Terence Blanchard & Spike Lee to receive The Spirit of Collaboration Award At 2nd Annual Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards
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.
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 Fever, Malcom X, 25th Hour, Inside 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