The Lifetime Achievement Award is an award given each year at the World Soundtrack Awards. Like other awards at other award academies, this award recognizes lifetime dedication and excellence in a specific field, in this case TV and film score (and sometimes just music in general). It has been given to at least one person each year since the Awards' debut in 2001.

Recipients

• 2001 - Elmer Bernstein
  Elmer Bernstein
  Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions...
  
  
• 2002 - George Martin
  George Martin
  Sir George Henry Martin CBE is an English record producer, arranger, composer and musician. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"— a title that he often describes as "nonsense," but the fact remains that he served as producer on all but one of The Beatles' original albums...
  
  
• 2003 - Maurice Jarre
  Maurice Jarre
  Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor.Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia...
  
  
• 2004 - Alan Bergman
  Alan Bergman
  Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...
  
  and Marilyn Bergman
  Marilyn Bergman
  Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English at New York University...
  
  
• 2005 - Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
• 2006 - Peer Raben
  Peer Raben
  Peer Raben was a composer best known for his work with German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.-Life:Raben was born Wilhelm Rabenbauer in Viechtach, Bavaria...
  
  
• 2007 - Mikis Theodorakis
  Mikis Theodorakis
  Mikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...
  
  
• 2008 - Angelo Badalamenti
  Angelo Badalamenti
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• 2009 - Marvin Hamlisch
  Marvin Hamlisch
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• 2010 - John Barry
  John Barry (composer)
  John Barry Prendergast, OBE was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987...