On Friday, February 6 the Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) held its seventh Annual SCL Awards on the Skirball Cultural Heart in Los Angeles, awarding prime movie honors to “Sinners,” “KPop Demon Hunters,” and “Practice Desires.”
The occasion was hosted by award-winning actor and musician Kevin Bacon and Emmy-winning composer Michael Bacon (The Bacon Brothers). Among the many highlights have been two-time Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Grammy-winning “Sinners” composer Ludwig Göransson not solely profitable each Excellent Authentic Rating for a Studio Movie for himself, and Excellent Authentic Tune for a Drama or Documentary with songwriter Raphael Saadiq for “I Lied to You,” however the 2026 Spirit of Collaboration Award with longtime buddy and director Ryan Coogler.
The SCL Award given to the pair of present Oscar nominees is in honor of their longstanding artistic partnership on Coogler’s movies together with “Fruitvale Station,” “Creed,” “Black Panther,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally,” and “Sinners.” The latter movie has earned 16 Oscar nominations complete, essentially the most of any movie in Academy Awards historical past.
“KPop Demon Hunters’ songwriters EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick gained the SCL Award for Excellent Authentic Tune for a Comedy or Musical for the monitor “Golden” from the Netflix phenomenon. The win marks the newest accolade for the tune, which has already earned a Grammy, Golden Globe, and Critics Alternative Award, along with an Academy Award nomination.
Some highlights from the tv classes embody two-time Emmy-winning composer Theodore Shapiro profitable the SCL Award for Excellent Authentic Rating for a Tv Manufacturing for “Severance,” and “The White Lotus” Cristóbal Tapia de Veer profitable Excellent Authentic Title Sequence for a Tv Manufacturing for a 3rd time.
The SCL additionally celebrated the fiftieth Anniversary of “Rocky” with a musical tribute and efficiency carried out by Academy Award-winning composer Invoice Conti who scored 5 movies within the blockbuster “Rocky” franchise and co-composed its iconic theme “Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky).” Moreover, Melissa Manchester carried out for the In Memoriam section, singing “I’ll By no means Say Goodbye,” her Oscar-nominated tune from the 1979 movie “The Promise,” written by David Shire and the late Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. Alan Bergman, who died in 2025, was featured throughout the section.
SCL Awards winners and nominees are judged and decided solely by member composers and songwriters.
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
JERSKIN FENDRIX – “Bugonia”
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT – “Frankenstein”
MAX RICHTER – “Hamnet”
JONNY GREENWOOD – “One Battle After One other”
WINNER: LUDWIG GÖRANSSON – “Sinners“
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, JOHN POWELL – “Depraved: For Good”
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
DAVID FLEMING – “Eternity”
FABRIZIO MANCINELLI – “Out of the Nest”
JÓNSI, ALEX SOMERS – “Rental Household”
DARA TAYLOR – “Straw”
SARA BARONE, FOREST CHRISTENSON – “To Kill a Wolf”
WINNER: BRYCE DESSNER – “Practice Desires“
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMA OR DOCUMENTARY
DIANE WARREN – “Pricey Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”
ED SHEERAN, BLAKE SLATKIN, JOHN MAYER – “Drive” from “F1”
WINNER: RAPHAEL SAADIQ, LUDWIG GÖRANSSON – “I Lied to You” from “Sinners“
ALICE SMITH, MILES CATON, LUDWIG GÖRANSSON – “Final Time (I Seen the Solar)” from “Sinners”
SARA BAREILLES, BRANDI CARLILE, ANDREA GIBSON – “Salt Then Bitter Then Candy” from “Come See Me within the Good Mild”
NIKHIL KOPARKAR, RAMMY PARK – “The Hills of Tanchico” from “The Wheel of Time”
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A COMEDY OR MUSICAL
WINNER: EJAE, MARK SONNENBLICK – “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters“
MARK RONSON, ANDREW WYATT, JACK BLACK – “I Really feel Alive” from “A Minecraft Film”
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ – “No Place Like Residence” from “Depraved: For Good”
JACK BLACK, JARED HESS – “Steve’s Lava Hen” from “A Minecraft Film”
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ – “The Lady within the Bubble” from “Depraved: For Good”
BLAKE SLATKIN, SHAKIRA, ED SHEERAN – “Zoo” from “Zootopia 2”
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL TITLE SEQUENCE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
JEFF BEAL – “All Her Fault”
CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA, SCOTT FRANK – “Dept. Q”
AMANDA JONES – “Murderbot”
DAVE PORTER – “Extra”
SEAN CALLERY – “The Beast in Me”
WINNER: CRISTÓBAL TAPIA DE VEER – “The White Lotus“
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
BRANDON ROBERTS – “Andor”
DAVE PORTER – “Extra”
WINNER: THEODORE SHAPIRO – “Severance“
DAVID FLEMING, GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA – “The Final of Us”
ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ – “The Studio”
CRISTÓBAL TAPIA DE VEER – “The White Lotus”
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
GORDY HAAB – “Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle: The Order of Giants”
WILBERT ROGET II, CODY MATTHEW JOHNSON, JON EVERIST – “Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune”
WINNER: AUSTIN WINTORY – “Sword of the Sea“
MACLAINE DIEMER – “Wildgate”
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
RAASHI KULKARNI – “A Good Indian Boy”
GREG NICOLETT – “Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches”
WINNER: CHING-SHAN CHANG – “Legal guidelines of Man“
FREYA BERKHOUT – “Trip or Die”
SARA TREVINO – “The Map That Results in You”
CAMERON MOODY – “Washington Black”