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NORTH , Calif.–, and scored double Emmy nominations among the 2008-09 Emmy honors, announced today by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Callery, who has won twice (out of six nominations) for his music for Fox's 24, managed dual honors for two more 24 scores œ in the "Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)" category and in the "Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or Special" category for the 24 movie Redemption.

Ross, who won in 2007 for his music direction of the , was nominated for his music direction on CBS's Streisand: The Concert special as well as for "Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics" (the song category) for 's opening number at this year's Oscars (shared with three other and lyricists).

Timberlake, who won in 2007 for his controversial song "," was nominated for his lyrics for two more TV songs: "I Love Sports" at the 2008 ESPYs on ESPN and for "Motherlover" on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Several members of the "Box" team were also nominated for one or the other.

A number of previous Emmy winners have a shot at another statuette: (who has four, including two for TV-movies and two for his Olympics music) was nominated for "Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music" for his new signature.

Two TV veterans each received their 29th nomination in music categories: Eleven-time winner , for his music direction on the annual Christmas in Washington special on TNT; and two-time winner , for the "Gone Maggie Gone" episode of Fox's .

Four-time winner was nominated for his score for the CBS Hallmark Hall of Famefilm Loving Leah; and perennial bridesmaid Mark Snow received his 15th Emmy nomination, so far without a win, for an episode of CBS's The Ghost Whisperer. David Michael Frank received his fourth Emmy nod for his theme for ABC's The Mole, while received her second nomination for HBO's acclaimed made-for-cable film Grey Gardens.

Veteran singer-songwriter Paul Williams received his second nomination for a Muppet special, for his song score for NBC's A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa; his previous nomination was for the now-classic 1981 Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. In the music-direction category, Harold Wheeler received his third Emmy nod for ABC's Dancing With the Stars, a third for CBS's telecast of the Grammy Awards, and , his second for CBS's .

Joe LoDuca received his fourth Emmy nomination for an episode of the syndicated Legend of the Seeker series. And the songwriting team for HBO's œ James Bobin, Bret McKenzie and œ repeated with another nomination this year for the song "Carol Brown."

Among composers receiving their first Emmy recognition were Oscar winner Gabriel Yared (The English Patient), for his score for HBO's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency; Robert Duncan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) for the first episode of ABC's Castle; veteran British (Blackadder, Red Dwarf) for HBO's Winston Churchill movie Into the Storm; veteran BBC composer (Bleak House) for PBS's Little Dorrit; and Marcelo Zarvos (Kissing Jessica Stein) for HBO's film Taking Chance.

Composers who were much talked-about this year but failed to secure a nomination included for Lost and Bear McCreary for Battlestar Galactica.

The complete list of music nominees follows:

Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)

• Sean P. Callery œ 24 episode "7:00AM - 8:00AM"

• Alf H. Clausen œ The Simpsons episode "Gone Maggie Gone"

• Robert Duncan œ Castle episode "Flowers From Your Grave"

• Joe LoDuca œ Legend of the Seeker episode "Prophecy"

• Mark Snow œ Ghost Whisperer episode "Leap of Faith"

• Gabriel Yared œ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Pilot

Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score)

• Jeff Beal œ Loving Leah

• Sean P. Callery œ 24: Redemption

• Howard Goodall œ Into the Storm

• John Lunn œ Little Dorrit, Part 5

• Rachel Portman œ Grey Gardens

• Marcelo Zarvos œ Taking Chance

Outstanding Music Direction

• Ian Fraser œ Christmas in Washington • Rob Mathes and Rob Berman œ The Kennedy Center Honors

• Rickey Minor œ The 51st Annual Grammy Awards

• William Ross œ Streisand: The Concert

• Harold Wheeler œ Dancing With the Stars

Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics

° "Carol Brown" from Flight of the Conchords episode "Unnatural Love"

Music and lyrics by James Bobin, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement

° "Hugh Jackman Opening Number" from The 81st Annual Academy Awards

Music by William Ross and John Kimbrough

Lyrics by and

° "I Love Sports" from The 2008 ESPYS

Music by Katresse Barnes

Lyrics by Justin Timberlake, , Alex Baze, Rachel Hamilton, Kevin Miller, Jonathan Drubner and Dave Drabik

° "I Wish I Could Be Santa Claus" from A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

Music and lyrics by Paul Williams

° "Motherlover" from Saturday Night Live episode host Justin Timberlake

Music by and Drew Campbell

Lyrics by Akiva Schaffer, , Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake

° "Much Worse Things" from A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All

Music by

Lyrics by

Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music

• Tim Delaughter œ of Tara

• David Michael Frank œ The Mole

• Bill Sherman œ Storymakers

• Bob Thiele (music and lyrics), Dave Kushner (music), Curtis Stigers (lyrics) and Kurt Sutter (lyrics) œ Sons of Anarchy Pilot

• John Williams œ Great Performances

©2009 by Jon Burlingame