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

The Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in an Animated Film is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA). It is presented to the composers who have composed the best "original" score, written specifically for an animated motion picture.

Hollywood Music in Media for Best Original Score in an Animated Film
Country	United States
Presented by	Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA)
First awarded	2014
Currently held by	Daniel Pemberton Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Website	www.hmmawards.com

History

The award was first given in 2014, during the fifth annual awards. The How to Train Your Dragon film series have the most wins with two.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Film	Nominees
(2014) 5th ^[1]^[2]
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	John Powell
	The Book of Life	Gustavo Santaolalla
	The Boxtrolls	Dario Marianelli
	The Lego Movie	Mark Mothersbaugh
	Mr. Peabody & Sherman	Danny Elfman
	Rocks in My Pockets	Kristian Sensini
(2015) 6th ^[3]^[4]
	The Peanuts Movie	Christophe Beck
	The Good Dinosaur	Jeff & Mychael Danna
	Home	Lorne Balfe
	Hotel Transylvania 2	Mark Mothersbaugh
	Inside Out	Michael Giacchino
	Minions	Heitor Pereira
(2016) 7th ^[5]^[6]
	The Secret Life of Pets	Alexandre Desplat
	The Angry Birds Movie	Heitor Pereira
	Finding Dory	Thomas Newman
	The Little Prince	Hans Zimmer and Richard Harvey
	Moana	Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foa'i and Lin-Manuel Miranda
	Zootopia	Michael Giacchino
(2017) 8th ^[7]^[8]
	Coco	Michael Giacchino
	The Boss Baby	Hans Zimmer and Steve Mazzaro
	The Breadwinner	Jeff & Mychael Danna
	Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie	Theodore Shapiro
	The Lego Batman Movie	Lorne Balfe
	Loving Vincent	Clint Mansell
(2018) 9th ^[9]
	Isle of Dogs	Alexandre Desplat
	Incredibles 2	Michael Giacchino
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Henry Jackman
	Sherlock Gnomes	Chris Bacon
	Smallfoot	Heitor Pereira
	White Fang	Alan Silvestri
(2019) 10th ^[10]
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	John Powell
	Abominable	Rupert Gregson-Williams
	Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles	Arturo Cardelús
	Frozen II	Christophe Beck
	I Lost My Body	Dan Levy

2020s

Year	Film	Nominees
(2020) 11th ^[11]^[12]
	Soul	Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste
	The Croods: A New Age	Mark Mothersbaugh
	Onward	Jeff & Mychael Danna
	A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon	Tom Howe
	Wolfwalkers	Bruno Coulais
(2021) 12th ^[13]^[14]
	The Addams Family 2	Mychael & Jeff Danna
	The Loud House Movie	Philip White
	Luca	Dan Romer
	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Mark Mothersbaugh
	Spirit Untamed	Amie Doherty
	Vivo	Alex Lacamoire
(2022) 13th
	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Alexandre Desplat
	DC League of Super-Pets	Steve Jablonsky
	Luck	John Debney
	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish	Heitor Pereira
	The Bad Guys	Daniel Pemberton
	Turning Red	FINNEAS and Ludwig Göransson
(2023) 14th
	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Daniel Pemberton
	Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget	Harry Gregson-Williams
	Elemental	Thomas Newman
	Migration	John Powell
	Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken	Stephanie Economou
	The Super Mario Bros. Movie	Brian Tyler

Multiple winners

2 wins

• Alexandre Desplat
• John Powell

Multiple nominations

4 nominations

• Michael Giacchino

3 nominations

• Jeff Danna
• Mychael Danna
• Mark Mothersbaugh
• Heitor Pereira

2 nominations

• Lorne Balfe
• Christophe Beck
• Alexandre Desplat
• Thomas Newman
• Daniel Pemberton
• John Powell
• Hans Zimmer

References

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