The World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year (a.k.a. "Film Composer of the Year") is one of the three main prizes given by the World Soundtrack Academy to honour the best movie soundtracks and the people who work on them.[1]
Winners and nominees
[edit]2000s
[edit]2001
[edit]2002
[edit]2003
[edit]2004
[edit]- Gabriel Yared – Cold Mountain
- Harry Gregson-Williams – Shrek 2
- Christian Henson – Les Fils du vent
- Alberto Iglesias – La Mala educación
- Daniel Tarrab & Andrés Goldstein – La Puta y la Ballena
- John Williams – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2005
[edit]2006
[edit]2007
[edit]2008
[edit]2009
[edit]2010s
[edit]2010
[edit]- Alexandre Desplat – Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Ghost Writer, Julie & Julia, and The Twilight Saga: New Moon
- Carter Burwell – The Blind Side, Howl, The Kids Are All Right, A Serious Man, and Where the Wild Things Are
- Danny Elfman – Alice in Wonderland and The Wolfman
- John Powell – Green Zone, How to Train Your Dragon, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Knight and Day
- Hans Zimmer – It's Complicated and Sherlock Holmes
2011
[edit]2012
[edit]- Alberto Iglesias – The Monk, The Skin I Live In, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Alexandre Desplat – A Better Life, Carnage, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Ides of March, Moonrise Kingdom, and Rust and Bone
- Cliff Martinez – Contagion and Drive
- Howard Shore – A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis, and Hugo
- John Williams – The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and War Horse
2013
[edit]- Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
- Alexandre Desplat – Argo, Reality, Renoir, Rise of the Guardians, and Zero Dark Thirty
- Danny Elfman – Epic, Frankenweenie, , , , and
2014
[edit]- Alexandre Desplat – Godzilla, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Marius, The Monuments Men, Philomena, Venus in Fur, and Zulu
- Marco Beltrami – Carrie, A Good Day to Die Hard, The Homesman, Snowpiercer, Warm Bodies, The Wolverine, and World War Z
- Steven Price – Gravity and The World's End
- Gabriel Yared – A Promise, In Secret, The Prophet, and Tom at the Farm
- Hans Zimmer – 12 Years A Slave, The Lone Ranger, Man of Steel, and Rush
2015
[edit]- Michael Giacchino – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Inside Out, Jupiter Ascending, Jurassic World, and Tomorrowland[2][3]
- Bruno Coulais – Diary of a Chambermaid, Fly Away Solo, Gemma Bovery, Mune: Guardian of the Moon, Song of the Sea, and Three Hearts
- Alexandre Desplat – Every Thing Will Be Fine, The Imitation Game, Tale of Tales, and Unbroken
- Jóhann Jóhannsson – The 11th Hour, Sicario, and The Theory of Everything
- Hans Zimmer – Chappie and Interstellar
2016
[edit]2017
[edit]- Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival
- Nicholas Britell – Moonlight
- Justin Hurwitz – La La Land
- Mica Levi – Jackie and Marjorie Prime
- Dustin O'Halloran – Iris (co-composed by Adam Wiltzie) and Lion (co-composed by Hauschka)
2018
[edit]- Jóhann Jóhannsson – Last and First Man, Mandy, Mary Magdalene, and The Mercy
- Carter Burwell – Goodbye Christopher Robin and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Alexandre Desplat – Endangered Species, Isle of Dogs, The Shape of Water, Suburbicon, and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
- Jonny Greenwood – Phantom Thread
- John Williams – The Post and Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2019
[edit]2020s
[edit]2020
[edit]2021
[edit]- Daniel Pemberton – Enola Holmes, Rising Phoenix, and The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Nainita Desai – American Murder: The Family Next Door, Behind Personality Tests, The Reason I Jump, and Persona: The Dark Truth
- James Newton Howard – News of the World and Raya and the Last Dragon
- Emile Mosseri – Kajillionaire and Minari
- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste – Soul
2022
[edit]2023
[edit]- Volker Bertelmann – All Quiet on the Western Front, Memory of Water, and War Sailor
- Carter Burwell – The Banshees of Inisherin, Catherine Called Birdy, and To Catch a Killer
- Alexandre Desplat – Asteroid City, A Cooler Climate, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, The Lost King, and Tirailleurs (Father & Soldier)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir – Tár and Women Talking
- Daniel Pemberton – Amsterdam, Enola Holmes 2, See How They Run, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- John Williams – The Fabelmans and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2024
[edit]- Jerskin Fendrix – Kinds of Kindness and Poor Things
- Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
- Laura Karpman – American Fiction, The Marvels, and Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
- Anthony Willis – Saltburn
- Hans Zimmer – The Creator and Dune: Part Two
2025
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Winners & Nominees". World Soundtrack Awards. October 21, 2024. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- ↑ World Soundtrack Awards (October 24, 2015). "Winners of the 15th World Soundtrack Awards". World Soundtrack Academy. Archived from the original on October 24, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ↑ "World Soundtrack Awards 2015 Nominations Announced". Film Music Reporter. August 18, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ↑ World Soundtrack Awards (October 19, 2016). "Winners of the 16th World Soundtrack Awards". World Soundtrack Academy. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
- ↑ "World Soundtrack Awards Composer of the Year Nominations Announced". Film Music Reporter. August 17, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2016.