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Joy Ngiaw is an Emmy Award-winning composer celebrated for her emotionally rich and inventive scores. She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for an Animated Program for her work on WondLa (Apple TV+), becoming the first Malaysian to win an Emmy Award. She collaborated closely with industry titan John Lasseter (Toy Story), and her Annie-nominated score was featured in IndieWire’s “Best TV Scores of the Year” alongside The White Lotus and Severance. She also made history as the youngest composer to score a major studio logo for Skydance Animation. Most recently, she composed the score for Angel Studios theatrical romantic comedy Solo Mio, starring Kevin James.
Joy first gained recognition with Blush (Apple TV+), Skydance Animation’s debut short, which earned her the Best Music Award from the Hollywood Music in Media Awards and her first Annie nomination. A 2024 BAFTA Breakthrough USA honoree, she was also selected for the NBCUniversal Composers Initiative and featured in Apple Southeast Asia’s Here’s to the Dreamers 2025 campaign spotlighting creative talents across the region. Joy serves on the Member Engagement Committee of the Recording Academy’s Los Angeles Chapter. As a pianist and vocalist, she brings a distinctive touch to her work, experimenting with tones, textures, and vocal techniques such as breaths, mouth percussion, and hums.
Her other credits include Monkeypaw Productions’ The Pigs Underneath, Mattel/Netflix’s Barbie Mysteries, Netflix/CBS's Glamorous, Walt Disney Animation Studios' Short Circuit, and Netflix's Rescued by Ruby.
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