HMMA Honors "Black Panther" and "A Star is Born"
Friday, November 16, 2018 at 1:00AM 
We're not sure why or how the Hollywood Music in Media Awards came about but they're now in their ninth year honoring musicians in a few buckets worth of categories across all visual media. Their winners are determined by committee and like the NBR, who people tease for divvying up their prizes in a way that insures each studio buys a table at their banquet, there's a little something for everyone. The only multiple winners were Black Panther (Original Score -Scifi/Fantasy, Original Song - Scifi/Fantasy & Soundtrack Album), and A Star is Born (Music Supervision & Original Song).
The winners are after the jump though we're not listing the nominees because it's one of those silly awards shows that seems to have no consistency about how many nominees each category is allowed to have. All that said, you might see some of these winners again on the Oscar nomination lists, though...
ORIGINAL SCORE – FEATURE FILM
Max Richter – MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (Focus Features)
ORIGINAL SCORE – SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR FILM
Ludwig Goransson – BLACK PANTHER (Walt Disney)
ORIGINAL SCORE – ANIMATED FILM
Alexandre Desplat – ISLE OF DOGS (Fox Searchlight)
ORIGINAL SCORE – DOCUMENTARY
Cyrille Aufort – MARCH OF THE PENGUINS: THE NEXT STEP (Hulu)
ORIGINAL SONG – FEATURE FILM
“Shallow” from A STAR IS BORN (Warner Bros.) Written by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt. Performed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
ORIGINAL SONG – DOCUMENTARY
“I’ll Fight” from RBG (CNN) Written by Diane Warren. Performed by Jennifer Hudson. (Related Article: The Diane Warren tribute at Middleburg)
ORIGINAL SONG – ANIMATED FILM
“Stronger Than I Ever Was” from SHERLOCK GNOMES (Paramount) Written by Elton John & Bernie Taupin, performed by Mary J. Blige
ORIGINAL SONG – SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR FILM
“All the Stars” from BLACK PANTHER (Walt Disney) Written by Kendrick Lamar, Top Dawg, SZA, Sounwave, and Al Shux. Performed by Kendrick Lamar and SZA
MUSIC DOCUMENTARY/SPECIAL PROGRAM
QUINCY (Netflix) Written & Directed by Alan Hicks and Rashida Jones
ORIGINAL SCORE – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES
Nicholas Britell – SUCCESSION (HBO)
ORIGINAL SONG – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES
“The Innocents” from THE INNOCENTS (Netflix) Music and lyrics by Carly Paradis. Performed by EERA (Anna Lena Bruland)
MAIN TITLE THEME – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES
Carlos Rafael Rivera – GODLESS (Netflix)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION – FILM
Julianne Jordan & Julia Michaels – A STAR IS BORN (Warner Bros.) (Related Article: "Soundtracking: A Star is Born")
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION – TELEVISION
Jen Ross – POWER (Starz)
SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
BLACK PANTHER (Interscope Records)
ORIGINAL SCORE – INDEPENDENT FILM
Thomas Adès – COLETTE (Bleecker Street / 30 West)
ORIGINAL SONG – INDEPENDENT FILM
“Requiem For a Private War” from A PRIVATE WAR (Aviron Pictures) Written and performed by Annie Lennox
Reader Comments (4)
I know that everyone sees Original Song as Lady Gaga's to lose yet... dare I say that SZA and Kendrick Lamar would be very worthy winners?
Worthy, maybe. But nothing is stopping the Shallow train. Even the many who hated the movie loved that song/scene.
Great to see Max Richter and Thomas Ades as winners for their film scores. It's not often that modern composers working in the classical mode get this kind of attention. Now if only John Adams can have his music score a film similar to I Am Love that would be honoring a maestro.
LOL. It's so ridiculous when awards split between "feature film" and then sci-fi/animation/documentary/independent film like they're not also features.