UPDATED with latest: The 2023 Oscars are history, and as Hollywood gets a brief respite from awards madness — though Emmy season looms — it’s time to look ahead at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a shortened list of awards shows, events and the like as we look ahead to warmer climes and Emmy
Composers
He’s received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Grammys, 19 Latin Grammys, and is an Emmy nominee for his work on HBO’s “The Last of Us.” All of the hardware is even more amazing when you consider Gustavo Santaolalla can’t read or write music. The Latin Grammys is next in line for honors, as
The Society of Composers & Lyricists has unveiled its SCL Award nominees for 2023, naming composers Alexandre Desplat (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Carter Burwell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Michael Abels (Nope), Michael Giacchino (The Batman) and John Powell (Don’t Worry Darling) as its contenders for Outstanding Score for a Studio Film. The SCL’s Musical/Comedy Song
Amazon has released the song “Where the Shadows Lie” from Grammy-winning artist Fiona Apple. The track will be part of the Season 1 soundtrack and appear in the season finale of Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Listen to the song below. The song was written by series composer Bear McCreary
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Dustin O’Halloran and Herdís Stefánsdóttir’s score for The Essex Serpent, which is set for digital release today via Lakeshore Records. The Apple TV+ limited series from See-Saw Films follows London widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes), who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. Seaborne forms a surprising
In another 48 hours, we’ll know if it worked—the Oscar show’s Audience Replacement Therapy. Almost inevitably, total viewers for Sunday night’s Academy Awards telecast on ABC will rise from last year’s pathetic 10.4 million. The bar is very low, and other recent awards shows—the Emmys, SAG, Critics Choice—have all caught a bounce. For the Oscars
UPDATED with latest: There was a glut of great TV, movies and music to celebrate in 2021, but 2022 isn’t allowing much room for celebration. Many awards events were canceled, moved or modified as New York and Los Angeles smashed daily Covid records due to Omicron. The winter months are proving challenging for red carpet
In the initial stages of his work on This Is Us, composer Siddhartha Khosla was as nervous as he was excited. As Khosla presented early cues, including “Jack’s Theme,” to creator Dan Fogelman, he had a sense that he would like them. “But I was like, ‘This could also be a little weird because this