List of awards and nominations received by Howard Shore

Howard Shore

Composer Howard Shore has received many awards and nominations over the course of his career. These include three Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and four Grammy Awards.

Major Awards

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won	[1]
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won	[2]
	Best Original Song	"Into the West" (shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox) (from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)	Won
2011	Best Original Score	Hugo	Nominated	[3]

British Academy Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1991	Best Original Music	The Silence of the Lambs	Nominated	[4]
2001		The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	[5]
2002		Gangs of New York	Nominated	[6]
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Nominated	[7]
2004		The Aviator	Nominated	[8]
2011		Hugo	Nominated	[9]

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Composer	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won	[10]
2002		The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Nominated	[11]
2002		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won	[12]
2004		The Aviator	Won	[13]
2006		The Departed	Nominated	[14]
2011	Best Score	Hugo	Nominated	[15]
2015		Spotlight	Nominated	[16]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	[17]
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won
	Best Original Song	"Into the West" (shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox) (from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)	Won
2004	Best Original Score	The Aviator	Won
2007		Eastern Promises	Nominated
2011		Hugo	Nominated

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1995	Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television	"Main Title" (from Ed Wood )	Nominated	[18]
2002	Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Won
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Won
2004		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won
	Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	"Into the West" (shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox) (from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)	Won
2005	Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	The Aviator: Music from the Motion Picture	Nominated
2007		The Departed: Original Score	Nominated
2012	Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media	Hugo (Original Score)	Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2023	Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power	Nominated	[19]

Miscellaneous awards

American Film Institute Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Composer of the Year	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	[20]

ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2004	ASCAP Henry Mancini Award	—	Won	[21]

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2014	Cannes Soundtrack Award	Maps to the Stars	Won	[22]

Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2003	Best Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Nominated	[23]
2011		Hugo	Nominated	[24]
2012		The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	[25]

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Best Original Score	That Thing You Do!	Nominated	[26]
2001		The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won
2002		The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Nominated
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won
2004		The Aviator	Won
2011		Hugo	Nominated

Denver Film Critics Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Original Score	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Nominated	[27]
2015		Spotlight	Nominated	[28]

Film Fest Ghent

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Georges Delerue Award	Spider	Won	[29]

Gotham Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1994	Below-the-Line Award	—	Won	[30]

Hollywood Music in Media Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2012	Best Original Score – Feature Film	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated
2013	Best Original Score – Sci-Fi/Fantasy	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Won	[31]

Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2011	Best Musical Score	Hugo	Runner-up	[32]

International Cinephile Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2003	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won	[33]
2022		Crimes of the Future	Nominated	[34]

International Film Music Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Film Composer of the Year	—	Nominated	[35]
2004	Film Score of the Year	The Aviator	Nominated	[36]
	Best Original Score for a Drama Film		Won
2005	Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller Film	A History of Violence	Won	[37]
	Best New Release/Re-Release/Re-Recording of an Existing Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won
2006	Best Original Score for a Drama Film	The Departed	Nominated	[38]
2007		Eastern Promises	Nominated	[39]
	Best New Release/Re-Release/Re-Recording of an Existing Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Nominated
2009	Best Film Music Compilation Album or Box Set	Howard Shore: Collector's Edition Vol. 1	Nominated	[40]
2011	Film Score of the Year	Hugo	Nominated	[41]
	Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film		Nominated
	Best Archival Re-Recording of an Existing Score	The Lord of the Rings Symphony	Nominated
2012	Film Score of the Year	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	[42]
	Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film		Nominated
2013	Film Score of the Year	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Nominated	[43]
	Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film		Nominated
	Film Music Composition of the Year	"Beyond the Forest" (from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)	Nominated
2014	Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Nominated	[44]
2022	Score of the Year	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power	Won	[45] [46]
	Best Original Score for Television		Won
	Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction Film	Crimes of the Future	Nominated

Krakow Film Music Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2017	Kilar Award	—	Won	[47]

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won	[48]
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won

Locarno International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2016	Vision Award	—	Won	[49]

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1991	Best Music Score	Naked Lunch and The Silence of the Lambs	Runner-up	[50]
1994		Ed Wood	Won	[51]
1995		Seven	Runner-up	[52]
2001		The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won	[53]

National Board of Review Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2005	Career Achievement in Music Composition	—	Won	[54]

Online Film & Television Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won	[55]
2002		The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Nominated	[56]
	Best Original Song	"Gollum's Song" (from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)	Nominated
2003	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won	[57]
	Best Original Song	"Into the West" (from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)	Won
2004	Best Original Score	The Aviator	Nominated	[58]
2006		The Departed	Nominated	[59]
2011		Hugo	Nominated	[60]
2021	Film Hall of Fame: Scores	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Inducted	[61]

Online Film Critics Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	[62]
2002		The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Nominated	[63]
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won	[64]
2004		The Aviator	Nominated	[65]

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2005	Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing	—	Won	[66]
2012		—	Won

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Won	[67]
2002		The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Nominated	[68]
	Best Original Song	"Gollum's Song" (shared with Fran Walsh) (from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)	Won
2003	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won	[69]
2013		The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Nominated	[70]
2015		Spotlight	Nominated	[71]

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2011	Best Score	Hugo	Nominated	[72]

Satellite Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2003	Best Original Score	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Nominated	[73]
2004		The Aviator	Nominated	[74]
2007		Eastern Promises	Nominated	[75]
2010	Best Original Song	"Eclipse" (All Yours)" (from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ) (shared with Emily Haines and James Shaw)	Nominated	[76]
2015	Best Original Score	Spotlight	Nominated	[77]

Saturn Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1986	Best Music	The Fly	Nominated	[78]
1988		Dead Ringers	Nominated
1991		The Silence of the Lambs	Nominated
1994		Ed Wood	Won
1995		Seven	Nominated
2001		The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated
2002		The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Nominated
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won
2011		Hugo	Nominated	[79]
2012		The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	[80]
2013		The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Nominated	[81]
2014		The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Nominated	[82]
2022		Crimes of the Future	Nominated	[83]

Seattle Film Critics Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2004	Best Music	The Aviator	Won	[84]

Society of Composers & Lyricists

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2019	Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film	The Song of Names	Nominated	[85]

St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Original Score	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Nominated	[86]

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2011	Best Original Score	Hugo	Nominated	[87]
2012		The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	[88]

World Soundtrack Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Soundtrack Composer of the Year	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Nominated	[89]
	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year		Won
	Public Choice Award		Won
2003	Soundtrack Composer of the Year	Gangs of New York	Nominated
	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year		Nominated
	Best Original Song Written for a Film	"Gollum's Song" (shared with Fran Walsh, Janet Roddick, David Donaldson, Steve Roche, David Long, and Emiliana Torrini) (from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers )	Nominated
2004		"Into the West" (shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox) (from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)	Nominated
2005	Soundtrack Composer of the Year	The Aviator	Nominated
	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year		Nominated
2012	Soundtrack Composer of the Year	Hugo	Nominated
	Best Original Soundtrack of the Year	A Dangerous Method , Cosmopolis , and Hugo	Nominated
2013		The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated
2014	Public Choice Award	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Nominated

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