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At the 2025 ASCAP Screen Music Awards, we celebrated the musical storytellers whose scores elevate the most popular movies, TV series and video games of the past year. Our members left the studio for a night to gather with their ASCAP peers and honor their own. One major highlight was the revelation of the ASCAP Composers’ Choice Award winners, chosen by the ASCAP composer and songwriter community.
🏆 WINNER: Challengers - Trent Reznor 🏆
NOMINEES
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
🏆 WINNER: Jim Henson Idea Man - David Fleming 🏆
NOMINEES:
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life - Marc Shaiman
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes - Logan Nelson
Planet Earth III - Sara Barone & Hans Zimmer
The Real Red Tails - Stanley A. Smith
Will & Harper - Nathan Halpern
🏆 WINNER: Palm Royale - Jeff Toyne 🏆
NOMINEES
Agatha All Along - Michael Paraskevas
Mr & Mrs. Smith - David Fleming
Only Murders in the Building - Siddhartha Khosla
Slow Horses - Daniel Pemberton & Toydrum
🏆 WINNER: Palm Royale - Jeff Toyne 🏆
NOMINEES
Bad Monkey - Jamie Jackson & WAZ
Franklin - Jay Wadley
Nautilus - Nainita Desai
Only Murders in the Building - Siddhartha Khosla
🏆 WINNER: Tales of Kenzera: Zau - Nainita Desai 🏆
NOMINEES
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Jack Wall
Helldivers 2 - Wilbert Roget, II & Ross Tregenza
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Gordy Haab
Star Wars Outlaws - Wilbert Roget, II, Cody Matthew Johnson, Jon Everist, & Kazuma Jinnouchi