Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell, Ludwig Göransson, Olivia Rodrigo pace winners at 5th annual SCL Awards

Ray Richmond
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Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won the award for Original Song for a Comedy or Musical for their Oscar-nominated “Barbie” tune “What Was I Made For?” while past Academy Award winner and 2024 nominee Ludwig Göransson took home the Original Score for a Studio Film honor for “Oppenheimer” to pace the Society of Composers & Lyricists SCL Awards tonight at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles in a ceremony hosted by singer-songwriter Siedah Garrett.

Also picking up trophies were Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro for Original Song for a Drama or Documentary for their tune “Can’t Catch Me Now” from “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” while John Powell was awarded the prize for Original Score for an Independent Film for scoring the documentary feature “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.”

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Director Martin Scorsese accepted the SCL’s Spirit of Collaboration Award for his work with the late composer Robbie Robertson, with whom he collaborated on the soundtrack for his latest, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Jason Isbell performed the song “Between Trains” in honor of Scorsese and Robertson. It’s a tune that was originally written by Robertson for the 1983 Scorsese film “The King of Comedy.”

The full list of SCL Award winners is below, with winners in red.

Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film

  • Anthony Willis, “Saltburn”

  • Joe Hisaishi, “The Boy and the Heron”

  • Ludwig Göransson, “Oppenheimer”

  • Laura Karpman, “American Fiction”

  • Robbie Robertson, “Killers of he Flower Moon”

Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film

  • Jon Batiste, “American Symphony”

  • John Powell, “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”

  • Daniel Pemberton, “Ferrari”

  • Mica Levi, “The Zone of Interest”

  • Fabrizio Mancinelli and Richard M. Sherman, “Mushka”

Outstanding Original Song for a Drama or Documentary

  • Olivia Rodrigo/Dan Nigro, “Can’t Catch Me Now” – “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”

  • Jon Batiste/Dan Wilson, “It Never Went Away” – “American Symphony”

  • Lenny Kravitz, “Road to Freedom” – “Rustin”

  • Nicholas Britell/Taura Stinson, “Slip Away” – “Carmen”

  • Sharon Farber/Noah Benshea, “Better Times” – “Jacob the Baker”

Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical

  • Billie Eilish/Finneas O’Connell, “What Was I Made For?” – “Barbie”

  • Mark Ronson/Andrew Wyatt, “I’m Just Ken” – “Barbie”

  • Diane Warren, “The Fire Inside” – “Flamin’ Hot”

  • Heather McIntosh/Allyson Newman/Taura Stinson, “All About Me” – “The L Word: Generation Q”

  • Jack Black/John Spiker/Eric Osmond/Michael Jelenic/Aaron Horvath, “Peaches” – “Super Mario Bros. Movie”

Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production

  • Chanda Dancy, “Lawmen: Bass Reeves”

  • Nainita Desai, “The Deepest Breath”

  • Kevin Kiner, “Ahsoka”

  • Atli Örvarsson, “Silo”

  • Carlos Rafael Rivera, “Lessons in Chemistry”

Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media

  • Stephen Barton, Gordy Haab, “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor”

  • Winifred Phillips, Secrets of Skeifa Island”

  • Pinar Toprak, “Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora”

  • Austin Wintory, “Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical”

The David Raskin Award for Emerging Talent

  • Catherine Joy, “Home is a Hotel”

  • Fabrizio Mancinelli, “The Land of Dreams”

  • Allyson Newman, “Commitment to Life”

  • Hannah Parrott, “After Death”

  • Kenny Wood, “The Naughty Nine”

The Spirit of Collaboration Award

  • Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese

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