Top Filmmakers, Musicians, and Gamers Honored with Peers’ Picks for the 2025 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards: Comprehensive List Unveiled!

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ASCAP has announced the nominees for the 2025 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards. This unique initiative among U.S. performing rights organizations provides a platform for ASCAP composers to honor their fellow artists’ achievements.

The nominations committee comprises composers and leaders from film, television, and video game industries. Voting is open to eligible ASCAP writer members until March 7 at 11:59 p.m. ET on the ASCAP website. The winners will be announced during an exclusive event celebrating the 2025 ASCAP Screen Music Awards in Los Angeles on April 30.

For more information about the 2025 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards, including audio excerpts of nominated music, visit their official website.

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The following ASCAP composers and their works are nominees for the 2025 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards. Categories with six or more nominees indicate ties in voting.

• Film score of the year (Films released in the U.S. in 2024, whether theatrically or via another medium):
  • Challengers – Trent Reznor
  • Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer
  • Inside Out 2 – Andrea Datzman
  • Nosferatu – Robin Carolan
  • Wicked – John Powell & Stephen Schwartz
  • Youth and the Sea – Amelia Warner
• Television score of the year (Episodes originally airing in the U.S. in 2024):
  • Agatha All Along – Michael Paraskevas
  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith – David Fleming
  • Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla
  • Palm Royale – Jeff Toyne
  • Slow Horses – Daniel Pemberton & Toydrum
• Television theme of the year (Episodes originally airing in the U.S. in 2024):
  • Bad Monkey – Jamie Jackson & Waz Franklin – Jay Wadley
  • Nautilus – Nainita Desai
  • Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla
  • Palm Royale – Jeff Toyne
• Documentary score of the year (Documentary films or series released in the U.S. in 2024):
  • Albert Brooks: Defending My Life – Marc Shaiman
  • Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes – Logan Nelson
  • Jim Henson Idea Man – David Fleming
  • Planet Earth III – Sara Barone & Hans Zimmer
  • The Real Red Tails – Stanley A. Smith
  • Will & Harper – Nathan Halpern
• Video game score of the year (Games originally released in the U.S. in 2024):
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Jack Wall
  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – Gordy Haab
  • Helldivers 2 – Wilbert Roget, II
  • Star Wars Outlaws – Wilbert Roget, II, Cody Matthew Johnson, Jon Everist, Kazuma Jinnouchi
  • Tales of Kenzera: Zau – Nainita Desai