Kris Bowers sat in the dark, watching the Oscar nominations while his pregnant wife and 3-year-old daughter slept. He wasn’t trying to wake them up or cause chaos. Although an Oscar winner for live ...

Song categories are divided between dramatic/documentary media and comedy/musical media with four of the five Oscar nominees for Best Original Song represented here. On the dramatic/documentary side, ...

There were five of us in the studio with Kris Bowers during this recording of Variety’s Behind the Song, and by the time he finished taking us through “I Could Use a Boost,” there wasn’t a dry eye in ...

Parenting isn’t easy — whether you’re a top-of-the-line robot or an Oscar-nominated composer. It’s a lesson Lupita Nyong’o’s Roz learns the hard way in “The Wild Robot,” DreamWorks’ three-time ...

Kris Bowers, Atticus Ross and Diane Warren were among the victors at the Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards, which took place in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Singer-songwriter Colin Hay (of ...

It’s not difficult to find a connection with Roz, voiced by Lupita Nyong’o, in The Wild Robot, especially for songwriter Maren Morris, who had a young child when she began writing the original song ...