Matteo Zingales is one of Australia’s most awarded composers. Hehas an exacting and intuitive sense for creating highly original and evocative scores.
Matteo’s feature film credits include Russell Crowe’s Poker Face, 99 Homes (AGSC Winner Feature Film Score of the Year 2017), I Met A Girl, Machine, (AGSC Award for Best Music for a Documentary 2020), A Fire Inside, The Lost Aviator, The Hunter (ACCTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2012 + Film Critics Circle Award for Best Original Music 2012) and Not Suitable for Children (AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2013).
He has also worked extensively across highly awarded TV Series including Wellmania (starring Celeste Barber), BUMP, In Limbo, Total Control S1-2, Mystery Road S1-2 (AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2018 + AGSC Screen Award for Best Music for a mini-series or Telemovie 2018), The Kettering Incident, Tidelands, Harrow S1-3 and Five Bedrooms S1-4. More recently completing STAN’s Sunny Nights released 2025.
Other notable projects include Wake in Fright (recipient of the AACTA Award for Best Original Score in Television), ABC’s original TV Mini Series Significant Others, In Limbo (AACTA Award for Best Original Score in Television Nominee) and Foxtel’s feature film Australia Day.
Internationally, Matteo scored the US ABC prime-time TV series Secrets and Lies and the HBO Feature Film Fahrenheit 451 which premiered at Cannes International Film Festival.
Matteo has worked across Australia’s most premier networks such as STAN and Foxtel, as well as internationally working for ABC US, Netflix, Disney and Amazon Prime.
He has just finalised composing the score for Kill Jackie releasing on Amazon Prime + HBO Max in 2026. As well as scoring Lee Tamahori’s highly anticipated and award-winning feature film The Convert.
AWARDS
Screen Music Awards
2022: Screen Music Awards, Best Music for a Television Series or Serial - Total Control S2
2020: Screen Music Awards, Best Music for a Documentary - Machine
2018: Screen Music Awards, Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie - Mystery Road
2018: Screen Music Awards, Best Television Theme - Harrow
2016: Screen Music Awards, Best Music for a Feature Film - 99 Homes
AACTA Awards
2018: AACTA Awards, Best Original Music Score in Television - Mystery Road
2017: AACTA Awards, Best Original Music Score in Television - Wake In Fright
2016: AACTA Awards, Best Original Music Score in Television - The Kettering Incident
2013: AACTA Awards, Best Original Music Score - Not Suitable for Children
2012: AACTA Awards, Best Original Music Score - The Hunter
SHOTS Awards
2024: Shots Awards, Gold - Best Use Of Music - HUSK
Clio Music Awards
2025: Clio Music Awards, Silver - Use of Music in Advertising - HUSK
Gerety Awards
2021: Gerety Awards, Bronze - Craft Cut - Heartbeat – Save Our Sons Charity
The One Show
2025: The One Show, Silver Pencil - Music & Sound Craft - Original Music - HUSK
2025: The One Show, Bronze Pencil - Music & Sound Craft - Sound Design - HUSK
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