2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards

May 2, 2022

If you're anything like ASCAP, you watched a whoooole lot of movies and TV in 2021. On May 2-5 ASCAP paid it forward to all the composers and songwriters who soundtracked our nights and weekends by scoring our favorite films, series and video games of last year. The 2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards brought our winners together into the social sphere for a boatload of videos with stories, score deconstructions, advice, speeches and behind-the-scenes goodies that you won't hear anywhere else. 

Scroll down to see everyone we're congratulating this week. And join us @ascap on YouTube on May 5 for a special ASCAP Experience session with three of our winners, Carter Burwell, Natalie Holt and Siddhartha Khosla. 

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Follow the ASCAP Screen Music Awards live, May 2-5 on Instagram @ascapscreen & @ascap

COMPOSERS' CHOICE: FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR

WINNER | Encanto - Germaine FrancoNOMINEESDune - Hans ZimmerThe Green Knight - Daniel HartLuca - Dan RomerThe Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood

Hear how Germaine scored Encanto's toughest cue
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COMPOSERS' CHOICE: DOCUMENTARY SCORE OF THE YEAR

WINNER | Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street - Amanda JonesNOMINEES14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible - Nainita Desai9to5: The Story of a Movement - Wendy BlackstoneAllen v. Farrow - Michael AbelsFlee - Uno HelmerssonThe Rescue - Daniel PembertonVal - Garth StevensonWomen Warriors: The Voices of Change - Anne-Kathrin Dern (watch video) & Sharon Farber (watch video)

Watch Amanda give some background on Dreamland
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COMPOSERS' CHOICE: TELEVISION SCORE OF THE YEAR

WINNER | The White Lotus - Cristobal Tapia de VeerNOMINEESAllen v. Farrow - Michael AbelsCobra Kai season 3 - Leo Birenberg & Zach RobinsonDickinson seasons 2 & 3 - Drum & Lace, Ian HultquistLoki - Natalie HoltWheel of Time - Lorne Balfe

Watch Cristobal recording percussion for his score
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COMPOSERS' CHOICE: TELEVISION THEME OF THE YEAR

WINNER | The White Lotus - Cristobal Tapia de Veer NOMINEESAllen v. Farrow - Michael AbelsDickinson - Drum & Lace, Ian HultquistLoki - Natalie HoltOnly Murders in the Building - Siddhartha Khosla

Hear Cristobal give a heartfelt thanks to his ASCAP family
Key art from The White Lotus, score by Cristobal Tapia de Veer

COMPOSERS' CHOICE: VIDEO GAME SCORE OF THE YEAR

WINNER | Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart - Wataru HokoyamaNOMINEESAliens: Fireteam Elite - Austin WintoryCall Of Duty Mobile - Season 5: In Deep Water - Wilbert Roget IIChicory: A Colorful Tale - Lena RaineDeathloop - Tom Salta (watch video)Far Cry 6 - Pedro Bromfman

Hear Wataru's career advice for young composers
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Michael Giacchino

Top Box Office Film | Spider-Man: No Way Home

Matthew Hawkins, Maurice “m.0” Jackson, Neil Martin

Top Rated Network Series | Navy NCIS Main Title Theme

John Sereda

Top Rated Cable Series | When Calls the Heart

TOP RATED TELEVISION SERIES

Honoring ASCAP composers and songwriters for their themes and underscore from the highest rated series during calendar year 2021

Todd Haberman

911


Todd Haberman, Justin Caine Burnett

911: Lone Star 

 

Atz Kilcher

Alaska: The Last Frontier 

 

Bleeding Fingers Music

Alaskan Bush People 

Mountain Men 

 

Alexandra Harwood

All Creatures Great and Small 

 

Julian Gingell, Barry Stone

American Idol 

 

Russell Howard, Jude Christodal, Cooper Rich

Below Deck Mediterranean 
Below Deck Sailing Yacht

 

Mark Snow, Jonas Friedman

Blue Bloods 


Josefina Severino, Carmenza Gomez

Café Con Aroma De Mujer 


Hamish Thomson, Matthew Rogers

Chesapeake Shores 

 

David Fleming

Chicago Fire 

 

John Marston

Chicago Med 

 

Claudio Olachea 

Chicago PD 

 

Brad Segal

Chrisley Knows Best 

 

Didier Lean Rachou

Deadliest Catch 

Gold Rush 
Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine
Gold Rush: White Water
Gold Rush: Winter's Fortune

Robert Duncan

Equalizer 


John Marston

FBI


Nathan Whitehead

FBI: Most Wanted 

 

Lorne Balfe, Hans Zimmer

Genius: Aretha 

 

Jeff Cardoni

Ghosts

Young Sheldon

+Jeff goes behind the score of Ghosts


Dan Romer

The Good Doctor 

Superman & Lois 

 

Jack Lenz

Good Witch 

 

Elvin Ross

The Haves and the Have Nots 

 

Andrew Skrabutenas

Impeachment: American Crime Story 

 

James Levine

La Brea 

NCIS: Los Angeles 

 

Gil Novelo, Jorge Tena Martínez Vara, Jorge Jurado, Sergio Jurado

La Desalmada 


Lele Marchitelli

Mare of Easttown 

 

Jason Tarver, Louise Dowd

Married at First Sight 


Jefferson Friedman

New Amsterdam 

Matthew McGaughey

Project Runway 

 

Giorgio Moroder

Queen of the South 

 

Russell Howard

Real Housewives of Orange County 


+Russell Howard offers some sound advice about what makes his Signature Tracks team so successful

Jared Gutstadt, Russell Howard, Matthew McGaughey

Real Housewives of Atlanta

 

+Jared Gutstadt revisits some of his greatest (fictional) scores over the years

 

Russell Howard, Michael Baiardi

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 

 

Russell Howard, Ben Davis

Real Housewives of New York City 

Russell Howard, Jared Gutstadt, Jeff Peters

Real Housewives of Potomac 

 

Peter Chapman

Renovation Island 

 

Brown Bird

Resident Alien 

 

Howard Shore, Lenny Pickett

Saturday Night Live 

 

Bear McCreary

Snowpiercer 

The Walking Dead

 

David Vanacore

Survivor 

 

Siddhartha Khosla

This Is Us 

 

 
 

MAY 5: Main Stream Music - Composing for TV in the Streaming Age

The explosion of streaming television has meant a bounty of new creative opportunities for music creators. Join the ASCAP Experience for a summit with Carter Burwell, Natalie Holt and Siddhartha Khosla, three of our 2022 Screen Awards winners. They’ll detail their processes for scoring some of America’s favorite bingeworthy series, and talk about how the streaming model has impacted the art of scoring.

Watch on demand
ASCAP Experience Main Stream Music session: Siddhartha Khosla, Carter Burwell, Natalie Holt

TOP STREAMING SERIES

Honoring ASCAP composers and songwriters for their themes and underscore from the highest rated series original to select streaming services during calendar year 2021

Lorne Balfe

Dopesick

The Wheel of Time

 

Henry Jackman

Falcon and the Winter Soldier 

 

Bear McCreary

Foundation 

 

Michael Paraskevas

Hawkeye 

 

John Paesano

Invincible 

 

Natalie Holt

Loki 

 

Khari Mateen

Lularich 

 

Este Haim, Christopher Stracey

Maid


Will Blair, Brooke Blair

Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer 

 

Marco Beltrami, Miles Hankins

Nine Perfect Strangers

+Miles Hankins shares how he and Marco Beltrami figured out how to crack the score for Nine Perfect Strangers

 

Siddhartha Khosla

Only Murders in the Building 

 

Cinco Paul, Christopher Willis

Schmigadoon

+Here's a scoring trick that Christopher learned while working on Schmigadoon

 

Jung Jae-Il, 23, Park Min Ju

Squid Game 

 

Carter Burwell

The Morning Show

 

 

TOP BOX OFFICE FILMS

Honoring ASCAP composers and songwriters with music from the top 50 box office films of 2021

Elliot Leung
The Battle at Lake Changjin

Lorne Balfe
Black Widow 

Steve Mazzaro, Hans Zimmer
The Boss Baby: Family Business 

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Candyman 

John Debney
Clifford the Big Red Dog 

Joseph Bishara
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

Hans Zimmer
Dune 
No Time to Die 

Germaine Franco, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Encanto 

Tom Holkenborg
Godzilla vs. Kong
+Tom takes us behind the scenes of his massive score

Cody Carpenter, John Carpenter
Halloween Kills 

Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
The Matrix Resurrections

Benjamin Wallfisch
Mortal Kombat 

Gordy Haab
My Country, My Parents 

Heitor Pereira
Paw Patrol: The Movie

Marco Beltrami
A Quiet Place Part II 
+Hear Marco explain the meaning of the detuned piano in his A Quiet Place Part II score
Venom: Let There Be Carnage 
+Find out how Marco invented a new instrument for Venom II

Joel P. West
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Joby Talbot
Sing 2 

Chris Benstead
Wrath of Man 

 

 

TOP STREAMING FILMS

Honoring the ASCAP composers of new films that were original to select streaming services during calendar year 2021

Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry 

 

Marius de Vries

Coda 

 

Yair Elazar Glotman, Lucy Railton

False Positive


Rupert Gregson-Williams

Fatherhood


John Debney

Home Sweet Home Alone

Marc Canham

I Care a Lot 

 

Dan Romer

Luca

+Watch Dan perform his theme to Luca

 

Lorne Balfe

The Tomorrow War

 

Garth Stevenson
Val

 

Jeremy Turner

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