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Bill Sherman

Bill Sherman

Composer, also actor · USA

Primetime Emmy nominee · 1 other major award body

Bill Sherman is an award-winning composer, producer, arranger, and orchestrator. He is best known for his work on In The Heights (2021), Sesame Street (1969) and tick, tick...Boom! (2021). Bill won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for In the Heights and the 2008 Grammy Award as the co-producer of the In The Heights Original Broadway Cast Album. He also won the 2011 Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song-Children's and Animation for Sesame Street's "What I Am" and the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song-Children's and Animation for Sesame Street's "The Power of Yet" as well as the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song-Children's and Animation for Sesame Street's "A Song About Songs" featuring Sia. He is also a proud member of NY's premier hip-hop, improv and comedy group, Freestyle Love Supreme.

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Biography from IMDb.

From
USA
Works as
Composer, also actor
Titles
19 on MovieCove · 28 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 156 days to Oct 27Down 11% in 30 days

What are Bill Sherman's films like?

Across their 14 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 11 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

Light 11 · Serious 0 · Dark 0

Grounded 5 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 1

Gentle 8 · Charged 2 · Intense 1

Steady 10 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 6 · Funny 4

Slow burn 6 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 0

Casual 10 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0

Resolved 11 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Joyful
11
Warm
13
Hopeful
10
Absurd
3
Melancholic
2
Other
3

How their films end

  • Happy10
  • Bittersweet3
  • Ambiguous1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Bill Sherman's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 13 of their 19 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Subscription and free streaming for Bill Sherman's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

28 credits, 19 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Kill Me(2026)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
  • The Muppet Show(2026)

    Composer · Executive Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
  • Cookie Monster's Bake Sale: Back to School (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    Music Director

  • Oscar's Handmade Halloween (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Music Director

  • Theater Camp(2023)

    Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
  • Jam Van (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Show Creator

  • Office Race(2023)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
  • Work It Out Wombats!(2023)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all shows
  • Alma's Way(2021)

    Show 65 episodes · Main Title Theme Composer

    Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows
  • In the Heights(2021)

    Composer · Executive Music Producer

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
  • Donkey Hodie(2021)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all shows
  • Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate(2020)

    Composer · Music Director

    Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • Oh, Hello on Broadway(2017)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
  • All Things Must Pass(2015)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
  • Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Composer

  • In Deep Water (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Composer

  • The Queen of Code (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Composer

  • Nature Cat(2015)

    Show Composer

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all shows
  • Sesame Street: Elmo's Shape Adventure (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Music Director

  • Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Additional Music

  • Sesame Street(1969)

    Show 13 episodes · Music Director

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
  • Octet (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Executive Music Producer

Career shape

A full career of 22 titles, 21 of them dated from 1969 to 2026.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Music17 of 22: 16 only music, 1 with another role · typical Midcredits score79thOther crew6 of 22: 5 only other crew, 1 with another role

By decade

1960s1 · crew2000s1 · crew2010s10 · crew2020s9 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

2 major awards from 5 major nominations, 2009–2026.

WinNomination
  1. 2026
    • Grammy Award, nominated · Best Musical Theater Album
  2. 2022
    • Grammy Award, nominated · Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
  3. 2016
    • Grammy Award, won · Best Musical Theater Album
  4. 2009
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
    • +1 other major body · 1 win
      • Grammy Award, won · Best Musical Show Album

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Bill Sherman's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 77th percentile, the median of all 14; across their 11 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 78th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

78thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Approval · how many liked their films

71stpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Reach · how many have seen their films

57thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Midcredits score across 19 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up8
  • 50th to 74th4
  • 25th to 49th6
  • Below 25th1

Reviewers score the sound and music 71/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 75, detractors 43. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Bill Sherman work with?

People who share at least 2 of Bill Sherman's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; David Rudman shares the most, 6.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers and editors

Producers