The winners of the 2024 Screen Music Awards have been announced in a ceremony hosted at Forum Melbourne on Tuesday 29 October, one celebrating the varied and rich contributions of Australian composers to the screen – games, ads, short films, feature films and television.

Amanda Brown. Photo © Daniel Boud

Jed Kurzel has taken home his third win for Feature Film Score of the Year for his work on Monkey Man, directed by and starring Adelaide-based filmmaker Dev Patel.

Kurzel is an Adelaide-born, Sydney-based musician known for his work with blues rock band The Mess Hall and as a prolific screen composer whose music features the soundtracks for Alien: Covenant, Macbeth (2015), Assassin’s Creed, Slow West and The Babadook.

Best Music for Children’s Programming has been awarded to Joff Bush, Jazz D’Arcy, Daniel O’Brien and Joe Twist for Bluey: The Sign, a special in which Bluey and friends come to terms with the potential sale of her family home.

Alex Olijnyk. Photo supplied

Melbourne-based cellist and composer Alex Olijnyk  has been awarded the inaugural Emerging Screen Composer of the Year award. She has been...