Bruce Smeaton

Bruce Smeaton
Born	(1938-03-05) 5 March 1938 Australia
Years active	1973-present

Bruce Smeaton (born 5 March 1938) is an Australian composer who is well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres, including features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements.^[1] His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron. He has won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Best Original Music Score award for The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), The Great Macarthy (1975), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) and Street Hero (1984, shared with Garth Porter and others).^[2]

Biography

Smeaton was born in Brighton, Victoria. His music has been championed by the Southern Cross Records and 1M1 Records labels.

In 1964 he spent time as a public school music teacher, at Fawkner Technical School (then an all-boys school) in the Moomba Park area of North Fawkner, a suburb of Melbourne. At the time he had a passionate interest in vintage cars which he would often bring to school.

His ground-breaking synthesized score for Wendy Cracked a Walnut was nominated for an ARIA Award in 1991 for Best Soundtrack / Cast / Show Album.^[3]

He currently lives in Binalong, New South Wales.

Filmography

Listed here is a selection of works for which Smeaton composed music.

Documentaries

Bush, Books and Breedens (1973)
My Brother Wartovo (1973)
Kangaroo Island (1974)
Pozieres (2000)

Feature films

Libido (1973)
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
The Great Macarthy (1975)
The Devil's Playground (1976)
The Trespassers (1976)
Eliza Fraser a.k.a. The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
Summerfield (1977)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
Circle of Iron a.k.a. The Silent Flute (1978)
The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)
Grendel Grendel Grendel (1980)
...Maybe This Time (1980)
Double Deal (1981)
Monkey Grip (1982)
Squizzy Taylor (1982)
Barbarosa (1982)
Undercover (1983)
Iceman (1984)
The Naked Country (1984)
Departure (1985)
Plenty (1985)
Eleni (1985)
Contagion (1987)
Roxanne (1987)
Evil Angels a.k.a. A Cry in the Dark (1988)
Wendy Cracked a Walnut aka Almost (1989)
The Missing (1999)

Short films

The Clown and the Mindreader (n.d.)

Television shows

Seven Little Australians (1973, TV miniseries)
Ben Hall (1975, TV series)
Tandarra (1976, miniseries)
Patrol Boat (1979, TV series)
The Timeless Land (1980, TV miniseries)
A Town Like Alice (1981, TV miniseries)
1915 (1982, miniseries)
Five Mile Creek (1983, TV series)
The Coral Island (1983, TV miniseries)
Eureka Stockade (1984, TV miniseries)
Boy in the Bush (1984, TV miniseries)
A Thousand Skies (1986, TV miniseries)
Jackson's Crew (1986, pilot)
Tusitala (1986, TV miniseries)
The Alien Years (1988, TV miniseries)
Act of Betrayal (1988, movie)
Naked Under Capricorn (1989, movie)
The Private War of Lucinda Smith (1990, dramatised documentary)
The Last of the Ryans (1997, movie)

References

↑ "Search Results for author:"Smeaton, Bruce, 1938-"". catalogue. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
↑ "Australian Film Institute Feature Awards 1958–2002". Australian Film Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
↑ Isnare.com (www.isnare.com/encyclopedia/ARIA_Award_for_Best_Original_Soundtrack,_Cast_or_Show_Album)

AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score

1975–2000	The Cars That Ate Paris and The Great McCarthy – Bruce Smeaton (1975) Not awarded (1976) The Picture Show Man – Peter Best (1977) The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith – Bruce Smeaton (1978) Mad Max – Brian May (1979) Manganinnie – Peter Sculthorpe (1980) Fatty Finn – Rory O'Donoghue and Grahame Bond (1981) The Man from Snowy River – Bruce Rowland (1982) Phar Lap – Bruce Rowland (1983) Street Hero – Garth Porter and Bruce Smeaton (1984) Rebel – Ray Cook, Chris Neal, Peter Best, Billy Byers, Bruce Rowland (1985) Young Einstein – William Motzing and Martin Armiger (1986) The Tale of Ruby Rose – Paul Schütze (1987) The Lighthorsemen – Mario Millo (1988) Dead Calm – Graeme Revell (1989) The Big Steal – Phil Judd (1990) Dingo – Michel Legrand and Miles Davis (1991) Romper Stomper – John Clifford White (1992) The Piano – Michael Nyman (1993) Traps – Douglas Stephen Rae (1994) Hotel Sorrento – Nerida Tyson-Chew (1995) Shine – David Hirschfelder (1996) Doing Time for Patsy Cline – Peter Best (1997) Oscar and Lucinda – Thomas Newman (1998) In a Savage Land – David Bridie (1999) Bootmen – Cezary Skubiszewski (2000)

2001–present	The Dish – Edmund Choi (2001) Rabbit-Proof Fence – Peter Gabriel (2002) Japanese Story – Elizabeth Drake (2003) Somersault – Decoder Ring (2004) The Proposition – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (2005) Suburban Mayhem – Mick Harvey (2006) The Home Song Stories – Antony Partos (2007) Unfinished Sky – Antony Partos (2008) Mao's Last Dancer – Christopher Gordon (2009) Animal Kingdom – Antony Partos and Sam Petty (2010) The Hunter – Andrew Lancaster, Michael Lira and Matteo Zingales (2011) Not Suitable for Children – Matteo Zingales and Jono Ma (2012) The Great Gatsby – Craig Armstrong (2013) The Railwayman – David Hirschfelder (2014) Mad Max: Fury Road – Tom Holkenborg (2015)

AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score

1975–2000	The Cars That Ate Paris and The Great McCarthy – Bruce Smeaton (1975) Not awarded (1976) The Picture Show Man – Peter Best (1977) The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith – Bruce Smeaton (1978) Mad Max – Brian May (1979) Manganinnie – Peter Sculthorpe (1980) Fatty Finn – Rory O'Donoghue and Grahame Bond (1981) The Man from Snowy River – Bruce Rowland (1982) Phar Lap – Bruce Rowland (1983) Street Hero – Garth Porter and Bruce Smeaton (1984) Rebel – Ray Cook, Chris Neal, Peter Best, Billy Byers, Bruce Rowland (1985) Young Einstein – William Motzing and Martin Armiger (1986) The Tale of Ruby Rose – Paul Schütze (1987) The Lighthorsemen – Mario Millo (1988) Dead Calm – Graeme Revell (1989) The Big Steal – Phil Judd (1990) Dingo – Michel Legrand and Miles Davis (1991) Romper Stomper – John Clifford White (1992) The Piano – Michael Nyman (1993) Traps – Douglas Stephen Rae (1994) Hotel Sorrento – Nerida Tyson-Chew (1995) Shine – David Hirschfelder (1996) Doing Time for Patsy Cline – Peter Best (1997) Oscar and Lucinda – Thomas Newman (1998) In a Savage Land – David Bridie (1999) Bootmen – Cezary Skubiszewski (2000)

2001–present	The Dish – Edmund Choi (2001) Rabbit-Proof Fence – Peter Gabriel (2002) Japanese Story – Elizabeth Drake (2003) Somersault – Decoder Ring (2004) The Proposition – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (2005) Suburban Mayhem – Mick Harvey (2006) The Home Song Stories – Antony Partos (2007) Unfinished Sky – Antony Partos (2008) Mao's Last Dancer – Christopher Gordon (2009) Animal Kingdom – Antony Partos and Sam Petty (2010) The Hunter – Andrew Lancaster, Michael Lira and Matteo Zingales (2011) Not Suitable for Children – Matteo Zingales and Jono Ma (2012) The Great Gatsby – Craig Armstrong (2013) The Railwayman – David Hirschfelder (2014) Mad Max: Fury Road – Tom Holkenborg (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 120360796 LCCN: no2004047512 ISNI: 0000 0000 8416 0319 GND: 141117516 SUDOC: 083477276 BNF: cb141378937 (data)

External links

Bruce Smeaton at the Internet Movie Database

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