More information on the World Soundtrack Awards can be found on: http://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com

Being curious, who do you think will win the various awards?? This is my choise..

1)Soundtrack Composer of the year: Hans Zimmer
2)Best Original Soundtrack of the year (orchestral): Final Fantasy (Elliot Goldenthal)
3)Best Original Song written directly for a film: Pearl Harbor (There You'll Be - Faith Hill)
4)Best Score of the year not released on album: Kiss of the Dragon (Craig Armstrong)
5)Public Choise Award: Shrek (John Powell)

The list can be found here! http://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com/pdf/soundtracks.pdf

Plz Vote and see who eventually will get the awards. Thx!

I didn't think "For Always" would be eligible (at least, it's not eligible for Academy Award consideration) because it doesn't show up in the film at all, and therefore isn't "written FOR the film".

(Williams even acknowledges himself that the idea to turn his theme from AI into a song was more of an afterthought than a planned event.)

I also like how they list Craig Armstrong as a nominee for the "Discovery of the Year (Young Film Composer) award when he's been around for a few years... and isn't "young" (at least, age-wise).

Dan

Rachel Portman CHOCOLAT, THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE

Yann Tiersen LE FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMELIE POULAIN

John Williams ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Hans Zimmer HANNIBAL, PEARL HARBOR, THE PLEDGE, AN EVERLASTING PIECE, etc.
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Best Original Soundtrack of the Year - Orchestral

John Williams ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Carter Burwell BEFORE NIGHT FALLS

Yann Tiersen LE FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMELIE POULAIN

Hans Zimmer HANNIBAL

Craig Armstrong, Marius De Vries MOULIN ROUGE
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Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film

Diane Warren and James Newton Howard 'Where The Dream Takes You' from ATLANTIS

Louis Crélier and Lucia Albertoni 'Cuante cose chiare' from AZZURRO

Daniel Tarrab and Andreas Goldstein 'Soy un angelito' from FELICIDADES

John Williams and Cynthia Weil 'For Always' from ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

David Baerwald 'Come What May' from MOULIN ROUGE
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Best Original Soundtrack Not Released on an Album

Don Davis ANTITRUST

Graeme Revell BLOW

Patrick Doyle BRIDGET JONES' DIARY

Craig Armstrong MOULIN ROUGE

Fréderic Devreese PAULINE & PAULETTE
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Discovery of the Year (young film composer)

Craig Armstrong KISS OF THE DRAGON, MOULIN ROUGE

Jeff Beal POLLOCK

Tan Dun CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON

Osvaldo Golijov THE MAN WHO CRIED

Panayotis Kalantzopoulos CHEAP SMOKES

Adam Norden BECK REVENGE
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My Picks:
1) Hans Zimmer
2) Aritificial Intelligence
3) For Always
4) Antitrust
5) Can't say. Dun and Armstrong don't count. They've been around for a while.
I don't know the others.

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Other than the nominees, I don't care much. It's been a pretty bad year.
If I had to pick one soundtrack which I would call soundtrack of the year, it would be Holdridge's The Mists of Avalon.
[read interview with composer at http://www.filmmusic.com ]
Other than that, Coulais' The Crimson Rivers deserves a nod. As does Davey's Tailor of Panama.
Song of the year? Either For Always or The Dream Within.
Unreleased score? Antitrust.
New composer discovery? Don't know. Can't think of one.