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    Nominees unveiled for Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards

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    HOLLYWOOD, Calif. --

    The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) has unveiled the nominees for the SCL Awards for score and songs in visual media. Five awards will be presented for music in visual media (film, TV, streaming, video games) during a virtual event on March 2. Additionally, The Spirit of Collaboration Award will be bestowed upon six-time Grammy winning and Oscar-nominated composer Terence Blanchard and Academy-Award winning writer, director, and producer Spike Lee.   

    Across the award show categories, Oscar-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross lead the way with three nominations for Mank and Soul (along with co-composer Jon Batiste) followed by Blanchard receiving a second accolade with an Outstanding Score nomination for Da 5 Bloods. And Ludwig Gรถransson garnered two nominations, one in film (Tenet), the other in streaming/TV (The Mandalorian). Last year’s SCL’s Outstanding Original Score (studio) winner Hildur Guรฐnadรณttir for Joker went on to win the Oscar for Best Score.

    Blanchard and Lee have collaborated for more than three decades on 15 films and three television projects including their most recent teaming on Da 5 Bloods. Other projects include Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, 25th Hour, Inside Man, When the Levees Broke and last year’s BlacKkKlansman for which Blanchard received his first Oscar nomination and Lee won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

    Separately, the SCL will continue to present a Lifetime Achievement Award and/or Ambassador Awards at its annual holiday events in New York and Los Angeles. Last year’s recipients included Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty along with David Yazbek, and Alan Menken who received the SCL’s sixth Lifetime Achievement Award.  

    Here’s a rundown of SCL Award nominees:

    Outstanding Score for a Studio Film

    • James Newton Howard – NEWS OF THE WORLD
    • Ludwig Gรถransson – TENET
    • Terence Blanchard – DA 5 BLOODS
    • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – MANK
    • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste – SOUL

    Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film

    • Emile Mosseri – MINARI
    • Lolita Ritmanis – BLIZZARD OF SOULS (Dvฤ“seฤผu Putenis)
    • Sherry Chung – THE LOST HUSBAND
    • Steven Price – DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET
    • Tamar-kali Brown – SHIRLEY

    Outstanding Original Score for Television or Streaming Production

    • Blake Neely – THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT
    • Carlos Rafael Rivera – THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT
    • Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq – LOVECRAFT COUNTRY
    • Ludwig Gรถransson – STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN
    • Martin Phipps – THE CROWN

    Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media 

    • Gordy Haab – STAR WARS: SQUADRONS
    • Garry Schyman, Mikolai Stroinski – METAMORPHOSIS
    • Ilan Eshkeri, Shigeru Umebayashi – GHOST OF TSUSHIMA

    Outstanding Original Song for Visual Media

    • Diane Warren – “Free” – THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN
    • Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus, Rickard Goransson – “Husavik” – EUROVISION
    • Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – “(If Only You Could) Save Me” – MANK
    • Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq, Sonia Sanchez – “Tulsa, 1921: Don’t Catch The Fire” –  LOVECRAFT COUNTRY
    • Erran Baron Cohen, Sasha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines – “Wuhan Flu” BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

    SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION

    • Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee
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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.

    The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.

    "This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."

    The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."

    And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.

    Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.

    Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.

    Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."

    It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More

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