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Save this storySaveSave this storySaveDaniel Blumberg has won Best Original Score, for The Brutalist, at the 2025 Academy Awards. The former Yuck frontman accepted his trophy from Mark Hamill at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. “Thank you to the Academy and everyone who watched the film and honored the work. It means a lot to be acknowledged like this,” Blumberg said. “I’ve been an artist for 20 years now, since I’ve been a teenager. When I met Brady, I met my artistic soulmate… Thank you, Brady. I love you. I want to thank my collaborators, my co-producer Peter Walsh, and the artists who played on the score. The sounds you hear on The Brutalist are made by a group of hardworking, radical musicians… I’m accepting this award on behalf of them too.”This is Blumberg’s first Oscars win and first nomination. He beat out Volker Bertelmann (Conclave) Clément Ducol and Camille (Emilia Pérez), John Powell and Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) and Kris Bowers (The Wild Robot). Last year, Ludwig Göransson and his Oppenheimer score took home the trophy.The Brutalist also won Best Cinematography at tonight’s ceremony, and is still up for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. The 2025 Academy Awards have thus far featured a performance from Wicked co-stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, who sang a series of Wizard of Oz-inspired numbers, and a James Bond tribute courtesy of Blackpink’s Lisa, Doja Cat, and Raye. Earlier in the night, French songwriting duo Clément Ducol and Camille won Best Original Song for “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez.Read “The Brutalist Composer Daniel Blumberg on His Striking, Oscar-Nominated Score,” and follow all of Pitchfork’s coverage of the 2025 Academy Awards.

Save this storySaveSave this storySaveClément Ducol and Camille have won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Original Song for “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez. The songwriters will take home statuettes for the track, which is performed by Camille, earning their first-ever Oscars. The other nominees were “Mi Camino” also from Emilia Pérez; “Never Too Late,” from Elton John: Never Too Late; “The Journey,” from The Six Triple Eight; and “Like a Bird,” from Sing Sing.The Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger presented the award, and he had a few jokes up his sleeve about his fellow classic-rock contemporary. “The producers really wanted Bob Dylan to do this,” said Jagger. “Bob didn’t want to do it because he said the best songs this year were obviously in the movie A Complete Unknown. Bob said, ‘You should find somebody younger.’ I said, ‘Okay! I’m younger! I’m young enough, Bob! I’ll do it!’ So here I am.”While accepting the award, Camille sang a bit of the Rolling Stones’ hit “Sympathy for the Devil” and then gave a short speech thanking the Emilia Pérez cast and crew, and explaining the goal of the songs they created. “We hope it speaks to the role music and art can play and continue to play as a force of the good and progress in the world,” she said.Among the losing nominees are a few familiar names, including Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, who wrote “Like a Bird” for Sing Sing with Abraham Alexander, as well as EGOT-holder Elton John and his “Never Too Late” writing partners Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt, and Bernie Taupin. Clément Ducol and Camille were up for the Emilia Pérez tracks, and the movie’s director, Jacques Audiard, also had a writing credit on “El Mal,” which would have made for his first-ever Oscar. Perennial runner-up Diane Warren was the nominee for The Six Triple Eight’s “The Journey.”Last year, Billie Eilish and Finneas scored Barbie’s sole statuette, in Best Original Song, with “What Was I Made For?”Follow all of Pitchfork’s coverage of the 2025 Academy Awards.X contentThis content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

Save this storySaveSave this storySaveLongtime producers of the James Bond film franchise, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, received Honor Oscars at the most recent Governors Awards, and the 2025 Academy Awards celebrated tonight (March 2) with special performances by Blackpink’s Lisa, Doja Cat, and Raye singing some of its iconic songs. Watch a replay below.After The Substance actress Margaret Qualley led a James Bond-themed dance routine, Lisa sang Paul McCartney & Wings’ classic “Live and Let Die” from the 1973 spy film while women in evening gowns and suit-clad dancers spun around her. Lisa joined in on the choreography herself, dancing along while hitting each note of the theatrical number.Cameras panned to another section of the stage for a tradeoff to Doja Cat, who glittered in an appropriately diamond-encrusted gown while covering “Diamonds Are Forever” by Shirley Bassey, as written for the 1971 James Bond film of the same name. As she neared the end of her excerpt, Doja Cat leaned back while belting out the final notes.Raye sang the final performance of the tribute medley, tackling Adele’s moody song “Skyfall” from the 2012 movie starring Daniel Craig, while orange embers rose behind her on the screen and morphed into rings.Leading the nominees at the 2025 Academy Awards are Jacques Audiard’s cartel musical Emilia Pérez, with 13 nominations, followed by Brady Corbet’s epic drama The Brutalist and the silver-screen redux of the Wicked musical, both with 10. James Mangold’s Timothée Chalamet–led Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and papal thriller Conclave were close behind with eight mentions each.Follow all of Pitchfork’s coverage of the 2025 Academy Awards.X contentThis content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.X contentThis content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.X contentThis content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.