{"id":46587,"date":"2025-09-15T03:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/emmys-2025-christopher-lennertz-wins-outstanding-original-music-and-lyrics-for-the-boys\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:38:27","slug":"emmys-2025-christopher-lennertz-wins-outstanding-original-music-and-lyrics-for-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/emmys-2025-christopher-lennertz-wins-outstanding-original-music-and-lyrics-for-the-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmys 2025: Christopher Lennertz Wins Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for The Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/tags\/emmys2025\/\">2025 Creative Arts Emmys<\/a> last weekend (September 7 and 8), Christopher Lennertz took home the award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for his song \u201cLet&#8217;s Put the Christ Back in Christmas\u201d from <em>The Boys.<\/em> He beat out fellow nominees Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for \u201cThe Ballad of the Witches\u2019 Road\u201d (<em>Agatha All Along<\/em>), Nicholas Britell and Tony Gilroy for \u201cWe Are the Ghor (Planetary Anthem)\u201d (<em>Andor<\/em>), Adam Sandler and Dan Bulla for \u201cAdam Sandler\u2019s Song: 50 Years\u201d (<em>SNL50: The Anniversary Special<\/em>), and Sean Douglas, Kristen Wiig, and Josh Greenbaum for \u201cHarper and Will Go West\u201d (<em>Will &amp; Harper<\/em>). It\u2019s Lennertz\u2019s first Emmy Award and third nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Lennertz\u2019s award is not to be confused with Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), which <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/emmys-2025-theodore-shapiro-wins-outstanding-music-composition-for-severance\/\">Theodore Shapiro won<\/a> for <em>Severance<\/em>, nor Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie, or Special (Original Dramatic Score), which went to Mick Giacchino for <em>The Penguin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of musicians were <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/emmys-2025-kendrick-lamar-beyonce-jay-z-score-nominations\/\">nominated<\/a> for Emmy Awards this year, including Kendrick Lamar, Beyonc\u00e9, Jay-Z, Kamasi Washington, Caroline Shaw, Hamilton Leithauser, Mark Ronson, Hans Zimmer, Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh, and the Roots\u2019 Ahmir \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson. Last week, Lamar <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/kendrick-lamar-wins-2025-emmy-award-for-super-bowl-lix-halftime-show\/\">won his second Emmy<\/a>, taking home the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction for <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/kendrick-lamar-plays-2025-super-bowl-halftime-show-watch\/\"><em>The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar<\/em><\/a>, which was nominated for seven awards.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along with all of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/tags\/emmys2025\/\">Pitchfork\u2019s coverage of the 2025 Emmy Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-ldQZQl ejqOZZ iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/emmys-2025-christopher-lennertz-wins-outstanding-original-music-and-lyrics-for-the-boys\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys last weekend (September 7 and 8), Christopher Lennertz took home the award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}