1984

3RD PRIZE Jazz Action Society Composition Competition.

1985

1ST PRIZE Jazz Action Society Composition Competition

1986

SELECTED as entrant for the Paris Rostrum.

1988

GOLD MEDAL
Best Original Music / New York International Radio Festival.

1989

Nomination
APRA Awards / Most Performed Serious Work

1990

Nomination
APRA Awards / Most Performed Serious Work

1992

2 NOMINATIONS
APRA Award / Contemporary Classical Composition of the Year

1992

WINNER
APRA Awards / Contemporary Classical Composition of the Year

1993

NOMINATION
ARIA Awards / Best Film Soundtrack
Antarctica

1995

WINNER
AGSC /Best Music
The Celluloid Heroes

1996

NOMINATION
AFI Awards / Best Original Music
Children of the Revolution

1996

WINNER
APRA Music A / Best Film Score
Babe

1996

WINNER
AGSC / APRA Award / Best Soundtrack Album

The Edge

1996

WINNER
AGSC Award / Best Original Music
Children of the Revolution

1997

WINNER
Film Critics Circle of Australia Award / Best Original Music
Children of the Revolution

1997

WINNER
Film Critics Circle of Australia Award / Best Original Music
Babe

1997

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Paul Lowin Orchestral Award
Invocations

1998

WINNER
Jean Bogan Memorial Prize for piano composition
Piano Sonata No. 1

1998

WINNER
APRA Music Award / Most performed Classical Work
The Edge

1998

WINNER
A.G.S.C. Award / Best Original Music
A Little Bit of Soul

2001

WINNER
A.G.S.C. APRA Award / Best music for a soundtrack
Solarmax

2002

NOMINATION for Sounds Australian / APRA Awards
Urban Myths

2003

NOMINATION
AGSC/ APRA Awards / Best film score
Horseplay

2003

WINNER
AGSC/ APRA Awards / Best Feature Film score
The Nugget

2005

WINNER
APRA / AMC Awards / Instrumental work of the year
Six Fish

2005

WINNER
APRA/AGSC Award / Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
Hell Has Harbour Views

2007

NOMINATION
International Film Music Critics Association / Best Original Score for a Comedy film Miss Potter

2007

NOMINATION
World Soundtrack Awards
“When you Taught me How to Dance” from Miss Potter / Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film

2007

WINNER
APRA/AGSC Award / Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
Stepfather of the Bride

2007

WINNER
APRA/AGSC Award / Best Soundtrack Album
Miss Potter

2007

WINNER
APRA/AGSC Award / Feature Film Score of the Year
Miss Potter

2011

WINNER
Limelight 2011 Awards / Best New Composition
Missa Solis – Requiem for Eli

2012

Honorary Doctor of Music (honoris causa) awarded by the University of New South Wales

2012

WINNER
Art Music Awards / Orchestral Work of the Year
Missa Solis – Requiem for Eli

2013

WINNER
Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize
Missa Solis – Requiem for Eli

2014

WINNER
ARIA Award / Best Classical Album / Compassion

2015

NOMINATION ARIA Award / Best Original Soundtrack / Paper Planes

2017

WINNER ARIA Award / Best Original Soundtrack / Ali’s Wedding

2017

NOMINATION – AACTA Award  /  Best Original Music Score / Ali’s Wedding

2018

NOMINATION – Film Critics Circle / AGSC Award for Best Music Score / Ali’s Wedding

2019

NOMINATION

ARIA AWARD

Best Classical Album

Spirit of the Wild – concerto for oboe

2019

WINNER

PAUL LOWIN ORCHESTRAL PRIZE

Spirit of the Wild – concerto for oboe

2020

ALBERT H. MAGGS COMPOSITION AWARD

Sacred Sky – String quartet

Presented annually by the University of Melbourne

2021

WALK OF FAME STAR  – ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE

Presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre in honour of Nigel Westlake and Grigoryan Brothers in Concert”

2022

DISTINGUISHED SERVICES TO THE AUSTRALIAN SCREEN 

Awarded by APRA AMCOS and the

Australian Guild of Screen Composers

2023

ARIA NOMINATION / BEST SOUNDTRACK ALBUM

Blueback  – original motion picture soundtrack

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ben Northey

 

2023

BEST SOUNDTRACK ALBUM

APRA / AMCOS SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS

Blueback  – original motion picture soundtrack

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ben Northey