14th Hollywood Music in Media Nominations & Awards (2023)

The Hollywood Music in Media Association is one of the few organizations devoted entirely to music in film. Trying to track down their nominations before the awards is sometimes difficult and they only give about two weeks from nominations announcements to awards, so I’m including both nominations and awards below. The awards were held last night.

Awards Tallies

(3) Trolls Band Together
(2) Barbie
(1) The Bank Manager, Bubjan, A Haunting in Venice, High Life, Holiday Twist, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Hurricane Ramirez vs La Pinata Enchilada, Immediate Family, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Marvels, Mushka, Overwatch 2, Society of the Snow, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, With This Light, The Zone of Interest

Nominations Tallies

(5) Barbie, Trolls Band Together
(4) The Little Mermaid, Wonka
(3) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
(2) The Color Purple, Elemental, Fast X, High Life, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Immediate Family, Rustin, The Super Mario Bros. Movie
(1) Air, American Fiction, Asteroid City, The Bank Manager, The Beanie Bubble, Beyond the Sea, Bobi Wine: The People’s President, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, The Boogeyman, Bubjan, Camp Courage, Carmen, Chevalier, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Control, Cosmo, The Creator, Creed III, Daliland, Dear Mama: Panther Power, The Deepest Breath, Deliver Us, Dicks: The Musical, Dream Scenario, The Exorcist: Believer, Flamin’ Hot, A Good Person, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, A Haunting in Venice, Holiday Twist, Hurricane Ramirez vs La Pinata Enchilada, Ivan, Jack and Sam, The Jewel Thief, Jules, Kalu: Growing Up Wild, Kangaroo Valley, The Killer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Knock at the Cabin, Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop, The Last Repair Shop, Last Wishes, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Lo Que Simebras, Louder Than Rock, Love to Love You, Donna Summer, M3GAN, The Marvels, Master Gardener, Mickey Saves Christmas, Migration, Miranda’s Victim, Mooned, Motherland, Mushka, The Mystery of Missing Docks, Nyad, Oppenheimer, Origin, Overwatch 2, Pacemaker, Paradice, Past Lives, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, The Pigeon Tunnel, The Promised Land, Praise This, Radical, Los Reyes Magos: La Verdad, The Routine, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, Saltburn, San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time, The Shark with a Thousand Names, She Came to Me, Society of the Snow, Sons 2 the Grave, Split at the Root, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Theater Camp, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Trap Jazz, Wing It!, Wish, With This Light, Wynonna Judd: Between Hell and Hallelujah, You Ming Zhi, The Zone of Interest

The Nominations and Awards

Best Original Song

The Fire Inside – Flamin’ Hot
High Life – Flora and Son
I Am – Origin
I’m Just Ken – Barbie
Keep It Movin’ – The Color Purple
Road to Freedom – Rustin
This – The Beanie Bubble
What Was I Made For? – Barbie

Best Score – Feature Film

American Fiction
Chevalier
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Nyad
Oppenheimer
Rustin
Saltburn

Best Documentary – Special Program

Dear Mama: Panther Power
Immediate Family
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
Little Richard: I Am Everything
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
Wynonna Judd: Between Hell and Hallelujah

Best Soundtrack

Barbie
Creed III
Fast X
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Trolls Band Together

Best Score – Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film

Asteroid City
Barbie
The Creator
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The Marvels
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Best Song – Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film

Can’t Catch Me Now – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
For the First Time – The Little Mermaid
Wild Uncharted Waters – The Little Mermaid
A World of Your Own – Wonka
You’ve Never Had Chocolate Like This – Wonka

Best Score – Horror/Thriller Film

The Boogeyman
Deliver Us
The Exorcist: Believer
A Haunting in Venice
Knock at the Cabin
M3GAN

Best Song – Animated Film

Am I Dreaming – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Better Place – Trolls Band Together
Down Like That – Paw Patrol: The Mighty movie
Peaches – The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Steal the Show – Elemental
This Wish – Wish

Best Score – Animated Film

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Elemental
Migration
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Best Song – Independent Film

Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone – Sons 2 the Grave
I Got You – Holiday Twist
Quiet Eyes – Past Lives
El Saber – Radical
Space and Time – Master Gardener
Stardust – A Good Person

Best Score – Independent Film

Daliland
Dream Scenario
Jules
Miranda’s Victim
She Came to Me
The Zone of Interest

Best Score – Independent Film (Foreign Language)

Control
Last Wishes
Paradice
The Promised Land
Los Reyes Magos: La Verdad
Society of the Snow

Best Song – Documentary Film

Dream Your Little Dream – The Jewel Thief
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright – Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Forty Foot Man – Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
Speechless – Louder Than Rock
Todo Fue Por Amor – With This Light

Best Score – Documentary

The Deepest Breath
Kangaroo Valley
The Pigeon Tunnel
Split at the Root
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best Music Themed Film or Musical

Carmen
The Little Mermaid
Theater Camp
Trolls Band Together
Wonka

Best Song – On-Screen Performance

Better Place – N*SYNC – Trolls Band Together
For the First Time – Halle Bailey – The Little Mermaid
High Life – Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Orén Kinlan, Jack Reynor – High Life
I’m Just Ken – Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Keep It Movin – Halle Bailey, Phylicia Pearl Mapsi – The Color Purple
Out Alpha the Alpha – Megan Thee Stallion – Dicks: The Musical
Praise Nationals Finale – Oil Factory Feat. Chlöe, Jekalyn Carr, Loren Lott – Praise This
A World of Your Own – Timothée Chalamet – Wonka

Best Score – Short Film (Live Action)

Beyond the Sea
Hurricane Ramirez vs La Pinata Enchilada
Ivan
Lo Que Simebras
Motherland

Best Score – Short Film (Animated)

Cosmo
Kadunud Sokid – The Mystery of Missing Docks
Mooned
Overwatch 2
Wing It!
You Ming Zhi

Best Score – Short Film (Documentary)

Bubjan
Jack and Sam
Kalu: Growing Up Wild
The Last Repair Shop
The Shark with a Thousand Names

Best Music Supervision – Film

Air
Fast X
Immediate Family
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
Trap Jazz
Trolls Band Together

Best Song, Short Film

Behind the Sky – Camp Courage
Christmas Is Nearly Here – Mickey Saves Christmas
Mushka’s Lullaby – Mushka
Rhythm of My Heart – Pacemaker
The Routine – The Routine
Take It – The Bank Manager