Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
Primetime Emmy Award for Original Main Title Theme Music | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
Currently held by | Wednesday (2023) |
Website | emmys |
This is a list of the winning and nominated programs of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the award was presented with the "possibility of one, more than one, or no award given," resulting in several years where there were nominees without a winner.[1]
In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
Winners and nominations
1980s
Year | Program | Nominee(s) | Network |
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1988 (40th) [2] [note 1] | Beauty and the Beast | Lee Holdridge | CBS |
Great Performances | John Corigliano | PBS | |
The Law and Harry McGraw | Richard Markowitz | CBS | |
thirtysomething | Stewart Levin and W. G. Snuffy Walden | ABC | |
1989 (41st) [3] [note 1] | Knightwatch | Stanley Clarke | |
Men | James Newton Howard | ||
Paradise | Jerrold Immel | CBS | |
Tattingers | Jonathan Tunick | NBC | |
Unsub | Mike Post |
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Program | Nominee(s) | Network |
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2020 (72nd) [35] | |||
Hollywood | Nathan Barr | Netflix | |
Carnival Row | Nathan Barr | Prime Video | |
Defending Jacob | Ólafur Arnalds | Apple TV+ | |
Unorthodox | Antonio Gambale | Netflix | |
Why We Hate | Laura Karpman | Discovery | |
Wu-Tang: An American Saga | RZA | Hulu | |
2021 (73rd) [36] | |||
The Flight Attendant | Blake Neely | HBO Max | |
Allen v. Farrow | Michael Abels | HBO | |
Bridgerton | Kris Bowers and Michael Dean Parsons | Netflix | |
Ted Lasso | Tom Howe and Marcus Mumford | Apple TV+ | |
WandaVision | Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez | Disney+ | |
2022 (74th) [37] | |||
The White Lotus | Cristobal Tapia de Veer | HBO | |
Loki | Natalie Holt | Disney+ | |
Only Murders in the Building | Siddhartha Khosla | Hulu | |
Severance | Theodore Shapiro | Apple TV+ | |
Squid Game | Jung Jae-il | Netflix | |
2023 (75th) [38] | |||
Wednesday | Danny Elfman | Netflix | |
Andor | Nicholas Britell | Disney+ | |
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities | Holly Amber Church | Netflix | |
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | Howard Shore | Prime Video | |
Ms. Marvel | Laura Karpman | Disney+ |
Individuals with multiple wins
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Individuals with multiple nominations
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Programs with multiple wins
- 2 wins
- Monk
Programs with multiple nominations
- 2 nominations
Notes
- ^ a b c d e As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. None of the nominees met the benchmark and no award was given.
- ^ In 2010, Gaby Moreno and Vincent Jones were nominated for the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. After learning the same theme music had been submitted for the show the previous year, the theme was ruled ineligible and sixth place finisher Joseph LoDuca received the nomination.
References
- ^ Emmy, Volume 12. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. 1990. p. 47.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
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- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Emmy Music Nominations Announced". The Film Music Society. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by Dennis McCarthy (1993)
- seaQuest DSV by John Debney (1994)
- Star Trek: Voyager by Jerry Goldsmith (1995)
- Murder One by Mike Post (1996)
- EZ Streets by Mark Isham (1997)
- Fame L.A. by Robbie Buchanan, Maribeth Derry, Richard Barton Lewis, and Tom Snow (1998)
- Trinity by Martin Davich (1999)
- The West Wing by W. G. Snuffy Walden (2000)
- Gideon's Crossing by James Newton Howard (2001)
- Six Feet Under by Thomas Newman (2002)
- Monk by Jeff Beal (2003)
- Monk by Randy Newman (2004)
- Desperate Housewives by Danny Elfman (2005)
- Masters of Horror by Edward Shearmur (2006)
- The Tudors by Trevor Morris (2007)
- Pirate Master by Russ Landau (2008)
- Great Performances by John Williams (2009)
- Nurse Jackie by Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin (2010)
- The Borgias by Trevor Morris (2011)
- Page Eight by Paul Englishby (2012)
- Da Vinci's Demons by Bear McCreary (2013)
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey by Alan Silvestri (2014)
- Transparent by Dustin O'Halloran (2015)
- Marvel's Jessica Jones by Sean Callery (2016)
- Stranger Things by Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon (2017)
- Godless by Carlos Rafael Rivera (2018)
- Succession by Nicholas Britell (2019)
- Hollywood by Nathan Barr (2020)
- The Flight Attendant by Blake Neely (2021)
- The White Lotus by Cristobal Tapia de Veer (2022)
- Wednesday by Danny Elfman (2023)