The World Soundtrack Academy has announced the nominees for the 2020 World Soundtrack Awards in all categories , including Film Composer of the Year, TV Composer of the Year and Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. The winners will be announced at the 20th anniversary edition of the World Soundtrack Awards, which will be be an online edition, live-streamed from Kinepolis Ghent on October 24, 2020. Among the previously announced guests at the ceremony are Alexandre Desplat, record holder of the World Soundtrack Film Composer of the Year Award, Gabriel Yared, who will receive a Lifetime Achievement, and Michael Abels, Discovery of the Year 2019.
Here are the nominations:
Film Composer of the Year
Alexandre Desplat
Little Women, J’accuse, Adults in the Room
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Joker
Thomas Newman
1917
Benjamin Wallfisch
It Chapter Two, The Invisible Man
John Williams
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
TV Composer of the Year
Lorne Balfe
His Dark Materials
Nathan Barr
The Great, Hollywood, Carnival Row
Nicholas Britell
Succession (Season 2)
Carter Burwell
The Morning Show
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Watchmen
Best Original Song
I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away, Toy Story 4, Randy Newman
(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again, Rocketman, Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Into The Unknown, Frozen II, Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
One Little Soldier, Bombshell, Regina Spektor
Stand Up, Harriet, Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo
Public Choice
Alfonso G. Aguilar, Klaus
Hannes De Maeyer, Torpedo
John Powell, The Call of the Wild
Lolita Ritmanis, Blizzard of Souls
Joep Sporck, Kruimeltje
Discovery of the Year
Dascha Dauenhauer, Berlin Alexanderplatz
Bryce Dessner, The Two Popes
Tom Howe, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Daniel Lopatin, Uncut Gems
Christopher Willis, The Personal History of David Copperfield
Best Original Score for a Belgian Production
Vincent Cahay, Adoration
Hannes De Maeyer, Torpedo
Mauro Pawlowski, Cleo
SABAM Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer
Hamish Ander
Louis Edlinger
Ana Kasrashvili
