Caitlin Yeo is an Australian musician and film composer, whose credits include the feature film Jucy, All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, and The Rocket. Yeo is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School and Sydney University.[1] Her work has won a number of awards including 2007 APRA AGSC Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Documentary and 2011 APRA Professional Development Award and received nominations in 2008, 2010 and 2012.[2] She also teaches composition and film music theory at The Australian Institute of Music.[citation needed]

Yeo was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score for her work on The Rocket, but lost against Craig Armstrong of The Great Gatsby. At the APRA Music Awards of 2013 Yeo won Feature Film Score of the Year for The Rocket.[3]

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Awards and nominations

APRA Music Awards

The APRA Music Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters".[4] They include the associated Screen Music Awards handed out by APRA, Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), which "acknowledges excellence and innovation in the field of screen composition."[5] In 2018 Yeo was appointed the president of AGSC.[6]

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2007 Bomb Harvest (Caitlin Yeo) Best Music for a Documentary[7][8] Won
2012 Seduction in the City: The Birth of Shopping (Yeo) Best Music for a Documentary[9] Nominated
2013 The Rocket (Yeo) Feature Film Score of the Year[10] Won
2015 The Great Australian Race Riot (Yeo) Best Music for a Documentary[11] Nominated
2016 Getting Frank Gehry (Yeo) Best Music for a Documentary[12] Won
Compass (Yeo) Best Television Theme[13] Nominated
2018 The Butterfly Tree (Yeo) Feature Film Score of the Year[5] Won
Best Soundtrack Album[5] Won
The House with Annabel Crabb (Yeo) Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie[14] Nominated
Barbara (Yeo) Best Music for a Short Film[15] Nominated
2019 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (Yeo) Feature Film Score of the Year[16][17] Nominated
"Where Inspiration Lives: Sydney Opera House" (Yeo) Best Music for an Advertisement[16][18] Nominated
The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill (Yeo) Best Television Theme[16][19] Nominated
2020 I Want to Make a Film About Women (Yeo) Best Music for a Short Film[20] Nominated
2021 Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story (Yeo) Best Music for a Documentary[21][22] Won
Wakefield (Maria Alfonsine, Yeo) Best Music for a Television Series or Serial[21][22] Nominated
2022[23] "Ms Represented with Annabel Crabb" (Andrew Scott & Yeo) Best Music for a Documentary Nominated[24]
New Gold Mountain (Yeo) Best Soundtrack Album Nominated[25]
New Gold Mountain (Yeo) Best Television Theme Won[26]
The PM's Daughter (Basil Hogios & Yeo) Nominated[27]
New Gold Mountain (Yeo) Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie Won[28]

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia.

Year Nominee / work Award Result Reference
2021 Wakefield (Season One Official Soundtrack) Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album Nominated [29]

References

  1. ^ "Biography at First Cut Studio website". Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
  2. ^ APRAA Awards 2011 Winners
  3. ^ "Feature Film Score of the Year". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  4. ^ "APRA History". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). Archived from the original on 20 September 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  5. ^ a b c "Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  6. ^ staff writer (20 November 2018). "Dual triumphs for Caitlin Yeo, Matteo Zingales at Screen Music Awards". IF Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  7. ^ "2007 Winners – Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  8. ^ "2007 Nominations – Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Nominations > Best Music for a Documentary". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). Archived from the original on 17 May 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  10. ^ "Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  11. ^ "Best Music for a Documentary". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  13. ^ "Best Television Theme". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2016. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  14. ^ "Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2018. Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  15. ^ "Best Music for a Short Film". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  16. ^ a b c "Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  17. ^ "Feature Film Score of the Year". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2019. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  18. ^ "Best Music for an Advertisement". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  19. ^ "Best Television Theme". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  20. ^ "Screen Music Awards: Full List of Winners & Nominees". APRA AMCOS Australia. 2020. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  21. ^ a b "Screen Music Awards: Full List of Winners & Nominees". APRA AMCOS Australia. 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  22. ^ a b "Congratulations to the 2021 Screen Music Awards winners". APRA AMCOS Australia. 22 February 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  23. ^ "Missy Higgins and Josh Pyke Nominated for APRA Screen Music Awards". Noise11. 13 October 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  24. ^ "2022 Screen Music Awards - APRA AMCOS & AGSC". APRA AMCOS. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  25. ^ "2022 Screen Music Awards - APRA AMCOS & AGSC". APRA AMCOS. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  26. ^ "2022 Screen Music Awards - APRA AMCOS & AGSC". APRA AMCOS. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  27. ^ "2022 Screen Music Awards - APRA AMCOS & AGSC". APRA AMCOS. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  28. ^ "2022 Screen Music Awards - APRA AMCOS & AGSC". APRA AMCOS. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  29. ^ Kelly, Vivienne (20 October 2021). "ARIA Awards nominees revealed: Amy Shark & Genesis Owusu lead the charge". The Music Network. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

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