Overview
- The Screen Music Awards, held in Brisbane on Wednesday night, gave Tales From Outer Suburbia four prizes including Best Soundtrack Album and Best Opening Title Theme for composers Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley.
- Long‑time collaborators Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks again won Most Performed Screen Composer — Australia and Most Performed — Overseas and helped secure Best Music for an Unscripted Series for Million Dollar Secret.
- Feature Film Score of the Year went to Piers Burbrook de Vere and Rose Mackenzie‑Peterson for Addition, Christopher Larkin won for Hollow Knight: Silksong, Finn Clarke was named Emerging Screen Composer of the Year, and Cezary Skubiszewski received Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen.
- Composers wore protest badges and used speeches at the ceremony to call for rules that require creators' consent and payment for use of their work in training AI models after Nigel Westlake said roughly 180 of his pieces were found in training datasets.
- Organisers APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers framed the event as both an artistic celebration and a pressure point for policy change, with the industry now pushing for licensing pathways, clearer disclosure from AI firms, and government action.