MOVIE MUSIC UK

The Golden Globe Foundation (GGF) has announced the winners of the 83rdd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2025.

In the Best Original Score category composer Ludwig Göransson won the award for his incredibly authentic score for Sinners, director Ryan Coogler’s historical horror-drama about a pair of brothers who return home to depression-era Mississippi to open a juke joint blues club, only to see it attacked by vampires and members of the local Ku Klux Klan. This is the second Golden Globe win for Göransson – he previously won for Oppenheimer in 2024. In the acceptance speech Göransson, said:

 “Wow wow. Thank you. I mean, first of all, Ryan Coogler, you wrote an incredible movie, directed an incredible movie about a guitar player, about a musician. I think everyone here and everyone in this industry is just… I feel we’re grateful to be living in a timeline with you in it right now. Thank you, Ryan. I also wanted to thank our producers Zinzi Evans, Sev Ohanian, and our executive music producer and my partner Serena Göransson, and also Raphael Saadiq for writing such an incredible song for this film, “I Lied To You.” I also just want to take a little moment to just thank our incredible cast that was amazing to work with. Miles Caton, he learned how to play a guitar in three and a half months, and that was not easy. What you saw there is live! I mean, he played with a slide, and that was amazing. Wunmi Mosaku, every time you were on screen you were just… the music was just coming to me, it was so inspiring. I was on set for almost three months for this film,and being there while Michael B. Jordan was playing two characters was weird… because it was so incredible to witness and your devotion to the craft and how incredible your performance was really made my job easy, so thank you. Thank you.”

The other nominees were Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another, David Letellier (“Kangding Ray”) for Sirāt, Max Richter for Hamnet, and Hans Zimmer for F1.

Controversially, the organizers of the Golden Globes decided to present the Best Original Score award during a commercial break, and as such the presentation and Göransson speech was not shown during the television broadcast airing of the ceremony. This decision was heavily criticized by almost all members of the film music community. Talking to a reporter from Variety before the ceremony, nominee Hans Zimmer said:

“I think it’s a shame not to honor those people –  my friends – who work so hard to become a voice. As a person who has been making films forever, everybody who works on a film works their utmost, doesn’t get any sleep, there are no weekends. I think the work should always be acknowledged. This year is a fantastic year for composers — don’t ignore them, you don’t have a movie without them.”

In the Best Original Song category, the winners were Eun-Jae Kim (Ejae), Mark Sonnenblick, Joong-Gyu Kwak, Yu-Han Lee, Hee-Dong Nam (Ido), Jung-Hoon Seo (24), and Teddy Park for “Golden” from the smash hit animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters.

The other nominees were Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner for “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams; Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, and Simon Franglen for “Dream as One” from Avatar: Fire and Ash; Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson for “I Lied to You” from Sinners; and Stephen Schwartz for “No Place Like Home” and “The Girl in the Bubble” both from Wicked: For Good