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2009 World Soundtrack Awards Nominations Announced

Posted on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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The World Soundtrack Academy have announced the list of nominees for the three principal categories in the World Soundtrack Awards: Film Composer of the Year, Best Original Score of the Year and Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. Slumdog Millionaire leads the nominations. Check out the full list of nominations after the jump.

FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

  • CARTER BURWELL (Burn After Reading, Twilight)
  • ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Coco Avant Chanel, Largo Winch, Cheri)
  • DANNY ELFMAN (Milk, Taking Woodstock, Notorious)
  • MICHAEL GIACCHINO (Star Trek, Up, Land of the Lost)
  • HANS ZIMMER (Frost/Nixon, Angels & Demons, The Dark Knight)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE OF THE YEAR

  • BURN AFTER READING by Carter Burwell
  • THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON by Alexandre Desplat
  • FROST/NIXON by Hans Zimmer
  • THE INTERNATIONAL by Reinhold Heil, Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek
  • SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE by A.R. Rahman

BEST ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR A FILM

  • “GRAN TORINO” from ‘Gran Torino’
    Music & Lyrics by Jamie Cullum, Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
    Performed by Jamie Cullum & Don Runner
  • “JAI HO” from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
    Music by : A.R. Rahman
    Lyrics by Gulzar and Tanvi Shah
    Performed by A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaksmi Iyver, Vijay Prakash
    Published by KM Musiq ltd
  • “O SAYA” from Slumdog Millionaire’
    Music & Lyrics by A.R. Rahman and Mathangi Arulpragasam
    Performed by M.I.A. & A.R. Rahman
    Published by KM Musiq ltd
  • “RUN & HIDE” from ‘Je l’aimais’
    Music & lyrics by Anna Chalon
    Performed by Anna chalon
  • o “THE WRESTLER” from ‘The Wrestler’
    Music & lyrics by Bruce Springsteen
    Performed by Bruce Springsteen
    Published by Bruce Springsteen

The names of the winners will be announced on Saturday, October 17th at the closing event of the Ghent International Film Festival.

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  • isi123
    Surprising, there's no nomination for The Dark Knight. That movie had an awesome score!
  • quintushalls
    HANS ZIMMER (Frost/Nixon, Angels & Demons, The Dark Knight)
  • asianrage
    For FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR, I think it will come down to Alexandre Desplat and Michael Giacchino. Though I think Hans Zimmer should win.

    For BEST ORIGINAL SCORE OF THE YEAR, Desplat may get it.

    For BEST ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR A FILM, I'm hoping that the Bruce Springsteen song will win.
  • I'm surprised that The Dark Knight didn't get the nomination for Score of the Year. That score made that movie so much better.
  • chriscarmichael
    I thought Jon Brion did a great job with the score (and song) for Step Brothers.
    But he did even better on the Masterful Synecdoche New York soundtrack.
    He should be on this list instead of most of these other guys.
  • doctorfumanchu
    by world do u they mean hollywood?
  • DoctorControversy
    Composer of the Year - Giacchino hands down, for scoring three films that were so closely released, yet so diverse in their scores. Even Land of the Lost had a great score, and it was a meh movie at best.

    Original Score - Benjamin Button. Love or hate the movie, the music is beautiful.

    Best Original Song - Gran Torino. A fitting epilogue to an amazing picture.
  • prentice
    It's a shame I'll have to wait a year to see Mansell win something for Moon -- that was a damn good soundtrack.
  • I agree. It was a subtle score and not one that you would go around humming or anything but it controlled the mood of the film the entire time. Hopefully it will get some recognition at the Academy Awards. Hopefully the entire film does, really. Best Picture and Best Actor nominations are in order for that film. I think it would be cool to see Rockwell get nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor since he was both. lol
  • TheDev
    My god... "Gran Torino" is a horrible fuckin song... I can't believe it was even considered, let alone nominated... I hope springsteen wipes the floor with that song, especially after he got gyped at the oscars.
  • Kyle C.
    Yea, it's B.S. that nobody recognizes the brilliance of The Dark Knight's score. It's my favorite score in a long time and it made the movie even more epic. It is the first film score I've bought since The Rock, also by Hans Zimmer
  • TheRealMrB
    No Coraline? Bruno Coulais's work on that film was perfect.
  • Happy_Evil_Dude
    The irony about all this "original song" stuff, is that Jai Ho wasn't "written directly" for Slumdog Millionaire. It was written for another film but was rejected, so A.R. Rahman plucked it out of the trash an tacked it on to Slumdog.
  • nic1
    Good - Springsteen can get what Oscar so stupidly didn't give. Springsteen not winning for The Wrestler will go down as one of Oscar's all time biggest gaffs I say.
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