Terence Blanchard & Spike Lee to receive The Spirit of Collaboration Award At 2nd Annual Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards

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The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) announces the nominees for the SCL AWARDS for score and songs in visual media.  The virtual event takes place on March 2. Five awards will be for music in visual media (film, TV, streaming, video games).  Additionally, The Spirit of Collaboration Award will be presented to six-time Grammy winning and Oscar-nominated composer Terence Blanchard and Academy Award winning writer, director, and producer Spike Lee.   Oscar-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross lead with three nominations for Mank and Soul (along with co-composer Jon Batiste) followed by Terence Blanchard receiving a second accolade with an Outstanding Score nomination for  DA 5 BLOODS.  Last year’s SCL’s Outstanding Original Score (studio) winner Hildur Guðnadóttir for JOKER went on to win the Oscar for Best Score.

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Terrence Blanchard and Spike Lee have collaborated for over three decades on 15 films and 3 television projects including their most recent collaboration Da 5 Bloods. Other projects include Jungle FeverMalcom X25th HourInside Man, When the Levees Broke and last year’s  BlacKkKlansman for which Blanchard received his first Oscar nomination and Lee won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Separately, the SCL will continue to present a Lifetime Achievement Award and/or Ambassador Awards at its annual holiday events in New York and Los Angeles. Last year’s recipients include Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty along with David Yazbek, and Alan Menken who received the SCL’s sixth Lifetime Achievement Award.  

The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) is the primary organization for professional film, television, video game, and musical theater composers and lyricists, and those working in the music industry.  With a distinguished 75-year history in the fine art of creating music for visual media, members include the top creative professionals working today.  The organization is focused on education and addressing the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy issues affecting the music for visual media community. For more information go to  www.thescl.com

SCL AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Outstanding Original Score for a studio Film:

OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM

James Newton Howard - NEWS OF THE WORLD

Ludwig Göransson - TENET

Terence Blanchard - DA 5 BLOODS

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - MANK

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste - SOUL

 

Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film:

Emile Mosseri - MINARI

Lolita Ritmanis - BLIZZARD OF SOULS (Dvēseļu Putenis)

Sherry Chung - THE LOST HUSBAND

Steven Price - DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET

Tamar-kali Brown - SHIRLEY

 

Outstanding Original Score for Television or Streaming Production

Blake Neely - THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT

Carlos Rafael Rivera - THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT

Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq - LOVECRAFT COUNTRY

Ludwig Göransson - STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN

Martin Phipps - THE CROWN

 

Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media 

Gordy Haab - STAR WARS: SQUADRONS

Garry Schyman, Mikolai Stroinski - METAMORPHOSIS

Ilan Eshkeri, Shigeru Umebayashi - GHOST OF TSUSHIMA

 

Outstanding Original Song for Visual Media:

Diane Warren – “Free” - THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN

Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus, Rickard Goransson – “Husavik” - EUROVISION

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – “(If Only You Could) Save Me” - MANK

Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq, Sonia Sanchez – “Tulsa, 1921: Don’t Catch The Fire” -  LOVECRAFT COUNTRY

Erran Baron Cohen, Sasha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines – “Wuhan Flu” BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

  

SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION

Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee

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