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BRETT APLIN

Music exquisitely composed to picture has a transformative quality that can elevate story, enthrall and captivate, confound and bewitch.

It can boldly lead the viewer to new and challenging territory, or comfort them with familiarity.

It's exciting, and why I love what I do...

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Brett Aplin is an ARIA nominated, AFI/AACTA and APRA Screen Music Award winning screen composer with acclaimed and diverse credits across prime-time drama, documentary, feature film and children’s television.

He has worked with some of the very best screen practitioners writing across a variety of genres, his music having been broadcast locally on ABC1, SBS, Network Ten, Channel 7, STAN and internationally on Netflix, Disney+, STARZ, Acorn TV, BBC, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, Animal Planet, The History Channel, ZDF, and Discovery among others.

He has been nominated for 13 APRA Australian Screen Music Awards, winning “Best Music for a Documentary” for Tiger Dynasty (2012) and “Best Music for a Short Film” for Lucy Wants to Kill Herself (2009). He has also been awarded an Australian Film Institute (now AACTA) Award for his work on Rare Chicken Rescue (2008), received an AFI nomination for his contribution to the acclaimed documentary A Thousand Encores: the Ballets Russes in Australia (2010), and an AACTA nomination for James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D (2014). He also picked up an ARIA nomination for his stunning soundtrack to the STAN feature documentary No Mercy, No Remorse in 2022, and a second consecutive ARIA nomination for Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey this year…

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Best Original Soundtrack

ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2023)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Original Soundtrack

ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2022)

The Bureau of Magical Things – Season 2

Best Music for Children’s Programming

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Soundtrack Album

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Music for a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – series 2

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2021)

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries

Best Music for a Mini-series or Telemovie

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

The Bureau of Magical Things

Best Television Theme

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

The Bureau of Magical Things - Series 1

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

Mako Mermaids – Series 3

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2016)

James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D

Best Original Music Score for Documentary

AACTA AWARD
Nominee (2014)

Mako Mermaids – Series 1

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2014)

Tiger Dynasty

Best Music for a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2012)

A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia

Best Sound for a Documentary

AFI AWARD
Nominee (2010)

Lucy Wants to Kill Herself

Best Music for a Short Film

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2009)

Rare Chicken Rescue

Best Sound in a Documentary

AFI AWARD
Winner (2008)

Secrets of the Forbidden City

Best Music in a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2008)

The Floating Brothel

Best Music in a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2007)

Mako Mermaids – Series 3

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2016)

James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D

Best Original Music Score for Documentary

AACTA AWARD
Nominee (2014)

Mako Mermaids – Series 1

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2014)

Tiger Dynasty

Best Music for a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2012)

A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia

Best Sound for a Documentary

AFI AWARD
Nominee (2010)

Lucy Wants to Kill Herself

Best Music for a Short Film

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2009)

Rare Chicken Rescue

Best Sound in a Documentary

AFI AWARD
Winner (2008)

Secrets of the Forbidden City

Best Music in a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2008)

The Floating Brothel

Best Music in a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2007)

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Best Original Soundtrack

ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2023)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Original Soundtrack

ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2022)

The Bureau of Magical Things – Season 2

Best Music for Children’s Programming

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Soundtrack Album

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Music for a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – series 2

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2021)

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries

Best Music for a Mini-series or Telemovie

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

The Bureau of Magical Things

Best Television Theme

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

The Bureau of Magical Things - Series 1

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

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