Nominees for World Soundtrack Awards

World Soundtrack Academy

Launched in 2001 by Film Fest Gent, the World Soundtrack Academy aims at supporting the art of film music & sound design and its worldwide promotion. In the meantime the membership of the WSA grew into a group of more than 370 international professionals (composers, talent agents, publicists, directors and music producers) who decide on the annual WSAwards through several rounds of voting.

Film Composer of the Year

Marco Beltrami A Good Day to Die Hard, Carrie, The Homesman, Snowpiercer, Warm Bodies, The Wolverine, World War Z

Alexandre Desplat The Grand Budapest Hotel, Godzilla, The Monuments Men, Venus in Fur, Philomena, Zulu, Marius

Steven Price Gravity, The World’s End

Gabriel Yared A Promise, In Secret, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Tom à la Ferme

Hans Zimmer 12 Years A Slave, Man Of Steel, Rush, The Lone Ranger

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Best Original Film Score of the Year

All is Lost by Alexander Ebert

Gravity by Steven Price

Her by Arcade Fire

The Grand Budapest Hotel by Alexandre Desplat

12 Years a Slave by Hans Zimmer

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Best Original Song written directly for a Film

Amen from 'All is Lost'
Music & lyrics by Alexander Ebert, performed by Alexander Ebert

Happy from 'Despicable Me 2'
Music, lyrics & performed by Pharrell Williams

Let It Go from 'Frozen'
Music & lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, performed by Idina Menzel

Ordinary Love from 'Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom'
Music & lyrics by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., Brian Burton, performed by U2

The Moon Song from 'Her'
Music & lyrics by Karen O. & Spike Jonze, performed by Scarlett Johansson & Joaquin Phoenix

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Discovery of the Year

Emerging film composing talent. Voted by the WSA Advisory Board.

Steven Price
Gravity & The World's End

Jérôme Lemonnier
La Chair de Ma Chair & Zum Geburtstag

Patrick Cassidy
Calvary

Denis Sanacore
The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet

Daniel Pemberton
Cuban Fury & The Counselor

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Public Choice Award

All soundtrack and film music fans worldwide are asked to cast their vote for what they consider the best soundtrack of the past 12 months (for any film released between 1 JULY, 2013 and 30 JUNE, 2014). The soundtrack that gets the highest number of votes will receive the Public Choice Award. Only one vote is allowed per person. The voting procedure is monitored by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The voting period was set from 2013-07-08 to 2013-09-15

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Composer: Howard Shore

Prisoners
Composer: Johann Johannsson

Metro Manila
Composer: Robin Foster

Marina
Composer: Michelino Bisceglia

Last Passenger
Composer: Liam Bates

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SABAM Award For Best Young European Composer

Moritz Schmittat

Hugo Lippens

Cyril Molesti

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Cliff Martinez and Dan Romer in concert
This year’s central guest is Cliff Martinez, American film music composer and former drummer of the 'Red Hot Chili Peppers'. The WSA concert will mainly focus on his long-time collaboration with Steven Soderbergh, for whom he composed several soundtracks (Traffic, Contagion and Solaris). His cult score for 'Only God Forgives' will also be on the programme. In line with tradition, the WSAwards also welcomes Dan Romer, who was crowned Discovery of 2013. The former frontman and acoustic guitar player of indie rock band Fire Flies earned this title for his score of the feature 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'.

Francis Lai and Flemish composer Jef Neve
Following the 41st Film Fest Gent’s focus on Cinéma français, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to French composer Francis Lai at the 14th World Soundtrack Awards. In addition to the oeuvre of Lai, Jef Neve’s captivating music for the prestigious Flemish drama series 'In Vlaamse Velden' will also be getting some well-deserved attention.

Brussels Philharmonic will be performing the music from and with the composers, conducted by Dirk Brossé and accompanied by film fragments on screen.

Discovery & Spotify Public Choice Award
The Academy Board will select the five nominees for the Discovery of the Year 2014 by the end of August. In addition to the Awards presented by the Academy, the public can also vote for the Spotify Public Choice Award on the WSA website until 15 September. Voters can win an annual subscription for Spotify. You can listen to the WSA playlist and much more on the Spotify account of Film Fest Gent.

The 14th World Soundtrack Awards & Concert will take place on 25 October 2014 at Kuipke in Ghent. Tickets are available online from €30 on and €20 for students. All info can be found on the website www.worldsoundtrackawards.com.