4th edition of the SCL Awards – Winners

The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) celebrated its 4th edition on February 15, 2023, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, hosted by Darren Criss and featuring special performances.

4th edition of the SCL Awards - Winners

 

Composer Justin Hurwitz and director Damien Chazelle received the 2023 Spirit of Collaboration Award, presented to a composer and filmmaker who maintain a distinguished creative partnership reflected in their body of work. Justin Hurwitz and Damien Chazelle have collaborated on acclaimed projects including Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016), First Man (2018), and Babylon (2022). Previous recipients of the Spirit of Collaboration Award include Thomas Newman and Sam Mendes, Carter Burwell and the Coen Brothers, and Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee.

 

The SCL also presented two 2023 Jury Awards in recognition of the increasing number of ways music is used in an audiovisual context. The Jury Awards, adjudicated by the SCL Board of Directors, were presented to the opera, Omar, and the audiovisual concert experience, Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, that honors the strength and heroism of global activists fighting for social justice. This production features original music by eight composers and over sixty-five activists who have changed the course of history.

 

Following is the list of winners & nominees:

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM

  • Michael Abels – Nope
  • Carter Burwell – The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Alexandre Desplat – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Michael Giacchino – The Batman
  • John Powell – Don’t Worry Darling

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM

  • Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Leo Birenberg, Zach Robinson – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
  • Sharon Farber – Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
  • Rob Simonsen – The Whale
  • Mark Smythe – The Reef: Stalked

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION

  • Cristobal Tapia de Veer – The White Lotus
  • Nicholas Britell – Andor
  • Siddhartha Khosla – Only Murders In The Building
  • Bear McCreary – The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
  • Theodore Shapiro – Severance

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMATIC OR DOCUMENTARY VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION

  • “Applause” from Tell It Like A Woman – Diane Warren
  • “Carolina” from Where The Crawdads Sing – Taylor Swift
  • “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick – Lady Gaga, BloodPop
  • “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Tems, Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, Ryan Coogler
  • “(You Made It Feel Like) Home” from Bones and All – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A COMEDY OR MUSICAL VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION

  • “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro
  • “Good Afternoon” from Spirited – Khiyon Hursey, Sukari Jones, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Mark Sonnenblick
  • “Light The Match” from Central Park – Danny Elfman
  • “Love is Not Love” from Bros – Billy Eichner, Marc Shaiman
  • “Now You Know” from Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – Weird Al Yankovic

 

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA

  • Stephanie Economou – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
  • Nainita Desai – Immortality
  • Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarök
  • Winifred Phillips – Jurassic World Primal Ops
  • Christopher Wiliis – Cat Burglar

 

DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT

  • Nami Melumad – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
  • DeAndre James Allen-Toole – God’s Country
  • Esin Aydingoz – Simchas and Sorrows
  • Anna Drubich – Barbarian
  • Dara Taylor – The Invitation

 

The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) is a non-profit and primary organization for professional film, television, video game, and musical theater composers and lyricists, and those working in the industry such as orchestrators, arrangers, music supervisors, music agents, music attorneys, music editors, copyists, recording engineers, and related jobs, with a distinguished, 77-year history in the fine art of creating music for visual media.

 

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