Deadline’s Sound & Screen event made its London debut during SXSW London on Saturday, honoring Oscar-winning composer Anne Dudley and featuring live performances from hit screen projects, including Shrinking and Arcane.
On a rainy summer’s day in London, Deadline provided a ray of musical sunshine for a packed audience at the historic Shoreditch Church. Dudley, who won an Academy prize for her work on The Full Monty, took to the stage to perform a medley of her work, including Poldark and Jeeves and Wooster.
She was awarded Sound & Screen’s inaugural Impact Award, with Baz Bamigboye, Deadline columnist and master of ceremonies, presenting her with the prize following her performance.
Dudley said the award would sit alongside her Oscar, Grammy, Brit, and Ivor Novello prizes, telling Bamigboye that there had been a “sea change” in the opportunities for women in music and film. She also looked ahead to her next project, PBS Masterpiece’s sweeping period drama The Forsytes, which is due to premiere this year. Dudley confirmed a second series is filming this summer.
The lineup also included the composers: Natalie Holt with Chad Powers; Tom Howe with Shrinking and Dog Man; Nainita Desai with Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf and Secrets of the Penguin; and Alex Seaver with Arcane.
Howe revealed that he planned to be involved in Season 4 of Ted Lasso, building on his work on previous seasons of Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning series. Filming starts in July/August, Howe confirmed, after he performed music from Shrinking, which is also featured on Apple.
Elsewhere, Desai talked about her love of scoring natural history and why she felt connected to Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf, the documentary that premiered at SXSW on Friday. Holt discussed getting her head around American Football for Chad Powers, the upcoming Hulu series starring Glen Powell.
Desai summed up her role like this: “With film and TV composers, we have this kind of superpower. We have this ability to be able to manipulate people’s emotions and make them feel something.”
Atmosphere at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Anne Dudley at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Anne Dudley at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Atmosphere at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Anne Dudley at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Atmosphere at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Alex Seaver at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Alex Seaver at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Nainita Desai at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Nainita Desai at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Nainita Desai at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Atmosphere at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
Vianney Le Caer for Deadline
Atmosphere at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
Vianney Le Caer for Deadline
Atmosphere at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Tom Howe at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Tom Howe at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Tom Howe at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Natalie Holt at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Natalie Holt at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Natalie Holt at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Atmosphere at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Alex Seaver, Nainita Desai, Anne Dudley, Natalie Holt, Tom Howe at the Deadline Sound & Screen at South by Southwest London held at Shoreditch Church on June 07, 2025 in London, United Kingdom.
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Fittingly, as Sound & Screen reached London, there was a musical tribute to Abbey Road, the iconic recording studio nestled in the north-west of the English capital. Instantly recognizable feature scores for Harry Potter, Goldeneye, and Jurassic World were performed.
Mirek Stiles, head of audio products at Abbey Road Studios, told Deadline’s Stewart Clarke that there were ongoing “conversations” with Sam Mendes about recording the score for his four Beatles films at the studio.
The Music Box Ensemble provided the orchestra for the event. Steve Morris and Marianne Haynes played violin, Triona Milne was on the viola, Chris Allen was the celloist, Kat Tinker was the pianist, Tommy Emmerton provided guitar, Chris Hill played the bass, and Ralph Salmins was on drums.
Sound & Screen was produced in partnership with Abbey Road, PRS for Music, ASCAP, BMI, SCL and AWFC.
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