{"id":120863,"date":"2025-09-04T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=120863"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:38:31","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-composers-nominated-for-world-soundtrack-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/09\/04\/120863-lord-of-the-rings-composers-nominated-for-world-soundtrack-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Rings composers nominated for World Soundtrack Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">The War of the Rohirrim and The Rings of Power are both nominated in one of the most prestigious music awards competitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/global\/discovery-of-the-year-award-world-soundtrack-awards-1236508039\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Variety<\/a>, which has the entire nominees list, two The Lord of the Rings projects are individually nominated in their respective categories. Bear McCreary (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearmccreary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Instagram<\/a>) is nominated for Season 2 of The Rings of Power, and Stephen Gallagher (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stephengallaghermusic\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a>) is nominated for The War of the Rohirrim. This marks the <strong>first time in history<\/strong> that Tolkien adaptations in both TV and Film are recognized for excellence at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World Soundtrack Nominees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the categories LOTR is competitive in for 2025 World Soundtrack Awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Television Composer of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Volker Bertelmann \u2013 \u201cThe Day of the Jackal\u201d; \u201cDune: Prophecy\u201d; \u201cThe Count of Monte Cristo\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Fleming, Gustavo Santaolalla \u2013 \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d (Season 2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ariel Marx \u2013 \u201cDying for Sex\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bear McCreary \u2013 \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d (Season 2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Martin Phipps \u2013 \u201cBlack Doves\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Theodore Shapiro \u2013 \u201cSeverance\u201d (Season 2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public Choice Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cBuio come il cuore\u201d (Dark Is the Heart) \u2013 David Cerquetti<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cHola Frida\u201d \u2013 Laetitia Pansanel-Garric<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cNi cha\u00eenes ni ma\u00eetres\u201d \u2013 Amine Bouhafa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cReagan\u201d \u2013 John Coda<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim\u201d \u2013 Stephen Gallagher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to talk more about music from The Lord of the Rings? Join the <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/theonering\" title=\"\">Discord<\/a> where members alerted us to this news first! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bear-gallagher-soundtrack-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Bear Mcreary and Stephen Gallagher LOTR composers\" class=\"wp-image-120864 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bear-gallagher-soundtrack-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bear-gallagher-soundtrack-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bear-gallagher-soundtrack-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bear-gallagher-soundtrack-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bear-gallagher-soundtrack-2048x1152.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bear-gallagher-soundtrack-255x143.png 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bear Mcreary and Stephen Gallagher LOTR composers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The War of the Rohirrim and The Rings of Power are both nominated in one of the most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":120864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3894,4132,3734,3925],"tags":[2344,2906],"class_list":["post-120863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-mccreary","category-music","category-the-rings-of-power","category-the-war-of-the-rohirrim","tag-awards","tag-soundtrack"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bear-gallagher-soundtrack.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-vrp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120867,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120863\/revisions\/120867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}