World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year

The WS Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year is one of the three main prizes given by the World Soundtrack Academy to honour the best movie soundtracks and the people who work on them.

Winners and nominees

*2001 John Williams ("")
**Rachel Portman ("Chocolat", "The Legend of Bagger Vance")
**Yann Tiersen ("Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain")
**Hans Zimmer ("Hannibal", "Pearl Harbor", "The Pledge", "An Everlasting Piece")
**Carter Burwell ("A Knight's Tale", "", "Before Night Falls")
*2002 Patrick Doyle ("Gosford Park")
**James Horner ("A Beautiful Mind")
**Hans Zimmer ("Black Hawk Down")
**Howard Shore ("")
**Randy Newman ("Monsters, Inc.")
*2003 Elliot Goldenthal ("Frida")
**Terence Blanchard ("25th Hour")
**Elmer Bernstein ("Far From Heaven")
**Howard Shore ("Gangs of New York")
**Philip Glass ("The Hours")
*2004 Gabriel Yared ("Cold Mountain")
**Christian Henson ("Les Fils du Vent")
**John Williams ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban")
**Alberto Iglesias ("La Mala educación")
**Daniel Tarrab & Andrés Goldstein ("La Puta y la Ballena")
**Harry Gregson-Williams ("Shrek 2")
*2005 Angelo Badalamenti ("Un long dimanche de fiançailles")
**Howard Shore ("The Aviator")
**John Powell ("The Bourne Supremacy")
**Thomas Newman ("Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events")
**John Williams ("War of the Worlds")
*2006 Alberto Iglesias ("The Constant Gardener")
**Danny Elfman ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory")
**John Powell ("")
**James Newton Howard ("King Kong")
**Dario Marianelli ("Pride & Prejudice")
*2007 Alexandre Desplat ("The Queen", "The Painted Veil")
**Harry Gregson-Williams ("Déjà Vu", "Shrek the Third", "The Number 23", "Flushed Away")
**John Powell ("Happy Feet")
**Mychael Danna ("Little Miss Sunshine", "Breach", "The Nativity Story", "Fracture")
**Philip Glass ("Notes on a Scandal")

References

[http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/World_Soundtrack_Awards/ World Soundtrack Awards at IMDb]