The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 1996 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of awards held in May 1996. The APRA Music Awards were presented by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS).[1] [2] APRA and AMCOS did not provide any awards in 1997, after the hiatus they resumed the annual ceremony in APRA Music Awards of 1998.[3]
Only one classical music award was available in 1996: Most Performed Contemporary Classical Composition.[4] [5] APRA provided awards for "Best Television Theme", and "Best Film Score" in 1996.[6] APRA and AMCOS also sponsored the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC),[7] which provided their own awards ceremony, from 1996 to 2000, with categories for film and TV composers.[8]
Nominees and winners with results indicated on the right.
APRA Music Awards | ||||||||
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| Song of the Year | ||||||||
| Title | Artist | Writer | Result [9] [10] | |||||
| "Caroline" | The Badloves | Debra Byrne, Michael Spiby | ||||||
| "Pick You Up" | Powderfinger | Jonathan Coghill, John Collins, Bernard Fanning, Ian Haug, Darren Middleton | ||||||
| "Waking Up Tired" | Hoodoo Gurus | David Faulkner, Bradley Shepherd | ||||||
| "Wasn't It Good" | Tina Arena | Tina Arena, Robert Parde, Heather Field | ||||||
| "Where the Wild Roses Grow" | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue | Nick Cave | ||||||
| Songwriters of the Year | ||||||||
| Writer | Result [11] | |||||||
| Nick Cave | ||||||||
| Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music | ||||||||
| Name | Result | |||||||
| Ron Tudor | ||||||||
| Most Performed Australian Work | ||||||||
| Title | Artist | Writer | Result | |||||
| "Apple Eyes" | Swoop | Joshua Beagley, Roland Kapferer, Alexander Hewetson, Fiona Ta'Akimoeaka | ||||||
| "Caroline" | The Badloves | Debra Byrne, Michael Spiby | ||||||
| "Under the Water" | Merril Bainbridge | Merril Bainbridge, Owen Bolwell, Stanley Paulzen | ||||||
| "Wasn't It Good" | Tina Arena | Tina Arena, Robert Parde, Heather Field | ||||||
| "Where the Wild Roses Grow" | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue | Nick Cave | ||||||
| Most Performed Australian Work Overseas | ||||||||
| Title | Artist | Writer | Result | |||||
| "Tomorrow" | Silverchair | Daniel Johns, Benjamin Gillies | ||||||
| Most Performed Children's Work | ||||||||
| Title | Artist | Writer | Result | |||||
| "Grand Fairies Ball" | Christine Hutchinson | Christine Hutchinson | ||||||
| "Growin' Up Strong" | Wendy Notley | Barbara Notley, Wendy Notley, Al Rony, Donna Ross | ||||||
| "The Hooley Dooleys" | The Hooley Dooleys | David Butts, Antoine Demarest, Bruce Thorburn | ||||||
| "Just Hang Loose" | Incy Wincy | Leonie Cambage, Graham Sattler | ||||||
| "Wake Up Jeff | " | The Wiggles | Murray Cook, Jeffrey Fatt, Anthony Field, Gregory Page | |||||
| Most Performed Country Work | ||||||||
| Title | Artist | Writer | Result | |||||
| "Don't Call Wagga Wagga Wagga" | Jim Haynes< | -- not US sociologist, US footballer nor Australian writer --> | Gregory Champion, James Haynes | |||||
| "Nine Mile Run" | Tania Kernaghan | Colin Buchanan, Tania Kernaghan, Fiona Kernaghan | ||||||
| "1959" | Lee Kernaghan | Garth Porter, Lee Kernaghan | ||||||
| "Skinny Dippin'" | Lee Kernaghan | Garth Porter, Lee Kernaghan, Colin Buchanan, Lawrence Minton | ||||||
| "Somewhere out There" | Shanley Del | Shanley Del Gregory, Steven Daily | ||||||
| Most Performed Foreign Work | ||||||||
| Title | Artist | Writer | Result | |||||
| "As I Lay Me Down" | Sophie B. Hawkins | Sophie B. Hawkins | ||||||
| "Fairground" | Simply Red | Mick Hucknall | ||||||
| "Give Me One Reason" | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | ||||||
| "Kiss from a Rose" | Seal | Henry Samuel (Seal) | ||||||
| "Lets Groove" | CDB | Maurice White, Wayne Vaughn | ||||||
| Most Performed Jazz Work | ||||||||
| Title | Artist | Writer | Result | |||||
| "Ee Yoo Hoo" | Coco's Lunch | Nicola Eveleigh | ||||||
| "Futures" | DIG | Samuel Dixon, Scott Saunders, James Robertson, Timothy Rollinson, Terepai Richmond | ||||||
| "Mambo Gumbo" | Wanderlust | Miroslav Bukovsky | ||||||
| "Tata" | Wanderlust | Francisco Hevia | ||||||
| "Until" | Carl Orr | Carl Orr, Renée Geyer | ||||||
| Most Performed Contemporary Classical Composition | ||||||||
| Title | Composer | Performer | Result | |||||
| Fantasy | Helen Gifford | Laura Chislett, the Flute in Orbit | ||||||
| Flower Songs | Ross Edwards | Song Company and Friends | ||||||
| In the Shuberry | Anthony Bremner | Song Company and Friends | ||||||
| Sonata for Harp | Peggy Glanville-Hicks | Marshall Maguire | ||||||
| To His Servant Bach God Grants a Final Glimpse – The Morning Star | Graeme Koehne | Marshall Maguire | ||||||
| Best Film Score | ||||||||
| Title | Composer | Result | ||||||
| All Men Are Liars | Mark Moffatt, Wayne Goodwin< | -- not the US politician --> | ||||||
| Angel Baby | John Clifford White | |||||||
| Babe | Nigel Westlake | |||||||
| Peter Best | ||||||||
| Lilian's Story | Cezary Skubiszewski | |||||||
| Mushrooms< | -- not the Indian film, Chatrak, --> | Paul Grabowsky | ||||||
| Talk | John Clifford White | |||||||
| That Eye, the Sky | David Bridie, John Phillips< | -- Australian guitarist, composer --> | ||||||
| Best Television Theme | ||||||||
| Title | Composer | Result | ||||||
| Blue Murder | Peter Best | |||||||
| Bordertown | Guy Gross | |||||||
| Breaking the Ice< | -- not at dab page --> | Robert Moss< | -- not the historian --> | |||||
| Correlli | Christopher Neal | |||||||
| G.P. | Mario Millo | |||||||
| Mercury | John Clifford White | |||||||
| RPA | Geoffrey J Harvey | |||||||
| Water Rats | Leslie Gock | |||||||