A father-daughter composing group was nominated, Hans Zimmer might win his first Emmy, and a music supervisor was nominated for 3 completely different exhibits — simply among the surprises amongst nominations for the 2024-2025 Emmys unveiled Tuesday morning by the Tv Academy.
Thomas Newman and his daughter Julia Newman have been nominated for his or her music for Netflix’s miniseries “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” a primary in Emmy historical past for a two-generation, same-family collaboration on a single tv rating. And in one other musical-family story, Oscar and Emmy winner Michael Giacchino’s son Mick Giacchino was nominated for his authentic music for HBO’s “The Penguin.”
Zimmer, who has two Oscars and 4 Grammys, has by no means received an Emmy however might this yr along with his nomination within the documentary music class for NBC’s “The Americas” (shared with fellow composers Anze Rozman and Kara Talve).
Music supervisor Gabe Hilfer dominated the music supervision class with nods for 3 completely different sequence: HBO’s “The Righteous Gems” (with DeVoe Yates), Apple TV+’s “The Studio” and HBO’s “The White Lotus.” Hilfer beforehand received in 2023 for his work on “The White Lotus.”
Additionally amongst a number of nominees, Ariel Marx acquired two nominations for authentic music, each within the restricted or anthology sequence, film or particular class, for the “Lodge Reverie” episode of Netflix’s “Black Mirror” and for the FX miniseries “Dying for Intercourse.” And Cristobal Tapia de Veer, who already has three Emmys for “The White Lotus,” was nominated for 2 extra, for each sequence rating and primary title theme music.
Girls composers and music supervisors did effectively this yr, with feminine opponents in 5 of the seven music classes. Sherri Chung acquired her first Emmy nomination for Peacock’s “Based mostly on a True Story.”
The opposite nominees in her class — music composition for a sequence — embody Brandon Roberts for Disney+’s “Andor,” Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson (earlier Emmy winners) for Netflix’s “Cobra Kai,” Antonio Sánchez for Apple TV+’s “The Studio” and Theodore Shapiro, once more nominated for his music for Apple TV+’s “Severance,” for which he received final yr
Competing with the Newmans, Giacchino and Marx within the music composition for a restricted or anthology sequence, film or particular are Daniel Pemberton for one more episode of Netflix’s “Black Mirror” (“USS Callister: Into Infinity”) and Kathryn Bostic for Hulu’s “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat.”
Along with “The Americas,” the documentary music class consists of Duncan Thum and David Bertok for the José Andrés episode of Netflix’s “Chef’s Desk,” Jacob Shea and Laurentia Editha for BBC America’s “Planet Earth: Asia,” Grammy-winning classical composer Caroline Shaw for PBS’s “Leonardo Da Vinci” and Ilan Eshkeri for HBO Max’s “Tremendous / Man: the Christopher Reeve Story.”
Kendrick Lamar might rating his second Emmy award as music director (with Tony Russell) of the “Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present” on Fox. Different nominees for music course embody Rickey Minor (already a three-time winner) for CBS’s “The Kennedy Heart Honors,” Michael Bearden for ABC’s “The Oscars” and the music administrators of two “SNL 50” specials on NBC: “The Anniversary Particular,” Eli Brueggemann, Leon Pendarvis and Lenny Pickett; and “The Homecoming Live performance,” James Poyser and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson.
This yr’s authentic music class is especially star-studded, with Adam Sandler (together with Dan Bulla) nominated for “SNL 50: The Anniversary Particular,” Kristen Wiig (together with Sean Douglas and Josh Greenbaum) for the Netflix documentary “Will & Harper,” and EGOT winners Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez for “The Ballad of the Witches” in Disney+’s “Agatha All Alongside.”
Additionally nominated within the music class are Christopher Lennertz for Prime Video’s “The Boys” and previous Emmy winner Nicholas Britell and showrunner Tony Gilroy for a planetary anthem in a climactic episode of the Disney+ “Star Wars” sequence “Andor.”
Primary title theme music nominees (along with de Veer’s “White Lotus” nod) embody Netflix’s “Dept. Q,” by previous Emmy winners Carlos Rafael Rivera and Scott Frank; HBO Max’s “Dune Prophecy” by Volker Bertelmann; Grownup Swim’s “Lazarus,” by Kamasi Washington; Netflix’s “The Residence,” by Mark Mothersbaugh; and Apple TV+’s “Your Associates and Neighbors,” by Dominic Lewis and Hamilton Leithauser.
Competing towards Hilfer for the music supervision Emmy are Matt Biffa for HBO Max’s “Hacks”; the group of Evyen Klean, Ian Broucek and Scott Hanau for HBO’s “The Final of Us”; and George Drakoulias for Apple TV+’s “Severance.”
The music winners will probably be introduced throughout the two-day Artistic Arts Awards and Governors Gala Sept. 6 and seven. Remaining spherical voting for members will happen between Aug. 18-27.
