Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2025 Winners List: ‘Sinners,’ “Golden” & More

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners was the big winner at the 16th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards on Wednesday night, picking up three statuettes including Best Score and Song for a feature film and Best On-Screen Performance. The latter two wins were for “I Lied to You,” which was written by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson and performed by Miles Caton. Göransson also picked up the Score trophy.

The documentary Diane Warren: Relentless and Fabrizio Mancinelli for indie feature Out of the Nest were the other multiple winners, snagging two statuettes each during the ceremony at the Avalon in Hollywood. There also were double wins from the Wicked world: Director Jon M. Chu took the inaugural HMMA for Music-Themed Film, Biopic or Musical for Wicked: For Good — which will storm theaters around the world on Friday — and the TV special Wicked: One Wonderful Night won for Music Performance / Special Program.

The juggernaut film KPop Demon Hunters tracked down a Best Song – Animated Film trophy for the No. 1 pop single “Golden,” and the title tune from Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest picked up the Best Song – Independent Film prize. Diane Warren won Best Song – Documentary for “Dear Me.”

Lady Gaga and Andrew Watt also were among the HMMA winners, taking Best Song – TV Show/Limited Series for the Gaga-sung “The Dead Dance” from Tim Burton’s Wednesday.

Here are all the winners at the 2025 Hollywood Music in Media Awards:

SONG – FEATURE FILM
“I Lied To You” from Sinners. Written by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson. Performed by Miles Caton

SONG – INDEPENDENT FILM
“Highest 2 Lowest” from Highest 2 Lowest. Written By Aiyana-Lee Anderson and Nicole Daciana Anderson. Performed by Aiyana-Lee

SONG – DOCUMENTARY FILM
“Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless. Written by Diane Warren. Performed by Kesha and Diane Warren

SONG – ANIMATED FILM
“Golden” from Kpop Demon Hunters. Written by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun. Performed by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami

SONG – ON-SCREEN PERFORMANCE (FILM)
Miles Caton – “I Lied to You” from Sinners

SCORE – ANIMATED FILM
Tom Howe – Dog Man

SCORE – FEATURE FILM
Ludwig Göransson – Sinners

SCORE – SCI-FI/FANTASY FILM
Simon Franglen – Avatar: Fire and Ash

SCORE – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES
Theodore Shapiro – Severance

SCORE – INDEPENDENT FILM
Jeff Beal – Rule Breakers

SCORE – INDEPENDENT FILM (FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Fabrizio Mancinelli – Out of the Nest

SCORE – HORROR/THRILLER FILM
Benjamin Wallfisch – Wolf Man

SCORE – DOCUMENTARY
Anne Nikitin – Pangolin – Kulu’s Journey

MUSIC-THEMED FILM, BIOPIC OR MUSICAL
Wicked: For Good – Jon M. Chu (director)

MUSIC DOCUMENTARY – SPECIAL PROGRAM
Diane Warren: Relentless – Bess Kargman (director)

SONG – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES
“The Dance” from Wednesday. Written by Lady Gaga and Andrew Watt. Performed by Lady Gaga

SONG – ON-SCREEN PERFORMANCE – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES
Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles – “Our Highway” (The Bondsman S1) Written by Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles

MAIN TITLE – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES
Your Friends & Neighbors – Dominic Lewis and Hamilton Leithauser

SCORE – SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Carl Thiel – El Lazo De Petra

SCORE – SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Qing Madi – Valorant

SCORE – SHORT FILM (DOCUMENTARY)
Benjamin Westphalen – A Dream Called Khushi (Happiness)

SCORE – INDEPENDENT FILM (FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Fabrizio Mancinelli – Out of the Nest

SCORE – DOCUMENTARY SERIES -TV/DIGITAL
Duncan Thum and David Bertok – Chef’s Table: Legends

SCORE – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES (FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Arturo Cardelús – Terra Alta

SCORE – VIDEO GAME (CONSOLE & PC)
League Of Legends: Welcome to Noxus – League of Legends (Bill Hemstapat, Sebastien Najand, Alex Seaver, J.D. Spears, Alexander Temple, Richard Thomson, Seth Tsui, Gong Ao, Merlin Cen)

SONG – VIDEO GAME (CONSOLE & PC)
“Against the Tide” from Wuthering Waves. Written by Obadiah Brown-Beach. Performed by Forts and Obadiah Brown-Beach.

SONG/SCORE – MOBILE VIDEO GAME
AFK Journey – Alec Justice

MUSIC SUPERVISION – TV SHOW/LIMITED SERIES
Sean Fernald – Dexter: Resurrection

MUSIC SUPERVISION – FILM
Nick Angel – Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy

MUSIC SUPERVISION – VIDEO GAME
Steve Schnur – Battlefield 6

SONG/SCORE – COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT
Apple: 6 Out Of 5 Stars – Silo: Music – Neil Ormandy, Linkoln, and Allen Stone

SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
F1 – Atlantic Records

SONG – SHORT FILM
“Stars In My Eyes” from Sweetwater. Written by Sean Douglas. Performed by Kyra Sedgwick

SCORE – TV/STREAMED MOVIE
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy – Dustin O’Halloran

MUSIC DESIGN – TRAILER
Necaxa (FX – Hulu) – Juan Carlos Enriquez

MAIN TITLE – TV SHOW (FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
On the High Seas – Sandrine Rudaz

MUSIC VIDEO (INDEPENDENT)
Evanescence – “Afterlife”

LIVE CONCERT FOR VISUAL MEDIA
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl – The Lion King Cast

EXHIBITIONS, THEME PARKS, SPECIAL PROJECTS
“Opening” Walt Disney World’s Epcot: Test Track – Zain Effendi

SONG/SCORE – NEW MEDIA
La Pandora’s Box Written by Victoria Dawson, Nadeem Majdalany, Camille J. Thomas, Carmen A. Thomas, Shannon K., Luke Shrestha, Simon Jay. Performed by memyself&vi

MUSIC PERFORMANCE / SPECIAL PROGRAM
Wicked: One Wonderful Night

SONG – DOCUMENTARY SERIES – TV/LIMITED SERIES
“Go Steady” from Parenthood. Written by Tom Howe and Sam Ryder