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Soul and Lovecraft Country were among the winners at the ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards.

With an expanded number of categories and a diverse set of nominees, the ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards recognize winners chosen by the ASCAP composer and songwriter community. The 2021 recipients share a common thread in that each of their projects tells a story of humanity’s triumph over adversity. They include this year’s Oscar-winning animated film, a landmark documentary on climate change, a horror drama examining racism in America, an Emmy-nominated sci-fi series and an action-adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic United States:

The peer-voted awards recognised  Trent Reznor and Jon Batiste, for their work on the Pixar movie, while  Raphael Saadiq’s score for Lovecraft Country was honoured on the TV side. The TV theme of the year went to Philip Glass and Paul Leonard-Morgan for Tales from the Loop. Bear McCreary won in the cable category for The Walking Dead.