The Emmy Music Races: Sizing Up the Competition in Seven Categories
variety.comJon Burlingame This year’s Emmy competition in the music categories is generating more excitement than usual. That’s because the results could yield two new EGOT winners and a first-ever Emmy for veteran film composer Hans Zimmer.
Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul—already Oscar winners for “La La Land” and Tony and Grammy winners for “Dear Evan Hansen”—could finally claim the last piece of the EGOT puzzle if their song “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” from “Only Murders in the Building” (co-written with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman) wins for best song.
Zimmer, who already has two Oscars (for “The Lion King” and “Dune”) and four Grammys (for “The Dark Knight,” “Crimson Tide” and two for “Lion King”), could finally nab TV’s top honor for one or more of his nominations, for “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” (score for a limited series and best song, both with Kara Talve) or “Planet Earth III” (documentary score, with Jacob Shea and Sara Barone).
Seventeen nominees, or exactly one-third of the total number of 51, are first-timers to the competition. Nine of those are in the music composition categories, including the composers of “Mr.
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