# Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in an Independent Film

The Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in an Independent Film is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture 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 an independent film. The award was first given in 2015, during the sixth annual awards. It was first awarded to independent short film, but gradually shifted to full-length features.

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| (2015) 6th |
| (2015) 6th | The Moment I Was Alone | Isaias Garcia |
| (2015) 6th | Flying South | Mark Cyprian Smythe |
| (2015) 6th | Labyrinth | Ramesh Kumar Kannan |
| (2015) 6th | L´Altra Frontera | Luc Suarez |
| (2015) 6th | Land Of Leopold | Alexis Grapsas |
| (2015) 6th | Le Constructeur de Malheur | Raphael Fimm |
| (2016) 7th |
| (2016) 7th | The Curse of Sleeping Beauty | Scott Glasgow |
| (2016) 7th | The Carer | Atti Pacsay |
| (2016) 7th | Mr. Church | Mark Isham |
| (2016) 7th | Quarries | Isaias Garcia |
| (2016) 7th | The Roots of Men | Nicolas Techer |
| (2017) 8th |
| (2017) 8th | Chuck | Corey Allen Jackson |
| (2017) 8th | The Mad Whale | Layla Minoui |
| (2017) 8th | Purgatory Road | Glen Gabriel |
| (2017) 8th | This Beautiful Fantastic | Anne Nikitin |
| (2017) 8th | This Day Forward | Nami Melumad |
| (2017) 8th | Unfallen | Mark Smythe |
| (2018) 9th |
| (2018) 9th | Colette | Thomas Adès |
| (2018) 9th | Breath | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| (2018) 9th | The Death of Stalin | Christopher Willis |
| (2018) 9th | The Last Movie Star | Austin Wintory |
| (2018) 9th | Mandy | Jóhann Jóhannsson |
| (2018) 9th | Miss Arizona | Nami Melumad |
| (2019) 10th |
| (2019) 10th | Colewell | Dara Taylor |
| (2019) 10th | Encounter | Penka Kouneva |
| (2019) 10th | Epiphany | Nuno Malo |
| (2019) 10th | In This Grey Place | Miro Kepinski |
| (2019) 10th | Indigo Valley | Dalal Bruchmann & Maesa Pullman |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| (2020) 11th |
| (2020) 11th | Minari | Emile Mosseri |
| (2020) 11th | The 24th | Alex Heffes |
| (2020) 11th | Ammonite | Dustin O'Halloran & Volker Bertelmann |
| (2020) 11th | The Glorias | Elliot Goldenthal |
| (2020) 11th | Shirley | Tamar-kali |
| (2020) 11th | Wild Mountain Thyme | Amelia Warner |
| (2021) 12th |
| (2021) 12th | C'mon C'mon | Bryce & Aaron Dessner |
| (2021) 12th | The Card Counter | Robert Levon Been & Giancarlo Vulcano |
| (2021) 12th | CODA | Marius de Vries |
| (2021) 12th | The Green Knight | Daniel Hart |
| (2021) 12th | Nine Days | Antônio Pinto |
| (2022) 13th |
| (2022) 13th | Living | Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch |
| (2022) 13th | Dead for a Dollar | Xander Rodzinski |
| (2022) 13th | Don't Make Me Go | Jessica Weiss |
| (2022) 13th | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Son Lux |
| (2022) 13th | The Outfit | Alexandre Desplat |
| (2022) 13th | The Whale | Rob Simonsen |
| (2023) 14th |
| (2023) 14th | The Zone of Interest | Mica Levi |
| (2023) 14th | Dalíland | Edmund Butt |
| (2023) 14th | Dream Scenario | Owen Pallett |
| (2023) 14th | Jules | Volker Bertelmann |
| (2023) 14th | Miranda's Victim | Holly Amber Church |
| (2023) 14th | She Came to Me | Bryce Dessner |