# Matteo Zingales

Matteo Zingales (born 28 October 1980) is an Australian film music composer who has won the AACTA Award for Best Original Score for a Feature Film for two years running. In 2013, he shared the award with Jono Ma (of rock band Jagwar Ma) for Best Score for Not Suitable for Children (2012), and in 2012, Zingales, Michael Lira and Andrew Lancaster shared the award for Best Score for The Hunter (2011).

## Biography

Matteo Zingales was born on 28 October 1980 in Rome and raised in Sydney. He graduated in 2004 from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with a Masters in Screen Composition. Zingales has cited Thomas Newman, John Barry and Arvo Pärt as his most important musical influences. "When I was nine," he recalls, "I adored movies. I wanted to be a director and then I realised what actually moved me was the music. I just used to sit down at the piano and write".
He has worked across a variety of music platforms. His television credits include the music for over 200 episodes of the series, All Saints (2004–2009), broadcast in fifteen countries, and for all 22 episodes of the first series of Winners & Losers (2011), broadcast in four countries.
He has composed the music for feature films, including collaborating on The Hunter (2011), which starred Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, and on Not Suitable for Children (2012), which was directed by Peter Templeman and starred Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Sarah Snook; for television mini-series including the ABC's Devil's Dust (2012), one of the six parts of the ABC's Redfern Now (2012), and SBS's Better Man (2013); and for short films, such as Blue Poles (2004), starring Sam Worthington. His documentary credits include Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (2011) for BBC Scotland and The History Channel; and he has composed music for television advertisements.
In February 2008 the Sydney Morning Herald's Mark Chipperfield included Zingales as one of Australia's top thirteen "new talents breaking ground in their chosen fields".
He is a co-founder and director of Sonar Music, the leading Australian music composers' collective.

## Awards and nominations
### ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
| 2020 | Mystery Road (with Antony Partos) | Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album | Nominated | |
| 2022 | A Fire Inside | Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album | Nominated | |

### APRA - Screen Music Awards

| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
| 2007 | All Saints: TV Series | Best Music for a Television Series | Nominated |
| 2011 | Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia | Best Music for a Documentary | Won |
| 2012 | Dripping in Chocolate | Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie | Nominated |
| 2016 | DNA Nation | Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie | Nominated |
| 2016 | 99 Homes | Feature Film Score of the Year (shared with Antony Partos) | Won |
| 2018 | Harrow | Best Television Theme | Won |
| 2018 | Harrow | Best Music for a Television Series or Serial | Nominated |
| 2018 | Mystery Road | Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie (shared with Antony Partos) | Won |
| 2018 | Wake In Fright | Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie (shared with Antony Partos) | Nominated |
| 2018 | Fahrenheit 451 | Feature Film Score of the Year (shared with Antony Partos) | Nominated |
| 2018 | Fahrenheit 451 | Best Soundtrack Album (shared with Antony Partos) | Nominated |
| 2019 | Tidelands | Best Music for a Television Series or Serial | Nominated |
| 2020 | Total Control | Best Original Song Composed for the Screen | Nominated |
| 2020 | Machine | Best Music for a Documentary | Won |
| 2023 | In Limbo | Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie | Nominated |

### AACTA Awards

| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
| 2012 | The Hunter | Best Original Music Score (shared with Michael Lira and Andrew Lancaster) | Won |
| 2013 | Not Suitable for Children | Best Original Score (shared with Jono Ma of rock band Jagwar Ma) | Won |
| 2016 | The Kettering Incident | Best Original Music Score in Television (shared with Max Lyandvert) | Won |
| 2017 | Wake In Fright | Best Original Music Score in Television (shared with Antony Partos) | Won |
| 2018 | Mystery Road | Best Original Music Score in Television (shared with Antony Partos) | Won |
| 2020 | Machine | Best Original Score in A Documentary | Nominated |
| 2020 | Wild Things | Best Sound in a Documentary | Nominated |
| 2022 | A Fire Inside | Best Original Score in a Documentary | Nominated |
| 2024 | In Limbo | Best Original Music Score in Television | Nominated |

### Film Critics Circle of Australia Award

| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
| 2012 | The Hunter | Best Music Score for a Feature Film (shared with Michael Lira and Andrew Lancaster) | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Not Suitable for Children | Best Music Score (shared with Jono Ma) | Nominated | |