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Some of today’s most talked-about film and TV composers walked off with Composers Choice Awards at Tuesday night’s annual Screen Music Awards of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in West Hollywood.

Michael Abels won Film Score of the Year for Jordan Peele’s sci-fi horror movie “Nope.” Cristobal Tapia de Veer and Kim Neundorf won Television Score of the Year for HBO’s black comedy “The White Lotus” And Bear McCreary won Video Game Score of the Year for Sony Interactive’s acclaimed “God of War: Ragnarok.”

In a tie, Documentary Score of the Year went to both Amanda Jones for the National Geographic nature series “Super/Natural” and Jeff Cardoni for HBO Max’s skateboarding doc “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off.” Cristobal Tapia de Veer also won a second award for Television Theme of the Year for “The White Lotus.”

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The announcement of winners for the ASCAP Screen Music Awards, being held virtually again for 2022 and announced Monday morning, included revealing the top vote-getters for several Composers’ Choice Awards, including the scores for “Encanto” and “The White Lotus.”

Germaine Franco prevailed for film score of the year for “Encanto.” Cristobal Tapia de Veer won two of these peer-voted awards, for television score of the year and television theme as well, for “The White Lotus. The video game score of the year honor went to Wataru Hokoyama for “Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.” Triumphing in the documentary score of the year category was Amanda Jones for “Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street.”

Those five Composers’ Choice Awards come on top of ASCAP’s traditional Screen Music Awards, which collect date to honor the most-consumed music of the year in the fields of TV, film and video games, with dozens of winners cited.

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Tilda Swinton brings her ethereal presence to The Last of England.

A highly stylized vision of 1980s Britain, the 1988 experimental cult drama The Last of England is one of the late British filmmaker Derek Jarman’s (Caravaggio) most personal films.

Tracing the decline and fall of Britain as seen from the vantage points of London and Belfast, Jarman creates a mosaic using old home movies, newly shot hand-held 8 millimeter photography, erotic imagery, scenes of war and urban decay, newsreel-style footage and a barrage of familiar music and street sounds. Edited together along with the nearly wordless presence of such performers as Tilda Swinton (The Man from London) and Matthew Hawkins, the overall effect is quite apocalyptic-looking.

Quite a powerful piece though obviously not for everyone, the unrated Last of England was first seen in the U.S. at the...