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SCL Award Nominations 2025
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominations for the seventh annual SCL Awards, honoring the best in film and television music in 2025. 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
- ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for Frankenstein
- JERSKIN FENDRIX for Bugonia
- LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Sinners
- JONNY GREENWOOD for One Battle After Another
- MAX RICHTER for Hamnet
- STEPHEN SCHWARTZ and JOHN POWELL for Wicked: For Good
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
- SARA BARONE and FOREST CHRISTENSON for To Kill a Wolf
- JÓN ÞÓR “JÓNSI” BIRGISSON and ALEX SOMERS for Rental Family
- BRYCE DESSNER for Train Dreams
- DAVID FLEMING for Eternity
- FABRIZIO MANCINELLI for Out of the Nest
- DARA TAYLOR for Straw
Golden Globe Nominations 2025
The Golden Globe Foundation (GGF) has announced the nominations for the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2025.
In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are:
- ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for Frankenstein
- LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Sinners
- JONNY GREENWOOD for One Battle After Another
- DAVID LETELLIER (“KANGDING RAY”) for Sirāt
- MAX RICHTER for Hamnet
- HANS ZIMMER for F1
These are the first nominations for Letellier and Richter. It is the fifteenth nomination for Desplat, the fourth nomination for Göransson, the third nomination for Greenwood, and the sixteenth nomination for Zimmer. Desplat previously won for The Painted Veil in 2006 and The Shape of Water in 2017. Göransson previously won for Oppenheimer in 2023. Zimmer previously won for The Lion King in 1994, Gladiator in 2000, and Dune in 2021.
In the Best Original Song category, the nominees are:
- NICK CAVE and BRYCE DESSNER for “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams
- MILEY CYRUS, ANDREW WYATT, MARK RONSON, and SIMON FRANGLEN for “Dream as One” from Avatar: Fire and Ash
- EUN-JAE KIM (EJAE), MARK SONNENBLICK, JOONG-GYU KWAK, YU-HAN LEE, HEE-DONG NAM (IDO), JUNG-HOON SEO (24), and TEDDY PARK for “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters
- RAPHAEL SAADIQ and LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for “I Lied to You” from Sinners
- STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for “No Place Like Home” from Wicked: For Good
- STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for “The Girl in the Bubble” from Wicked: For Good
The winners of the 83rd Golden Globe Awards will be announced on January 11, 2026.
Academy Award Winners 2024
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the winners of the 97th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2024.
In the Best Original Music category, the winner was Daniel Blumberg, who won the award for his score for The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet’s epic drama about the life of a fictional Hungarian architect who emigrates to the United States in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Accepting his award, Blumberg said:
Thank you to the Academy and everyone who watched the film and honored the work. It means a lot to be acknowledged like this. I’ve been an artist for twenty years now, since I was a teenager, and when I met Brady [Corbet] I found my artistic soulmate. For him to trust me in this work and to grow alongside him has been so special; thank you, Brady, I love you. I want to thank my collaborators, my co-producer Peter Walsh, and the artists who played on the score. The sounds you hear on The Brutalist are made by a group of hard-working radical musicians who have been making uncompromising music for many years; I’m accepting this award on behalf of them too. Thanks to my family and Stacy [Martin], and my manager Mark, Keith, and Mona [Fastvold] and Ada, and my friends at Café Oto.
The other nominees were: Volker Bertelmann for Conclave, Kris Bowers for The Wild Robot, Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais for Emilia Pérez, and John Powell and Stephen Schwartz for Wicked.
In the Best Original Song category, the winners were Clément Ducol, Camille Dalmais, and Jacques Audiard for their song “El Mal” from the Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez.
The other nominees were Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada for “Like a Bird” from Sing Sing, Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais for “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Brandi Carlile, and Andrew Watt for “Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late, and Diane Warren for “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight.
IFMCA Award Winners 2024
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2024 IFMCA AWARDS
BEAR MCCREARY WINS SCORE OF THE YEAR FOR SECOND SEASON OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER; ALAN SILVESTRI WINS TWO AWARDS FOR HERE, HIS 20TH COLLABORATION WITH ROBERT ZEMECKIS;COMPOSERS FROM UK, FRANCE, ITALY, ALSO TAKE HOME AWARDS
FEBRUARY 27, 2025 — The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its annual list of winners for excellence in musical scoring, in the 2024 IFMCA Awards.
The award for Score of the Year goes to American composer Bear McCreary, for his score for the second season of the Amazon Prime fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The score also won the award for its genre, being named Best Original Score for Television, while McCreary was also named Composer of the Year. McCreary’s work in 2024 in addition to The Rings of Power includes the nostalgic 1980s comedy The 4:30 Movie, the horror flick Imaginary, and music for the latest seasons of multiple TV shows such as Outlander, Halo, and Masters of the Universe, which he wrote along with his staff composers at Sparks & Shadows.
IFMCA member Jon Broxton wrote that Season Two of The Rings of Power was “the equal of the score for Season One in every way, because not only does McCreary revisit each of his fantastic recurring themes, he augments them with a handful of brand new ones, and incorporates them all together to create a dramatically potent, musically compelling, emotionally satisfying, intelligently structured blockbuster that, to me, confirms why this type of leitmotivic approach to film scoring is the pinnacle of the art.”
This is McCreary’s second Score of the Year victory in three years, having previously won for the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in 2022. These wins also take McCreary’s all-time IFMCA win tally to 12, making him the fifth most successful composer in IFMCA history after John Williams, Michael Giacchino, James Newton Howard, and Alexandre Desplat. Read more…
BAFTA Winners 2024
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have announced the winners of the 78th British Academy Film Awards, honoring the best in film in 2024.
In the Best Original Music category, the winner was Daniel Blumberg, who won the award for his score for The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet’s epic drama about the life of a fictional Hungarian architect who emigrates to the United States in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Accepting his award, Blumberg said:
“Thank you so much for acknowledging the work and the BAFTAs. And thanks to Brady [Corbet], its been amazing to work with one of my best friends. And I want to thank my co-producer Peter Walsh, who’s here for working so hard on the film. And all these incredible musicians who played on the score, like John Tilbury and Axel Dorner. Oh yeah, and John’s wife Janice for making lunch every day! Thanks to Mark my manager, and my family Stacy [Martin] and Keith, and my friends at Oto. Thank you.”
The other nominees were Volker Bertelmann for Conclave, Kris Bowers for The Wild Robot, Robin Carolan for Nosferatu, and Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais for Emilia Pérez.
IFMCA Nominations 2024
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
BEAR MCCREARY LEADS LIST OF NOMINATED COMPOSERS WITH SIX NOMINATIONS; ANIMATED FILMS, TELEVISION SHOWS, DOMINATE ‘SCORE OF THE YEAR’ CATEGORY; SHORT FILMS INCLUDED AS A NEW CATEGORY FOR FIRST TIME
FEBRUARY 13, 2025. The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its list of nominees for excellence in musical scoring in 2024, for the 21st annual IFMCA Awards. Composer Bear McCreary leads the list of composer nominees with six nominations, followed by Kris Bowers, who has four.
Four of American composer McCreary’s nominations are for his work on the second season of the Amazon Prime fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which is nominated as Score of the Year and Best Television score, and also received two nominations for Composition of the Year. McCreary also received a Comedy Score nomination for his work on the Kevin Smith’s nostalgic coming-of-age film The 4:30 Movie, and was himself nominated for Composer of the Year; his work in addition to The Rings of Power and The 4:30 Movie includes a creative and entertaining score for the horror flick Imaginary, and music for the latest seasons of multiple TV shows such as Outlander, Halo, and Masters of the Universe, which he wrote along with his staff composers at Sparks & Shadows. Read more…
SCL Award Winners 2024
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the winners of the sixth annual SCL Awards, honoring the best in film and television music in 2024. 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 winners are:
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
- KRIS BOWERS for The Wild Robot
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
- DANIEL BLUMBERG for The Brutalist
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
- ATTICUS ROSS, LEOPOLD ROSS, and NICK CHUBA for Shōgun
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL TITLE SEQUENCE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
- JEFF TOYNE for Palm Royale
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA – DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY
- DIANE WARREN for “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA – MUSICAL/COMEDY
- TRENT REZNOR, ATTICUS ROSS, and LUCA GUADAGNINO for “Compress/Repress” from Challengers
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
- WINIFRED PHILLIPS for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
- ANDREA DATZMAN
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
- HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS and RIDLEY SCOTT
SCL JURY AWARD
- JEFF BEAL for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Movie Music UK Awards 2024
2024 has been a difficult, challenging year for multiple reasons, but one aspect that continues to impress was the overall quality of its film music. I heard more than 800 scores in 2024 – either as a soundtrack album, in movie context, or both – and I ended up rating 98 of them **** or better, a decent rate of return by anyone’s standards.
Television music and video game music continues to exceed expectations, and at this point scores written for those media can easily stand shoulder-to-shoulder with traditional film scores – and often exceed them in terms of quality. I always say that there is great film music being written all over the world if you are prepared to put in a little effort to seek it out, but this year I’m very happy to also report that five of my ten nominees for Score of the Year were for major, mainstream Hollywood productions, and all of them feature the big, bold, thematic orchestral writing that drew me to the genre in the first place.
These are joined by a trio of excellent scores from the UK, from France, and from Poland, as well as the TV and game scores I previously mentioned, while my winners and nominees in the various genres are taken from an enormous cross-section of world cinema, and include films and TV shows from locales as disparate as Finland, South Korea, Hungary, Japan, Spain, China, Sweden, and more. After going through what it has gone through over the past few years film music’s resurgence continues, and I hope that this article allows you to discover some gems that catch your ear and touch your heart.
So, without further ado, here are my choices for the best scores of 2024! Read more…
Academy Award Nominations 2024
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2024.
In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are:
- VOLKER BERTELMANN for Conclave
- DANIEL BLUMBERG for The Brutalist
- KRIS BOWERS for The Wild Robot
- CLÉMENT DUCOL and CAMILLE DALMAIS for Emilia Pérez
- JOHN POWELL and STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for Wicked
These are the first Oscar nominations for Blumberg, Bowers, Ducol, and Dalmais, although Bowers is a 2-time Oscar nominee in a different category – Best Documentary Short – which he won in 2023 for The Last Repair Shop. It is the third nomination for Bertelmann (who previously won for All Quiet on the Western Front in 2022), the second nomination for Powell, and the fourth nomination for Schwartz (who previously won for Pocahontas in 1995). Schwartz also has five previous nominations as a songwriter, with wins for Pocahontas in 1995 and The Prince of Egypt in 1998.
In the Best Original Song category, the nominees are:
- ABRAHAM ALEXANDER and ADRIAN QUESADA for “Like a Bird” from Sing Sing
- CLÉMENT DUCOL, CAMILLE DALMAIS, and JACQUES AUDIARD for “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez
- CLÉMENT DUCOL and CAMILLE DALMAIS for “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez
- ELTON JOHN, BERNIE TAUPIN, BRANDI CARLILE, and ANDREW WATT for “Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late
- DIANE WARREN for “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
The winners of the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on March 2, 2024.
BAFTA Nominations 2024
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the nominations for the 78th British Academy Film Awards, honoring the best in film in 2024.
In the Best Original Music category, which is named in memory of the film director Anthony Asquith, the nominees are:
- VOLKER BERTELMANN for Conclave
- DANIEL BLUMBERG for The Brutalist
- KRIS BOWERS for The Wild Robot
- ROBIN CAROLAN for Nosferatu
- CLÉMENT DUCOL and CAMILLE DALMAIS for Emilia Pérez
This is the third BAFTA nomination for Bertelmann, who previously won for All Quiet on the Western Front in 2022. All the other nominees are first time nominees.
The winners of the 78th BAFTA Awards will be announced on 16 February, 2025.
Golden Globe Winners 2024
The Golden Globe Foundation (GGF) has announced the winners of the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2024.
In the Best Original Score category composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the award for their upbeat electro-pop inspired score for Challengers, director Luca Guadagnino’s spicy drama starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Feist, about a love triangle that develops over several years in the world of professional tennis. This is the third Golden Globe win for Reznor and Ross – they previously won for The Social Network in 2010, and for Soul in 2020. In the acceptance speech Ross, speaking on behalf of both men, said:
“Thank you to Golden Globes, this really means a lot, particularly in this special moment. First I’d like to thank my best friend, my musical partner, the great talent Trent Reznor. The music that revealed itself as the voice to Challengers never felt like a safe choice, but it always felt like the right one. I’d like to thank the maestro, the visionary director, and our friend Luca Guadagnino – where is he? – for his unwavering support and commitment to the idea. In fact I’d like to thank everyone that helped bring this film to life, and to acknowledge Amy Pascal, Rachel O’Connor, and the fabulous Zendaya, for their encouragement. To be honest we always we thought we’d get the call – ‘can you just turn it down a little bit’ – but it never came, and here we are. Lastly, we want to thank the most important people in our lives, our wives and our children. Mariqueen [Maandiq], Trent loves you. Claudia [Sarne], I love you. And all the kids, we love you. Thank you! ”
The other nominees were Volker Bertelmann for Conclave, Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist, Kris Bowers for The Wild Robot, Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais for Emilia Pérez, and Hans Zimmer for Dune: Part 2
In the Best Original Song category, the winners were Clément Ducol, Camille Dalmais, and Jacques Audiard for “El Mal” from the audacious Mexican drug cartel musical drama Emilia Pérez.
The other nominees were Brittany Amaradio (Delacey), Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack, and Ali Tamposi for “Kiss The Sky” from The Wild Robot; Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais for “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez; Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Luca Guadagnino for “Compress/Repress” from Challengers; Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler, and Sacha Skarbek for “Forbidden Road” from Better Man; and Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus, and Li Lykke Zachrisson (Lykke Li) for “Beautiful That Way” from The Last Showgirl.
SCL Award Nominations 2024
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominations for the sixth annual SCL Awards, honoring the best in film and television music in 2024. 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
- VOLKER BERTELMANN for Conclave
- KRIS BOWERS for The Wild Robot
- CLÉMENT DUCOL and CAMILLE DALMAIS for Emilia Pérez
- HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS for Gladiator II
- JOHN POWELL and STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for Wicked: Part 1
- HANS ZIMMER for Dune: Part Two
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
- CHRIS BACON for Heretic
- DANIEL BLUMBERG for The Brutalist
- STEPHANIE ECONOMOU for The Book of Jobs
- FABRIZIO MANCINELLI for Here After
- HEATHER MCINTOSH for Winner
- DARA TAYLOR for Meet Me Next Christmas
Golden Globe Nominations 2024
The Golden Globe Foundation (GGF) has announced the nominations for the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2024.
In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are:
- VOLKER BERTELMANN for Conclave
- DANIEL BLUMBERG for The Brutalist
- KRIS BOWERS for The Wild Robot
- CLÉMENT DUCOL and CAMILLE DALMAIS for Emilia Pérez
- TRENT REZNOR and ATTICUS ROSS for Challengers
- HANS ZIMMER for Dune: Part 2
These are the first nominations for Blumberg, Bowers, Ducol, and Dalmais. It is the second nomination for Bertelmann, the sixth nomination for Reznor and Ross, and the fifteenth nomination for Zimmer. Reznor and Ross previously won for The Social Network in 2010 and Soul in 2020. Zimmer previously won for The Lion King in 1994, Gladiator in 2000, and Dune in 2021
In the Best Original Song category, the nominees are:
- BRITTANY AMARADIO (DELACEY), JORDAN K. JOHNSON, STEFAN JOHNSON, MAREN MORRIS, MICHAEL POLLACK, and ALI TAMPOSI for “Kiss the Sky” from The Wild Robot
- CLÉMENT DUCOL and CAMILLE DALMAIS for “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez
- CLÉMENT DUCOL, CAMILLE DALMAIS, and JACQUES AUDIARD for “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez
- TRENT REZNOR, ATTICUS ROSS, and LUCA GUADAGNINO for “Compress/Repress” from Challengers
- ROBBIE WILLIAMS, FREDDY WEXLER, and SACHA SKARBEK for “Forbidden Road” from Better Man
- ANDREW WYATT, MILEY CYRUS, and LI LYKKE ZACHRISSON (LYKKE LI) for “Beautiful That Way” from The Last Showgirl
The winners of the 82nd Golden Globe Awards will be announced on January 5, 2025.
Academy Award Winners 2023
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the winners of the 96th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2023.
In the Best Original Score category Ludwig Göransson won the award for his score for Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan’s epic drama about the life and work of the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer whose work on the Manhattan Project in the 1940s led to the creation of the world’s first nuclear weapon. Accepting his award, Göransson said:
“Thank you Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas for inviting me on this incredible world. Christopher Nolan it was your idea to use the violin in the score, and it allowed me to work and collaborate with my wonderful wife and acclaimed violinist Serena Göransson. We had… we recorded at night and we were rushing to home and put our kids Apollo and Romeo down to bed, but the result of that was amazing and it really set a really nice tone for the film of that performance. Theresa Stanislav, Jake Brown, Chris Fogel, Anthony Parnther, Alyssa Park, thank you for making the music sound great, and to my parents up there, thank you for giving me guitars and drum machines instead of video games! Thank you!
The other nominees were Joscelin Dent-Pooley (Jerskin Fendrix) for Poor Things, Laura Karpman for American Fiction, Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon, and John Williams for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
In the Best Original Song category, the winners were Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for “What Was I Made For” from the smash hit movie Barbie.
The other nominees were Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson for “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony, Scott George for “Wahzhazhe – A Song for My People” from Killers of the Flower Moon, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie, and Diane Warren for “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot.
In film-music adjacent news, composer Kris Bowers also won an Oscar, not for music, but for co-directing and producing the documentary short film The Last Repair Shop, which is about a workshop in Los Angeles who find, repair, and donate musical instruments to under-privileged students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. This makes Bowers one of the few full-time film music composers to win an Academy Award for something other that composing.
IFMCA Award Winners 2023
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2023 IFMCA AWARDS
JOHN WILLIAMS WINS SCORE OF THE YEAR FOR FIFTH INDIANA JONES FILM, DIAL OF DESTINY; CHRISTOPHER YOUNG WINS FOUR AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN HORROR FIELD; COMPOSERS FROM JAPAN AND POLAND ALSO TAKE HOME AWARDS
FEBRUARY 22, 2024 — The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its list of winners for excellence in musical scoring in 2023, in the 2023 IFMCA Awards.
The award for Score of the Year goes to American composer John Williams, for his score for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth film in the beloved action-adventure series starring Harrison Ford as the eponymous globetrotting archaeologist. The score also won the award for its genre, being named Best Score for an Action/Adventure film.
IFMCA member James Southall praised Dial of Destiny as “a nostalgic throwback to those great times of the past – a set of meticulously-composed new music by one of the greatest film composers we’ve ever had – an exhibition in skill and technique with the orchestra which is guaranteed to go beyond almost any other film music we hear this year.” IFMCA member Christian Clemmensen said that the score was “an especially gratifying treat and an immense pleasure to hear in the 2020’s… it continues to espouse the uniquely superior aspects of Williams’s writing from decades past”. Similarly, IFMCA member Anton Smit said the score was “a fantastic listening experience from start to finish… a masterpiece… one of the highlights of this final phase of John Williams’ career.”
This is John Williams’s fifth Score of the Year victory, having previously won for Memoirs of a Geisha in 2005, War Horse in 2011, Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. These wins also take Williams’s all-time IFMCA win tally to 21, not including those for archival releases of his older scores, making him the most-awarded composer in IFMCA history. Read more…
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