Two 2023 Oscar contenders, Son Lux and Diane Warren, every gained awards in competitors at the fourth annual SCL Awards, offered by The Society of Composers & Lyricists. Emmy winner Darren Criss hosted the occasion, which was held on Wednesday (Feb. 15) at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
Son Lux, Oscar-nominated for finest unique rating for Everything Everywhere All at Once, gained excellent rating for an unbiased movie. The award was accepted by the trio’s Ryan Lott. Warren, Oscar-nominated for finest unique track for “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman, gained excellent track for a drama/documentary.
Michael Abels was a double winner on the evening. He gained excellent unique rating for a characteristic movie for Nope in addition to a Jury Award for Omar, an opera he composed with Rhiannon Giddens.
The SCL offered two 2023 Jury Awards in recognition of the growing variety of methods music is utilized in an audiovisual context. These awards are voted on by the SCL board of administrators. The different went to the audiovisual live performance expertise Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, for which Amy Andersson is musical director.
The Spirit of Collaboration Award was offered to composer Justin Hurwitz and director Damien Chazelle, who’ve collaborated on 5 movies, together with La La Land, for which they every gained Oscars, and the 2022 movie Babylon, for which Hurwitz is once more nominated for an Oscar for finest unique rating. The presentation was accompanied by a musical efficiency which included “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” from La La Land, the First Man theme for harp and theremin, and a Babylon medley.
The Spirit of Collaboration Award, thought-about the SCL’s most distinctive and maybe most significant, is offered to a composer and filmmaker who preserve a distinguished inventive partnership. Previous recipients are Thomas Newman and Sam Mendes, Carter Burwell and the Coen Brothers, and Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee.
Additionally, filmmaker/lyricist Guillermo del Toro and lyricist Roeban Katz accepted their award for excellent unique track for a musical or comedy for “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which they co-wrote with Alexandre Desplat.
Nami Melumad, who grew to become Star Trek’s first feminine composer with Star Trek: Prodigy, gained the David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Stephanie Economou, who acquired the primary ever David Raksin Award at final yr’s ceremony, gained finest unique rating for interactive media for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök. Also, Emmy-winning composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer gained excellent unique rating for a tv manufacturing for White Lotus for the second yr in a row.
The Society of Composers & Lyricists is a number one group for skilled movie, tv, online game, and musical theater composers and lyricists. The 77-year-old group is targeted on training and addressing the inventive, technological and authorized points affecting the music for visible media neighborhood.
Here are the nominees for the 2023 SCL Awards, with winners recognized:
Outstanding rating for a studio movie
Alexandre Desplat – Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
Carter Burwell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Winner: Michael Abels – Nope
Michael Giacchino – The Batman
John Powell – Don’t Worry Darling
Outstanding rating for an unbiased movie
Leo Birenberg, Zach Robinson – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Sharon Farber – Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
WINNER: Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Rob Simonsen – The Whale
Mark Smythe – The Reef: Stalked
Outstanding track for a musical/comedy
WINNER: Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo Del Toro – “Ciao Papa” From Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
Khiyon Hursey, Sukari Jones, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Mark Sonnenblick – “Good Afternoon” From Spirited
Danny Elfman – “Light the Match” From Central Park
Billy Eichner, Marc Shaiman – “Love Is Not Love” From Bros
Weird Al Yankovic - “Now You Know” From Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Outstanding track for a drama/documentary
WINNER: Diane Warren – “Applause” From Tell It Like a Woman
Taylor Swift – “Carolina” From Where the Crawdads Sing
Lady Gaga, Bloodpop – “Hold My Hand” From Top Gun: Maverick
Tems, Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, Ryan Coogler – “Lift Me Up” From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – “(You Made It Feel Like) Home” From Bones and All
Outstanding rating for tv
Nicholas Britell – Andor
Siddhartha Khosla – Only Murders within the Building
Bear Mccreary – The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Theodore Shapiro – Severance
WINNER: Cristobal Tapia De Veer – The White Lotus
Outstanding rating for interactive media
Nainita Desai – Immortality
WINNER: Stephanie Economou – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
Bear Mccreary – God of War Ragnarök
Winifred Phillips – Jurassic World Primal Ops
Christopher Wiliis – Cat Burglar
David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent
Dara Taylor – The Invitation
Anna Drubich – Barbarian
DeAndre James Allen-Toole – God’s Country
Esin Aydingoz – Simchas and Sorrows
WINNER: Nami Melumad – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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