COMPOSER OF THE YEAR CHRISTOPHER WILLIS LORNE BALFE BEAR McCREARY DANIEL PEMBERTON HANS ZIMMER
BREAKTHROUGH COMPOSER OF THE YEAR THOMAS CLAY PHILIP KLEIN NAMI MELUMAD MARCUS PAUS ISOBEL WALLER-BRIDGE AND DAVID SCHWEITZER
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A VIDEO GAME MEDAL OF HONOR: ABOVE AND BEYOND, music by Michael Giacchino and Nami Melumad ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS, music by Gareth Coker THE PATHLESS, music by Austin Wintory WOLCEN: LORDS OF MAYHEM, music by Cedric Baravaglio and Jean-Gabriel Raynaud WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SHADOWLANDS, music by Glenn Stafford, Neal Acree, David Arkenstone, Jason Hayes, Grant Kirkhope, and Jake Lefkowitz
Special mentions should also go to: ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA by Jesper Kyd and Sarah Schachner, GENSHIN IMPACT by Yu-Peng Chen, GHOST OF TSUSHIMA by Ilan Eshkeri and Shigeru Umebayashi, HADES by Darren Korb, and STAR WARS: SQUADRONS by Gordy Haab.