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Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley take four Screen Music Awards for ABC series

Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley won four awards for their work on ABC’s Tales from Outer Suburbia at the 2026 Screen Music Awards. Their wins included awards for children’s programming, an opening-title theme, a soundtrack album and an original song shared with Joni Hogan.

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What happened

Key facts

  • Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley won four Screen Music Awards for their work on the ABC series Tales from Outer Suburbia (per if.com.au, noise11.com, ABC Australia).
  • Hogan and Beckley won every category in which they were nominated (per if.com.au, noise11.com).
  • Their awards included Best Music for Children’s Programming, Best Opening Title Television Theme and Best Soundtrack Album (per if.com.au).
  • The ceremony was held at Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Wednesday 28 October (per noise11.com, if.com.au).
  • The Screen Music Awards were presented by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers and covered 16 categories (per noise11.com).
  • Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks won Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia for the 12th time, for work on MasterChef, My Kitchen Rules and Travel Guides (per if.com.au).
  • Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks also won Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas for work on Con Girl, Lego Masters and Married at First Sight (per if.com.au).
  • Piers Burbrook de Vere and Rose Mackenzie-Peterson won Feature Film Score of the Year for Addition, while Antony Partos won Best Music for a Television Drama for The Artful Dodger (per if.com.au).

The brief

Josh Hogan and Ned Beckley won four Screen Music Awards for their work on the ABC series Tales from Outer Suburbia, taking every category in which they were nominated. Their wins recognized music for children’s programming, an opening-title television theme and a soundtrack album, as well as an original song they shared with Joni Hogan.

The ceremony took place at Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Wednesday 28 October. The awards were presented by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. Noise11 described the awards as covering 16 categories across Australian screen composition, including work for television, film, video games, advertising and reality television.

The four-award result made Tales from Outer Suburbia a prominent winner at the ceremony, while the separate category results recognized composers working across other screen formats. If.com.au’s account details the categories Hogan and Beckley won and identifies the other award recipients; Noise11 emphasizes the breadth of the ceremony and the pair’s sweep of their nominations.

Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks won Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia for the 12th time, with work on MasterChef, My Kitchen Rules and Travel Guides. They also received Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas for work on Con Girl, Lego Masters and Married at First Sight. Piers Burbrook de Vere and Rose Mackenzie-Peterson won Feature Film Score of the Year for Addition.

Antony Partos received Best Music for a Television Drama for The Artful Dodger, adding two further named winners beyond the most-awarded series. Rob Collins hosted the ceremony alongside guest presenters Claudia Karvan and Ayesha Madon.

The awards recognized composers across a range of screen productions, with the reported results spanning children’s television, recurring television programs, a feature film and a television drama.

Why it matters

  • The results recognize Hogan and Beckley’s work on the ABC series across four award categories, including children’s programming and soundtrack composition.
  • The ceremony’s 16 categories covered work across television, films, video games, advertising and reality television, placing the series’ wins within a broad screen-composition awards program.
  • Adam Gock and Dinesh Wicks’ 12th Australian composer award and their overseas-category win show that the ceremony also recognized recurring work on named television programs.

What to watch next

  • Whether APRA AMCOS or the Australian Guild of Screen Composers publishes further details about the 16 award categories.
  • Whether the award recipients discuss their winning work on Tales from Outer Suburbia.
  • Whether the named winners’ projects receive further recognition.

How it's being covered

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Where the outlets are based: Asia 60% · Unknown 40%
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  • Coverage is currently concentrated among Center-rated outlets (3 of 3 rated sources); comparatively few Left or Right-rated outlets have published on the event.
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How outlets' accounts compare

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  • Noise11 calls Tales from Outer Suburbia the ceremony’s standout production, while if.com.au reports the four wins and names other category recipients without using that characterization.
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  • Noise11 says the ceremony recognized achievements across 16 categories.
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  • The sources do not describe the judging process or the criteria used to select the winners.
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Timeline

Developments from this story's sources, dated background we compiled and fact-checked, and our earlier coverage. Each row says which.
  1. The Australasian Performing Right Association was founded to administer music performing rights.
    Background · compiled and fact-checked by Updat3
  2. The Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society was established to administer mechanical royalties.
    Background · compiled and fact-checked by Updat3
  3. The Australian Guild of Screen Composers was founded.
    Background · compiled and fact-checked by Updat3
  4. The Screen Music Awards were established in 1996 to recognize music composed for Australian screen productions.
    Background · from our historical context
  5. APRA and AMCOS began operating together under the APRA AMCOS name in 1997.
    Background · from our historical context
  6. The closest earlier creative source for ABC’s *Tales from Outer Suburbia* was Shaun Tan’s illustrated book of the same name, published in 2008.
    Background · from our historical context
  7. The ceremony was held at Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Wednesday 28 October.
    Reported in this story's sourcesSource:noise11.com

How we got here

The closest earlier creative source for ABC’s *Tales from Outer Suburbia* was Shaun Tan’s illustrated book of the same name, published in 2008. The Screen Music Awards were established in 1996 to recognize music composed for Australian screen productions.

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers present the awards, placing them within Australia’s established system for recognizing screen composers and music creators.

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