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 (Original Dramatic Score).

Starting in 2019, the category recognizes scripted programs. Unscripted programs compete for Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score).

1960s
Note: Award titled Outstanding Individual Achievements in Music Composition (1966–69)

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+ – 1
 * Showtime – 1
 * USA – 1

Programs with multiple awards

 * 3 awards
 * 24


 * 2 awards
 * Beauty and the Beast
 * Dallas (consecutive)
 * Downton Abbey (consecutive)
 * Game of Thrones (consecutive)
 * Hawaii Five-O
 * House of Cards
 * Little House on the Prairie
 * The Mandalorian (consecutive)
 * The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (consecutive)

Programs with multiple nominations

 * 12 nominations
 * The Simpsons


 * 8 nominations
 * 24


 * 6 nominations
 * Dallas


 * 5 nominations
 * Hawaii Five-O
 * House of Cards
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * Star Trek: Voyager
 * The X-Files
 * Xena: Warrior Princess


 * 4 nominations
 * The Crown
 * Little House on the Prairie
 * Lou Grant
 * Moonlighting


 * 3 nominations
 * 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 Young Indiana Jones Chronicles


 * 2 nominations
 * 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
 * St. Elsewhere
 * Succession
 * 30 Rock
 * This Is Us
 * The White Lotus

Composers with multiple awards
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 * 3 awards
 * Bruce Broughton
 * Sean Callery
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 * Cristobal Tapia de Veer


 * 2 awards
 * Jeff Beal
 * Don Davis
 * John Debney
 * Ramin Djawadi
 * George Fenton
 * Billy Goldenberg
 * Ludwig Göransson
 * Joseph LoDuca
 * John Lunn
 * Joel Rosenbaum
 * Laurence Rosenthal
 * Morton Stevens

Composers with multiple nominations

 * 16 nominations
 * Alf Clausen


 * 10 nominations
 * Sean Callery
 * Patrick Williams


 * 8 nominations
 * Jeff Beal
 * Dennis McCarthy
 * David Rose


 * 7 nominations
 * Mark Snow


 * 6 nominations
 * Bruce Broughton
 * Billy Goldenberg
 * Joseph LoDuca
 * Angela Morley
 * Morton Stevens


 * 5 nominations
 * Ramin Djawadi
 * Bruce Babcock
 * Don Davis
 * W. G. Snuffy Walden


 * 4 nominations
 * Cristobal Tapia de Veer
 * Nicholas Britell
 * Jay Chattaway
 * Dick DeBenedictis
 * Charles Fox
 * Siddhartha Khosla
 * Martin Phipps
 * Pete Rugolo
 * Lalo Schifrin
 * Nan Schwartz


 * 3 nominations
 * Jon Ehrlich
 * Michael Giacchino
 * Earle Hagen
 * John Lunn
 * Joel Rosenbaum
 * Laurence Rosenthal


 * 2 nominations
 * 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