Top Film, TV & Video Game Composers Nominated by Peers for 2025 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards: Full List

ASCAP has announced the nominees for the 2025 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards.

A first-of-its-kind program among U.S. performing rights organizations, the ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards gives the ASCAP composer community a forum to recognize the artistic accomplishments of their peers. The nominations committee includes composers and film, television and video game industry leaders. Voting is open to eligible ASCAP writer members through March 7 at 11:59 p.m. ET on the ASCAP website.

Winners will be revealed on April 30 during an exclusive party celebrating the 2025 ASCAP Screen Music Awards in Los Angeles.

More information about the 2025 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards, including excerpts of the nominated music, is available on the organization’s website.

Following are ASCAP composers and their works nominated for the 2025 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards. Categories with six or more nominees reflect ties in voting.

Film score of the year

(Films released in the U.S. in 2024, whether theatrically or via another medium)

Challengers – Trent Reznor

Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer

Inside Out 2 – Andrea Datzman

Nosferatu – Robin Carolan

Wicked – John Powell & Stephen Schwartz

Young Woman and the Sea – Amelia Warner

Television score of the year

(Episodes originally airing in the U.S. in 2024)

Agatha All Along – Michael Paraskevas

Mr. & Mrs. Smith – David Fleming

Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla

Palm Royale – Jeff Toyne

Slow Horses – Daniel Pemberton & Toydrum

Television theme of the year

(Episodes originally airing in the U.S. in 2024)

Bad Monkey – Jamie Jackson & Waz

Franklin – Jay Wadley

Nautilus – Nainita Desai

Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla

Palm Royale – Jeff Toyne

Documentary score of the year

(Documentary films or series released in the U.S. in 2024)

Albert Brooks: Defending My Life – Marc Shaiman

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes – Logan Nelson

Jim Henson Idea Man – David Fleming

Planet Earth III – Sara Barone & Hans Zimmer

The Real Red Tails – Stanley A. Smith

Will & Harper – Nathan Halpern

Video game score of the year

(Games originally released in the U.S. in 2024)

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Jack Wall

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Gordy Haab

Helldivers 2 – Wilbert Roget, II

Star Wars Outlaws – Wilbert Roget, II, Cody Matthew Johnson, Jon Everist, Kazuma Jinnouchi

Tales of Kenzera: Zau – Nainita Desai

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