2026 Screen Music Award nominees revealed
Nominees for 15 categories have been revealed ahead of this year’s event on Wednesday 28 October
Antony Partos, Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley lead the charge with four nominations each
Andreas Dominguez, Emma Greenhill, Finn Clarke and Genevieve Patrick nominated for Emerging Screen Composer of the Year
Nominees for 15 categories in the 2026 Screen Music Awards have been revealed ahead of the event’s return to Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on Wednesday 28 October with Antony Partos, Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley in the lead with four nominations each.
Multi-award-winning composer Antony Partos is nominated in Best Music for a Documentary for Edge of Life; Best Music for a Television Drama for The Artful Dodger; Best Soundtrack Album and Feature Film Score of the Year for the biographical boxing film, Christy.
Hogan and Beckley’s work on the ABC children’s animation series Tales from Outer Suburbia is also nominated for four awards - Best Music for Children’s Programming, Best Opening Title Television Theme, Best Soundtrack Album and Best Original Song Composed for the Screen along with composer Joni Hogan.
Longtime collaborators and multi-award winners Adam Gock, Dinesh Wicks and Mitch Stewart have received three nominations each for their work on major TV shows including Lego Masters, MasterChef and My Kitchen Rules in both Most Performed Screen Composer categories, and for Best Music for Unscripted or Reality Television Series for Million Dollar Secret.
Other multiple nominees are Adrian Leung, Bryony Marks, Caitlin Yeo, Cassie To, Emma Greenhill and Steve Toulmin, who are up for awards across several categories.
Two of the most talked about new games releases – Hollow Knight: Silksong, composed by Christopher Larkin, and Bluey’s Quest for the Gold Pen, composed by Cedar Jones - have been nominated for Best Music for a Video Game or Other Interactive Media alongside Malys, composed by Belinda Coomes, and Mixtape composed by Josh Abrahams and Jonathan Tron.
In the Emerging Screen Composer of the Year category, first-time nominees Andreas Dominguez and Genevieve Patrick join Emma Greenhill and 2025 Best Soundtrack Album winner, Finn Clarke.
Presented by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), the Screen Music Awards celebrate excellence and innovation in screen composition across 16 categories, recognising outstanding contributions in short film, television series, documentaries, children’s programming, feature films and more.
The 2026 Screen Music Awards form part of APRA’s year-long centenary celebrations, recognising a century of Australian songwriting and composition.
Award recipients are determined either by panels of highly respected Australian screen composers or through statistical analysis. The Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen Award and Emerging Screen Composer of the Year are selected by the APRA Board of Directors.
This year’s Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen recipient will be announced on Tuesday 13 October.
Click here to see the full list of nominees.
2026 SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS
5.30pm, Wednesday 28 October
Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
Hosted by Rob Collins with guest presenters Claudia Karvan OAM and Ayesha Madon
Music Director Erkki Veltheim
