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It's been a big few days for Archie Roach.
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In the past week the Indigenous singer-songwriter has re-released his breakthrough 1990 album Charcoal Lane.
He's seen its songs covered by a new generation of musicians – including Briggs, Dan Sultan, Marlon Williams and Courtney Barnett – and on top of that comes a few more feathers in his rather crowded cap.
Next week Roach, who also received an Order of Australia (AM) in June, will be among 10 inductees into The Age Music Victoria Hall of Fame.
And to top it all off, on Thursday night Roach and long-time friend and collaborator Shane Howard, best known for his chart-topping 1980s rock band Goanna, received a major prize at the Screen Music Awards.
The pair, both originally from Victoria's western district, took home the award for Best Original Song Composed for the Screen for their composition A Secret River, from the ABC TV series based on Kate Grenville's book The Secret River.
They also performed their song, which weaves acoustic guitars with strings and traditional Aboriginal instruments, at the event, staged by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Composer Jed Kurzel also of two-piece Sydney band The Mess Hall, won the award for Feature Film Score of the Year for his work on the American film Slow West, starring Australian actors Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn. It's the second gong in that category for Kurzel, who won the award in 2011 for his score for Snowtown, directed by his brother Justin.
Melbourne composer David Hirschfelder won awards in two categories – Best Soundtrack Album for Russell Crowe's film The Water Diviner and Best Music for a Television Series or Serial for his work on the BBC convict drama Banished.
All the winners were men. Women were nominated six times, but none received an award. Bryony Marks was nominated three times: twice in the Best Television Theme category, for the ABC's Anzac Girls and Network Ten's political drama Party Tricks, and once for Best Soundtrack Album for the film Felony, which she worked on with her husband, the director Matthew Saville.
SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS
Full list of winners:
Feature Film Score of the Year:
Slow West, composed by Jed Kurzel
Best Music for a Documentary
Sherpa, composed by Antony Partos
Best Music for a Short Film
1919, composed by Damien Lane
Best Soundtrack Album
The Water Diviner, composed by David Hirschfelder
Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
A Secret River, from The Secret River, composed by Shane Howard and Archie Roach
Best Music for Children's Television
Monster Beach, composed by Keith Moore
Best Television Theme
The Code, composed by Roger Mason
Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
Banished, composed by David Hirschfelder
Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
The Secret River, composed by Burkhard Dallwitz
Best Music for an Advertisement
Domain – Good Move
Composed by Bruce Heald
Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia
Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks
Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas
Neil Sutherland