Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series .
Starting in 2019, the category recognizes scripted programs. Unscripted programs compete for Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special.
Winners and nominations
1960s
Note: Award titled '''Outstanding Individual Achievements in Music Composition'''1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Total awards by network
- CBS – 12
- ABC – 7
- NBC – 6
- Fox – 3
- PBS – 3
- Syndicated – 3
- Discovery Channel – 2
- Disney+ – 2
- HBO – 2
- Netflix – 2
- UPN – 2
- The WB – 2
- Apple TV+ – 2
- Showtime – 1
- USA – 1
Programs with multiple awards
- 24
- Beauty and the Beast
- Dallas
- Downton Abbey
- Game of Thrones
- Hawaii Five-O
- House of Cards
- Little House on the Prairie
- The Mandalorian
- Severance
- ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles''
Programs with multiple nominations
- The Simpsons
- 24
- Dallas
- Hawaii Five-O
- House of Cards
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Voyager
- The X-Files
- Xena: Warrior Princess
- The Crown
- Little House on the Prairie
- Lou Grant
- Moonlighting
- Beauty and the Beast
- Columbo
- Downton Abbey
- Family Guy
- Game of Thrones
- I Spy
- Lost
- Love, American Style
- Matlock
- Mission: Impossible
- Murder, She Wrote
- Run for Your Life
- SeaQuest DSV
- The White Lotus
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
- Andor
- Bonanza
- The Borgias
- Bronk
- CBS Playhouse
- Chef's Table
- The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
- Dynasty
- Enterprise
- Ghost Whisperer
- Gunsmoke
- The Handmaid's Tale
- House
- JAG
- Knots Landing
- The Mandalorian
- Miami Vice
- Only Murders in the Building
- Penny Dreadful
- Rome
- Roots
- Severance
- St. Elsewhere
- Succession
- 30 Rock
- ''This Is Us''
Composers with multiple awards
- Bruce Broughton
- Sean Callery
- David
;2 awards
- Jeff Beal
- Don Davis
- John Debney
- Ramin Djawadi
- George Fenton
- Billy Goldenberg
- Ludwig Göransson
- Joseph LoDuca
- John Lunn
- Joel Rosenbaum
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Theodore Shapiro
- Morton Stevens
Composers with multiple nominations
- Alf Clausen
- Sean Callery
- Patrick Williams
- Jeff Beal
- Dennis McCarthy
- David Rose
;6 nominations
- Bruce Broughton
- Billy Goldenberg
- Joseph LoDuca
- Angela Morley
- Morton Stevens
- Ramin Djawadi
- Bruce Babcock
- Don Davis
- W. G. Snuffy Walden
- Cristobal Tapia de Veer
- Nicholas Britell
- Jay Chattaway
- Dick DeBenedictis
- Charles Fox
- Siddhartha Khosla
- Martin Phipps
- Pete Rugolo
- Lalo Schifrin
- Nan Schwartz
- Jon Ehrlich
- Michael Giacchino
- Earle Hagen
- John Lunn
- Joel Rosenbaum
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Chris Bacon
- Steven Bramson
- Velton Ray Bunch
- John Cacavas
- John Debney
- Jason Derlatka
- Robert Duncan
- George Fenton
- Gerald Fried
- Joel Goldsmith
- Ludwig Göransson
- Jan Hammer
- Natalie Holt
- Quincy Jones
- Ron Jones
- Fred Karlin
- Laura Karpman
- Abel Korzeniowski
- Trevor Morris
- Blake Neely
- J. A. C. Redford
- Jeff Richmond
- Adam Taylor
- Duncan Thum
- Jack Urbont