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