MOVIE MUSIC UK

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2025.

In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are:

• JOSCELIN DENT-POOLEY (JERSKIN FENDRIX) for Bugonia
• ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for Frankenstein
• LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Sinners
• JONNY GREENWOOD for One Battle After Another
• MAX RICHTER for Hamnet

This is the first nomination for Richter, the second nomination for Dent-Pooley, the third nomination for Greenwood, the fourth nomination for Göransson (the third in this category), and the twelfth nomination for Desplat. Göransson previously won for Black Panther in 2018 and Oppenheimer in 2023. Desplat previously won for The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014 and The Shape of Water in 2017

In the Best Original Song category, the nominees are:

• NICK CAVE and BRYCE DESSNER for “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams
• EUN-JAE KIM (“EJAE”), MARK SONNENBLICK, SOON-HEON JEONG (“24”), GYU-KWAK JOONG, YU-HAN LEE, HEE-DONG NAM (“IDO”) and TEDDY PARK for “Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters
• NICHOLAS PIKE for “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi!
• RAPHAEL SAADIQ and LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for “I Lied to You” from Sinners
• DIANE WARREN for “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless

The winners of the 98th Academy Awards will be announced on March 15, 2026.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the winners of the 97th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2024.

In the Best Original Music category, the winner was Daniel Blumberg, who won the award for his score for The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet’s epic drama about the life of a fictional Hungarian architect who emigrates to the United States in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Accepting his award, Blumberg said:

Thank you to the Academy and everyone who watched the film and honored the work. It means a lot to be acknowledged like this. I’ve been an artist for twenty years now, since I was a teenager, and when I met Brady [Corbet] I found my artistic soulmate. For him to trust me in this work and to grow alongside him has been so special; thank you, Brady, I love you. I want to thank my collaborators, my co-producer Peter Walsh, and the artists who played on the score. The sounds you hear on The Brutalist are made by a group of hard-working radical musicians who have been making uncompromising music for many years; I’m accepting this award on behalf of them too. Thanks to my family and Stacy [Martin], and my manager Mark, Keith, and Mona [Fastvold] and Ada, and my friends at Café Oto.

The other nominees were: Volker Bertelmann for Conclave, Kris Bowers for The Wild Robot, Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais for Emilia Pérez, and John Powell and Stephen Schwartz for Wicked.

In the Best Original Song category, the winners were Clément Ducol, Camille Dalmais, and Jacques Audiard for their song “El Mal” from the Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez.

The other nominees were Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada for “Like a Bird” from Sing Sing, Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais for “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Brandi Carlile, and Andrew Watt for “Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late, and Diane Warren for “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight.