• Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021
Music Notes
"Dune," "Don’t Look Up," "CODA," "Squid Games" among winners at Hollywood Music in Media Awards
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, left, and Emilia Jones in a scene from "CODA." (photo courtesy of Apple TV+)
  • HOLLYWOOD, Calif.
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The 12th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) unveiled the winners in film and all music for visual media categories last night (11/17). Film winners include: composers Nicholas Britell for Don’t Look Up, Hans Zimmer for Dune, Bryce Dessner and Aaron Dessner for C’mon C’mon and Alberto Iglesias for Parallel Mothers.

Songwriter winners include Adam Levine and Savan Kotecha, Billie Eilish, Finneas, and Rufus Wainwright.  CODA won two awards: Outstanding Song for Independent Film “Beyond The Shore” and Outstanding on-screen Musical Performance of a song (original or pre-existing), for Amelia Jones as Ruby singing and signing “Both Sides Now,” by Joni Mitchell, at her audition for Berklee School of Music.  Non film award-winners included for Outstanding TV score Netflix’s Korean Language hit show Squid Games with an acceptance speech from Seoul, Korea by composer Jung Jae-il.  Film studio winners by the numbers: MGM with four, Apple garnering three, Paramount and Sony Pictures Classics with two apiece, and Netflix, Warner Bros, A24, Discovery and Focus Features with one each.

The HMMAs honors composers, songwriters, music supervisors and filmmakers for their work in music for film, television, and videogames. The HMMA nominations have historically been representative of the nominees and winners of the Golden Globes, Oscars, Grammys and Emmys that occur months later. 

Past HMMA winners who then won Oscars include Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste for Soul, Hildur Guðnadóttir for Joker, Ludwig Goransson for Black Panther, Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water, songs from Judas and the Black Messiah, La La Land, A Star Is Born and more. The HMMA voters consist of select journalists, Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe and Emmy voters.  

Here’s a rundown of the evening’s winners:

SCORE - FEATURE FILM
DON’T LOOK UP (Netflix) - Nicholas Britell

SCORE - INDEPENDENT FILM
C’MON C’MON (A24) - Bryce Dessner & Aaron Dessner

SCORE - SCIFI/FANTASY FILM
DUNE (Warner Bros.) - Hans Zimmer

SCORE - INDEPENDENT FILM (Foreign Language)
PARALLEL MOTHERS (Sony Pictures Classics) - Alberto Iglesias

SCORE - ANIMATED FILM
THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 (MGM / United Artists Releasing) - Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna

SONG - FEATURE FILM
“No Time to Die” from NO TIME TO DIE (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) - Written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell. Performed by Billie Eilish

SONG - INDEPENDENT FILM
“Beyond the Shore” from CODA (Apple) - Written by Nick Baxter, Siân Heder, Marius de Vries, Matt Dahan. Performed by Emilia Jones

SONG - ONSCREEN PERFORMANCE
Emilia Jones - “Both Sides Now” from CODA (Apple) written by Joni Mitchell.

SONG - ANIMATED FILM
“Good Mood” from PAW PATROL (Paramount Pictures) - Written by Karl Johan Schuster, Savan Kotecha, Oscar Gorres and Adam Levine. Performed by Adam Levine

SONG - DOCUMENTARY FILM
“Secret Sister” from REBEL HEARTS (Discovery+) - Written and performed by Rufus Wainwright

SCORE - HORROR FILM
A QUIET PLACE II (Paramount Pictures) - Marco Beltrami

SCORE - DOCUMENTARY
JULIA (Sony Pictures Classic) - Rachel Portman

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