Congratulations to all of this year’s Oscar nominees! All five Best Original Score nominees were scored AFM union musicians — 4 of them with members of AFM Local 47 here in Los Angeles.
- Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir, composer (AFM Local 47)
- Marriage Story – Randy Newman, composer (AFM Local 47)
- 1917 – Thomas Newman, composer (AFM Local 47)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams, composer (AFM Local 47)
- Little Women – Alexandre Desplat (AFM Local 802)
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 9, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, televised live on ABC starting at 5 p.m. PST.
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, along with the Wagner Act, enacted 12 years prior as part of the “New Deal,” laid the foundation for the current collective bargaining process as it relates to the formation, funding and administration of employee benefit plans. But, the way in which Taft-Hartley achieved this goal was not in a pro-union manner. 
