NEW YORK /MUSEWIRE – Music News/ — 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 this week the nominees for the 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards. 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.

Chosen by the ASCAP composer community, winners will be revealed on May 9 during an exclusive party celebrating the winners of the 2024 ASCAP Screen Music Awards in Los Angeles.

The nominations committee includes composers and film, television and video game industry leaders. Voting is open to eligible ASCAP writer members through March 8 at www.ascap.com/composerschoice.

ASCAP members now have the opportunity to vote in the 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards: a peer-voted honor celebrating your favorite screen music of last year. Find out who’s nominated, listen to their music and support your favorites with a vote. Voting ends March 8, 2024

More information: https://www.ascap.com/composerschoice

Top Film, TV and Video Game Composers Nominated by Peers for 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards.

ASCAP Film Score of the Year

Films released in the US in 2023, whether theatrically or via another medium.

• Moving On – Amanda Jones (listen here)
• Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix (listen on YouTube)
• Society of the Snow – Michael Giacchino (listen on YouTube)
• Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton (listen on YouTube)
• World’s Best – Raashi Kulkarni (listen on Spotify)

ASCAP Documentary Score of the Year

Documentary projects initially airing in the US in 2023

• American Symphony – Jon Batiste (listen on YouTube)
• The Deepest Breath – Nainita Desai (listen on YouTube)
• The Last Repair Shop – Katya Richardson (listen on YouTube)
• The Pigeon Tunnel – Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan (listen on YouTube)
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie – John Powell (listen on YouTube)

ASCAP Television Score of the Year

Episodes originally airing in the US in 2023. This category has 6 nominees due to a tie in the number of nominations.

• Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake – Amanda Jones (listen on YouTube)
• The Last of Us – David Fleming (listen on YouTube)
• Loki – Natalie Holt (listen on YouTube)
• Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla (listen on YouTube)
• The Watchful Eye – René G. Boscio (listen on YouTube)
• Yellowjackets – Anna Waronker (listen on Bandcamp)

ASCAP Television Theme of the Year

Episodes originally airing in the US in 2023

• Loki – Natalie Holt (listen on YouTube)
  
• Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla (listen on YouTube)
• Somebody Somewhere – Amanda Jones (listen here)
• The Watchful Eye – René G. Boscio (listen on YouTube)
• Yellowjackets – Anna Waronker (listen on YouTube)

ASCAP Video Game Score of the Year

Games originally made available to the public in the US in 2023

• Dave the Diver – D’Anthoni Wooten (listen on YouTube)
• God of War: Ragnarök – Valhalla – Bear McCreary (listen on YouTube)
• Mortal Kombat 1 – Wilbert Roget II (listen on YouTube)
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – Gordy Haab (listen on YouTube)
• Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical – Austin Wintory (listen on YouTube)

ABOUT ASCAP:
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a membership association of more than 960,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, and represents some of the world’s most talented music creators. In 2022, ASCAP reported record-high financial results of $1.522 billion in revenues and $1.388 billion available in royalty distribution monies to its members. Over the last eight years, ASCAP has delivered a 6% compound annual growth rate for total revenues, and a 7% compound annual growth rate for total royalty distributions to members. Founded and governed by songwriters and composers, it is the only performing rights organization in the US that operates on a not-for-profit basis. ASCAP licenses a repertory of over 19 million musical works to hundreds of thousands of businesses that use music, including streaming services, cable television, radio and satellite radio and brick and mortar businesses such as retail stores, hotels, clubs, restaurants and bars.

LEARN MORE: https://www.ascap.com/

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