NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) – Honoring the musical storytellers scoring the past year’s top films, television series and video games, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced today the nominees for the 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards. Chosen by the ASCAP composer community, winners will be revealed on May 9 during an exclusive party celebrating the winners of in Los Angeles.
This year’s set of nominees are nominated in the following categories: Film Score of the Year, Documentary Score of the Year, Television Score of the Year, Television Theme of the Year and Video Game Score of the Year.
A first-of-its-kind program among US performing rights organizations, the ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards gives the ASCAP composer community a forum to recognize the artistic accomplishments of their peers. The nominations committee includes composers and leaders of the film, television, and video game industries. Voting is open to eligible ASCAP writer members through March 8 at www.ascap.com/composerschoice.
2024 ASCAP COMPOSERS’ CHOICE NOMINEES
FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR
(Films released in the US in 2023, whether theatrically or via another medium)
Moving On – Amanda Jones
Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix
Society of the Snow – Michael Giacchino
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton
World’s Best – Raashi Kulkarni
DOCUMENTARY SCORE OF THE YEAR
(Documentary films or series released in the US in 2023)
American Symphony – Jon Batiste
The Deepest Breath – Nainita Desai
The Last Repair Shop – Katya Richardson
The Pigeon Tunnel – Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie – John Powell
TELEVISION SCORE OF THE YEAR*
(Episodes originally airing in the US in 2023)
Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake – Amanda Jones
The Last of Us – David Fleming
Loki – Natalie Holt
Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla
The Watchful Eye – René G. Boscio
Yellowjackets – Anna Waronker
TELEVISION THEME OF THE YEAR
(Episodes originally airing in the US in 2023)
Loki – Natalie Holt
Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla
Somebody Somewhere – Amanda Jones
The Watchful Eye – René G. Boscio
Yellowjackets – Anna Waronker
VIDEO GAME SCORE OF THE YEAR
(Games originally released in the US in 2023)
Dave the Diver – D’Anthoni Wooten
God of War: Ragnarök – Valhalla – Bear McCreary
Mortal Kombat 1 – Wilbert Roget II
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – Gordy Haab
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical – Austin Wintory
*Categories with 6 or more nominees reflect a tie in the number of nominations
More information about the 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards, including excerpts of the nominated music, is available at www.ascap.com/composerschoice.
