Michael Giacchino

American music composer (born 1967)

Michael Giacchino

Giacchino in 2017

Background information
Born|  (1967-10-10) October 10, 1967 (age 57)
Riverside Township, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres|

* Film score
* contemporary classical
* jazz
* rock
* electronic

Occupations|

* Film, television, and video game score
* composer
* director

Instruments|

* Piano
* keyboards
* guitar

Years active| 1994–present

Musical artist

Michael Giacchino (/dʒəˈkiːnoʊ/ jə-KEE-noh,[1] Italian: [dʒakˈkiːno]; born October 10, 1967) is an American film, television, and video game score composer. He has received many accolades for his work, including an Academy Award for Up (2009), an Emmy for Lost (2004), and three Grammy Awards.

Giacchino is known for his collaborations with directors J. J. Abrams, Brad Bird, Matt Reeves, Pete Docter, Colin Trevorrow, Jon Watts, Gareth Edwards, Drew Goddard, J. A. Bayona, The Wachowskis, Taika Waititi, and Thomas Bezucha. His film scores include several films from the Mission: Impossible, Jurassic World, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Trek reboot series, eight Pixar Animation Studios films, multiple Disney films, Rogue One, The Batman, and several other films. He also composed the score for the video game series Medal of Honor and Call of Duty and the television series Alias, Lost, and Fringe.

In 2018, he ventured into directing, and in 2022 directed the Marvel Studios Disney+ special Werewolf by Night.[2]

## Early life

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Giacchino was born in Riverside Township, New Jersey. His father's ancestors were Italians, coming from Sicily, and his mother's ancestors emigrated from Abruzzo (in central Italy). Giacchino grew up in Edgewater Park Township, New Jersey,[3] and graduated from Holy Cross High School in Delran Township, New Jersey in 1986.[4] He holds dual American and Italian citizenship.[5] His brother Anthony Giacchino is a documentary filmmaker.

Giacchino began combining images and music at age 10, when he began creating stop-motion animation with homemade soundtracks in his basement. While in high school, an art teacher who mentored Giacchino recommended to his parents that he attend the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Giacchino describes visiting the school with his parents thus:[6]

> I thought, wow, this is fantastic. They actually have colleges like this? Where I can do the things that I am really interested in doing? That was amazing to me. I loved SVA. I loved the kind of freedom that it provided. It was kind of like this great experiment—okay, you're here because you like something. So let's see how much you like it. We're not going to regulate you too much. We're going to see how passionate and driven you are, and how much you want this thing.[6]

Giacchino enrolled at SVA, majoring in film production and minoring in history. During his final year at SVA, his instructor in film publicity announced an unpaid internship was available at Universal Pictures. Giacchino, who was the only one interested, obtained the six-month position, which he filled at night while attending school during the day and working at Macy's to pay his rent. He graduated from SVA in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, after which he took music classes at the Juilliard School, and then at UCLA.[6][7][8][9]

## Career

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### Video games

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When Giacchino's internship ended, Universal hired him, giving him a job upon graduation from college. He later moved to Disney, and when Disney relocated to Los Angeles, Giacchino moved with them, working in publicity, while taking night classes in instrumentation and orchestration at UCLA. His work for Disney had him interacting with the various personnel who worked in films, such as the producers who hired composers, so when a job at Disney Interactive opened for a producer, Giacchino obtained the job, thinking he could hire himself to write music for the games he produced.[6][7][8]

Giacchino's composition work for Disney Interactive during the 16-bit era included the Sega Genesis games Gargoyles and Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow and the various console versions of The Lion King.[10] However his first major composition was for the DreamWorks video game adaptation of the 1997 movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.[11] The video game was one of the first PlayStation (also on Sega Saturn) console titles to be recorded with an original live orchestral score. Giacchino has since continued his relationship with DreamWorks which also included composing the score for the Small Soldiers video game in 1998, providing full orchestral scores for many of their popular videogames. He also worked with Pandemic studios to create the theme for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. Giacchino's award-winning compositions cover the first four installments of the Medal of Honor series (Medal of Honor, Underground, Allied Assault and Frontline), Heroes: 2, and also the scores for several other World War II-related video games like Secret Weapons Over Normandy, Call of Duty and Call of Duty: Finest Hour.[12] Additionally, Giacchino composed themes for The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer, and co-wrote the theme of Black with composer Chris Tilton.[13] He also composed the score for Alias, which was based on the television series of the same name. In 2008, Giacchino wrote music for Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.[14] In 2007, he returned to the Medal of Honor franchise as he composed the music for Medal of Honor: Airborne.[15]

### Film and television

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Giacchino's work on various video games led to his entrance into television.

In 2001, J. J. Abrams, producer of the television series Alias, discovered Giacchino through his video game work and asked him to provide the new show's soundtrack. The soundtrack featured a mix of full orchestral pieces frequently intermingled with upbeat electronic music, a departure from much of his previous work. Giacchino would go on to provide the score for J. J. Abrams's 2004 television series Lost,[16] creating an acclaimed score which employed a unique process of using spare pieces of a plane fuselage for percussion parts. The score for Lost is also notable for a signature thematic motif: a brass fall-off at the end of certain themes.[17] Just like his counterpart, Stu Phillips, he worked with the television show creator Abrams on his shows with his music scores while Abrams supplied the show's main themes on certain series such as Alias.

In 2004, Giacchino received his first big feature film commission. Brad Bird, director of Pixar's The Incredibles, asked Giacchino to provide the soundtrack for the film after having heard his work on Alias.[18] The upbeat jazz orchestral sound was a departure in style not only for Giacchino but for Pixar, which had previously relied on Randy and Thomas Newman for all of its films. Director Brad Bird had originally sought out John Barry – perhaps best known for his work on the early James Bond films—but Barry was reportedly afraid to repeat the styles of his earlier works.[19]

Giacchino was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2005 for The Incredibles: Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media and Best Instrumental Composition.[20]

Like his other counterparts, Joel McNeely, J. A. C. Redford and Frank DeVol, Giacchino mostly associated with Disney from early in his career up to most recently, ranging from video games such as Mickey Mania and Gargoyles to films such as The Incredibles and eventually collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering in creating two new soundtracks for the updated versions of Space Mountain at Disneyland, Space Mountain: Mission 2 at Disneyland Paris, and Space Mountain at Hong Kong Disneyland.[21]

Giacchino also composed scores for the 2005 films Sky High and The Family Stone, and the television movie The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. Additionally, he wrote the music for Joseph Barbera's final theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoon The Karate Guard, and scored the Abrams-directed 2006 film Mission: Impossible III.[22] Giacchino's next musical achievement was his Paris-inspired score for the Disney-Pixar film Ratatouille, which includes the theme song "Le Festin", performed by French artist Camille. He received his first Academy Award nomination for this score. He also created the score for Abrams' 2009 Star Trek film.

Giacchino scored the Pixar film Up (and its accompanying animated short Partly Cloudy), for which he collaborated with director Pete Docter. This marked the first time Giacchino worked with a Pixar director other than Brad Bird. This work gained Giacchino his first Academy Award for Best Original Score: the first-ever win for Pixar in that category. Giacchino notes that he won on the same night as his SVA classmate Joel Harlow won the Best Makeup Oscar for Star Trek.[6]

Giacchino has continued his collaboration with J. J. Abrams. For the Abrams-produced monster film Cloverfield, Giacchino wrote an homage to Japanese monster scores in an overture titled "ROAR!", which played over the credits, and constituted the only original music for the film. He composed the score for J. J. Abrams' feature Super 8 in 2011. He also composed for the pilot of the Abrams-produced American television series Fringe, after which Giacchino gave scoring duties to his assistant Chad Seiter, who scored the first half of season one. The task was then passed on to Chris Tilton, who scored the latter half of season one and all subsequent seasons.

In 2016, Giacchino composed the score for the Marvel film Doctor Strange, as well as the score for the Disney film Zootopia. Giacchino also composed the fanfare for the new Marvel Studios logo, which debuted with Doctor Strange.[23] In September 2016, it was announced that Giacchino had been chosen to replace composer Alexandre Desplat as the composer for the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One after Desplat was unavailable following reshoots.[24] Giacchino then scored four more Marvel films: 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming, 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home, 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home, and 2022's Thor: Love and Thunder.[25][26]

Giacchino returned to Pixar to score Coco (2017) and Incredibles 2 (2018).[27] He also composed the score for Taika Waititi's 2019 film Jojo Rabbit. In 2022, Giacchino composed the score for The Batman, and the score for the Pixar film Lightyear.[28]

In 2018, Giacchino wrote, directed, and scored Monster Challenge.[29] The short film is a satirical take on Japanese game shows, starring Patton Oswalt, Ben Schwartz, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Brenneman, Benedict Wong, Tom Everett Scott, Taishi Mizuno, Ann Madox, and Teruko Nakajima. Monster Challenge originally premiered at Fantastic Fest in 2018 and premiered on YouTube on March 20, 2020.[30] He continued with his directorial efforts with a Star Trek: Short Treks episode "Ephraim and Dot" in 2019.

On March 7, 2022, Variety reported that Giacchino was directing an upcoming as-of-yet untitled Marvel Studios television project for Disney+.[31] Four days later, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that he would be directing Werewolf by Night, which was released on October 7, 2022.[2]

### Additional compositions

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In addition to his long list of soundtracks, in 2005 Giacchino collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering in creating two new soundtracks for the updated versions of Space Mountain at Disneyland, Space Mountain: Mission 2 at Disneyland Paris, and Space Mountain at Hong Kong Disneyland.[21] Giacchino was also contracted by Sarah Vowell, who played character Violet in The Incredibles, to compose the score to the audio version of her book Assassination Vacation. Michael Giacchino's music can also be heard in "Star Tours: The Adventure Continues" during the "travel log videos" shown in the queue for both the Disneyland and Walt Disney World versions of the attraction.

In 2009, he was asked to conduct the Academy Awards orchestra for the 81st Academy Awards. For this project he rearranged many famous movie themes in different styles, including a 1930s Big Band treatment of Lawrence of Arabia and a bossa nova of Moon River. Giacchino also composed the fanfare for the 100th Anniversary logo of Paramount Pictures, which debuted with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on December 7, 2011, at the Dubai International Film Festival, which it carried onto the logos of Paramount's other divisions, as well as the new fanfare for Marvel Studios, which debuted alongside its logo with Doctor Strange on October 13, 2016, in Hong Kong, in which he also composed an arrangement of the theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon series, in Spider-Man: Homecoming, replacing his work on the fanfare of the Marvel Studios logo for that film, and he rearranged the fanfare in Thor: Love and Thunder to make a more rock style, and Werewolf by Night, in which he directed the special. On top of that, he also composed the fanfare for the Marvel Studios Special Presentation and Marvel Spotlight logos, which debuted in Werewolf by Night and Echo, respectively.

### Acting

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In 2015, Giacchino played an It's a Small World operator in the film Tomorrowland, which he scored.[32] Additionally, the same year, he played First Order Stormtrooper FN-3181 in J. J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens.[33] He reprised the role in the 2018 animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet.[34] In 2019, he cameoed as a Sith trooper in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, also directed by Abrams.[35]

### Directing

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Giacchino grew up with an immense love for filmmaking, often spending time making short films in his youth. He made his professional directorial debut in 2019 with an episode of Star Trek: Short Treks during its second season. In 2020, Giacchino directed in his own short film, Monster Challenge, starring Patton Oswalt. In 2022, Giacchino directed and scored the Marvel Studios Halloween special Werewolf by Night to critical acclaim. In January 2023, it was announced that Giacchino would make his feature directorial debut with a remake of Them! for Warner Bros. Pictures. He is expected to score the film as well.[36]

## Style

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Giacchino is noted for using humorous titles filled with puns on his soundtrack albums.[37][38] Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Jurassic World in particular had many ape- and dinosaur-related double entendres such as "Gorilla Warfare" and "Raptor Your Heart Out".[39] Many of those have references to previous works of his, both in style and naming. Giacchino used themes from the track "U-Boat" from the Medal of Honor soundtrack in the tracks "Sawyer Jones and the Temple of Boom" and "Sub-Primed" from the 5th and 6th season Lost soundtracks as the submarine motif. In terms of naming, the score for The Incredibles contains a piece named "100 Mile Dash", and subsequently Ratatouille had "100 Rat Dash", Up had "Three Dog Dash", and Coco had "Shrine and Dash". Another series of examples: "World's Worst Beach Party" from the first Lost album, "World's Worst Last 4 Minutes To Live" from the Mission: Impossible III soundtrack, "Galaxy's Worst Sushi Bar" from Star Trek (2010 deluxe release), "World's Worst Landscaping" from the second Lost album, "World's Worst Car Wash" from the soundtrack album Lost: The Final Season, and "World's Worst Field Trip" from the soundtrack of Super 8. The soundtrack for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol also has a track titled "World's Worst Parking Valet", and the score for Zootopia contains a track titled "World's Worst Animal Shelter" as well as the score for Incredibles 2 including a track called "World's Worst Babysitters". Inversely, the score for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction has a track titled "World's Best Carpool Lane"; the Speed Racer score has tracks titled "World's Best Autopia" and "World's Worst Road Rage"; the soundtrack for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has a track titled "World's Worst Bedtime Storyteller"; the soundtrack for Tomorrowland has a track titled "World's Worst Shop Keepers"; the Doctor Strange score has a track titled "Astral World's Worst Killer"; the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story score has an alternate title for "Cargo Shuttle SW-0608" which is "World's Worst Vacation Destination"; the Spider-Man: Far From Home score has a track titled "World's Worst Water Feature"; the Spider-Man: No Way Home score has a track titled "World's Worst Friendly Neighbor"; The Batman score has a track entitled "World's Worst Translator"; the Lightyear score has a track entitled "World's Worst Self-Destruct Sequence".

Notably - this tradition of pun names was omitted from the soundtrack of Society of the Snow, likely out of respect for the victims of the disaster.

## Discography

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Main article: Michael Giacchino discography

## Filmography

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"Oceanic 815" from Lost (2005)

Sample of brass fall-off from the first season finale of Lost.

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### Television (as director)

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Title | Year | Notes

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Monster Challenge | 2018 | Short film
Star Trek: Short Treks | 2019 | Episode: "Ephraim and Dot"
Werewolf by Night | 2022 | Disney+ television special
also composer

## Awards and nominations

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Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Michael Giacchino

## Personal life

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He has a son named Mick Giacchino [d], who is also a composer.[40]

## See also

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* Music of Lost
* Music of Star Wars
* Music of Star Trek
* Music of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
* Music of Batman

## References

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1. ^ "Composer Michael Giacchino on Star Trek (2009) at the Hollywood Bowl" on YouTube
2. ^ a b Kit, Borys (March 11, 2022). "Composer Michael Giacchino to Direct Marvel's Halloween Special". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 11, 2022. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
3. ^ Burlingame, Jon. "Michael Giacchino's Mission: Make the Old Music New", The New York Times, May 7, 2006. Accessed February 3, 2013. "The backyard for Mr. Giacchino, 38, was in Edgewater Park, N.J., where he grew up watching—and listening to—Hanna-Barbera cartoons, The A-Team and reruns of The Dick Van Dyke Show."
4. ^ Longsdorf, Amy (February 24, 2008). "Success sounds great for Giacchino". Courier-Post. p. 13SJL. Retrieved April 8, 2025 – via Newspapers.com. "Giacchino, a graduate of Holy Cross High School (Class of '86), was scoring video games when Abrams gave him his first big break writing the music for TV's Alias and Lost."
5. ^ "Oscar winners thank Italy – News in English". ANSA.it. Retrieved on August 21, 2011.
6. ^ a b c d e Lincourt, Carrie. "Q + A". Visual Arts Journal. Volume 19, Number 1. Spring 2011. School of Visual Arts. Pages 46–49.
7. ^ a b Burlingame, Jon (May 7, 2006). "Michael Giacchino's Mission: Make the Old Music New". The New York Times. Accessed November 27, 2007. "The backyard for Mr. Giacchino, 38, was in Edgewater Park, N.J., where he grew up watching – and listening to – Hanna-Barbera cartoons, The A-Team and reruns of The Dick Van Dyke Show. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York, but, as music became his main interest, he took classes at Juilliard and, later, film-music extension courses at UCLA"
8. ^ a b "Michael Giacchino – Scoring for Primetime: ABC's Alias" Archived May 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. Mackie.com. Retrieved on April 14, 2011.
9. ^ "Biography". Michael Giacchino. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
10. ^ "Michael Giacchino". MobyGames. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
11. ^ "Michael Giacchino.com -Biography". Archived from the original on March 20, 2008.
12. ^ "Michael Giacchino.com – Works". Archived from the original on March 30, 2008.
13. ^ Chris Tilton.com – Black Archived August 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
14. ^ Michael Giacchino to Score Turning Point: Fall of Liberty Archived July 20, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. News.teamxbox.com (June 26, 2007). Retrieved on August 21, 2011.
15. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (July 10, 2007). "Michael Giacchino scores Medal of Honor: Airborne". Retrieved May 10, 2009.
16. ^ Lost Soundtrack. Amazon. Retrieved on August 21, 2011.
17. ^ The Log Book – Lost Archived March 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
18. ^ "Maintenance". Cinemusic.
19. ^ Message Boards: The Incredibles!. Moviemusic.com. Retrieved on August 21, 2011.
20. ^ Grammy Nominations 2005 – PDF Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
21. ^ a b Space Mountain. Allearsnet.com (May 27, 1977). Retrieved on August 21, 2011.
22. ^ M:I – Iii. CDUniverse (May 9, 2006). Retrieved on August 21, 2011.
23. ^ Goldberg, Matt (July 24, 2016). "Watch: Marvel Studios Debuts New Logo with Fanfare by Michael Giacchino". Collider. Archived from the original on July 25, 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
24. ^ "'Star Wars: Rogue One' Replaces Its Composer (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. September 15, 2016.
25. ^ "'Spider-Man: Homecoming' to Be Scored by Michael Giacchino". hollywoodreporter.com. November 6, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
26. ^ "'Thor: Love and Thunder': Michael Giacchino Set to Compose Score". Collider. December 9, 2021. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
27. ^ "Incredibles 2: Brad Bird Confirms Michael Giacchino Back As Composer". ComicBook.com. October 29, 2015.
28. ^ Crossan, Ash (June 16, 2022). "Michael Giacchino Interview: Lightyear". Screen Rant. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
29. ^ "Monster Challenge Archives". Michael Giacchino. May 12, 2020. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
30. ^ Monster Challenge, March 20, 2020, archived from the original on December 12, 2021, retrieved June 1, 2020
31. ^ "The Music of 'The Batman': How Michael Giacchino Used Dread and Darkness to Score the Box Office Smash". Variety. March 7, 2022.
32. ^ "Tomorrowland: Press Kit" (PDF). The Walt Disney Studios. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 11, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
33. ^ Sciretta, Peter (December 18, 2015). "'Force Awakens' Cameos Revealed: Michael Giacchino, Daniel Craig, and Radiohead's Nigel Godrich". /Film. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
34. ^ "Ralph Breaks the Internet" (PDF). The Walt Disney Company. Disney Enterprises, Inc. 2018\. p. 33. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
35. ^ Fiduccia, Christopher (June 29, 2020). "Star Wars Composer's Secret Rise of Skywalker Sith Trooper Cameo Revealed". Screen Rant. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
36. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (January 4, 2023). "Michael Giacchino To Make Feature Directorial Debut With Fresh Take On 'Them!' At Warner Bros". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
37. ^ Allison (July 24, 2014). "Michael Giacchino's Strange, Pun-Filled Movie Scores". Archived from the original on January 5, 2016.
38. ^ "Composer Michael Giacchino on Star Trek puns and the wrath of Trekkers".
39. ^ Kroll, Laura (June 1, 2015). "The Many Prehistoric Puns on Michael Giacchino's Jurassic World Soundtrack Are Dino-myte". Bradley. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
40. ^ Giacchino, Michael (February 3, 2022). "Actually, I write the themes along with my SON @MickGiacchino and HE wrote the full score". Twitter. Retrieved April 9, 2023.

## External links

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* Official website
* Michael Giacchino at IMDb
* Michael Giacchino discography at Discogs
* Michael Giacchino's score for Secret Weapons Over Normandy
* SoundtrackNet Interview with Michael Giacchino
* Alan Sepinwall interview with Michael Giacchino on composing for LOST

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Michael Giacchino

* Discography
* Awards and nominations

Soundtracks|

* The Incredibles (2004)
* Mission: Impossible III (2006)
* Ratatouille (2007)
* Star Trek (2009)
* Up (2009)
* Let Me In (2010)
* Cars 2 (2011)
* Super 8 (2011)
* Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
* John Carter (2012)
* Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
* Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
* Tomorrowland (2015)
* Jurassic World (2015)
* Inside Out (2015)
* Zootopia (2016)
* Star Trek Beyond (2016)
* Doctor Strange (2016)
* Rogue One (2016)
* Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
* War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
* Coco (2017)
* Incredibles 2 (2018)
* Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
* Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
* Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
* Jojo Rabbit (2019)
* Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
* The Batman (2022)
* Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
* Lightyear (2022)
* Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
* Werewolf by Night (2022)
* Society of the Snow (2023)

Works directed|

* Star Trek: Short Treks (episode: "Ephraim and Dot")
* Werewolf by Night

See also|

* Music of Lost
* Music of Star Trek
* Music of Star Wars
* Music of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
* Batman music
* Up opening sequence

Awards for Michael Giacchino

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* e

Academy Award for Best Original Score

1930s|

* Louis Silvers (1934)
* Max Steiner (1935)
* Leo F. Forbstein (1936)
* Charles Previn (1937)
* Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Alfred Newman (1938)
* Herbert Stothart / Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken (1939)

1940s|

* Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and Ned Washington / Alfred Newman (1940)
* Bernard Herrmann / Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace (1941)
* Max Steiner / Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld (1942)
* Alfred Newman / Ray Heindorf (1943)
* Max Steiner / Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon (1944)
* Miklos Rozsa / Georgie Stoll (1945)
* Hugo Friedhofer / Morris Stoloff (1946)
* Miklos Rozsa / Alfred Newman (1947)
* Brian Easdale / Johnny Green and Roger Edens (1948)
* Aaron Copland / Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton (1949)

1950s|

* Franz Waxman / Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens (1950)
* Franz Waxman / Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin (1951)
* Dimitri Tiomkin / Alfred Newman (1952)
* Bronislau Kaper / Alfred Newman (1953)
* Dimitri Tiomkin / Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin (1954)
* Alfred Newman / Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch (1955)
* Victor Young / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1956)
* Malcolm Arnold (1957)
* Dimitri Tiomkin / Andre Previn (1958)
* Miklos Rozsa / Andre Previn and Ken Darby (1959)

1960s|

* Ernest Gold / Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman (1960)
* Henry Mancini / Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal (1961)
* Maurice Jarre / Ray Heindorf (1962)
* John Addison / Andre Previn (1963)
* Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman / Andre Previn (1964)
* Maurice Jarre / Irwin Kostal (1965)
* John Barry / Ken Thorne (1966)
* Elmer Bernstein / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1967)
* John Barry / Johnny Green (1968)
* Burt Bacharach / Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman (1969)

1970s|

* Francis Lai / The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) (1970)
* Michel Legrand / John Williams (1971)
* Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell / Ralph Burns (1972)
* Marvin Hamlisch / Marvin Hamlisch (1973)
* Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola / Nelson Riddle (1974)
* John Williams / Leonard Rosenman (1975)
* Jerry Goldsmith / Leonard Rosenman (1976)
* John Williams / Jonathan Tunick (1977)
* Giorgio Moroder / Joe Renzetti (1978)
* Georges Delerue / Ralph Burns (1979)

1980s|

* Michael Gore (1980)
* Vangelis (1981)
* John Williams / Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse (1982)
* Bill Conti / Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1983)
* Maurice Jarre / Prince (1984)
* John Barry (1985)
* Herbie Hancock (1986)
* Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su (1987)
* Dave Grusin (1988)
* Alan Menken (1989)

1990s|

* John Barry (1990)
* Alan Menken (1991)
* Alan Menken (1992)
* John Williams (1993)
* Hans Zimmer (1994)
* Luis Bacalov / Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (1995)
* Gabriel Yared / Rachel Portman (1996)
* James Horner / Anne Dudley (1997)
* Nicola Piovani / Stephen Warbeck (1998)
* John Corigliano (1999)

2000s|

* Tan Dun (2000)
* Howard Shore (2001)
* Elliot Goldenthal (2002)
* Howard Shore (2003)
* Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (2004)
* Gustavo Santaolalla (2005)
* Gustavo Santaolalla (2006)
* Dario Marianelli (2007)
* A. R. Rahman (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)

2010s|

* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010)
* Ludovic Bource (2011)
* Mychael Danna (2012)
* Steven Price (2013)
* Alexandre Desplat (2014)
* Ennio Morricone (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Alexandre Desplat (2017)
* Ludwig Göransson (2018)
* Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)

2020s|

* Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020)
* Hans Zimmer (2021)
* Volker Bertelmann (2022)
* Ludwig Göransson (2023)
* Daniel Blumberg (2024)

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* t
* e

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production

* Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (1995)
* Randy Newman (1996)
* Randy Newman (1997)
* Matthew Wilder, David Zippel and Jerry Goldsmith (1998)
* Michael Kamen (1999)
* Randy Newman (2000)
* John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams (2001)
* Joe Hisaishi (2002)
* Thomas Newman (2003)
* Michael Giacchino (2004)
* Julian Nott (2005)
* Randy Newman (2006)
* Michael Giacchino (2007)
* Hans Zimmer and John Powell (2008)
* Bruno Coulais (2009)
* John Powell (2010)
* John Williams (2011)
* Henry Jackman, Skrillex, Adam Young, Matthew Thiessen, Jamie Houston and Yasushi Akimoto (2012)
* Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez and Christophe Beck (2013)
* John Powell and Jónsi (2014)
* Michael Giacchino (2015)
* Hans Zimmer, Richard Harvey, and Camille (2016)
* Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Germaine Franco, Adrian Molina and Michael Giacchino (2017)
* Michael Giacchino (2018)
* Dan Levy (2019)
* Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020)
* Germaine Franco and Lin-Manuel Miranda (2021)
* Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale (2022)
* Daniel Pemberton and Metro Boomin (2023)
* Kris Bowers (2024)

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Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

* Alf Clausen (1997)
* Alf Clausen and Ken Keeler (1998)
* Randy Rogel (1999)
* Alf Clausen (2000)
* Thomas Chase, Steve Rucker and James L. Venable (2001)
* James L. Venable (2002)
* Alf Clausen, Ian Maxtone-Graham and Ken Keeler (2003)
* Robert J. Kral (2004)
* James L. Venable and Jennifer Kes Remington (2005)
* James L. Venable and Jennifer Kes Remington (2006)
* Alf Clausen and Michael Price (2007)
* Henry Jackman, Hans Zimmer and John Powell (2008)
* Guy Moon (2009)
* Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, Nick Carr and Tuck Tucker (2010)
* Grace Potter and Michael Giacchino (2011)
* John Paesano (2012)
* Christopher Willis (2013)
* Christopher Willis (2014)
* Christopher Willis (2015)
* Scot Stafford, Alexis Harte and JJ Wiesler (2016)
* Christopher Willis (2017)
* Christopher Willis (2018)
* Rob Cairns (2019)
* Kevin Kiner (2020)
* Tim Davies and Gustavo Santaolalla (2021)
* Ego Plum, Dave Wasson and Cosmo Segurson (2022)
* Markus Wormstorm, Nadia Darries and Dineo du Toit (2023)
* Ryan Jillian Santiago, Alexander Seaver and Simon Wilcox (2024)

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BAFTA Award for Best Original Music

1968–2000|

* John Barry (1968)
* Mikis Theodorakis (1969)
* Burt Bacharach (1970)
* Michel Legrand (1971)
* Nino Rota (1972)
* Alan Price (1973)
* Richard Rodney Bennett (1974)
* John Williams (1975)
* Bernard Herrmann (1976)
* John Addison (1977)
* John Williams (1978)
* Ennio Morricone (1979)
* John Williams (1980)
* Carl Davis (1981)
* John Williams (1982)
* Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983)
* Ennio Morricone (1984)
* Maurice Jarre (1985)
* Ennio Morricone (1986)
* Ennio Morricone (1987)
* John Williams (1988)
* Maurice Jarre (1989)
* Andrea and Ennio Morricone (1990)
* Jean-Claude Petit (1991)
* David Hirschfelder (1992)
* John Williams (1993)
* Don Was (1994)
* Luis Bacalov (1995)
* Gabriel Yared (1996)
* Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong, and Marius de Vries (1997)
* David Hirschfelder (1998)
* Thomas Newman (1999)
* Tan Dun (2000)

2001–present|

* Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries (2001)
* Philip Glass (2002)
* T Bone Burnett and Gabriel Yared (2003)
* Gustavo Santaolalla (2004)
* John Williams (2005)
* Gustavo Santaolalla (2006)
* Christopher Gunning (2007)
* A. R. Rahman (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)
* Alexandre Desplat (2010)
* Ludovic Bource (2011)
* Thomas Newman (2012)
* Steven Price (2013)
* Alexandre Desplat (2014)
* Ennio Morricone (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Alexandre Desplat (2017)
* Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, and Lukas Nelson (2018)
* Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)
* Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross (2020)
* Hans Zimmer (2021)
* Volker Bertelmann (2022)
* Ludwig Göransson (2023)
* Daniel Blumberg (2024)

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Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score

1990s|

* Michael Nyman (1993)
* Randy Newman (1994)
* Hans Zimmer (1995)
* Carter Burwell (1996)
* James Horner (1997)
* Burkhard Dallwitz (1998)
* Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman (1999)

2000s|

* Tan Dun (2000)
* Howard Shore (2001)
* Elmer Bernstein (2002)
* Howard Shore (2003)
* Howard Shore (2004)
* Gustavo Santaolalla (2005)
* Clint Mansell (2006)
* Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (2007)
* Thomas Newman (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)

2010s|

* Clint Mansell (2010)
* Cliff Martinez (2011)
* Jonny Greenwood (2012)
* Arcade Fire (2013)
* Micachu (2014)
* Ennio Morricone (2015)
* Micachu (2016)
* Jonny Greenwood (2017)
* Nicholas Britell (2018)
* Alexandre Desplat (2019)

2020s|

* Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste (2020)
* Jonny Greenwood (2021)
* Justin Hurwitz (2022)
* Robbie Robertson (2023)
* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2024)

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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score

* John Williams (1998)
* Gabriel Yared (1999)
* Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer (2000)
* Howard Shore (2001)
* John Williams (2002)
* Howard Shore (2003)
* Howard Shore (2004)
* John Williams (2005)
* Philip Glass (2006)
* Jonny Greenwood (2007)
* A. R. Rahman (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)
* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010)
* Ludovic Bource (2011)
* John Williams (2012)
* Steven Price (2013)
* Antonio Sánchez (2014)
* Ennio Morricone (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Alexandre Desplat (2017)
* Justin Hurwitz (2018)
* Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)
* Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020)
* Hans Zimmer (2021)
* Hildur Guðnadóttir (2022)
* Ludwig Göransson (2023)
* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2024)

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)

* Laurence Rosenthal (1966)
* No Award (1967)
* Earle Hagen (1968)
* John Williams (1969)
* Morton Stevens (1970)
* David Rose (1971)
* Pete Rugolo (1972)
* Charles Fox (1973)
* Morton Stevens (1974)
* Billy Goldenberg (1975)
* Alex North (1976)
* Quincy Jones and Gerald Fried (1977)
* Billy Goldenberg (1978)
* David Rose (1979)
* Patrick Williams (1980)
* Bruce Broughton (1981)
* David Rose (1982)
* Bruce Broughton (1983)
* Bruce Broughton (1984)
* John Addison (1985)
* Arthur B. Rubinstein (1986)
* Joel Rosenbaum (1987)
* Lee Holdridge (1988)
* Joel Rosenbaum (1989)
* Don Davis (1990)
* John Debney (1991)
* Bruce Babcock (1992)
* Joel McNeely (1993)
* Laurence Rosenthal (1994)
* Don Davis (1995)
* Hummie Mann (1996)
* John Debney and Louis Febre (1997)
* Christophe Beck (1998)
* Carl Johnson (1999)
* Joseph LoDuca (2000)
* Jay Chattaway (2001)
* George Fenton (2002)
* Sean Callery (2003)
* Velton Ray Bunch (2004)
* Michael Giacchino (2005)
* Sean Callery (2006)
* George Fenton (2007)
* James Dooley (2008)
* Joseph LoDuca (2009)
* Sean Callery (2010)
* Garth Neustadter (2011)
* John Lunn (2012)
* John Lunn (2013)
* Alan Silvestri (2014)
* Jeff Beal (2015)
* Mac Quayle (2016)
* Jeff Beal (2017)
* Ramin Djawadi (2018)
* Ramin Djawadi (2019)
* Ludwig Göransson (2020)
* Ludwig Göransson (2021)
* Theodore Shapiro (2022)
* Cristobal Tapia de Veer (2023)
* Siddhartha Khosla (2024)

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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

1940s|

* Life with Father – Max Steiner (1947)
* The Red Shoes – Brian Easdale (1948)
* The Inspector General – Johnny Green (1949)

1950s|

* Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman (1950)
* September Affair – Victor Young (1951)
* High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin (1952)
* On the Beach – Ernest Gold (1959)

1960s|

* The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin (1960)
* The Guns of Navarone – Dimitri Tiomkin (1961)
* To Kill a Mockingbird – Elmer Bernstein (1962)
* (1963)
* The Fall of the Roman Empire – Dimitri Tiomkin (1964)
* Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre (1965)
* Hawaii – Elmer Bernstein (1966)
* Camelot – Frederick Loewe (1967)
* The Shoes of the Fisherman – Alex North (1968)
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach (1969)

1970s|

* Love Story – Francis Lai (1970)
* Shaft – Isaac Hayes (1971)
* The Godfather – Nino Rota (1972)
* Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Neil Diamond (1973)
* The Little Prince – Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (1974)
* Jaws – John Williams (1975)
* A Star is Born – Kenneth Ascher and Paul Williams (1976)
* Star Wars – John Williams (1977)
* Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder (1978)
* Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola (1979)

1980s|

* The Stunt Man – Dominic Frontiere (1980)
* No Award (1981)
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – John Williams (1982)
* Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder (1983)
* A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre (1984)
* Out of Africa – John Barry (1985)
* The Mission – Ennio Morricone (1986)
* The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su (1987)
* Gorillas in the Mist – Maurice Jarre (1988)
* The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken (1989)

1990s|

* The Sheltering Sky – Richard Horowitz and Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990)
* Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken (1991)
* Aladdin – Alan Menken (1992)
* Heaven & Earth – Kitarō (1993)
* The Lion King – Hans Zimmer (1994)
* A Walk in the Clouds – Maurice Jarre (1995)
* The English Patient – Gabriel Yared (1996)
* Titanic – James Horner (1997)
* The Truman Show – Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass (1998)
* The Legend of 1900 – Ennio Morricone (1999)

2000s|

* Gladiator – Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer (2000)
* Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong (2001)
* Frida – Elliot Goldenthal (2002)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore (2003)
* The Aviator – Howard Shore (2004)
* Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams (2005)
* The Painted Veil – Alexandre Desplat (2006)
* Atonement – Dario Marianelli (2007)
* Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (2008)
* Up – Michael Giacchino (2009)

2010s|

* The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010)
* The Artist – Ludovic Bource (2011)
* Life of Pi – Mychael Danna (2012)
* All Is Lost – Alex Ebert (2013)
* The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson (2014)
* The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone (2015)
* La La Land – Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat (2017)
* First Man – Justin Hurwitz (2018)
* Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)

2020s|

* Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste (2020)
* Dune – Hans Zimmer (2021)
* Babylon – Justin Hurwitz (2022)
* Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson (2023)
* Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2024)

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Goya Award for Best Original Score

* 1986: Milladoiro
* 1987: José Nieto
* 1988: Carmelo Bernaola
* 1989: Paco de Lucía
* 1990: José Nieto
* 1991: José Nieto
* 1992: José Nieto
* 1993: Alberto Iglesias
* 1994: José Nieto
* 1995: Bernardo Bonezzi
* 1996: Alberto Iglesias
* 1997: Eva Gancedo
* 1998: Alberto Iglesias
* 1999: Alberto Iglesias
* 2000: José Nieto
* 2001: Alberto Iglesias
* 2002: Alberto Iglesias
* 2003: Juan Bardem
* 2004: Alejandro Amenábar
* 2005: Juan Antonio Leyva, José Luis Garrido, X-Alfonso, Descemer Bueno, Dayán Abad, Kiki Ferrer, Kelvis Ochoa, Magda Rosa Galván
* 2006: Alberto Iglesias
* 2007: Roque Baños
* 2008: Roque Baños
* 2009: Alberto Iglesias
* 2010: Alberto Iglesias
* 2011: Alberto Iglesias
* 2012: Alfonso Vilallonga
* 2013: Pat Metheny
* 2014: Julio de la Rosa
* 2015: Lucas Vidal
* 2016: Fernando Velázquez
* 2017: Pascal Gaigne
* 2018: Olivier Arson
* 2019: Alberto Iglesias
* 2020: Maite Arroitajauregi and Aránzazu Calleja
* 2021: Zeltia Montes
* 2022: Olivier Arson
* 2023: Michael Giacchino
* 2024: Alberto Iglesias

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Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

1950s|

* Anatomy of a Murder – Duke Ellington (1959)

1960s|

* Exodus – Ernest Gold (1961)
* Breakfast at Tiffany's – Henry Mancini (1962)
* Tom Jones – John Addison (1964)
* Mary Poppins – Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman (1965)
* The Sandpiper – Johnny Mandel (1966)
* Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre (1967)
* Music from Mission: Impossible – Lalo Schifrin (1968)
* The Graduate – Dave Grusin & Paul Simon (1969)

1970s|

* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach (1970)
* Let It Be – The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr) (1971)
* Shaft – Isaac Hayes (1972)
* The Godfather – Nino Rota (1973)
* Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Neil Diamond (1974)
* The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording – Alan and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch (1975)
* Jaws – John Williams (1976)
* Car Wash – Norman Whitfield (1977)
* Star Wars – John Williams (1978)
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind – John Williams (1979)

1980s|

* Superman – John Williams (1980)
* The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams (1981)
* Raiders of the Lost Ark – John Williams (1982)
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – John Williams (1983)
* Flashdance – Michael Boddicker, Irene Cara, Kim Carnes, Doug Cotler, Keith Forsey, Richard Gilbert, Jerry Hey, Duane Hitchings, Craig Krampf, Ronald Magness, Dennis Matkosky, Giorgio Moroder, Phil Ramone, Michael Sembello & Shandi Sinnamon (1984)
* Purple Rain – Prince and the Revolution (1985)
* Beverly Hills Cop – Marc Benno, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey, Micki Free, John Gilutin Hawk, Howard Hewett, Bunny Hull, Howie Rice, Sharon Robinson, Danny Sembello, Sue Sheridan, Richard Theisen & Allee Willis (1986)
* Out of Africa – John Barry (1987)
* The Untouchables – Ennio Morricone (1988)
* The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Cong Su & Ryuichi Sakamoto (1989)

1990s|

* The Fabulous Baker Boys – Dave Grusin (1990)
* Glory – James Horner (1991)
* Dances with Wolves – John Barry (1992)
* Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken (1993)
* Aladdin – Alan Menken (1994)
* Schindler's List – John Williams (1995)
* Crimson Tide – Hans Zimmer (1996)
* Independence Day – David Arnold (1997)
* The English Patient – Gabriel Yared (1998)
* Saving Private Ryan – John Williams (1999)

2000s|

* A Bug's Life – Randy Newman (2000)
* American Beauty – Thomas Newman (2001)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Tan Dun (2002)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Howard Shore & John Kurlander (engineer/mixer) (2003)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Howard Shore, John Kurlander (engineer/mixer) & Peter Cobbin (engineer/mixer) (2004)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore, John Kurlander (engineer/mixer) & Peter Cobbin (engineer/mixer) (2005)
* Ray – Craig Armstrong (2006)
* Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams (2007)
* Ratatouille – Michael Giacchino (2008)
* The Dark Knight – Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard (2009)

2010s|

* Up – Michael Giacchino (2010)
* Toy Story 3 – Randy Newman (2011)
* The King's Speech – Alexandre Desplat (2012)
* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (2013)
* Skyfall – Thomas Newman (2014)
* The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat (2015)
* Birdman – Antonio Sánchez (2016)
* Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams (2017)
* La La Land – Justin Hurwitz (2018)
* Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson (2019)

2020s|

* Chernobyl – Hildur Guðnadóttir (2020)
* Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir (2021)
* The Queen's Gambit – Carlos Rafael Rivera / Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (2022)
* Encanto – Germaine Franco (2023)
* Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson (2024)
* Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer (2025)

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Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film

* John Powell (2014)
* Christophe Beck (2015)
* Alexandre Desplat (2016)
* Michael Giacchino (2017)
* Alexandre Desplat (2018)
* John Powell (2019)
* Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste (2020)
* Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna (2021)
* Alexandre Desplat (2022)
* Daniel Pemberton (2023)
* Kris Bowers (2024)

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Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score

* Dario Marianelli (2007)
* Terence Blanchard (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)
* Hans Zimmer (2010)
* Ludovic Bource (2011)
* Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer (2012)
* Steven Price (2013)
* Alexandre Desplat (2014)
* Ennio Morricone (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Alexandre Desplat (2017)
* Nicholas Britell (2018)
* Thomas Newman (2019)
* Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross (2020)
* Jonny Greenwood / Hans Zimmer (2021)
* Alexandre Desplat (2022)

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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure Film

* Jerry Goldsmith / James Horner (1998)
* Michael Giacchino (2004)
* James Newton Howard (2005)
* Hans Zimmer (2006)
* John Powell (2007)
* John Williams (2008)
* James Peterson (2009)
* Alexandre Desplat (2010)
* Cliff Martinez (2011)
* Thomas Newman (2012)
* Víctor Reyes (2013)
* Christopher Young (2014)
* Joe Kraemer (2015)
* Christopher Young (2016)
* Benjamin Wallfisch (2017)
* James Newton Howard (2018)
* Thomas Newman (2019)
* John Powell (2020)
* James Newton Howard (2021)

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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for an Animated Film

* John Powell (2006)
* Michael Giacchino (2007)
* Thomas Newman (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)
* John Powell (2010)
* John Williams (2011)
* Alexandre Desplat (2012)
* Joe Hisaishi (2013)
* John Powell (2014)
* Michael Giacchino (2015)
* Laurent Perez Del Mar (2016)
* Theodore Shapiro (2017)
* Mark McKenzie (2018)
* John Powell (2019)
* Bruno Coulais (2020)
* James Newton Howard (2021)
* Alexandre Desplat (2022)

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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Comedy Film

* Randy Newman (1998)
* John Williams (2004)
* Julian Nott (2005)
* Hans Zimmer (2006)
* Alan Menken (2007)
* Carter Burwell (2008)
* Marvin Hamlisch (2009)
* Pinar Toprak (2010)
* Christopher Young (2011)
* Walter Murphy (2012)
* Theodore Shapiro (2013)
* Alexandre Desplat (2014)
* Douglas Pipes (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Christopher Willis (2017)
* Marc Shaiman (2018)
* Michael Giacchino (2019)
* Christopher Willis (2020)
* Nicholas Britell (2021)

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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film

* Jerry Goldsmith (1998)
* Edward Shearmur (2004)
* Patrick Doyle (2005)
* James Newton Howard (2006)
* Alexandre Desplat (2007)
* Javier Navarrete (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)
* Daft Punk (2010)
* Michael Giacchino (2011)
* Michael Giacchino (2012)
* Roque Baños (2013)
* James Newton Howard (2014)
* John Williams (2015)
* James Newton Howard (2016)
* Michael Giacchino (2017)
* John Powell (2018)
* John Williams (2019)
* Hans Zimmer (2020)
* Maurizio Malagnini (2021)

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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for Television

* Steve Bartek / Danny Elfman (2004)
* Michael Giacchino (2005)
* George Fenton (2006)
* Joe Hisaishi (2007)
* Robert Lane and Joseph Vitarelli (2008)
* Bear McCreary (2009)
* Bear McCreary (2010)
* Arnau Bataller (2011)
* Murray Gold (2012)
* Federico Jusid (2013)
* Federico Jusid (2014)
* Federico Jusid (2015)
* Ramin Djawadi (2016)
* Bruce Broughton, John Debney, Joel McNeely and Andrew Cottee (2017)
* Christopher Lennertz (2018)
* Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)
* Carlos Rafael Rivera (2020)
* Bear McCreary (2021)
* Bear McCreary and Howard Shore (2022)
* James Newton Howard (2023)

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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Film Composer of the Year

* Jerry Goldsmith (1998)
* Jerry Goldsmith (1999)
* Michael Giacchino (2004)
* John Williams (2005)
* Alexandre Desplat (2006)
* Alexandre Desplat (2007)
* Danny Elfman (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)
* Alexandre Desplat (2010)
* John Williams (2011)
* Danny Elfman (2012)
* Abel Korzeniowski (2013)
* Alexandre Desplat (2014)
* Michael Giacchino (2015)
* Michael Giacchino (2016)
* Alexandre Desplat (2017)
* James Newton Howard (2018)
* Bear McCreary (2019)
* Daniel Pemberton (2020)
* James Newton Howard (2021)

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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Film Music Composition of the Year

* James Newton Howard (2006)
* Dario Marianelli (2007)
* Michael Giacchino (2008)
* Christopher Young (2009)
* Danny Elfman (2010)
* John Williams (2011)
* Fernando Velázquez (2012)
* Roque Baños (2013)
* John Powell (2014)
* John Williams (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Michael Giacchino (2017)
* John Williams (2018)
* John Williams (2019)
* Carlos Rafael Rivera (2020)
* Michael Giacchino (2021)

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International Film Music Critics Association Award for Film Score of the Year

* Jerry Goldsmith (1998)
* Jerry Goldsmith (1999)
* Michael Giacchino (2004)
* John Williams (2005)
* James Newton Howard (2006)
* Dario Marianelli (2007)
* Alexandre Desplat (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)
* John Powell (2010)
* John Williams (2011)
* Mychael Danna (2012)
* Abel Korzeniowski (2013)
* Hans Zimmer (2014)
* John Williams (2015)
* Jóhann Jóhannsson (2016)
* Jonny Greenwood (2017)
* John Powell (2018)
* John Williams (2019)
* Christopher Willis (2020)
* Maurizio Malagnini (2021)

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music

1990s|

* Richard Horowitz and Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990)
* Zbigniew Preisner (1991)
* Zbigniew Preisner (1992)
* Zbigniew Preisner (1993)
* Howard Shore (1994)
* Patrick Doyle (1995)
* Hal Willner and The Hey Hey Club Musicians (1996)
* Philip Glass (1997)
* Elliot Goldenthal (1998)
* Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman (1999)

2000s|

* Tan Dun (2000)
* Howard Shore (2001)
* Elmer Bernstein (2002)
* Benoît Charest (2003)
* Michael Giacchino (2004)
* Joe Hisaishi and Youmi Kimura (2005)
* Alexandre Desplat (2006)
* Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (2007)
* A. R. Rahman (2008)
* T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton (2009)

2010s|

* Alexandre Desplat / Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010)
* The Chemical Brothers (2011)
* Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin (2012)
* T Bone Burnett (2013)
* Jonny Greenwood / Mica Levi (2014)
* Carter Burwell (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2016)
* Jonny Greenwood (2017)
* Nicholas Britell (2018)
* Dan Levy (2019)

2020s|

* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2020)
* Alberto Iglesias (2021)
* M. M. Keeravani (2022)
* Mica Levi (2023)
* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2024)

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Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Score

* Randy Newman (1998)
* Marc Shaiman (1999)
* Clint Mansell (2000)
* Angelo Badalamenti (2001)
* Elmer Bernstein (2002)
* Howard Shore (2003)
* Michael Giacchino (2004)
* Gustavo Santaolalla (2005)
* Clint Mansell (2006)
* Jonny Greenwood (2007)
* James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)
* Nicholas Britell (2018)
* Michael Abels (2019)
* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2020)
* Jonny Greenwood (2021)
* Carter Burwell (2022)
* Ludwig Göransson (2023)
* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2024)

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Saturn Award for Best Music

1970s|

* Bernard Herrmann (1973)
* Miklós Rózsa (1974/75)
* David Raksin (1976)
* John Williams/John Williams (1977)
* John Williams (1978)
* Miklós Rózsa (1979)

1980s|

* John Barry (1980)
* John Williams (1981)
* John Williams (1982)
* James Horner (1983)
* Jerry Goldsmith (1984)
* Bruce Broughton (1985)
* Alan Menken (1986)
* Alan Silvestri (1987)
* Christopher Young (1988)
* Alan Silvestri (1989/90)

1990s|

* Loek Dikker (1991)
* Angelo Badalamenti (1992)
* Danny Elfman (1993)
* Howard Shore (1994)
* John Ottman (1995)
* Danny Elfman (1996)
* Danny Elfman (1997)
* John Carpenter (1998)
* Danny Elfman (1999)

2000s|

* James Horner (2000)
* John Williams (2001)
* Danny Elfman (2002)
* Howard Shore (2003)
* Alan Silvestri (2004)
* John Williams (2005)
* John Ottman (2006)
* Alan Menken (2007)
* James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer (2008)
* James Horner (2009)

2010s|

* Hans Zimmer (2010)
* Michael Giacchino (2011)
* Danny Elfman (2012)
* Frank Ilfman (2013)
* Hans Zimmer (2014)
* John Williams (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Michael Giacchino (2017)
* Marc Shaiman (2018/19)
* John Williams (2019/20)

2020s|

* Danny Elfman (2021/22)
* John Williams (2022/23)
* Danny Elfman (2023/24)

Note: The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the next year.

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Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score

* Hans Zimmer (2010)
* Ludovic Bource (2011)
* Jonny Greenwood (2012)
* Hans Zimmer (2013)
* Mica Levi (2014)
* Jóhann Jóhannsson (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch (2017)
* Nicholas Britell (2018)
* Michael Abels (2019)
* Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste (2020)
* Hans Zimmer (2021)
* Michael Giacchino (2022)
* Ludwig Göransson (2023)
* Daniel Blumberg / Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2024)

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World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year

2000s|

* Craig Armstrong – Moulin Rouge! (2001)
* Klaus Badelt – The Time Machine (2002)
* Antônio Pinto – Cidade de Deus (2003)
* Gustavo Santaolalla – 21 Grams (2004)
* Michael Giacchino – The Incredibles (2005)
* Evanthia Reboutsika – My Father and My Son (2006)
* Daniel Tarrab and Andres Goldstein – Inheritance and XXY (2007)
* Marc Streitenfeld – American Gangster (2008)
* Nico Muhly – The Reader (2009)

2010s|

* Abel Korzeniowski – A Single Man (2010)
* Alex Heffes – The First Grader (2011)
* Brian Byrne – Albert Nobbs (2012)
* Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild (2013)
* Daniel Pemberton – The Counselor and Cuban Fury (2014)
* Antonio Sánchez – Birdman (2015)
* Joe Kraemer – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2016)
* Nicholas Britell – Moonlight (2017)
* Tamar-kali – Mudbound (2018)
* Michael Abels – Us (2019)

2020s|

* Bryce Dessner – The Two Popes (2020)
* Nainita Desai – The Reason I Jump (2021)
* Eiko Ishibashi – Drive My Car (2022)
* Simon Franglen – Avatar: The Way of Water (2023)
* Jerskin Fendrix – Poor Things (2024)

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World Soundtrack Award for Film Composer of the Year

2000s|

* John Williams – A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
* Patrick Doyle – Gosford Park (2002)
* Elliot Goldenthal – Frida (2003)
* Gabriel Yared – Cold Mountain (2004)
* Angelo Badalamenti – Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2005)
* Alberto Iglesias – The Constant Gardener (2006)
* Alexandre Desplat – The Queen /  The Painted Veil (2007)
* James Newton Howard – Charlie Wilson's War / Michael Clayton / I Am Legend (2008)
* Alexandre Desplat – Cheri / Coco avant Chanel / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Largo Winch (2009)

2010s|

* Alexandre Desplat – Fantastic Mr. Fox / The Ghost Writer / Julie & Julia / The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2010)
* Alexandre Desplat – A Better Life / The Burma Conspiracy / Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 / Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 / The King's Speech / The Tree of Life / The Well Digger's Daughter (2011)
* Alberto Iglesias – The Monk / The Skin I Live In / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2012)
* Mychael Danna – Life of Pi (2013)
* Alexandre Desplat – Godzilla / The Grand Budapest Hotel / Marius / The Monuments Men / Philomena / Venus in Fur / Zulu (2014)
* Michael Giacchino – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes / Inside Out / Jupiter Ascending / Jurassic World / Tomorrowland (2015)
* Carter Burwell – Anomalisa / Carol / The Family Fang / The Finest Hours / Hail, Caesar! / Legend (2016)
* Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival (2017)
* Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Butcher, The Whore and the One-Eyed Man / Last and First Man / Mandy / Mary Magdalene / The Mercy (2018)
* Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk / Vice (2019)

2020s|

* Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker (2020)
* Daniel Pemberton – Enola Holmes / Rising Phoenix / The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2021)
* Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog / Spencer (2022)
* Hauschka – All Quiet on the Western Front / Memory of Water / War Sailor (2023)
* Jerskin Fendrix – Kinds of Kindness / Poor Things (2024)

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