The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominations for the seventh annual SCL Awards, honoring the best in film and television music in 2025. The SCL is the premier professional trade group for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working in the motion picture, television, and game music industry, and is headquartered in Los Angeles. The nominees are:

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM

  • ALEXANDRE DESPLAT  for Frankenstein
  • JERSKIN FENDRIX for Bugonia
  • LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Sinners
  • JONNY GREENWOOD for One Battle After Another
  • MAX RICHTER for Hamnet
  • STEPHEN SCHWARTZ and JOHN POWELL for Wicked: For Good

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM

  • SARA BARONE and ROBERT CHRISTENSON for To Kill a Wolf
  • JÓN ÞÓR “JÓNSI” BIRGISSON and ALEX SOMERS for Rental Family
  • BRYCE DESSNER for Train Dreams
  • DAVID FLEMING for Eternity
  • FABRIZIO MANCINELLI for Out of the Nest
  • DARA TAYLOR for Straw

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION

  • CRISTOBAL TAPIA DE VEER for The White Lotus
  • DAVID FLEMING and GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA for The Last of Us
  • DAVE PORTER for Pluribus
  • BRANDON ROBERTS for Andor
  • ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ for The Studio
  • THEODORE SHAPIRO for Severance

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL TITLE SEQUENCE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION

  • JEFF BEAL for All Her Fault
  • SEAN CALLERY for The Beast in Me
  • CRISTOBAL TAPIA DE VEER for The White Lotus
  • AMANDA JONES for Murderbot
  • DAVE PORTER for Pluribus
  • CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA for Dept. Q

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA – DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY

  • SARA BAREILLES for “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet” from Come See Me in the Good Light
  • NIKHIL KOPARKAR and RAMMY PARK for “The Hills of Tanchico” from The Wheel of Time
  • RAPHAEL SAADIQ and LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for “I Lied to You” from Sinners
  • ED SHEERAN, BLAKE SLATKIN, and JOHN MAYER for “Drive” from F1
  • ALICE SMITH, MILES CATON, and LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for “Last Time (I Seen the Sun)” from Sinners
  • DIANE WARREN for “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA – MUSICAL/COMEDY

  • JACK BLACK and JARED HESS for “Steve’s Lava Chicken” from A Minecraft Movie
  • EUN-JAE ‘EJAE’ KIM and MARK SONNENBLICK for “Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters
  • MARK RONSON, ANDREW WYATT, and JACK BLACK for “I Feel Alive” from A Minecraft Movie
  • STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for “No Place Like Home” from Wicked: For Good
  • STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for “The Girl in the Bubble” from Wicked: For Good
  • BLAKE SLATKIN, SHAKIRA RIPOLL, and ED SHEERAN for “Zoo” from Zootopia 2

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA

  • MACLAINE DEIMER for Wildgate
  • GORDY HAAB for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of the Giants
  • WILBERT ROGET II, CODY MATTHEW JOHNSON, and JON EVERIST for Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune
  • AUSTIN WINTORY for Sword of the Sea

DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT

  • FREYA BERKHOUT
  • CHIN-SHAN CHANG
  • RAASHI KULKARNI
  • CAMERON MOODY
  • GREG NICOLETT
  • SARA TREVINO

SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD

  • LUDWIG GÖRANSSON and RYAN COOGLER

The winners of the 7th SCL Awards will be announced on 6 February, 2026.