Vote in the 2022 ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards
February 22, 2022
As a valued ASCAP writer member, you get to vote on who we will honor at the 2022 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, film/TV industry leaders, and members of the Game Audio Network Guild, an organization of video game music professionals.
The winners will be announced at this year's virtual ASCAP Screen Music Awards during the week of May 2. Vote on your favorite:
2021 ASCAP Film Score of the Year
Films released in the US in 2021, whether theatrically or via another medium
- Dune - Hans Zimmer (listen on YouTube)
- Encanto - Germaine Franco (listen on YouTube)
- The Green Knight - Daniel Hart (listen on YouTube)
- Luca - Dan Romer (listen on YouTube)
- The Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood (listen on YouTube)
2021 ASCAP Documentary Score of the Year
Documentary films initially airing in the US in 2021
(This category has 8 nominees due to a tie in the number of nominations)
- 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible - Nainita Desai (listen on YouTube)
- 9to5: The Story of a Movement - Wendy Blackstone (listen to excerpts on SoundCloud)
- Allen v. Farrow - Michael Abels (listen on YouTube)
- Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street - Amanda Jones (listen to an excerpt from her score)
- Flee - Uno Helmersson (listen on YouTube)
- The Rescue - Daniel Pemberton (listen on YouTube)
- Val - Garth Stevenson (hear excerpts of his score)
- Women Warriors: The Voices of Change - Anne-Kathrin Dern & Sharon Farber (listen to their score contributions on YouTube)
2021 ASCAP Television Score of the Year
Episodes originally airing in the US in 2021
(This category has 6 nominees due to a tie in the number of nominations)
- Allen v. Farrow - Michael Abels (listen on YouTube)
- Cobra Kai season 3 - Leo Birenberg & Zach Robinson (listen on YouTube)
- Dickinson seasons 2 & 3- Drum & Lace, Ian Hultquist (listen to season 2 and season 3 on YouTube)
- Loki - Natalie Holt (listen on YouTube)
- Wheel of Time - Lorne Balfe (listen to season 1, vol. 1 on YouTube)
- The White Lotus - Cristobal Tapia de Veer (listen on YouTube)
2021 ASCAP Television Theme of the Year
Episodes originally airing in the US in 2021
- Allen v. Farrow - Michael Abels (listen on YouTube)
- Dickinson - Drum & Lace, Ian Hultquist (listen on YouTube)
- Loki - Natalie Holt (watch the title sequence on YouTube)
- Only Murders in the Building - Siddhartha Khosla (watch the title sequence on YouTube)
- The White Lotus - Cristobal Tapia de Veer (watch the title sequence on YouTube)
2021 ASCAP Video Game Score of the Year
Games originally made available to the public in the US in 2021
(This category has 6 nominees due to a tie in the number of nominations)
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Austin Wintory (listen to an excerpt on YouTube)
- Call of Duty: Mobile Season 5: In Deep Water - Wilbert Roget II (listen to the theme music on YouTube)
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale - Lena Raine (hear the full score on YouTube)
- Deathloop - Tom Salta (hear the full score on YouTube)
- Far Cry 6 - Pedro Bromfman (hear the full score on YouTube)
- Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart - Wataru Hokoyama (hear the full score on YouTube)
Your votes must be submitted by Friday, March 11 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.
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