Society of Composers and Lyricists 2025 Nominations Announced

The Society of Composers and Lyricists have announced their nominations for 2025, where the original scores for Oscar-shortlisted scores Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Train Dreams, and Wicked: For Good were all nominated.

The SCL will present the 7th Annual SCL Awards for score and songs in visual media on February 6. Full list of nominations below.

Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film

LUDWIG GÖRANSSON – Sinners

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT – Frankenstein

JONNY GREENWOOD – One Battle After Another

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ & JOHN POWELL – Wicked: For Good

MAX RICHTER – Hamnet

JERSKIN FENDRIX – Bugonia

Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film

DARA TAYLOR – Straw

BRYCE DESSNER – Train Dreams

DAVID FLEMING – Eternity

FABRIZIO MANCINELLI – Out of the Nest

JÓNSI & ALEX SOMMERS – Rental Family

SARA BARONE & ROBERT CHRISTENSON – To Kill a Wolf

Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production

DIANE WARREN – “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless

ALICE SMITH, MILES CATON & LUDWIG GÖRANSSON – “Last Time (I Seen the Sun)” from Sinners

RAPHAEL SAADIQ & LUDWIG GÖRANSSON – “I Lied to You” from Sinners

SARA BAREILLES – “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet” from Come See Me in the Good Light

NIKHIL KOPARKAR & RAMMY PARK – “The Hills of Tanchico” from The Wheel of Time

ED SHEERAN, BLAKE SLATKIN & JOHN MAYER – “Drive” from F1

Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production

EJAE & MARK SONNENBLICK – “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ – “No Place Like Home” from Wicked: For Good

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ – “The Girl in the Bubble” from Wicked: For Good

JACK BLACK & JARED HESS – “Steve’s Lava Chicken” from A Minecraft Movie

MARK RONSON, ANDREW WYATT & JACK BLACK – “I Feel Alive” from A Minecraft Movie

BLAKE SLATKIN, SHAKIRA & ED SHEERAN – “Zoo” from Zootopia 2

Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production

CRISTÓBAL TAPIA DE VEER – The White Lotus

CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA – Dept. Q

DAVE PORTER – Pluribus

SEAN CALLERY – The Beast in Me

AMANDA JONES – Murderbot

JEFF BEAL – All Her Fault

Outstanding Original Score for a Television Production

THEODORE SHAPIRO – Severance

ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ – The Studio

BRANDON ROBERTS – Andor

DAVE PORTER – Pluribus

CRISTÓBAL TAPIA DE VEER – The White Lotus

DAVID FLEMING & GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA – The Last of Us

Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media

AUSTIN WINTORY – Sword of the Sea

GORDY HAAB – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of the Giants

WILBERT ROGET II, CODY MATTHEW JOHNSON & JON EVERIST – Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune

MACLAINE DIEMER – Wildgate

David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent

CAMERON MOODY – Washington Black

CHIN-SHAN CHANG – Laws of Man

RAASHI KULKARNI – A Nice Indian Boy

GREG NICOLETT– Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches

FREYA BERKHOUT – Ride or Die

SARA TREVINO – The Map That Leads You

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.

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