Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) Nominations: Jon Batiste, Nicholas Britell, ‘Barbie’ Top List
Nominations for the 5th Society of Composers & Lyricists awards were announced today where original scores for The Boy and the Heron, Killers of the Flower Moon, American Symphony, The Zone of Interest and American Fiction were all nominated. All were also shortlisted today for the Original Score Oscar.
Nominated songs from films included “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony, “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot, “Road To Freedom” from Rustin and “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie, all of which were also Oscar shortlisted.
In television, music from Succession, The Last Of Us, Ahsoka, Silo and The Crown were nominated.
The late Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese will receive the Society of Composers and Lyricists Spirit of Collaboration Award. The Spirit of Collaboration Award recognizes a composer/director relationship which has created a prodigious body of work. Robertson and Scorsese’s collaborations over decades include Raging Bull, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman, and Killers of the Flower Moon. Past award recipients include Thomas Newman and Sam Mendes, Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee, Carter Burwell and the Coen Brothers, and last year Justin Hurwitz and Damien Chazelle.
The event will be hosted by Siedah Garrett, a Grammy-winning, two-time Oscar-nominated songwriter and a member of the SCL. She recently reunited with Quincy Jones on The Color Purple. She collaborated with Jones on Michael Jackson’s 1987 album “Bad,” including co-writing “Man in the Mirror” and duetting on “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You.”
The awards ceremony will be held on February 13, 2024, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Here is the complete list of nominees.
Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film
Joe Hisaishi
The Boy and the Heron
Ludwig Göransson
Oppenheimer
Laura Karpman
American Fiction
Robbie Robertson
Killers of the Flower Moon
Anthony Willis
Saltburn
Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film
Jon Batiste
American Symphony
Mica Levi
The Zone of Interest
Fabrizio Mancinelli, Richard M. Sherman
Mushka
Daniel Pemberton
Ferrari
John Powell
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Outstanding Original Score for a Television Production
Nicholas Britell
Succession
Natalie Holt
Loki
Martin Phipps
The Crown
Carlos Rafael Rivera
Lessons in Chemistry
Gustavo Santaolalla
The Last of Us
Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production
Chanda Dancy
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Nainita Desai
The Deepest Breath
Kevin Kiner
Ahsoka
Atli Örvarsson
Silo
Carlos Rafael Rivera
Lessons in Chemistry
Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production
Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson
“It Never Went Away”
American Symphony
Nicholas Britell, Taura Stinson
“Slip Away”
Carmen
Sharon Farber, Noah Benshea
“Better Times”
Jacob the Baker
Lenny Kravitz
“Road to Freedom”
Rustin
Olivia Rodrigo, Dan Nigro
“Can’t Catch Me Now”
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production
Jack Black, John Spiker, Eric Osmond, Michael Jelenic,
Aaron Horvath
“Peaches”
The Super Mario Bros Movie
Heather McIntosh, Allyson Newman, Taura Stinson
“All About Me”
The L Word: Generation Q
Billie Eilish O’Connell, Finneas O’Connell
“What Was I Made For?”
Barbie
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
“I’m Just Ken”
Barbie
Diane Warren
“The Fire Inside”
Flamin’ Hot
Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media
Stephan Barton, Gordy Haab
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Winifred Phillips
Secrets of Skeifa Island
Pinar Toprak
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Austin Wintory
Stray Gods
The David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent
Catherine Joy
Home is a Hotel
Fabrizio Mancinelli
The Land of Dreams
Allyson Newman
Commitment to Life
Hannah Parrott
After Death
Kenny Wood
The Naughty Nine
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