Guy Gross
Guy Gross is an Australian film and television composer. He is known most for writing the award winning music for the Australian science fiction series Farscape and the international hit film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. He also composed for the animated television series Blinky Bill and Dumb Bunnies. He has approximately 50 credits as composer.[1]
Personal
Gross began film scoring while studying classical composition at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, Australia.[2] He is the son of film producers Yoram Gross and Sandra Gross.[2] Gross composed music for the family animation business in High School.[2]
Gross is artistic director, resident composer, and a director of Trackdown Digital, an Australian film music and audio recording center.[3]
Notable awards
He has won various awards and been nominated for many awards in his native Australia as well as in other countries.
Notable awards and nominations include:
- In 1994, he was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award in the Best Original Music Score category for his score for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.[1]
- In 1995, he was nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.[4]
- In 2001, he won the Australian Screen Music Award for achievement in Film music for his score for Farscape.[5]
- In 2002, he won the Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Television Series for his score for Farscape.[6]
- In 2009, he won the International Achievement Award (a Screen Music Award) from the Australasian Performing Right Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. Additionally, the same year he won another Screen Music Award in the category Best Music for Children’s Television for his score for Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist[7][8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guy Gross at the Internet Movie Database/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Guy Gross Music Homepage". Ggm.com.au. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ↑ "Home People". trackdown.com.au. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ↑ "Film: Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music in 1995". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
- ↑ Awards for Guy Gross at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ "APRA|AMCOS : 2002 Winners". Apra-amcos.com.au. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ↑ "2009 APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards Nominations Announced · Australian Guild of Screen Composers". Agsc.org.au. 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ↑ "APRA|AMCOS : All news". Apra-amcos.com.au. 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2012-02-20.