The music of “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”, “The Banshees of Inisherin”, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”, “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has been nominated for Society of Songwriters and Composers awards, the group announced Thursday morning.
The fourth annual SCL Awards will take place on February 15, 2023 at the Skirball Cultural Center in West Los Angeles and will award awards in four film categories, as well as one category for television and one for interactive media.
Alexandre Desplat was nominated for the “Pinocchio” soundtrack and for co-writing the song “Ciao Papa” from that film, making him the only two-time nominee in the movie categories. Bear McCreary also received a pair of nominations, one for the television series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” and another for the interactive “God of War Ragnarok.”
Five of the 10 nominated scores and six of the 10 songs also appeared on the Oscar shortlists in the music categories, which were announced Wednesday. Desplat, Carter Burwell for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Michael Abels for “Nope,” John Powell for “Don’t Worry, Darling,” and Ryan Lott for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” were SCL nominated and shortlisted songwriters. by the Academy.
The songs “Ciao Papa”, “Good Afternoon” from “Spirited”, Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” from “Where the Crawdads Sing”, Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Life Me Up” “by Rihanna. from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” were on both set lists. So was Diane Warren’s “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman.”
Scores that were nominated by SCL but not shortlisted by AMPAS include Michael Giacchino for “The Batman” and Rob Simonson for “The Whale,” while composers only selected by SCL include Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for “(You Made It Feel Like) Home” from “Bones and All”.
Television nominees include Nicholas Britell for “Andor,” Siddhartha Khosla for “Only Murders in the Building,” Theodore Shapiro for “Severance” and Cristobal Tapia de Veer for “The White Lotus.”
Of the 20 composers nominated for their scores, only four are women: Sharon Farber for the documentary “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” and interactive composers Nainita Desai, Stephanie Economou and Winifred Phillips.
Although the Society of Composers and Lyricists has awarded the SCL Awards for only four years, the organization has existed as SCL since 1983 and is an offshoot of other organizations dating back to 1945.
The nominees:
OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM:
Alexandre Desplat: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
Carter Burwell: “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Michael Abels: “No”
Michael Giacchino: “Batman”
John Powell: “Don’t worry honey”
OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM:
Leo Birenberg, Zach Robinson: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”
Sharon Farber: “Brainwashing: power of the sex camera”
Ryan Lott: “Everything everywhere, all at once”
Rob Simonsen: “The Whale”
Mark Smythe: “The Reef: Stalked”
OUTSTANDING SONG FOR MUSICAL/COMEDY:
Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz and Guillermo del Toro: “Ciao Papa” from “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
Khiyon Hursey, Sukari Jones, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Mark Sonnenlick: “Good afternoon” from “Spirited”
Danny Elfman: “Light the Match” from “Central Park”
Billy Eichner and Marc Shaiman: “Love Is Not Love” from “Bros”
Weird Al Yankovic: “Now You Know” from “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”
OUTSTANDING SONG FOR A DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY
Diane Warren: “Applause” from “Tell It Like a Woman”
Taylor Swift: “Carolina” from “Where the Crabs Sing”
Lady Gaga, Bloodpop: “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”
Tems, Rihanna, Ludwig Goransson, Ryan Coogler: “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: “(You Made It Feel Like) Home” from “Bones and All”
OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR TELEVISION:
Nicolás Britell: “Andor”
Siddhartha Khosla: “Only murders in the building”
Bear McCreary: “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”
Theodore Shapiro: “Fired”
Cristóbal Tapia de Veer: “The White Lotus”
OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA:
Nainita Desai: “Immortality”
Stephanie Economou: “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok”
Bear McCreary: “God of War Ragnarok”
Winifred Phillips: “Jurassic World Primal Ops”
Christopher Wiliis: “Cat Thief”
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT:
Dara Taylor: “The Invitation”
Anna Drubich: “Barbara”
Deandre James Allen-Toole: “God’s Country”
Esin Aydingoz: “Simchas and pains”
Nami Melumad: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”