World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year

Winners and nominees

2000s

2001

• '*John Williams – *A.I. Artificial Intelligence'''''
  • Carter Burwell – A Knight's Tale, Before Night Falls, and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
  • Rachel Portman – Chocolat and The Legend of Bagger Vance
  • Yann Tiersen – Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
  • Hans Zimmer – An Everlasting Piece, Hannibal, Pearl Harbor, and The Pledge

2002

• '*Patrick Doyle – *Gosford Park'''''
  • James Horner – A Beautiful Mind
  • Randy Newman – Monsters, Inc.
  • Howard Shore – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Hans Zimmer – Black Hawk Down

2003

• '*Elliot Goldenthal – *Frida'''''
  • Terence Blanchard – 25th Hour
  • Elmer Bernstein – Far from Heaven
  • Philip Glass – The Hours
  • Howard Shore – Gangs of New York

2004

• '*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

• '*Angelo Badalamenti – *Un long dimanche de fiançailles'''''
  • Thomas Newman – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • John Powell – The Bourne Supremacy
  • Howard Shore – The Aviator
  • John Williams – War of the Worlds

2006

• '*Alberto Iglesias – *The Constant Gardener'''''
  • Danny Elfman – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • James Newton Howard – King Kong
  • Dario Marianelli – Pride & Prejudice
  • John Powell – Ice Age: The Meltdown

2007

• '*Alexandre Desplat – The Painted Veil and *The Queen'''''
  • Mychael Danna – Breach, Fracture, Little Miss Sunshine, and The Nativity Story
  • Philip Glass – Notes on a Scandal
  • Harry Gregson-Williams – Déjà Vu, Flushed Away, The Number 23, and Shrek the Third
  • John Powell – Happy Feet

2008

• '*James Newton Howard – Charlie Wilson's War, I Am Legend, and *Michael Clayton'''''
  • Alexandre Desplat – The Golden Compass
  • Alberto Iglesias – The Kite Runner
  • Dario Marianelli – Atonement
  • John Powell – The Bourne Ultimatum

2009

• '*Alexandre Desplat – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cheri, Coco avant Chanel, and *Largo Winch'''''
  • Carter Burwell – Burn After Reading and Twilight
  • Danny Elfman – Milk, Notorious, and Taking Woodstock
  • Michael Giacchino – Land of the Lost, Star Trek, and Up
  • Hans Zimmer – Angels & Demons, The Dark Knight, and Frost/Nixon

2010s

2010

• '*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

• '*Alexandre Desplat – A Better Life, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The King's Speech, The Burma Conspiracy, The Tree of Life, and *The Well Digger's Daughter'''''
  • Patrick Doyle – Jig, La Ligne droite, and Thor
  • Clint Mansell – Black Swan, Faster, and Last Night
  • John Powell – Kung Fu Panda 2, Mars Needs Moms, and Rio
  • Hans Zimmer – The Dilemma, How Do You Know, Inception, Kung Fu Panda 2, Megamind, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Rango

2012

• '*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

• '*Mychael Danna – *Life of Pi'''''
  • Alexandre Desplat – Argo, Reality, Renoir, Rise of the Guardians, and Zero Dark Thirty
  • Danny Elfman – Epic, Frankenweenie, Hitchcock, Oz the Great and Powerful, Promised Land, and Silver Linings Playbook
  • James Newton Howard – After Earth and The Bourne Legacy
  • Thomas Newman – Side Effects and Skyfall

2014

• '*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

• '*Michael Giacchino – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Inside Out, Jupiter Ascending, Jurassic World, and *Tomorrowland'''''
  • 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

• '*Carter Burwell – Anomalisa, Carol, Hail, Caesar!, The Family Fang, The Finest Hours, and *Legend'''''
  • Ennio Morricone – Come What May, The Correspondence, and The Hateful Eight
  • Thomas Newman – Bridge of Spies, Finding Dory, and Spectre
  • Daniel Pemberton – From the Land of the Moon, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Steve Jobs
  • John Williams – The BFG and Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2017

• '*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

• '*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

• '*Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk and *Vice'''''
  • Daniel Pemberton – Scarborough, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Yesterday
  • John Powell – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
  • Alan Silvestri – Avengers: Endgame and Welcome to Marwen
  • Benjamin Wallfisch – Hellboy, King of Thieves, Serenity, Shazam!, and The Vanishing

2020s

2020

• '*Hildur Guðnadóttir – *Joker'''''
  • Alexandre Desplat – Adults in the Room, An Officer and a Spy, and Little Women
  • Thomas Newman – 1917
  • Benjamin Wallfisch – The Invisible Man and It Chapter Two
  • John Williams – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2021

• '*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

• '*Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog and *Spencer'''''
  • Germaine Franco – Encanto
  • Daniel Hart – The Green Knight and The Last Letter from Your Lover
  • Alberto Iglesias – Parallel Mothers
  • Daniel Pemberton – * The Bad Guys*, Being the Ricardos, Brian and Charles, and The Rescue
  • Hans Zimmer – Dune, No Time to Die, and The Survivor

2023

• '*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

• '*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

• '*Volker Bertelmann – Conclave and *The Amateur'''''
  • Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
  • Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
  • Clément Ducol and Camille – Emilia Pérez
  • Alberto Iglesias – The Room Next Door
  • John Powell – How to Train Your Dragon

References

References

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