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2021 SCL AWARDS I 31 JON BATISTE – SOUL Jon Batiste is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, record producer, educator, and actor. As a teenager, he began self-producing and releasing his music on the internet, as well as performing internationally. His major-label debut, Hollywood Africans, was nominated for a Grammy Award for best American Roots Performance in 2019 and, along with his band Stay Human, he is featured nightly on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His large- scale, genre-melding symphonic work American Symphony is set to be performed at Carnegie Hall in 2021. Born into a long lineage of Louisiana musicians, Batiste received both his undergraduate and master's degrees in piano from the Juilliard School. He is currently the music director of The Atlantic, the co-artistic director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and is on the Board of Sing for Hope. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Batiste balances a demanding performance schedule with public-speaking engagements, masterclasses, brand partnerships, and acting roles. SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS – MANK – SOUL Trent Reznor formed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Nine Inch Nails (NIN) in Ohio in 1988 and, over the next 30 years, sold more than 30 million records worldwide and won two Grammy Awards. In 2008, Reznor teamed with Atticus Ross, his now-partner in NIN, and began a prolific career composing music for film. Their first project, David Fincher's The Social Network, earned the pair an Oscar and a Golden Globe. Reznor and Ross continue to score a diverse array of film and television projects— including the acclaimed Watchmen series for HBO, which earned the duo an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a series. Their genre-spanning slate of recent scores includes Mank and Disney and Pixar's film Soul. The team's credits also include the films Gone Girl, Patriots Day, Bird Box, and Mid90s, as well as the Ken Burns docuseries The Vietnam War. Reznor and Ross were inaugural SCL Awards nominees for their work on Watchmen.