Jon Batiste, Jerskin Fendrix & More Nominated for 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards: Full List

2024 Oscar nominees Jon Batiste and Jerskin Fendrix are among the finalists for the 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards. Batiste, an Oscar nominee for best original song for “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony, is nominated here for documentary score of the year for that same film. Fendrix, an Oscar nominee for best original score for Poor Things, is nominated here for film score of the year for that same film.

The ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards gives the ASCAP composer community a forum to recognize the artistic accomplishments of their peers. The nominations committee includes composers and film, television and video game industry leaders. Voting is open to eligible ASCAP writer members through March 8 on the ASCAP website.

Winners will be revealed on May 9 at a party celebrating the winners of the 2024 ASCAP Screen Music Awards in Los Angeles.

More information about the 2024 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards, including excerpts of the nominated music, is also available on the ASCAP website.

Following are the nominated ASCAP composers and their works:

Film score of the year

Moving On – Amanda Jones

Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix

Society of the Snow – Michael Giacchino

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton

World’s Best – Raashi Kulkarni

Documentary score of the year

American Symphony – Jon Batiste

The Deepest Breath – Nainita Desai

The Last Repair Shop – Katya Richardson

The Pigeon Tunnel – Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie – John Powell

Television score of the year

Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake – Amanda Jones

The Last of Us – David Fleming

Loki – Natalie Holt

Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla

The Watchful Eye – René G. Boscio

Yellowjackets – Anna Waronker

Television theme of the year

Loki – Natalie Holt

Only Murders in the Building – Siddhartha Khosla

Somebody Somewhere – Amanda Jones

The Watchful Eye – René G. Boscio

Yellowjackets – Anna Waronker

Video game score of the year

Dave the Diver – D’Anthoni Wooten

God of War: Ragnarök – Valhalla – Bear McCreary

Mortal Kombat 1 – Wilbert Roget II

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – Gordy Haab

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical – Austin Wintory