen Award. The 2020 Screen Music Awards were held on Tuesday 1 December as a virtual event - the ceremony will remain available for watching for about a month via the APRA AMCOS YouTube Channel (the tribute to Nerida Tyson Chew starts at 39'20'' into the video).
Amanda Brown won her Award in the category 'Best Music for a TV Series or Serial', for her music in the Australian psychological drama The Secrets She Keeps (Network Ten), based on the novel of the same name by Michael Robotham.
The Feature Film Score of the Year category was taken out by Jed Kurzel for True History of the Kelly Gang, based on Peter Carey's novel and directed by Jed's brother Justin Kurzel.
First-time nominee Antonio Gambale won two categories: Best Music
for a Mini-Series or Telemovie and Best Television Theme, both
for his music for the Netflix series Unorthodox. The
Best Original Song Composed for the Screen went to David Bridie
and co-writer Tom Murray for 'Ballad of the Bridge Builders',
performed by Archie Roach in the film The Skin of
Others.
Producer-composer François Tétaz took home the Award for the Best
Soundtrack Album, for his work on the Australian feature film
Judy & Punch. Ned Beckley and Josh Hogan won the Best
Music for Children's Television category for their music for
Thalu (ABC Me), a series about a group of Indigenous
children who undertake a journey to save their country from the
threat of a mysterious dust cloud and its inhabitants.
Luke Howard won the Award for the Best Music for a Short Film for
The Sand That Ate The Sea, a project documenting the
land and community of Andamooka, an opal-mining town in South
Australia. Matteo Zingales received the award for the Best Music
for a Documentary, for Machine, a film about Artificial
Intelligence.
For a full list of categories and winners, please see the APRA AMCOS website.
The 2020 Screen Music Awards were hosted by Justine Clarke, Meyne
Wyatt and Claudia Karvan. Musical Director Jessica
Wells led an orchestra that performed each of the nominated
Feature Film Score of the Year compositions. The orchestra was
joined by actress, singer and playwright Ursula Yovich for a
performance of David Bridie and Tom Murray's award-winning song
'Ballad of the Bridge Builders'. The orchestra closed the show
with a special tribute to Distinguished Services recipient Nerida
Tyson-Chew.
> Screen Music Awards - APRA AMCOS
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