Vote in the 2021 ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards
March 1, 2021
As a valued ASCAP writer member, you get to vote on who we will honor at the 2021 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards - a peer-voted honor celebrating your favorite screen music composers of last year.
This year, we’ve expanded the Awards to five categories to better reflect the impact of our members’ incredible music across all types of screen media.
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 17. Vote on your favorite:
2020 ASCAP Film Score of the Year
Films released in the US in 2020, whether theatrically or via another medium
This category has 6 nominees due to a tie in the number of nominations
- Ammonite - Volker Bertelmann (listen on YouTube)
- Bad Education - Michael Abels (listen on YouTube)
- The Invisible Man - Benjamin Wallfisch (listen on YouTube)
- Mank - Trent Reznor (listen on YouTube)
- Soul - Jon Batiste & Trent Reznor (listen on YouTube)
- Wild Mountain Thyme - Amelia Warner (listen on YouTube)
2020 ASCAP Documentary Score of the Year
Documentary films initially airing in the US in 2020
- Becoming - Kamasi Washington (listen on YouTube)
- David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - Steven Price (listen on YouTube)
- Naughty Books - Catherine Joy (listen on YouTube)
- The Reason I Jump - Nainita Desai (hear the full score)
- The Social Dilemma - Mark A. Crawford (listen on the streaming service of your choice)
2020 ASCAP Television Score of the Year
Episodes originally airing in the US in 2020
- The Crown - Martin Phipps (listen on YouTube)
- His Dark Materials - Lorne Balfe (listen on YouTube)
- Lovecraft Country - Raphael Saadiq (listen on YouTube)
- Mira, Royal Detective - Amritha Vaz (listen to a compilation of cues for the show on YouTube)
- Tales from the Loop - Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan (listen on YouTube)
2020 ASCAP Television Theme of the Year
Episodes originally airing in the US in 2020
- The Casagrandes - Lalo Alcaraz, Germaine Franco & Michael Rubiner (watch title sequence on YouTube)
- His Dark Materials - Lorne Balfe (watch title sequence on YouTube)
- Little Fires Everywhere - Isabella Summers (watch title sequence YouTube)
- McMillions - Pinar Toprak (watch title sequence on Vimeo)
- Tales from the Loop - Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan (watch title sequence on YouTube)
2020 ASCAP Video Game Score of the Year
Games originally released in the US in 2020
- Cyberpunk 2077 - P.T. Adamczyk, Paul Leonard-Morgan & Marcin Przybylowicz (hear the full score on YouTube)
- The Last of Us Part II - Gustavo Santaolalla (hear the full score on YouTube)
- Metamorphosis - Mikolai Stroinski & Garry Schyman (listen to "The Letter" on YouTube / full score on Spotify)
- The Pathless - Austin Wintory (hear the full score on YouTube)
- Star Wars: Squadrons - Gordy Haab (hear the main theme on YouTube / full score on Spotify)
Your votes must be submitted by Friday, March 26 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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