Primetime Emmy Award for Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
First awarded | 1955 |
Currently held by | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2023) |
Website | emmys |
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special.
Starting in 2019, the category recognizes scripted programs. Unscripted programs compete for Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special. [1]
Year | Program | Nominee(s) | Network |
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1955 | Dragnet | Walter Schumann | NBC |
Amahl and the Night Visitors | Gian-Carlo Menotti | NBC | |
A Christmas Carol | Bernard Herrmann | CBS | |
Light's Diamond Jubilee | Victor Young | [note 1] | |
Medic | NBC | ||
1956 | No Award Given | ||
1957 | No Award Given | ||
1958 | No Award Given | ||
1959 | No Award Given |
Note: The award presented in 1955 was for "Best Original Music Composed for TV"
Year | Program | Nominee(s) | Network |
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1960 | No Award Given | ||
1961 | No Award Given | ||
1962 | Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years | Richard Rodgers | ABC |
The Price of Tomatoes | Leith Stevens | NBC | |
Project XX | Robert Russell Bennett | ||
Second Chance | John Williams | ABC | |
Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait | Jacques Belasco | NBC | |
1963 | Project XX | Robert Russell Bennett | NBC |
The Dick Powell Show | Joseph Mullendore | NBC | |
Flashing Spikes | John Williams | ABC | |
Labyrinth | Gian-Carlo Menotti | NBC | |
1964 | |||
The Making of the President 1960 | Elmer Bernstein | ABC | |
East Side/West Side | Kenyon Hopkins | CBS | |
Elizabeth Taylor in London | John Barry | ||
Greece: The Golden Age | George Kleinsinger | NBC | |
The Kremlin | Georges Auric | ||
Saga of a Western Man | Ulpio Minucci, Joe Moon and Rayburn Wright | ABC | |
1965 | No Award Given | ||
1966 | No Award Given | ||
1967 | No Award Given | ||
1968 | No Award Given | ||
1969 | No Award Given |
Note: Award titled Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed for Television 1962–64
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