Ludwig Göransson, Stephen Schwartz Lead 2026 Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards Nods: Full List

Less than 24 hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences unveiled its shortlists in 12 categories, including best original song and best original score, the Society of Composers & Lyricists revealed the nominations for its 2026 awards.

Sinners composer Ludwig Göransson and Wicked: For Good composer Stephen Schwartz are each nominated for three SCL Awards. Both composers are nominated for outstanding original score for a studio film (Schwartz alongside John Powell); both also received two song nominations. Göransson received two nods for outstanding original song for a dramatic or documentary visual media production for “I Lied to You” and “Last Time (I Seen the Sun)” from Sinners. Schwartz has two nods for outstanding original song for a comedy or musical visual media production for “No Place Like Home” and “The Girl in the Bubble” from Wicked: For Good.

In addition, Göransson and director Ryan Coogler will receive the Spirit of Collaboration Award, the SCL’s most distinctive and meaningful award, which recognizes a composer/director partnership that has created a significant and enduring body of work. Since their first collaboration on Coogler’s Fruitvale Station (2013), Göransson has scored all of Coogler’s feature films as a director — Creed (2015), Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), and Sinners (2025). Göransson won an Oscar for best original score for Black Panther and received an Oscar nod for best original song for cowriting “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Composer Harry Gregson-Williams received the 2025 Spirit of Collaboration Award for his work with director Ridley Scott. Other past recipients in this category include the late composer Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese; Thomas Newman and Sam Mendes; Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee; Carter Burwell and the Coen Brothers; and Justin Hurwitz and Damien Chazelle.

Diane Warren is nominated for outstanding original song for a dramatic or documentary visual media production for “Dear Me” from the documentary Diane Warren: Relentless. Warren has been nominated in each of the seven years that the SCL Awards have been presented. She won in this category in both 2025 for “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight, and in 2023 for “Applause” from Tell it Like a Woman.

Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of overlap between the SCL nominations and the Oscar shortlists. All of the SCL nominees for outstanding original score for a studio film are on the Oscar shortlist for original score.  All but one of the 2026 SCL nominees for original song for a dramatic or documentary visual media production are on the Oscar shortlist for original song. The one SCL nominee for original song that failed to make the Oscar shortlist was “The Hills of Tanchico” from The Wheel of Time, which was cowritten by Nikhil Koparkar and Rammy Park.

The Bacon Brothers, consisting of actor-musician Kevin Bacon and his older brother, composer Michael Bacon, will cohost the seventh annual SCL Awards at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 6. That’s at nearly the midpoint between the announcement of the Oscar nominations on Jan. 22 and the opening of first-round Oscar voting on Feb. 26, which makes the SCL Awards an important stop on the Oscar campaign trail.

The SCL Awards will feature a performance by Grammy-winner Melissa Manchester. (Trivia note: Dean Pitchford cowrote Manchester’s Grammy-winning song, “You Should Hear How She Talks About You,” and also wrote the screenplay and cowrote all the songs for Kevin Bacon’s breakout film, Footloose.)

Final voting for the 2026 SCL Awards will open on Jan. 19 and close on Jan. 26.

Here’s the full list of 2026 SCL Award nominees:

Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film

Ludwig Göransson – Sinners

Alexandre Desplat – Frankenstein

Jonny Greenwood – One Battle After Another

Stephen Schwartz & John Powell – Wicked: For Good

Max Richter – Hamnet

Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia

Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film

Dara Taylor – Straw

Bryce Dessner – Train Dreams

David Fleming – Eternity

Fabrizio Mancinelli – Out of the Nest

Jónsi & Alex Sommers – Rental Family

Sara Barone & Robert Christenson – To Kill a Wolf

Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production

Diane Warren – “Dear Me” from Relentless

Alice Smith, Miles Caton & Ludwig Göransson – “Last Time (I Seen the Sun)” from Sinners

Raphael Saadiq & Ludwig Göransson – “I Lied to You” from Sinners

Sara Bareilles – “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet” from Come See Me in the Good Light

Nikhil Koparkar & Rammy Park – “The Hills of Tanchico” from The Wheel of Time

Ed Sheeran, Blake Slatkin & John Mayer – “Drive” from F1

Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production

EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick – “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters

Stephen Schwartz – “No Place Like Home” from Wicked: For Good

Stephen Schwartz – “The Girl in the Bubble” from Wicked: For Good

Jack Black & Jared Hess – “Steve’s Lava Chicken” from A Minecraft Movie

Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt & Jack Black – “I Feel Alive” from A Minecraft Movie

Blake Slatkin, Shakira & Ed Sheeran – “Zoo” from Zootopia 2

Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production

Cristobal Tapia De Veer – The White Lotus

Carlos Rafael Rivera – Dept. Q

Dave Porter – Pluribus

Sean Callery – The Beast in Me

Amanda Jones – Murderbot

Jeff Beal – All Her Fault

Outstanding Original Score for a Television Production

Theodore Shapiro – Severance

Antonio Sánchez – The Studio

Brandon Roberts – Andor

Dave Porter – Pluribus

Cristobal Tapia De Veer – The White Lotus

David Fleming & Gustavo Santaolalla – The Last of Us

Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media

Austin Wintory – Sword of the Sea

Gordy Haab – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of the Giants

Wilbert Roget II, Cody Matthew Johnson & Jon Everist – Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune

Maclaine Deimer – Wildgate

David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent

Cameron Moody – Washington Black

Chin-Shan Chang – Laws of Man

Raashi Kulkarni – A Nice Indian Boy

Greg Nicolett – Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches

Freya Berkhout – Ride or Die

Sara Trevino – The Map That Leads You