australian television information archive

Awards were held on Monday, November 3rd at City Recital Hall in Sydney.

International Achievement Award

• Garry McDonald and Laurie Stone

Most Performed Screen Composer - Australia

• Les Gock
• Jay Stewart
• Neil Sutherland
• Dinesh Wickremeratne

Most Performed Screen Composer - Overseas

• Alastair Ford
• Guy Gross
• Chris Pettifer
• Neil Sutherland

Feature Film Score of the Year

• Children of the Silk Road (David Hirschfelder)
• Rogue (Francois Tetaz)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis)
• Unfinished Sky (Antony Partos)

Best Music for a Documentary

• Halal Mate — Episode 1 — Afifas Match (Michael Den Elzen
• Last Trimate (Caitlin Yeo
• Night (Cezary Skubiszewski)
• Secrets of the Forbidden City (Brett Aplin)

Best Music for a Short Film

• Noir Drive (Geoffrey Russell)
• Shot Open (Rachel Gaudry)
• The Funk (Paul Gillett)
• The Ground Beneath (Jonathan Nix and Miles Nicholas)

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

• City Homicide — Episode 14 (Richard Pleasance)
• Summer Heights High — Episode 8 (Jason Catherine, Chris Lilley and Bryony Marks)
• Underbelly — Episode 5 (Burkhard Dallwitz)
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Episode 2 (Ash Gibson Greig)

Best Music for an Advertisement

• Australian Rugby Union — Men of Gold (Mark Rivett and Haydn Walker)
• Herringbone — Hands (Elliott Wheeler)
• LMFF — Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival — 2008 (Robert Burke and Benjamin Grayson)
• SBS Station ID — Six Billion Stories & Counting (Roger Mason and Bryony Marks)

Best Soundtrack Album

• East of Everything (Greg Walker)
• Rogue (Francois Tetaz)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis)
• The Black Balloon (Michael Yezerski)

Best Music for Children's Television

• Animalia: "Butterfly Winter" (Christopher Elves)
• Dogstar — Episode 24 (Yuri Worontschak)
• Gumnutz! A Juicy Tale (Clive Harrison)
• Pirate Islands the Lost Treasure of Fiji (Art Phillips)

Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie

• East West 101 — Episode 1 (Guy Gross)
• Emerald Falls (Richard Pleasance)
• Indonesia a Reporter's Journey — Episode 1 'A difficult engagement' (Scott Saunders)

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

• Free Falling 2 — Night (Cezary Skubiszewski, Jan Skubiszewski, Andy Baldwin, Clairanne Brown and Jules Pascoe)
• It's a Jungle Out There — Underbelly (Burkhard Dallwitz
• The Greatest Act in History — The Black Balloon (Michael Yezerski)
• When We Get There — The Black Balloon (Josh Pyke and Michael Yezerski)

Best Television Theme

• Elders (David Chapman)
• Underbelly (Burkhard Dallwitz)
• Summer Heights High (Chris Lilley)
• The Gruen Transfer (David Chapman)