Awards Season is well and truly underway and the nominees for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards are to be announced on Monday 11th December. The Golden Globes are one of the major precursors when determining which films will be big players at the upcoming Academy Awards. Other precursors to come in the next few months include: The BAFTA, SAG, Critic’s Choice, DGA and PGA awards.
One of my favourite categories come awards season is Original Score. No film can have a real impact emotionally without a fantastic score to match its tonal beats and we have heard some fantastic scores over the years. There have been many great scores this year, making it very difficult to predict will make the nomination list on Monday 11th December. At this stage the only real certainties are Ludwig Goransson and Robbie Robertson for their musical work on “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” respectively.
Personally, I would love to see a nomination for “Past Lives” here as it is my favourite score so far this year and the music alone left me a complete wreck by the end of the film.
A major change from the HFPA this year is the increase from five to six nominees per category.
Below is my current and possibly final predictions for Golden Globe nominees in Original Score:
Predicted Six
- Oppenheimer (Ludwig Goransson)
- Killers of the Flower Moon (Robbie Robertson)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Daniel Pemberton)
- Elemental (Thomas Newman)
- Poor Things (Jerskin Fendrix)
- American Fiction (Laura Karpman)
Possible Contenders
- The Boy and the Heron (Joe Hisaishi)
- The Zone of Interest (Mica Levi)
- Past Lives (Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen)
- Saltburn (Anthony Willis)
- Origin (Kris Bowers)
Outsiders
- Society of the Snow (Michael Giacchino)
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (John Williams)
- The Killer (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross)
- Barbie (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt)
- The Creator (Hans Zimmer)
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