Between 1995 and 2003 Shaun Davey worked almost exclusively as composer for TV and Film. His music for The Hanging Gale, a four-part BBC drama set in the years of the Great Famine directed by Diarmuid Lwarence, won the Ivor Novello Award for best film music and was nominated for a BAFTA. It led to further commissions from the BBC; the film Loving and three seasons of Ballykissangel (awarded a TRIC for best UK TV theme and a second BAFTA nomination).
In 1997 he composed and produced songs and score for Trevor Nunn's film adaptation of Twelfth Night, (nominated for a second Ivor Novello).
In 1998 he composed the music for Waking Ned Devine winning a Golden Reel Award, followed by the score for Peter Medak's TV film of David Copperfield for Hallmark, recorded with the orchestra of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
In 2000 he composed scores for John Boorman's The Tailor of Panama for Columbia and, the following year, The Abduction Club both of which he recorded - as with all but two of his TV and Film scores - with the Irish Film Orchestra at Windmill Lane Studio, Dublin.
Shaun Davey has also provided the music for four exploration documentary films by Tim Severin; The Brendan Voyage, The Spice Islands Voyage, In search of Moby Dick and In search of Robinson Crusoe.