The World Soundtrack Academy announced the winners of the World Soundtrack Awards 2011 at last night’s closing event of the 38th Ghent International Film Festival. Alexandre Desplat was chosen as Film Composer of the Year 2011. Hans Zimmer received the award for Best Orginal Film Score of the Year for Inception and Randy Newman was awarded for his song We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 in the Best Original Song Written for Film category. Alex Heffes received the Discovery of the Year Award for The First Grader & The Rite. The Public Choice Award went to A.R. Rahman for the film 127 hours. Among the composers in attendance at the event were Giorgio Moroder who was the recipient of the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as Gabriel Yared, Hans Zimmer, Elliot Goldenthal, Alexandre Desplat, Alex Heffes and Abel Korzeniowski. For a short video news report in Dutch from the event including interviews with Moroder, Desplat and Zimmer, visit Redactie.be.
Here are the winners:
Film Composer of the Year
Alexandre Desplat (A Better Life, The Burma Conspiracy, The King’s Speech, The Three of Life, The Well Digger’s Daughter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : Part 2)
Best Original Film Score of the Year 2010
Inception by Hans Zimmer
Best original song written for Film
We Belong Together from Toy Story 3
By Randy Newman
Discovery of the Year
Alex Heffes for The First Grader & The Rite
Public Choice Award
127 Hours by A.R Rahman
Sabam Award for Best Young European Composer
Gabriel Heinrich
Lifetime Achievement Award
Giorgio Moroder
