After a difficult period for the Film Industry during the Covid Pandemic, it now feels as though things have returned to normal. People have returned to theatres, and filming can now take place without the previous restrictions. The Golden Globe nominations were announced on 12th December 2022 and the winners were announced on January 10th 2023. Here are the music category nominees with the award winner listed first in bold:
"Babylon" by "Justin Hurwitz"
"The Banshees of Inisherin" by Carter Burwell
"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" by Alexandre Desplat
"Women Talking" by Hildur Guðnadóttir
"The Fabelmans" by John Williams
"Naatu Naatu" by M. M. Keeravani & Chandrabose from "RRR", performed by Kaala Bhairava & Rahul Sipligunj
"Carolina" by Taylor Swift from "Where the Crawdads Sing", performed by Taylor Swift
"Ciao Papa" by Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz & Guillermo del Toro from "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio", performed by Gregory Mann
"Hold My Hand" by Lady Gaga, BloodPop & Benjamin Rice, from "Top Gun: Maverick", performed by Lady Gaga
"Lift Me Up" by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler & Ludwig Göransson from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever", performed by Rihanna
Here is the official HFPA site, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who organise the Golden Globe Awards.
Nominations for the 76th BAFTA Film Awards were announced on 3rd February 2023, and the awards ceremony took place on Sunday 19th February:
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Volker Bertelmann
"Babylon" by Justin Hurwitz
"The Banshees of Inisherin" by Carter Burwell
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" by Son Lux
"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" by Alexandre Desplat
BAFTA does not have a Song Category. However the BAFTA Video Game awards and the BAFTA Television Craft awards are separate events taking place every year in the Spring. The nominations for the BAFTA Video Game awards were announced on 2nd March 2023 and the winners were presented on 30th March:
GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Bear McCreary, Keith Leary, Peter Scaturro - Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Olivier Derivière - Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
CUPHEAD - THE DELICIOUS LAST COURSE Kristofer Maddigan - Studio MDHR/Studio MDHR
ELDEN RING Development Team – FromSoftware/BANDAI NAMCO Europe
STRAY Development Team -BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
TUNIC Development Team - TUNIC Team/FINJI
GOD OF WAR RAGNARÖK Jodie Kupsco, Michael Kent, Sean LaValle - Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment
A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM Development Team - Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment
HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST Development Team – Guerrilla/Sony Interactive Entertainment
METAL: HELLSINGER Elvira Björkman, Nicklas Hjertberg - The Outsiders/Funcom Oslo AS
STRAY Development Team - BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive
TUNIC Development Team - TUNIC Team/FINJI
Nominations for the BAFTA Television Craft Awards were announced on 22nd March 2022, and the Winners will be presented on 23rd April. Up until last year the BAFTA Television Craft Awards had a single category for Original Music. This and many other Craft Awards have now been split into two separate awards, one for Factual Programmes and one for Fiction Programmes
JESSICA JONES Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story – 72 Films/Netflix
ANDREW PHILLIPS House of Maxwell – Expectation/BBC Two
JESSICA JONES The Tinder Swindler – Raw TV, Gaspin Media, AGC Studios/Netflix
MAX DE WARDENER The Elon Musk Show – 72 Films/BBC Two
NICOLE LECKY, BRYAN SENTI, KWAME KZ KWEI-ARMAH JR Mood - Bonafide Films/BBC Three
DANIEL PEMBERTON, MICK JAGGER Slow Horses - See-Saw Films/Apple TV+
FEDERICO JUSID The English - Drama Republic, Eight Rooks/BBC Two
MATTHEW HERBERT The Responder - Dancing Ledge/BBC One
Here is the official BAFTA site, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on 24th January 2023, and the winners were presented on Sunday 12th March 2023. Here are the music nominations with the winners listed first:
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Volker Bertelmann
"Babylon" Justin Hurwitz
"The Banshees of Inisherin" by Carter Burwell
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" by Son Lux
"The Fabelmans" by John Williams
"Naatu Naatu" by M. M. Keeravani & Chandrabose from "RRR", performed by Kaala Bhairava & Rahul Sipligunj
"Applause" by Diane Warren from "Tell It like a Woman", performed by Sofia Carson
"Hold My Hand" by Lady Gaga, BloodPop & Benjamin Rice, from "Top Gun: Maverick", performed by Lady Gaga
"Lift Me Up" by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler & Ludwig Göransson from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever", performed by Rihanna
"This is Life" by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski from "Everything Everywhere All at Once", performed by Son Lux with Mitski and David Byrne
Here is the official Oscars site from AMPAS, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
For winners and nominations in previous years for the music-related academy awards see our Film Music Oscars page on mfiles.