# Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Documentary

The Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Documentary is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture and television industry by the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA).

## History

It is presented to the composers who have composed the best "original" score, written specifically for a documentary, either film or television. The award was first given in 2014, during the fifth annual awards.

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| (2014) 5th |
| (2014) 5th | Merchants of Doubt | Mark Adler |
| (2014) 5th | American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs | Vivek Maddala |
| (2014) 5th | Born to Fly | Adam Crystal |
| (2014) 5th | H.O.P.E. Was Here | Emilio D. Miler |
| (2014) 5th | Red Army | Christophe Beck & Leo Birenberg |
| (2015) 6th |
| (2015) 6th | The Hunting Ground | Miriam Cutler |
| (2015) 6th | Donne Nel Mito Sophia Loren Racconta La Loren | Max Di Carlo |
| (2015) 6th | Frame by Frame | Patrick Jonsson |
| (2015) 6th | Teresa de Jesús | Francisco-José Cuenca |
| (2015) 6th | Rafael Corpa | Wild Iberia |
| (2016) 7th |
| (2016) 7th | Command and Control | Mark Adler |
| (2016) 7th | Asperger's Are Us | Crystal Grooms Mangano |
| (2016) 7th | Before the Flood | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Gustavo Santaolalla and Mogwai |
| (2016) 7th | The Little Prince | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis |
| (2016) 7th | Tig | Ryan Miller |
| (2017) 8th |
| (2017) 8th | Jane | Philip Glass |
| (2017) 8th | Boston | Jeff Beal |
| (2017) 8th | Chasing Coral | Dan Romer & Saul Simon MacWilliams |
| (2017) 8th | Chef's Table | Duncan Thum, Sebastian Örnemark and Steve Gernes |
| (2017) 8th | The Keepers: "The Conclusion" | Blake Neely |
| (2017) 8th | LA 92 | Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans |
| (2018) 9th |
| (2018) 9th | March of the Penguins: The Next Step | Cyrille Aufort |
| (2018) 9th | Free Solo | Marco Beltrami |
| (2018) 9th | One Strange Rock | Daniel Pemberton, Simon Ashdown and Will Slater |
| (2018) 9th | On Her Shoulders | Patrick Jonsson |
| (2018) 9th | RBG | Miriam Cutler |
| (2018) 9th | Science Fair | Jeff Morrow |
| (2018) 9th | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Jonathan Kirkscey |
| (2019) 10th |
| (2019) 10th | The Biggest Little Farm | Jeff Beal |
| (2019) 10th | Apollo 11 | Matt Morton |
| (2019) 10th | The Elephant Queen | Alex Heffes |
| (2019) 10th | Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am | Kathryn Bostic |
| (2019) 10th | Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein | Dan Levy |
| (2019) 10th | What's My Name: Muhammad Ali | Marcelo Zarvos |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| (2020) 11th |
| (2020) 11th | David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Steven Price |
| (2020) 11th | Athlete A | Jeff Beal |
| (2020) 11th | Crip Camp | Bear McCreary |
| (2020) 11th | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Tamar-kali |
| (2020) 11th | Rising Phoenix | Daniel Pemberton |
| (2021) 12th |
| (2021) 12th | Julia | Rachel Portman |
| (2021) 12th | 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible | Nainita Desai |
| (2021) 12th | Becoming Cousteau | Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans |
| (2021) 12th | Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal | Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross |
| (2021) 12th | The Rescue | Daniel Pemberton |
| (2021) 12th | Strip Down, Rise Up | Lili Haydn |
| (2022) 13th |
| (2022) 13th | The Tinder Swindler | Jessica Jones |
| (2022) 13th | Black Ice | Simon Poole |
| (2022) 13th | Descendant | Ray Angry, Rhiannon Giddens, and Dirk Powell |
| (2022) 13th | Gratitude Revealed | Lisbeth Scott |
| (2022) 13th | Landis: Just Watch Me | Emilie and Peter Bernstein |
| (2022) 13th | Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb | Clare Manchon and Olivier Manchon |
| (2023) 14th |
| (2023) 14th | Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | John Powell |
| (2023) 14th | Kangaroo Valley | H. Scott Salinas and Logan Stahley |
| (2023) 14th | Split at the Root | Lili Haydn |
| (2023) 14th | The Deepest Breath | Nainita Desai |
| (2023) 14th | The Pigeon Tunnel | Philip Glass and Paul Leonard-Morgan |
| (2024) 15th |
| (2024) 15th | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Ilan Eshkeri |
| (2024) 15th | Diane Von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge | Allyson Newman |
| (2024) 15th | Endurance | Daniel Pemberton |
| (2024) 15th | Frida | Victor Hernández Stumpfhauser |
| (2024) 15th | Jim Henson Idea Man | David Fleming |
| (2024) 15th | The Donn of Tiki | Holly Amber Church |
| (2024) 15th | Will & Harper | Nathan Halpern |