Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
First awarded | 2019 |
Currently held by | Lucy and Desi (2022) |
Website | emmys |
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special.
The category was created in 2019. Documentary programs previously competed for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special. [1]
Year | Program | Episode | Nominee(s) | Network |
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2019 (71st) [2] | ||||
Free Solo | Marco Beltrami and Brandon Roberts | Nat Geo | ||
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch | Hannah Peel | HBO | ||
Hostile Planet | "Oceans" | Benjamin Wallfisch | Nat Geo | |
Love, Gilda | Miriam Cutler | CNN | ||
Our Planet | "One Planet" | Steven Price | Netflix | |
RBG | Miriam Cutler | CNN |
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