The 2026 Display screen Music Awards will return to Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Corridor on Wednesday, Oct. 28, marking the second consecutive 12 months the ceremony has been held within the metropolis, APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Display screen Composers (AGSC) introduced.
The awards, offered collectively by the 2 organizations, acknowledge excellence in display screen composition throughout 16 classes spanning quick movie, tv, documentary, youngsters’s programming and have movie work. This 12 months’s ceremony falls inside APRA’s centenary celebrations, marking 100 years of the performing rights group.
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Actor and APRA member Rob Collins will host, joined by visitor presenters Claudia Karvan and Ayesha Madon. Composer Erkki Veltheim returns as music director for his closing 12 months within the position, main a reside orchestra by choices from nominated works. Nominees will likely be introduced Sept. 22.
“For 100 years, APRA has existed to have a good time and help the folks behind the music, and the Display screen Music Awards are an integral a part of that,” APRA AMCOS CEO Dean Ormston stated in a press release. AGSC president Amanda Brown added that the ceremony offers the display screen composition neighborhood a uncommon probability to assemble and be acknowledged collectively.
Most winners are decided by panels of Australian display screen composers, with two awards — Distinguished Companies to the Australian Display screen and Rising Display screen Composer of the 12 months — chosen by the APRA board, and two extra classes, Most Carried out Display screen Composer (Australia and Abroad), determined by statistical evaluation.
Final 12 months’s inaugural Brisbane ceremony highlighted the worldwide attain of Australian display screen composition: Joff Bush received Most Carried out Display screen Composer – Abroad for his work on Bluey, which was the most-streamed present within the U.S. in 2024, whereas Cornel Wilczek took house two awards, for Pretend and Netflix’s The Survivors. Different previous winners embody Antonio Gambale, Fred Leone, Meg Washington and Missy Higgins.
