MOVIE MUSIC UK

The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominations for the fourth annual SCL Awards, honoring the best in film and television music in 2022. The SCL is the premier professional trade group for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working in the motion picture, television, and game music industry, and is headquartered in Los Angeles. The nominees are:

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM

• MICHAEL ABELS for Nope
• CARTER BURWELL for The Banshees of Inisherin
• ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
• MICHAEL GIACCHINO for The Batman
• JOHN POWELL for Don’t Worry Darling

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM

• LEO BIRENBERG and ZACH ROBINSON for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
• SHARON FARBER for Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
• SON LUX for Everything Everywhere All At Once
• ROB SIMONSEN for The Whale
• MARK SMYTHE for The Reef: Stalked

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION OR STREAMING PRODUCTION

• NICHOLAS BRITELL for Andor
• SIDDHARTHA KHOSLA for Only Murders In The Building
• BEAR MCCREARY for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
• THEODORE SHAPIRO for Severance
• CRISTOBAL TAPIA DE VEER for The White Lotus

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA – DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY

• STEFANI GERMANOTTA (LADY GAGA) and MICHAEL TUCKER (BLOODPOP) for “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
• TEMILADE OPENIYI (TEMS), ROBYN RIHANNA FENTY, RYAN COOGLER, and LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• TRENT REZNOR and ATTICUS ROSS for “(You Made It Feel Like) Home” from Bones and All
• TAYLOR SWIFT for “Carolina” from Where The Crawdads Sing
• DIANE WARREN for “Applause” from Tell It Like A Woman

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA- MUSICAL/COMEDY

• ALEXANDRE DESPLAT, ROEBAN KATZ, and GUILLERMO DEL TORO for “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
• DANNY ELFMAN for “Light The Match” from Central Park
• BENJ PASEK, JUSTIN PAUL, KHIYON HURSEY, SUKARI JONES, and MARK SONNENBLICK for “Good Afternoon” from Spirited
• MARC SHAIMAN and BILLY EICHNER, for “Love Is Not Love” from Bros
• AL YANKOVIC for “Now You Know” from Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA

• NAINITA DESAI for Immortality
• STEPHANIE ECONOMOU for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
• BEAR MCCREARY for God of War: Ragnarök
• WINIFRED PHILLIPS for Jurassic World: Primal Ops
• CHRISTOPHER WILLIS for Cat Burglar

DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT

• ESIN AYDINGOZ
• ANNA DRUBICH
• DEANDRE JAMES ALLEN-TOOLE
• NAMI MELUMAD
• DARA TAYLOR

SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD

• To be announced at a later date

The winners of the 4th SCL Awards will be announced on 15 February, 2023.