Society Of Composers And Lyricists 2023 Winners Announced

The Society Of Composers And Lyricists have announced the winners of the 5th Annual SCL Awards where top winners were Ludwig Göransson for Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film for Oppenheimer and John Powell for Outstanding Score for an Independent Film for Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.

In the songwriting categories, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won the award for Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie, while Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro won Outstanding Original Song for a Drama or Documentary for “Can’t Catch Me Now” from Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

Winners in bold below.

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 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

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

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.