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It's been an exciting week!

First of all, on Wednesday the Hilltop Hoods were nominated for 3 ARIA awards.

Song of the Year
- Hilltop Hoods - 1955 feat. Montaigne & Tom Thum
Best Video
- Hilltop Hoods - 1955 feat. Montaigne & Tom Thum
Best Australian Live Act
- Hilltop Hoods - The Restrung Tour

Jamie composed and conducted the string parts for 1955 and was musical director, composer and keyboardist for the Restrung Tour. It was such a phenomenal experience and we're proud to have it nominated.

As if that wasn't enough, director and animator Mikey Hill submitted his and Jamie's film collaboration The Orchestra to the Oscars!!!!!

Fingers are well and truly crossed.

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Winner of Best Soundtrack Awards!!!

We are delighted to announce that Jamie Messenger's soundtrack to director and animator Mikey Hill's latest film, The Orchestra has recently won two awards.

First of all, the soundtrack won the award for Best Original Score at the St Kilda Film Festival. In case you can't tell from the picture below, Jamie was pretty darned excited!!!

Best Original Score - Jamie Messenger

Following on from St Kilda Festival, Jamie was greatly honoured to receive word he had been awarded a prize at the prestigious Film Music Festival in Malaga, Spain. Unfortunately Jamie wasn't able to attend in person to accept the Jerry Goldsmith Awards for Best Original Score in an Animated Short Film. It did however mean he was able to film his first ever video acceptance speech. You can check it out on Jamie's Facebook page.

Jerry Goldsmith Awards