World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year
Appearance
The WS Award for Soundtrack 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.
Winners and nominees
- 2001 John Williams (Artificial Intelligence: A.I.)
- 2002 Patrick Doyle (Gosford Park)
- 2003 Elliot Goldenthal (Frida)
- 2004 Gabriel Yared (Cold Mountain)
- Christian Henson (Les Fils du Vent)
- John Williams (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
- Alberto Iglesias (La Mala educación)
- Daniel Tarrab & Andrés Goldstein (La Puta y la Ballena)
- Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek 2)
- 2005 Angelo Badalamenti (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)
- 2006 Alberto Iglesias (The Constant Gardener)
- 2007 Alexandre Desplat (The Queen, The Painted Veil)
- 2008 James Newton Howard (Charlie Wilson's War, Michael Clayton, I Am Legend)
- 2009 Alexandre Desplat (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Coco avant Chanel, Largo Winch, Cheri)
- 2010 Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Julie & Julia, The Ghost Writer)
- 2011 Alexandre Desplat (A Better Life, The Burma Conspiracy, The King's Speech, The Tree of Life, The Well Digger's Daughter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2)
- 2012 Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Skin I Live In, The Monk)
- 2013 Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)
- 2014 Alexandre Desplat (Godzilla, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Marius, The Monuments Men, Philomena, Venus in Fur, Zulu)
- 2015 Michael Giacchino (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Inside Out, Jupiter Ascending, Jurassic World, Tomorrowland)
- Bruno Coulais (Song of the Sea, Gemma Bovery, Three Hearts, Mune: Guardian of the Moon, Diary of a Chambermaid, Fly Away Solo)
- Alexandre Desplat (Unbroken, The Imitation Game, Every Thing Will Be Fine, Tale of Tales)
- Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything, The 11th Hour, Sicario)
- Hans Zimmer (Interstellar, Chappie)