The World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year (a.k.a. "Film 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 (A.I. Artificial Intelligence) 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, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Before Night Falls) 2002 Patrick Doyle (Gosford Park) James Horner (A Beautiful Mind) Hans Zimmer (Black Hawk Down) Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) 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 (Ice Age: The Meltdown) 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) 2008 James Newton Howard (Charlie Wilson's War, Michael Clayton, I Am Legend) Dario Marianelli (Atonement) John Powell (The Bourne Ultimatum) Alexandre Desplat (The Golden Compass) Alberto Iglesias (The Kite Runner) 2009 Alexandre Desplat (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Coco avant Chanel, Largo Winch, Cheri) Carter Burwell (Burn After Reading, Twilight) Danny Elfman (Milk, Taking Woodstock, Notorious) Michael Giacchino (Star Trek, Up, Land of the Lost) Hans Zimmer (Frost/Nixon, Angels & Demons, The Dark Knight) 2010 Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr.