Jed Kurzel | |
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 Kurzel live with The Mess Hall in 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jed Danyel Kurzel |
| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Gawler, South Australia, Australia |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
Jed Danyel Kurzel (born 1976) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and film composer. He is a founding member of The Mess Hall (from 2001), a blues rock duo. His older brother Justin Kurzel is a film director and screenwriter.
Kurzel was born in c.1976 and, with his older brother Justin Kurzel (born c.1974), grew up in Gawler, South Australia. [1] [2] Their father, Zdzislaw Kurzel (1946–2006), was from Poland and had migrated to Australia in 1960, where he became a taxi driver. [3] [4] [5] In the 1990s, Kurzel moved to Sydney, where Justin was studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). [2]
In 2001 Kurzel on lead vocals and guitar, Anthony Johnsen on drums and a bass guitarist formed a blues-rock group, the Mess Hall in Sydney – the bass guitarist soon left but was not replaced, they continued as a duo. [6] Kurzel recalled "When the clubs asked us where our bass player was, we used to lie and say he was sick." [6] Their debut album The Mess Hall was released in June 2003. In early 2004 Johnsen was replaced by Cec Condon on drums and vocals. [7] Their third album Devils Elbow (October 2007) won the Australian Music Prize. [8]
In 2000 Kurzel composed the film score for the short subject, Sammy Blue, at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, with Kim Farrant directing. [9] [10] He worked for Farrant again: providing the score for Naked on the Inside (2006), a feature film documentary on body image. [10] In 2009 he composed music for Castor & Pollux, a short film, directed by Ben Briand. [11]
In 2011 Kurzel provided the music score for the directorial debut feature film by Justin, Snowtown . [12] At the APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards of 2011 Kurzel won Feature Film Score of the Year. [13] It was nominated for Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Music Score. [14] The related soundtrack album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album in that same year. [15] [16]
Kurzel also wrote the scores for Son of a Gun , Slow West and the documentary All This Mayhem . In 2015, he worked again with his brother on Macbeth , followed by Assassin's Creed in 2016. He replaced Harry Gregson-Williams as the composer of Alien: Covenant . [17]
| Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 2007 | Naked on the Inside | Kim Farrant | Magic Real Picture Company | |
| 2014 | All This Mayhem | Eddie Martin | Hopscotch Films | AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score in a Documentary [22] |
| Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Sammy Blue | Kim Farrant | AFTRS |
| 2007 | The Rose of Ba Ziz | Aden Young | |
| 2009 | Castor & Pollux | Ben Briand | Benah |
| 2014 | Dook Stole Christmas | Jennifer Kent | Smoking Gun Productions |
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by the Australian Recording Industry Association. They commenced in 1987.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Snowtown | Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album | Nominated | [23] |
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