2025 ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards
February 24, 2025
As a valued ASCAP writer member, you get to vote on who we will honor at the 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards - a peer-voted honor celebrating your favorite screen music composers of last year.
Our nominees were hand-picked by a nominating committee of composers and film, TV and video game industry leaders. The winners will be announced during this year's ASCAP Screen Music Awards celebration on April 30. Here are the nominees:
ASCAP Film Score of the Year*
Films released in the US in 2024, whether theatrically or via another medium
- Challengers – Trent Reznor (listen on YouTube)
- Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer (listen on YouTube)
- Inside Out 2 – Andrea Datzman (listen on YouTube)
- Nosferatu – Robin Carolan (listen on YouTube)
- Wicked – John Powell & Stephen Schwartz (listen on YouTube)
- Young Woman and the Sea – Amelia Warner (listen on YouTube)
ASCAP Documentary Score of the Year*
Documentary projects initially airing in the US in 2024
- Albert Brooks: Defending My Life – Marc Shaiman (listen on YouTube)
- Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes – Logan Nelson (listen on SoundCloud)
- Jim Henson Idea Man – David Fleming (listen on YouTube)
- Planet Earth III – Sara Barone & Hans Zimmer (listen on YouTube)
- The Real Red Tails – Stanley A. Smith (listen on Disco)
- Will & Harper – Nathan Halpern (hear score excerpts on SoundCloud)
ASCAP Television Score of the Year
Episodes originally airing in the US in 2024
- Agatha All Along – Michael Paraskevas (listen on YouTube)
- Mr & Mrs. Smith – David Fleming (listen on YouTube)
- Only Murders in the Building Season 4 – Siddhartha Khosla (listen on YouTube)
- Palm Royale – Jeff Toyne (listen on YouTube)
- Slow Horses Seasons 3 & 4 – Daniel Pemberton & Toydrum (listen on YouTube)
ASCAP Television Theme of the Year
Episodes originally airing in the US in 2024
- Bad Monkey – Jamie Jackson & Waz (listen on YouTube)
- Franklin – Jay Wadley (listen on YouTube)
- Nautilus – Nainita Desai (listen on YouTube)
- Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla (listen on YouTube)
- Palm Royale – Jeff Toyne (listen on YouTube)
ASCAP Video Game Score of the Year
Games originally made available to the public in the US in 2024
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Jack Wall(listen on YouTube)
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Gordy Haab (listen on YouTube)
- Helldivers 2 – Wilbert Roget, II (listen on YouTube)
- Star Wars Outlaws – Wilbert Roget, II, Cody Matthew Johnson, Jon Everist, Kazuma Jinnouchi (listen on YouTube)
- Tales of Kenzera: Zau – Nainita Desai (listen on YouTube)
Your votes must be submitted by Friday, March 7 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time. Only ASCAP writer members in good standing are eligible to vote, and you will need to enter your ASCAP member ID number to submit your vote. Your Member ID is available in your ASCAP Member Access account, or on any distribution statement.
You can only vote once and can only vote for one nominee per category. So choose carefully!
Click here for the ASCAP Screen Music Awards Official Rules, which contain additional rules and eligibility requirements.
For questions, DM us at @ASCAPScreen on Instagram or send us an email at filmtv@ascap.com.
*Categories with 6 nominees reflect a tie in the number of nominations