The SCL Awards
Past Winners
6th SCL Awards
February 12, 2025
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
Kris Bowers
The Wild Robot
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
Daniel Blumberg
The Brutalist
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Nick Chuba
Shōgun
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL TITLE SEQUENCE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Jeff Toyne
Palm Royale
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMATIC OR DOCUMENTARY VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
Diane Warren
“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A COMEDY OR MUSICAL VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Luca Guadagnino
“Compress/Repress” from Challengers
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Winifred Phillips
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
Andrea Datzman
Inside Out 2
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
Harry Gregson-Williams & Ridley Scott
JURY AWARD
Jeff Beal for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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5th SCL Awards
February 13, 2024
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
Ludwig Göransson
Oppenheimer
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
John Powell
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Nicholas Britell
Succession
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL TITLE SEQUENCE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Carlos Rafael Rivera
Lessons in Chemistry
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMATIC OR DOCUMENTARY VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
Olivia Rodrigo, Dan Nigro
“Can't Catch Me Now” from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A COMEDY OR MUSICAL VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
“What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Stephen Barton, Gordy Haab
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
Catherine Joy
Home Is A Hotel
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
Martin Scorsese & Robbie Robertson
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4th SCL Awards
February 15, 2023
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
Ryan Lott (of Son Lux)
Everything Everywhere All At Once
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Stephanie Economou
Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Cristobal Tapia de Veer
The White Lotus
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
Nami Melumad
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo Del Toro
"Ciao Papa" from Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMA OR DOCUMENTARY
Diane Warren
"Applause" from Tell It Like A Woman
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
Michael Abels
Nope
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
Justin Hurwitz & Damien Chazelle
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3rd SCL Awards
March 8, 2022
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
Germaine Franco
Encanto
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
Daniel Hart
The Green Knight
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Cristobal Tapia de Veer
The White Lotus
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A DRAMATIC OR DOCUMENTARY VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
“No Time to Die” from No Time to Die
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR A COMEDY OR MUSICAL VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
Nicholas Britell, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Taura Stinson
“Just Look Up” from Don’t Look Up
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Sam Slater
Battlefield 2042
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
Stephanie Economou
Jupiter’s Legacy
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
Carter Burwell, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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2nd SCL Awards
March 2, 2021
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
Lolita Ritmanis
Blizzard of Souls
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Garry Schyman & Mikolai Stroinski
Metamorphosis
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Carlos Rafael Rivera
The Queen’s Gambit
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus, Rickard Göransson
“Husavik – My Hometown”
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste
Soul
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
Terence Blanchard & Spike Lee
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INAUGURAL SCL AWARDS
January 7, 2020
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
Kathryn Bostic
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Stephen Barton, Gordy Haab
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR TELEVISION/STREAMING
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Chernobyl
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Joshuah Brian Campbell, Cynthia Erivo
"Stand Up" from Harriet
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Joker
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION
Thomas Newman & Sam Mendes
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