APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) have announced the nominees for the 2026 Screen Music Awards. The winners will be revealed at a ceremony at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on 28 October.

Composers Antony Partos, Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley lead the charge with four nominations each.

Ned Beckley, Antony Partos, Josh Hogan. Photos supplied

Feature Film Score of the Year nominees are Piers Burbrook de Vere and Rose Mackenzie-Peterson for Addition, Kenneth Lampl for Monument, Dmitri Golovko for War Machine and Antony Partos for boxer biopic Christy.

Partos’s Christy score has also earned a nomination in Best Soundtrack Album alongside Amanda Brown for Deadloch‘s second season, Cornel Wilczek and Alex Olijnyk for Together, and Ned Beckley and Josh Hogan for Tales from Outer Suburbia, an animation based on Sean Tan’s book.

Beckley and Hogan’s Tales is also nominated in Best Original Song, Best Opening Title Television Theme and Best Music for Children’s Programming; for the latter, alongside Ack Kinmonth (The Pout-Pout Fish), David Skinner (Kiki Can Fly) and Steve Toulmin (Caper Crew), while Partos has another nomination for Edge of Life in Best Music for a Documentary. Also in the category are Haydn Walker for Whistle, Helena Czajka for Sentient and Adrian...