We haven’t covered this group often, but they announced their nominees and winners earlier this year. Historically, they haven’t been a major bellwether, but they are instructive being one of the few organizations devoted to the recognition of music in movies.

Awards Tallies

(2) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Nominations Tallies

(3) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
(2) Avatar: The Way of Water, The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bros, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Killing Me Softly with His Songs, RRR, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, Spirited, Till, Turning Red, The Voice of Ash and Dust, Where the Crawdads Sing, White Noise

The Nominations and Awards

Best Score – Feature Film

The Banshees of Inisherin
Emancipation
Empire of Light
She Said
Till
Where the Crawdads Sing
White Noise
Women Talking
The Woman King

Best Original Song

“Carolina” – Where the Crawdads Sing
“Do a Little Good” – Spirited
“Hold My Hand” – Top Gun: Maverick
“Lift Me Up” – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“Love Is Not Love” – Bros
“New Body Rhumba” – White Noise
“The Songcord” – Avatar: The Way of Water
“Stand Up” – Till
“Time” – Amsterdam
“(You Made It Feel Like) Home” – Bones and All

Best Music Themed Film, Biopic, or Musical

Elvis
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Spirited
Tár
Weird: The Al Yankovich Story

Best Documentary/Special Program

Halftime
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, A Song
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues
Selena Gomez My Mind & Me
Still Working 9 to 5
The Voice of Ash and Dust

Best Song – Independent Film

“Applause” – Tell It Like a Woman
“Stand the Test of Time” – Tomorrow’s Game
“This Is a Life” – Everything Everywhere All at Once
“Til You’re Home” – A Man Called Otto
“We Two Made One” – The Silent Twins

Best Song – On-Screen Performance

“Baby Let’s Play House” – Elvis
“Cucamonga” – Knights of Swing
“Love Is Not Love” – Bros
“Naatu Naatu” – RRR
“On My Way (Marry Me)” – Marry Me

Best Score – Animated Film

The Bad Guys
DC League of Super Pets
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Luck
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red

Best Score – Sci-Fi Film

The Batman
Black Adam
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Batman
Thor: Love and Thunder

Best Score – Fantasy Film

Avatar: The Way of Water
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
The King’s Daughter
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Wendell & Wild

Best Score – Horror Film

Barbarian
The Black Phone
Halloween Ends
The Menu
Nope
Scream

Best Score – Documentary

Black Ice
Descendant
Gratitude Revealed
Landis: Just Watching Me
The Tinder Swindler
Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

Best Score – Independent Film

Dead for a Dollar
Don’t Make Me Go
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Living
The Outfit
The Whale

Best Score – Independent Film (Foreign Language)

Cuando Sea Joven
EO
Railway Heroes
RRR
War Sailor

Best Song – Animated Film

“Ciao Papa” – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
“Lift Your Wings” – My Father’s Dragon
“Nobody Like U” – Turning Red
“Sunny Side Up Summer” – The Bob’s Burgers Movie
“Turn Up the Sunshine” – Minions: The Rise of Gru

Best Song – Documentary Film

“At the Automat” – The Automat
“Dust and Ash” – The Voice of Dust and Ash
“My Mind and Me” – Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
“Ready As I’ll Never Be” – The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile
“Sing a Brand New Song” – Killing Me Softly with His Songs”
“A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen” – Wildcat
“We Are Art” – We Are Art Through the Eyes of Annalaura

Hollywood Music in Media Association Data

First Awards: 2009 (13)