The Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Main Title Theme – TV Show/Limited Series is one of the awards given annually to composers working in the television industry by the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA). It is presented to the musicians who have composed the best score, written specifically for a television series, or limited series. The award was first given in 2014, during the fifth annual awards.
Winners and nominees
2010s Best Original Score – TV Show/Digital Streaming Series Year Series Composer Network (2014) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Alan Silvestri Fox Game of Thrones Ramin Djawadi HBO The Knick Cliff Martinez Cinemax Matador Juan Carlos Rodríguez El Rey Network Orange Is the New Black Scott Doherty, Brandon Jay & Gwendolyn SanfordNetflix Parallels Corey Allen Jackson True Detective T Bone Burnett HBO (2015) House of Cards Jeff Beal Netflix Empire Fil Eisler Fox Narcos Pedro Bromfman Netflix Outlander Bear McCreary Starz Penny Dreadful Abel Korzeniowski Showtime
Best Original Score – TV Show/Miniseries Year Series Composer Network (2016) Roots Alex Heffes and Phillip Miller History All the Way James Newton Howard HBO Fargo Jeff Russo FX Minority Report Sean Callery Fox Mr. Robot Mac Quayle USA Stranger Things Michael Stein & Kyle Dixon Netflix
Best Original Score – TV Show/Limited Series Year Series Composer Network (2017) Underground Laura Karpman & Raphael Saadiq WGN America BoJack Horseman Jesse NovakNetflix The Crown Rupert Gregson-Williams Fargo Jeff Russo FX Get Shorty Antonio SánchezEpix Graves Mateo Messina Queen Sugar Meshell Ndegeocello OWN Transparent Dustin O'Halloran Amazon (2018) Succession Nicholas Britell HBO Black Mirror: USS Callister Daniel Pemberton Netflix Castle Rock Thomas Newman and Chris Westlake Hulu Howards End Nico Muhly Starz Once Upon a Time Mark Isham, Cindy O'Connor, Michael D. Simon ABC Westworld Ramin Djawadi HBO (2019) When They See Us Kris Bowers Netflix Chernobyl Hildur Guðnadóttir HBO Star Trek: Discovery Jeff Russo CBS All Access Succession Nicholas Britell HBO This Is Us Siddhartha Khosla NBC
2020s Year Series Supervisor(s) Network (2020) The Queen's Gambit Carlos Rafael Rivera Netflix Bridgerton Kris BowersNetflix The Crown Martin Phipps Lovecraft Country Laura Karpman & Raphael Saadiq HBO Star Trek: Discovery Jeff Russo CBS All Access Ted Lasso Tom Howe & Marcus Mumford Apple TV+ (2021) Squid Game Jung Jae-il Netflix Halston Nathan Barr Netflix Loki Natalie Holt Disney+ Maid Chris Stracey & Este Haim The Morning Show Carter BurwellApple TV+ Physical Isabella Summers Ted Lasso Tom Howe & Marcus Mumford Apple TV+ WandaVision Christophe Beck Disney+ Who Killed Sara? David Murillo Netflix (2022) 1883 Brian Tyler & Breton Vivian Paramount+ The Man Who Fell to Earth Jeff Russo Showtime Yellowjackets Craig Wedren & Anna Waronker Ice Age: Scrat Tales Batu Sener Disney+ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Bear McCreary Amazon Prime Video Severance Theodore Shapiro Apple TV+ Obi-Wan Kenobi Natalie Holt & John Williams Disney+ (2023) Succession Nicholas Britell HBO American Horror Stories: "Tapeworm" Mac Quayle FX on Hulu Beef Bobby Krlic Netflix Godfather of Harlem Mark Isham MGM+ Loki Natalie Holt Disney+ Silo Atli Örvarsson Apple TV+ Swagger Terence Blanchard The Gilded Age Harry Gregson-Williams & Rupert Gregson-Williams HBO (2024) Shōgun Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross & Nick Chuba FX/FX on Hulu Disclaimer Finneas O'Connell Apple TV+ Feud: Capote vs. The Swans Julia Newman FX on Hulu Masters of the Air Blake Neely Apple TV+ Shardlake Alex Heffes Disney+ Slow Horses Daniel Pemberton & Toydrum Apple TV+ The Tattooist of Auschwitz Kara Talve & Hans Zimmer Peacock (2025) Severance Theodore Shapiro Apple TV+ Adolescence Aaron May and David Ridley Netflix The Studio Antonio Sánchez Apple TV+ Andor Brandon Roberts and Nicholas Britell Disney+ Wednesday Chris Bacon Netflix The Last of Us David Fleming HBO Your Friends & Neighbors Dominic Lewis Apple TV+ Landman Andrew Lockington Paramount+ Chad Powers Natalie Holt Hulu The Gilded Age Harry Gregson-Williams and Rupert Gregson-Williams HBO
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