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Jon Burlingame is one of the nation's leading writers on the subject of music for film and television.

John Murphy is a British film composer. He is a self-taught multi-instrumental musician who began his career in the 1980s, working with The Lotus Eaters, Thomas Lang, and Claudia Brücken. He has collaborated with directors Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, Michael Mann, Matthew Vaughn, Stephen Frears, and James Gunn. His awards include the Silver Award (1st Prize) at the Cannes Film Festival, a British D&AD Award, and a BMI Award.Murphy gained recognition in the film industry while working with Guy Ritchie on his film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Michael Mann's Miami Vice, Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass and scoring various films by Danny Boyle. His instrumental tracks "In the House – In a Heartbeat" from 28 Days Later and "Adagio in D Minor" from Sunshine have been featured in a variety of TV shows, commercials and film trailers.

Ramin Djawadi is a score composer, he is known for his scores for the 2008 Marvel film Iron Man and the HBO series Game of Thrones, for which he was nominated for Grammy Awards in 2009, 2018, and 2020.

Rachel Portman is a composer who is best known for scoring films.

Randall Stuart Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer and pianist. He is known for his distinctive voice, mordant pop songs, and film scores.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, rapper, and actor best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton.

David Newman is a composer, orchestrator, and conductor.

Joseph Shirley is a musical composer who scored The Book of Boba Fett and the third season of The Mandalorian.

Germaine Franco is a film composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger, record producer, and percussionist.

Natalie Ann Holt is a British composer who has worked on numerous film and television projects. She is primarily recognised for her work on several notable productions, including Paddington (2014) and Loki (2021–2023). She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and then the National Film and Television School and had a career as a classical violinist before becoming a film composer. Holt's distinction in her field was recognised by being made an associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2017.

Laura Anne Karpman is an American composer, whose work has included music for film, television, video games, theater, and the concert hall. She has won five Emmy Awards for her work. Karpman was trained at The Juilliard School, where she played jazz, and honed her skills scatting in bars.

Jean-Christophe Beck is a Canadian television and film score composer and conductor. He is a brother of pianist Chilly Gonzales. He is best known for his collaborations with Disney and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Frozen (2013) and its 2019 sequel, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) as well as its TV miniseries WandaVision (2021) and Hawkeye (2021) for Marvel Studios, and Free Guy (2021) for 20th Century Studios, as well as the company’s 100th anniversary logo. He also composed scores for all of Shawn Levy's films such as Big Fat Liar (2002), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Pink Panther (2006), The Internship (2013), and the 2023 DC Extended Universe film Shazam! Fury of the Gods. He is also noted for winning an Emmy Award in 1998 for his work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as for composing the soundtrack of The Hangover (2009).

John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films. He is best known for composing score for films, including Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, The Call of the Wild, Bolt, eight Blue Sky Studios films, and nine DreamWorks Animation films.His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand and Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him three Grammy nominations. He was nominated for an Academy Award for How to Train Your Dragon.Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams on Antz, Chicken Run and Shrek and Zimmer himself on Chill Factor, The Road to El Dorado, and the first two Kung Fu Panda films.

John Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American film composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades.

Henry Jackman is a composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, musician, and songwriter.

Ludwig Emil Tomas Göransson is a composer, conductor, and record producer.

Kristen Anderson-Lopez is a songwriter and lyricist known for co-writing the songs for the animated film Frozen.

Robert Lopez is a songwriter of musicals best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q and for composing the songs featured in the 3D Disney computer-animated films Frozen and Coco.

Alan Menken is a composer, songwriter, music conductor, music director, and record producer.