by Jonathan Broxton and Peter Simons

Score of the Year | Composer of the Year | Newcomer of the Year | Drama/Romantic Drama | Comedy/Romantic Comedy | Animation | Thriller/Action/Adventure | Fantasy/Science-Fiction/Horror | Documentary | Foreign Language Film | Television | Game | Song | Single Cue | Re-release or Re-recording | Compilation | Unreleased | List of Eligible Scores


SCORE OF THE YEAR

 In the end, the battle for score of the year came down to a straight fight between three scores - Patrick Doyle’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, James Newton Howard’s King Kong, and Debbie Wiseman’s Arsène Lupin. It was difficult choosing between the three, but ultimately Doyle’s work won out. It’s impressive dramatic sensibility, enormous action material and overpowering sense of brooding darkness, combined with several lush romantic cues and effortless incorporation of John Williams’s earlier themes, made it an immediate standout, and a superb entry into an already musically excellent series of films. Howard, of course, was a last minute addition to the crew of Kong, and considering the enormous time constrains he was under, his final product is amazing: a rewarding combination of comedy and thunderous action, with an emotionally satisfying choral climax that endows the simian lead character with the nobility he deserves. Wiseman’s film was actually released in France in 2004, but did not reach UK or US audiences until 2005, hence its inclusion in this year’s list. Never before has her music been so powerful, or her action so bold – if the major film studios don’t come knocking on her door after this effort, there is something seriously wrong with the world. Alexandre Desplat’s Hostage was a surprisingly lyrical and melodic thriller score for an intriguing film: not many composers would make the instrumental choices he did for this excellent score, which further enhances his reputation as one of the most exciting and interesting composers to emerge in recent years. Finally, Mark Isham’s Crash proves that you don’t need an enormous symphonic palette to elicit the right emotions from your audience, using delicately programmes electronics to underscore the searing emotional drama at the centre of Paul Haggis’s superb film. Unfortunately, the two scores which got their noses pushed out of the final reckoning were John Williams’ pair Memoirs of a Geisha and War of the Worlds, both outstanding scores in their own right but which unfortunately had to make way in the final tally.


COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

 Patrick Doyle only wrote two scores in 2005, but both were amazing. As you’ve read, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE is my choice of Score of the Year, while his delightfully charming comedy score NANNY McPHEE was also greatly impressive. Doyle has been knocking on Hollywood’s big front door for years and years, writing great score after great score and garnering Oscar nominations without ever truly breaking through into the mainstream. It’s finally his time to shine, and his efforts make him the Composer of the Year. John Williams ran Doyle a very close second with his four works – REVENGE OF THE SITH, WAR OF THE WORLDS, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA and MUNICH. While none of them (with the possible exception of Memoirs) was a genuine score of the year candidate, it’s nevertheless hugely impressive that he can still write music of this class and calibre despite his advancing years. Danny Elfman returned to his song writing roots for his two scores, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and CORPSE BRIDE, channelling his old Oingo Boingo persona into the modern era and emerging with a cache of ebullient tunes and enjoyable scores to match. James Horner was less high profile than usual, but no less prolific: despite just one box office smash (FLIGHTPLAN), his work on THE LEGEND OF ZORRO, THE CHUMSCRUBBER and THE NEW WORLD was as innovative and varied as he has been in years, and continues to show why he remains one of the world’s most sought after film music artists. Finally, the enormously talented Alexandre Desplat continues to impress, having written five scores in 2005 – HOSTAGE, THE UPSIDE OF ANGER, THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED, SYRIANA and CASANOVA – and looks set to be a major player in Hollywood in years to come, picking up the Frenchman’s mantle from Jarre and Delerue.

Other composers who had busy years in 2005 include perennial Bollywood favourites ANU MALIK and HIMESH RESHAMMIYA (9 scores each), JOHN DEBNEY (an amazing 8 scores), GRAEME REVELL (6 scores), and CHRISTOPHE BECK, GEORGE FENTON, MARK MOTHERSBAUGH and STEPHEN WARBECK (5 scores each).


NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

 Having been an emerging talent for several years in the UK, Joby Talbot finally burst onto the world stage in 2005 with his two scores – THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN’S APOCALYPSE - being among the best comedy scores of the year in their own right. Talbot’s wonderful work on these films, which showed he has both score and song-writing capabilities, truly marks him as a talent to watch. Jazz saxophonist Iain Ballamy made his film music debut scoring the psychedelic fantasy MIRRORMASK, and although his experimental efforts were not embraced by all, they nevertheless indicated plenty of potential. Korean-American composer Jee Hun Hwang followed in the footsteps of James Horner and Joel McNeely by scoring a watery James Cameron project, the IMAX feature ALIENS OF THE DEEP, with a pleasing and encouraging symphonic sensibility, while talented young Danish composer Jørgen Lauritsen made an impressive international debut with his dark, dramatic, startlingly good score for unique Scandinavian animation STRINGS. Finally, breakout composer Steve London contributed a plethora of orchestral histrionics to the low-budget horror hit SHALLOW GROUND – if he can restrain himself from his tendency to over-score things, look out for him in the future.

Other new names worth watching include HENNING LOHNER and MARTIN TILLMANN, who made their Zimmerless solo debut with The Ring Two; Canadian CLAUDE FOISY (White Noise); stylish Frenchman ALEXANDRE AZARIA (The Transporter 2); composer and source music expert JIM PAPOULIS (Good Night and Good Luck); Howard Shore’s nephew RYAN SHORE (Prime); Australian FRANK TETAZ (Wolf Creek); Ethiopian musician MULATU ASTATKE (Broken Flowers); and animation composer JOHN MARK PAINTER (Hoodwinked).


BEST SCORE - DRAMA OR ROMANTIC DRAMA

  • MARK ISHAM for Crash (Superb) - review
  • JAMES HORNER for The New World (New Line)
  • DARIO MARIANELLI for Pride & Prejudice (Decca)
  • THOMAS NEWMAN for Cinderella Man (Decca)
  • JOHN WILLIAMS for Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony Classical)
The Dramatic Score category was a straight-out fight between Mark Isham and John Williams, which in the end was won by Isham’s score for Crash, one of the standout ensemble dramas of the year, and a masterclass in showing how much emotional resonance and beauty can be achieved with the bare minimum of live instruments. Isham’s programming skills and deft use of samples along with his synthesised textures gave Paul Haggis’s film a powerful, ethereal, dream-like quality. John Williams’ Memoirs of a Geisha once again shows why he remains arguably the finest composer working in Hollywood today: a beautiful, mesmerising taste of the Orient which makes wonderful use of solo performances by violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma to add texture and depth to Williams’s writing. The potency of the music, accompanied by Rob Marshall’s sumptuous visuals, made this score the closest possible runner-up. James Horner’s score for Terence Malick’s The New World was a masterpiece of quiet, intimate scoring. His incorporation of birdsong, sounds of nature, and other unusual sampled elements into his usual array of orchestral textures proved that, when faced with the challenge of scoring a truly inspiring picture, the much-maligned composer remains a truly original thinker in a film music world where cormity remains the norm. Young Italian composer Dario Marianelli was channelling the spirit of Beethoven when he wrote the delicate, piano based score for the adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, a lovely work which featured some sublime performances by virtuoso pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and contained at least one cue – “Your Hands Are Cold” – to warm the heart of the coldest cynic. Finally, Thomas Newman wrote a quirky, attractive orchestral score for Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man, allowing the life of scrappy boxer Jim Braddock to take on an epic, emotionally resonant quality. The finale cues are among some of Newman’s finest efforts of the last few years.

Special mentions should also go to MARCO BELTRAMI for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, MYCHAEL DANNA for Capote and Where The Truth Lies, JOHN DEBNEY for Dreamer, ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for Casanova, Syriana and The Upside of Anger, GUY FARLEY for Modigliani, JOHN FRIZZELL for The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS for Kingdom of Heaven, JAMES HORNER for The Chumscrubber, ALBERTO IGLESIAS for The Constant Gardener, ELENI KARAINDROU for The Weeping Meadow, DEBORAH LURIE for An Unfinished Life, THOMAS NEWMAN for Jarhead, MICHAEL NYMAN for The Libertine, JOHN OTTMAN for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, RACHEL PORTMAN for Because of Winn-Dixie and Oliver Twist, ZBIGNIEW PREISNER for Beautiful Country, RICHARD ROBBINS for The White Countess, J. PETER ROBINSON for The World’s Fastest Indian, WILLIAM ROSS for The Game of Their Lives, GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA for Brokeback Mountain and North Country, HOWARD SHORE for A History of Violence, BRIAN TYLER for The Greatest Game Ever Played, STEPHEN WARBECK for Proof, JOHN WILLIAMS for Munich, and NANCY WILSON for Elizabethtown.


BEST SCORE - COMEDY OR ROMANTIC COMEDY

 Patrick Doyle’s mock-baroque score for the British comedy Nanny McPhee (yet to be released in the USA) is a delightful romp full of sparkling strings, raucous marches, and effortless magic, perfectly capturing the mischievous spirit of Emma Thompson’s titular babysitter with a gift for witchcraft. Think Mary Poppins as done by Tim Burton… Running Doyle a close second were two scores by British newcomer Joby Talbot - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse. The former is the big-screen adaptation of Douglas Adams unique sci-fi comedy about a star-hopping human named Arthur Dent and his adventures in the company of a beautiful woman, an alien travel journalist, a paranoid android, and the two-headed President of the Galaxy; the latter is a big-screen adaptation of the sick and twisted cult BBC comedy series which (to date) has not played in the USA – truly, a local score for local people. Mark Isham’s score for the juvenile comedy Racing Stripes was overlooked by most critics who only remembered the film’s idiotic talking animal conceit, but his work was actually bold and triumphant in the best traditions of the sports movie. Finally, Danny Elfman’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory revisited the subversiveness of the composer’s Oingo Boingo days, resulting in a score which had a number of rocking pastiche songs for the Oompa-Loompas, and a number of superb orchestral cues which alternated between typical Elfmanesque bittersweet beauty, and thunderous jungle drums.

Special mentions should also go to MICHAEL ANDREWS for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, NATHAN BARR for The Dukes of Hazzard, JOHN DEBNEY for The Pacifier, CLIFF EIDELMAN for The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, GEORGE FENTON for Hitch and Mrs. Henderson Presents, MICHAEL GIACCHINO for The Family Stone and Sky High, ADRIAN JOHNSTON for Kinky Boots, ROLFE KENT for Wedding Crashers, Just Like Heaven and The Matador, DAVID KITAY for The Ice Harvest, JOHN MURPHY for Millions, BLAKE NEELY for The Wedding Date, BARRINGTON PHELOUNG for Shopgirl, THEODORE SHAPIRO for Fun With Dick and Jane, EDWARD SHEARMUR for Bad News Bears, RYAN SHORE for Prime, DEBBIE WISEMAN for The Truth About Love, and HANS ZIMMER for The Weather Man.


BEST SCORE - ANIMATION

  • JULIAN NOTT for Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Varèse Sarabande)
  • DANNY ELFMAN for Corpse Bride (Warner)
  • STEVE JABLONSKY for Steamboy (Colosseum)
  • JØRGEN LAURITSEN for Strings (unreleased)
  • JOHN POWELL for Robots (Varèse Sarabande)
Once again, the call for Animated Score of the Year was a tough call, with five realistic entries vying for supremacy. Ultimately, the award has to go to British composer Julian Nott for his score for Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the feature length debut of Nick Park’s beloved plasticine pairing, which finally saw Nott getting his bow at the Hollywood big-time, despite his traditional brass-band style score being worked over by Rupert Gregson-Williams and the Media Ventures gang. Running Nott a close second was Danny Elfman’s sublime score for Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, a glorious return to the composer’s Edward Scissorhands heyday, full of mystery and gothic grandeur, and with a simply spellbinding finale which ranks as one of the single cues of the year. Steve Jablonsky’s score for legendary Japanese director Katsuhiro Otomo’s Steamboy came out in 2004, but the film was not released in theatres in the US until March, and didn’t reach British screens until December. In the face of stiff competition, Jablonsky’s sweeping orchestral score bristles with intensity and effortless captures the thrill of the sensation of flight, and earmarks him as a talent to watch if he can escape from the shackles of Zimmer. He would do well to try to emulate John Powell, whose score for the 20th Century Fox animation Robots saw him in an all-out orchestral frenzy, using everything including the kitchen sink the capture the effortless energy and mechanised chaos of the film’s visually arresting world. Finally, Danish newcomer Jørgen Lauritsen wrote the score for Strings, a highly stylised and unique puppet movie inspired by ancient Norse myths and legends. Lauritsen’s sweeping string score gave the film a emotional, human core, allowing viewers to forget that the main characters are wooden marionettes, and immerse themselves in their violent, tragic, romantic, unusual world.

Special mentions should also go to ERIC COLVIN for Barbie in Fairytopia, JOHN DEBNEY for Chicken Little, GEORGE FENTON for Valiant, JOE HISAISHI for Howl’s Moving Castle, MARK MANCINA for Tarzan II, JOEL McNEELY for Mulan II, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie and Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, YUJI NOMI for The Cat Returns, JOHN MARK PAINTER for Hoodwinked, MARK THOMAS for The Magic Roundabout, MARK WATTERS for Kronk’s New Groove, HANS ZIMMER for Madagascar, and HANS ZIMMER and NICK GLENNIE-SMITH for Lauras Stern.

BEST SCORE - THRILLER, ACTION OR ADVENTURE

 French composer Alexandre Desplat continued to cement his place as one of the rising stars of Hollywood’s film music scene by writing the best Thriller/Action/Adventure score of the year for director Florent Siri’s Hostage, a wholly unique listening experience which combined traditionally powerful action scoring with delicate, mesmerising solo performances for a solo child soprano and even a recorder – when was the last time you heard a recorder in an action score, and have it work perfectly? Clint Mansell wrote the best balls-to-the-wall action material for the mindless adventure Sahara, starring Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz, including by far the biggest ‘guilty pleasure’ theme of the year, “All Aboard”. It’s more than likely that conductor/orchestrator Nicholas Dodd was responsible for the breathless pacing and big fat brass fanfares, but when film music is this much fun who’s counting? James Horner wrote two very different sounding scores for films in the same genre, both impressive in their own way: his score for the successful Jodie Foster thriller Flightplan was moody, introspective, and difficult to enjoy, but had some wonderfully intricate orchestral interplay going on down in the depths, while The Legend of Zorro saw him revisiting the hand-clapping, foot-stomping, guitar-strumming, castanet-clicking excesses of his earlier Zorro scores to great effect – his extended action music for the ‘Train’ sequence has been lauded as one of his most impressive action exploits in years. Finally, Finnish composer Tuomas Kantelinen finally made his American debut with the long-delayed Mindhunters, which sat on a shelf at Miramax for years before finally surfacing in May. Kantelinen’s intense string writing and top-drawer action material made Renny Harlin’s film seem better than it actually is, and one only hopes that Hollywood eventually gives him a good film to work on.

Special mentions should also go to NEAL ACREE and BARRY TAYLOR for 7 Seconds, CHRISTOPHE BECK for Elektra, MARCO BELTRAMI for Red-Eye, BRIAN ENO for The Jacket, JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for The Interpreter, JOHN OTTMAN for Hide and Seek, JOHN POWELL for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, TREVOR RABIN for The Great Raid, GRAEME REVELL for Assault on Precinct 13, ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, JOHN DEBNEY and GRAEME REVELL for Sin City, EDWARD SHEARMUR for Derailed and The Skeleton Key, BRIAN TRANSEAU for Stealth, and HANS ZIMMER and JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for Batman Begins.


BEST SCORE - FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION OR HORROR

 The choice to replace John Williams on the fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was a controversial one to say the least, but new composer Patrick Doyle rose to the task wonderfully, using Williams’s themes as his starting point, and drawing inspiration from his own best scores, to create a score which is dark and mysterious, grand and sweeping, and at times breathtakingly beautiful. It was a very tough call between Potter and James Newton Howard’s King Kong as the best score in this category – Howard worked wonders in writing a last minute replacement for Howard Shore’s rejected effort, turning in a score which skilfully balanced moments of whimsy, ravenous action and emotional grandeur to great effect. Zathura was one of John Debney’s best scores of 2005, a wonderfully nostalgic throwback to the classic 1980s children’s sci-fi scores we all loved growing up, while Dario Marianelli continued to impress with his darkly lyrical score for Terry Gilliam’s comic fantasy The Brothers Grimm. Finally, John Williams turned in an angry, sinister, chaotic orchestral score for Steven Spielberg’s popcorn movie of 2005, War of the Worlds, which saw Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning’s desperate attempts to escape the alien hordes accompanied by one of the most brilliantly frightening and dissonant Williams scores in years.

Special mentions should also go to ANGELO BADALAMENTI for Dark Water, MARCO BELTRAMI for Cursed, HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, STEVE JABLONSKY for The Amityville Horror, DAVID JULYAN for The Descent, HENNING LOHNER and MARTIN TILLMAN for The Ring Two, DAVID NEWMAN for Serenity, JOHN OTTMAN for Fantastic Four and House of Wax, GRAEME REVELL for Aeon Flux, BRIAN TYLER and KLAUS BADELT for Constantine, JOHN WILLIAMS for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and CHRISTOPHER YOUNG for The Exorcism of Emily Rose.


BEST SCORE - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

  • ALEX WURMAN for March of the Penguins (Milan)
  • TODD BOEKELHEIDE for Ballets Russes (Intrada)
  • BRUNO COULAIS for Genesis (unreleased)
  • JEE-HUN HWANG for Aliens of the Deep (unreleased)
  • BLAKE NEELY for Magnificent Desolation (unreleased)
After last year’s “year of the theatrical documentary” with Fahrenheit 9/11 and so on, this year’s entries in the non-fiction category were dominated by penguins. Former MV alumnus Alex Wurman’s score for the smash-hit March of the Penguins was uniquely quirky, much like the film itself, but married well with the sumptuous visuals provided by French wildlife photographer Luc Jacquet, and easily the genre score of the year. Beyond that, the pickings were rather slim… music editor and composer Todd Boekelheide contributed a lush classical score to Ballets Russes, which charted the birth of modern ballet in the former Soviet Union, while French composer Bruno Coulais re-teamed with his Microcosmos collaborators Marie Pérennou and Claude Nuridsany for Genesis, a reflective rumination on the origins of life on Earth. Finally, there were two worthy IMAX scores, one from Blake Neely for the moon-walking experience Magnificent Desolation, and one from Korean-American composer Jee-Hun Hwang for James Cameron’s undersea adventure Aliens of the Deep.

Special mentions should also go to CHARLES BERNSTEIN for After Innocence, NATHAN FURST for Dust to Glory, MATTHEW HAUSER for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, STEPHEN LUTVAK for Mad Hot Ballroom, MARK MOTHERSBAUGH for First Descent, JASPER RANDALL for Supercross, STEVE REICH for The Dying Gaul, JAMIE SAFT for Murderball, RICHARD THOMPSON for Grizzly Man, JAMES L. VENABLE for The Year of the Yao, and JOHN ZORN for Protocols of Zion.

BEST SCORE - FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

 Debbie Wiseman’s score for the French action/thriller Arsène Lupin was, by a large margin, the best score for a Foreign Language film in 2005. Although Jean-Paul Salome’s movie hit French cinema screens in October 2004, it didn’t hit Britain in September 05, and has not yet played in America at all. Nevertheless, Wiseman’s effortless depiction of French aristocratic circles, the mystery and intrigue of Lupin’s character, and some monumentally complicated and exciting action music, makes me wish even more that someone in Hollywood would sit up and take notice. Tuomas Kantelinen’s score for the Finnish WWII drama Mother of Mine (Äideistä Parhain) is his personal Schindler’s List: a tragedy-laden, yet solemnly beautiful string elegy for the 70,000 Finnish children who were forced to flee their homes during the bitter conflict of the 1940s. Cyril Morin’s score for the French/Israeli comedy/drama The Syrian Bride (La Fiancée Syrienne) explored the notions of cross-cultural romance in modern Palestine with a delicious mix of symphonic orchestral writing crossed with vibrant, exotic middle-eastern rhythms and soulful vocals. Kung Fu Hustle composer Raymond Wong took the “everything including the kitchen sink” approach to scoring director Stephen Chow’s anarchic homage to Hong Kong martial arts comedies, with results that were surprisingly energetic and enjoyable at times. Finally, Stephan Zacharias’s score for Downfall (Der Untergang) accompanied one of the most best – and most controversial – German movies in history, in that for the first time it sought to portray an unbiased view of Adolf Hitler during his last weeks alive at the end of WWII. Bruno Ganz’s spellbinding performance as the führer, Oliver Hirschbiegel’s taut direction, and the movie’s overpowering claustrophobia and weight of history made for compelling viewing, and Zacharias’s equally tense orchestral score fit perfectly.

Special mentions should also go to KLAUS BADELT for Master of the Crimson Armour, ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for The Beat My Heart Skipped, LUCIO GODOY for Don’t Move, YÔKO KANNO for Kamikaze Girls, FONS MERKIES for Twin Sisters, PHILIPPE MILLER for Côte d’Azur, MACEO PARKER for Head-On, ANTONIO PINTO for Crònicas, A.R. RAHMAN for Mangal Pandey: The Rising, PHILIPPE ROMBI for 5x2, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO for Appleseed and Tony Takitani, JOHAN SODERQVIST for Brothers, JINA SUMEDI for Paradise Now, SHIGERU UMEBAYASHI and PEER RABEN for 2046, and GIOVANNI VENOSTA for Princesa.


BEST SCORE - TELEVISION

  • RICHARD HARVEY for Colditz (EMI) - review
  • BRUCE BROUGHTON for Warm Springs (unreleased)
  • LARRY GROUPÈ for Commander In Chief (unreleased)
  • MARK McKENZIE for Silver Bells (unreleased)
  • GEOFF ZANELLI for Into the West (Redline Entertainment)
The world of TV scoring was surprisingly subdued in 2005, with very little in the way of genuine excellence coming to the fore, especially with the usual fertile Hallmark Entertainment movies seemingly going into hiatus. English composer Richard Harvey impressed the most with his lush and dramatic score for the British ITV drama Colditz, adding genuine emotional weight to the story of a desperate fight for survival during WWII. The ABC series Commander In Chief, which starred Geena Davis as the (fictional) first female president of the United States and Donald Sutherland as her political nemesis received a rousing, Americana-drenched orchestral accompaniment from the ever-reliable Larry Groupé, proving once more that he is a composer who should be working on major Hollywood productions. Bruce Broughton won his annual Emmy award for the HBO movie Warm Springs, which gave a hitherto unseen look at the fight Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) had with polio throughout his adult life, while Geoff Zanelli’s score for the TNT series Into the West captured the pioneering spirit of the first settlers in the American west with a combination of modern world music and classic western themes. Finally, the perennially neglected Mark McKenzie wrote a charming Christmas score CBS seasonal special Silver Bells, building Jay Livingston and Ray Evans’ familiar melody from the classic Christmas song into the fabric of his music.

Special mentions should also go to JEFF BEAL for Rome, TERENCE BLANCHARD for Their Eyes Were Watching God, JASON DERLATKA and JON EHRLICH for Invasion, STEVE DORFF for Elvis, MICHAEL GIACCHINO for The Muppets Wizard of Oz, PAUL GRABOWSKY for Empire Falls, PAUL HASLINGER for Sleeper Cell, NICHOLAS HOOPER for The Girl in the Café, and JOSEPH VITARELLI for Revelations.


BEST SCORE - GAME

 Special mentions should also go to BILL BROWN for The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ for From Russia With Love and Medal of Honor: European Assault, KÔ ÔTANI for Shadow of the Colossus, RUSSELL SHAW and DANNY ELFMAN for Fable, and CHANCE THOMAS for King Kong.

Commentary by Joe Bat.


BEST ORIGINAL SONG

 Special mentions should also go to BRYAN ADAMS, GRETCHEN PETERS and ELLIOT KENNEDY for "It Ain't Over Yet” from Racing Stripes, MEL BROOKS for "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway" from The Producers, JARVIS COCKER for "Magic Works" from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, BETHANY DILLON for "Dreamer" from Dreamer, ADAM DURITZ, CHARLES GILLINGHAM, JIM BOGIOS, DAVID IMMERGLUCK, MATTHEW MALLERY, DAVID BRYSON and DANIEL VICKREY for "One Little Slip" from Chicken Little, DANNY ELFMAN for "Augustus Gloop" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and for "The Wedding Song" and “Tears To Shed” from Corpse Bride, JOEL McNEELY and KATE LIGHT for "Here Beside Me" from Mulan II, DOLLY PARTON for “Travelin' Thru” from Transamerica, GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA and BERNIE TAUPIN for "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" from Brokeback Mountain, NANCY WILSON and CAMERON CROWE for "Square One" from Elizabethtown, DEBBIE WISEMAN, SÉBASTIEN MARTEL, PIERS FACCINI and MARCEL KANCHEFOR "Qui Est-Tu?" from Arsène Lupin, and BIRD YORK and MICHAEL BECKER for "In The Deep" from Crash.


BEST SINGLE CUE

  • DANNY ELFMAN for “The Finale” from Corpse Bride - review
  • PATRICK DOYLE for “Harry in Winter” from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • PATRICK DOYLE for “Voldemort” from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • JAMES HORNER for “The Train” from The Mask of Zorro
  • JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for “Tooth and Claw” from King Kong
  • MARK ISHAM for “No Such Thing As Monsters” from Crash
  • CLINT MANSELL for “All Aboard” from Sahara
  • JOHN WILLIAMS for “Anakin’s Dark Deeds” from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
  • JOHN WILLIAMS for “Confluence” from Memoirs of a Geisha
  • DEBBIE WISEMAN for “The Eighth Star Will Be Divine” from Arsène Lupin
Special mentions should also go to ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for “Child’s Spirit” and “Hostage” from Hostage, PATRICK DOYLE for “I Did Knock” and “Kites in the Sky” from Nanny McPhee, DANNY ELFMAN for “Moon Dance” from Corpse Bride, RICHARD HARVEY for “Reacquaintance” from Colditz, MARK ISHAM for “The Big Race” from Racing Stripes, DARIO MARIANELLI for “Your Hands Are Cold” from Pride & Prejudice, THOMAS NEWMAN for “Cinderella Man” from Cinderella Man, JOBY TALBOT for “Earth Mark II” from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, JOBY TALBOT for “Hilary vs. The Humunculus” from The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, JOHN WILLIAMS for “Return To Boston” from War of the Worlds, “End Credits” from Munich and “Battle of the Heroes” from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and HANS ZIMMER and JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for “Macrotus” from Batman Begins.


BEST RE-RELEASE OR RE-RECORDING

  • HOWARD SHORE, PETER JACKSON and PAUL BROUCEK (producers) for Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring: The Complete Recordings (Reprise)
  • JAMES D’ARC and CRAIG SPAULDING (producers) for Max Steiner’s Johnny Belinda (Screen Archives)
  • JAMES FITZPATRICK (producer) for Dimitri Tiomkin’s The Guns of Navarone (Tadlow)
  • FORD A. THAXTON (producer) for John Debney’s Cutthroat Island – Complete Score (Prometheus)
  • ROBERT TOWNSON (producer) for Georges Delerue’s True Confessions (Varèse Sarabande CD Club)
Special mentions should also go to LUKAS KENDALL, JEFF BOND, NICK REDMAN and everyone at FILM SCORE MONTHLY for their astonishing series of classic score re-released, which included John Barry’s King Kong, Jerry Fielding’s rejected score for The Getaway, Russell Garcia’s The Time Machine, Ron Goodwin’s 633 Squadron, Dave Grusin’s The Yakuza, Stu Phillips’s Knight Rider, Lalo Schifrin’s Kelly's Heroes, and several Bronislau Kaper albums, including The Glass Slipper, Lili and Quentin Durward. Also to DOUGLASS FAKE and the INTRADA SIGNATURE COLLECTION, who released scores such as Bruce Broughton’s Silverado, Jerry Goldsmith’s Capricorn One and Laurence Rosenthal’s Heart Like A Wheel. To ROBERT TOWNSON and the VARÈSE SARABANDE CD CLUB, who re-released such classic scores as Jerry Goldsmith’s Hour of the Gun, Elmer Bernstein’s The Hallelujah Trail, the Bill Conti duo F.I.S.T. and Slow Dancing In The Big City, Maurice Jarre’s Top Secret, David Newman’s The Kindred, Alex North’s Desiree, Basil Poledouris’s Making The Grade, and Victor Young’s The Left Hand Of God. And finally to producer ROBIN ESTERHAMMER or PERSEVERENCE RECORDS, for making the world suffer to the strains of Michael Perilstein’s score for The Deadly Spawn. A great release, but undoubtedly the worst scores ever written!

BEST COMPILATION

  • JAMES FITZPATRICK (producer) for Jerry Goldsmith: 40 Years of Film Music (Silva)
  • JAMES FITZPATRICK (producer) The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection (Silva)
  • HENRI HEYMANS (producer) for The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection (Silva)
  • BRIAN PIDGEON (producer) for The Film Music of Ron Goodwin (Chandos)
  • PAUL STILWELL and ROBERT TOWNSON (producers) for The High and the Mighty: A Century of Flight (Varèse Sarabande)
Special mentions should also go to the people at CHANDOS RECORDS for their film compilations of film music by Stanley Black, Francis Chagrin and Clifton Parker, and also to producer ROBERT LAFOND of Disques Cinémusique for his Georges Delerue releases “Music of Georges Delerue for the Films of Jack Clayton” and “The Unpublished Film Music of Georges Delerue Vol. 2”.

BEST UNRELEASED SCORE

 Other scores which could greatly benefit from a commercial score release include NEAL ACREE for 7 Seconds, NATHAN BARR for The Dukes of Hazzard, MARCO BELTRAMI for Red-Eye, BRUCE BROUGHTON for Warm Springs, MYCHAEL DANNA for Capote, ROLFE KENT for Wedding Crashers, JOEL McNEELY for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, and EDWARD SHEARMUR for Derailed


COMPLETE LIST OF ELIGIBLE SCORES (AND THEIR COMPOSER)

  • 11:14 (Clint Mansell), 2046 (Shigeru Umebayashi), 2 FOR THE MONEY (Christophe Beck), 39 POUNDS OF LOVE (Chris Gubisch), 3-IRON (Silvian), 40 SHADES OF BLUE (Dickon Hinchliffe), THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (Michael Andrews), 5X2 (Philippe Rombi), 7 SECONDS (Neal Acree), 8MM 2 (Tim Jones)
  • ADAM & PAUL (Stephen Rennicks), THE ADVENTURES OF SHARK BOY AND LAVA GIRL IN 3-D (Robert Rodriguez/Graeme Revell/John Debney), AEON FLUX (Graeme Revell), AFTER INNOCENCE (Charles Bernstein), ALIENS OF THE DEEP (IMAX) (Jee-Hun Hwang), ALONE IN THE DARK (Bernd Veindlandt and Reinhard Besser), THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (Steve Jablonsky), AN UNFINISHED LIFE (Deborah Lurie), ANGELS WITH ANGLES (Eric Allaman), ANNIYAN (Harris Jayaraj), APAHARAN (Wayne Sharpe), APPLESEED (Ryuichi Sakamoto), APRÈS VOUS (Camille Bazbaz), ARE WE THERE YET? (David Newman), THE ARISTOCRATS (Gary Stockdale), ARSÈNE LUPIN (Debbie Wiseman), ART HEIST (Sean Murray), THE ARYAN COUPLE (Igor Khoroshev), ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (Graeme Revell), ASSISTED LIVING (Hub Moore), ASYLUM (Mark Mancina)
  • BACHKE REHNA RE BABA (Anu Malik), BACK IN THE DAY (Robert Folk), BAD NEWS BEARS (Edward Shearmur), BAILEY'S BILLIONS (Lou Pomanti), THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE (Michael Rohatyn), BALLET RUSSES (Todd Boekelheide), BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS (Pujian Wang), BARBIE: FAIRYTOPIA (Eric Colvin), BARSAAT (Nadeem-Shravan), BATMAN BEGINS (Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard), BATTLE IN HEAVEN (John Tavener), THE BAXTER (Theodore Shapiro and Craig Wedren), BE COOL (John Powell), THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED (Alexandre Desplat), BEAUTIFUL BOXER (Amornpong Methakunawat), BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY (Zbigniew Preisner), BEAUTY SHOP (Christopher Young), BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE (Rachel Portman), BEE SEASON (Peter Nashel), BEFORE THE FALL (Normand Corbeil), BEWAAFA (Nadeem-Shravan), BEWITCHED (George Fenton), THE BIG WHITE (Mark Mothersbaugh), BIGGER THAN THE SKY (Rob Cairns), BLACK (Monty Sharma), BLACKMAIL (Himesh Reshammiya), BLACKMAIL BOY (Nikos Kypourgos), BLAST! (Danny Saber), BLUE DEMON (Christopher Farrell), BLUFF MASTER (Vishal-Shekhar), BOMB THE SYSTEM (El Producto), BOMBON - EL PERRO (Nicolas Sorin), BOOGEYMAN (Joseph Lo Duca), BOOK OF LOVE (Stewart Wallace), THE BOYS AND GIRLS FROM COUNTY CLARE (Fiachra Trench), THE BOYS OF BARAKA (J.J. McGeehan), THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (Lalo Schifrin), BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Gustavo Santaolalla), BROKEN FLOWERS (Mulatu Astatke), BROOKLYN LOBSTER (Craig Maher), BROTHERS (Johan Soderqvist), THE BROTHERS GRIMM (Dario Marianelli), BULLET BOY (Robert Del Naja), BUNTY AUR BABLI (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy), THE BUSINESS (Ivor Guest)
  • CAMPFIRE (Ofer Shalchin), CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (J.B. Eckl), CAPOTE (Mychael Danna), CARLITO'S WAY: RISE TO POWER (Joe Delia), CASANOVA (Alexandre Desplat), CASSHERN (Shirui Sagisu and Satoshi Tomie), THE CAT RETURNS (Yuji Nomi), CATERINA IN THE BIG CITY (Carlo Virzi), THE CAVE (Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek), CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Danny Elfman), CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2 (John Debney), CHICKEN LITTLE (John Debney), CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA (Roopesh Parekh), THE CHILD I NEVER WAS (Kurt Dahlke and Rainer Uhl), CHOCOLATE (Pritam Chakraborty), CHRISTMAS IN THE CLOUDS (Stephen McKeon), THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (Harry Gregson-Williams), CHRYSTAL (Stephen Trask), THE CHUMSCRUBBER (James Horner), CINDERELLA MAN (Thomas Newman), CLEAN (Brian Eno), COACH CARTER (Trevor Rabin), CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH (Howard Davidson), THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (Pasquale Catalano), THE CONSTANT GARDENER (Alberto Iglesias), CONSTANTINE (Brian Tyler and Klaus Badelt), COTE D'AZUR (Philippe Miller), CRASH (Mark Isham), CREEP (The Insects), THE CRIMSON RIVERS II: ANGELS OF THE APOCALYPSE (Colin Towns), CRÓNICAS (Antonio Pinto), CRY WOLF (Michael Wandmacher), CSA: THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (Erich Timkar), CUBE ZERO (Norman Orenstein), CURSED (Marco Beltrami)
  • D.E.B.S. (Steven M. Stern), DADDY WHO? (Basil Poledouris), DALTRY CALHOUN (John Swihart), DARK WATER (Angelo Badalamenti), THE DEAL (Christopher Lennertz), DEAR WENDY (Benjamin Walfisch), DEATH OF A DYNASTY (Theron Feemster and Big Chuck), DEEP BLUE (George Fenton), DEEWANE HUYE PAAGAL (Anu Malik), DERAILED (Edward Shearmur), DES HOYAA PARDES (Jaidev Kumar), THE DESCENT (David Julyan), DEUCE BIGALOW: EUROPEAN GIGOLO (James Venable), THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSON (Daniel Johnson), THE DEVIL'S REJECTS (Tyler Bates), DEVOUR (Joseph Lo Duca), DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN (Camara Kambon), DIL JO BHI KAHEY (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy), DIRTY DEEDS (Didier Rachou), DIRTY LOVE (D.A. Young), DOMINION (Angelo Badalamenti), DOMINO (Harry Gregson-Williams), DON'T MOVE (Lucio Godoy), DOOM (Clint Mansell), DORIAN BLUES (Will Severin), DOSTI (Nadeem-Shravan), DOT THE I (Javier Navarrete), DOWN AND DERBY (Chuck E. Meyers), DOWNFALL (Stephan Zacharias), DREAMER (John Debney), DRIVERS WANTED (Burning Snella), DUCK SEASON (Alejandro Rosso), THE DUKES OF HAZZARD (Nathan Barr), DUMA (John Debney and George Acogny), DUS (Vishal-Shekhar), DUST TO GLORY (Nathan Furst), THE DYING GAUL (Steve Reich)
  • EATING OUT (Dominik Hauser), THE EDUKATORS (Andreas Wodraschke), EK AJNABEE (Vishal-Shekhar), EK KHILADI EK HASEENA (Pritam Chakraborty), EL CRIMEN PERFECTO (Roque Baños), EL VACILÓN: THE MOVIE (DJ Chucky), ELAAN (Anu Malik), ELECTRIC SHADOWS (Lin Zhao), ELEKTRA (Christophe Beck), ELIZABETHTOWN (Nancy Wilson), ELLIE PARKER (B.C. Smith), EMMANUEL'S GIFT (Jeff Beal), EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH (Doug De Angelis and Kevin Haskins), END OF THE SPEAR (Ron Owen), ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (Matthew Hauser), ETERNAL (Mysterious Art), ETHAN MAO (Steven Pranoto), EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED (Paul Cantelon), THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE (Christopher Young)
  • FAMILIA RODANTE (Hugo Diaz and León Gieco), THE FAMILY STONE (Michael Giacchino), FANTASTIC FOUR (John Ottman), FASCINATION (John Du Prez), FEAR X (Brian Eno), FEVER PITCH (Craig Armstrong), FIGHTING TOMMY RILEY (Tim Simonec), FINDING HOME (Joseph Conlan), FIRST DESCENT (Mark Mothersbaugh), FLIGHTPLAN (James Horner), THE FOG (Graeme Revell), FORMULA 17 (George Chen), FOUR BROTHERS (David Arnold), FREEZERBURN: THE MOVIE (John Nooney), FUN WITH DICK AND JANE (Theodore Shapiro), FUTURE OF FOOD (Todd Boekelheide)
  • G (Bill Conti), THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES (William Ross), GARAM MASALA (Himesh Reshammiya), GAY SEX IN THE 70s (Art Labriola), GENESIS (Bruno Coulais), GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' (Quincy Jones), GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE (Kenji Kawai), GO FOR ZUCKER (Niki Reiser), GOAL! (Graeme Revell), GOD'S SANDBOX (Arik Rudich), THE GOEBBELS EXPERIMENT (Hubert Bittman), GOING SHOPPING (Harriet Schock), GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (Jim Papoulis), A GOOD WOMAN (Richard G. Mitchell), THE GOSPEL (Kirk Franklin and Stanley A. Smith), THE GREAT RAID (Trevor Rabin), THE GREAT WATER (Kiril Dzajkovski), THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED (Brian Tyler), GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS (Christopher Franke), GRIZZLY MAN (Richard Thompson), GUESS WHO (John Murphy), GUNNER PALACE (Robert Cimino), GUY X (Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson)
  • H.G. WELLS' WAR OF THE WORLDS (Ralph Rieckermann), HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER (James Venable), HAPPY HERE AND NOW (David Julyan), HARRY AND MAX (Michael Tubbs), HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Patrick Doyle), HAVOC (Cliff Martinez), HEAD-ON (Maceo Parker), THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS (Sonic Youth), HEIDI (Jocelyn Pook), HEIGHTS (Ben Butler and Martin Erskine), THE HELIX: LOADED (Geremy Dingle and Michael S. Patterson), HELLBENT (Mike Shapiro), HERBIE: FULLY LOADED (Mark Mothersbaugh), THE HIDDEN BLADE (Isao Tomita), HIDE AND SEEK (John Ottman), HIGH TENSION (François Eudes), A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (Howard Shore), HITCH (George Fenton), THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (Joby Talbot), A HOLE IN ONE (Stephen Trask), THE HOLY GIRL (Andres Gerzenson), HOME DELIVERY (Vishal-Shekhar), THE HONEYMOONERS (Richard Gibbs), HOODWINKED (John Mark Painter), HOSTAGE (Alexandre Desplat), HOUSE OF D (Geoff Zanelli), HOUSE OF WAX (John Ottman), HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (Joe Hisaishi), HUKKLE (Balasz Barna and Samu Gryllus), HUSTLE AND FLOW (Scott Bomar)
  • THE I INSIDE (Nicholas Pike), I LOVE YOUR WORK (Steven Drozd), THE ICE HARVEST (David Kitay), ICE PRINCESS (Christophe Beck), IN HER SHOES (Mark Isham), IN MY COUNTRY (Philip King), IN MY FATHER'S DEN (Simon Boswell), IN THE MIX (Aaron Zigman), IN YOUR HANDS (Jeppe Kaas), INDIGO (Emilio Kauderer), INHERITANCE (Halfdan E), INNOCENCE (Richard Cooke), INNOCENT VOICES (André Abujamra), INSIDE DEEP THROAT (David Benjamin Steinberg), THE INTERPRETER (James Newton Howard), INTIMATE STORIES (Nicolas Sorin), INTO THE BLUE (Paul Haslinger), INTO THE SUN (Stanley Clarke), THE ISLAND (Steve Jablonsky), IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG (Graham Massey)
  • THE JACKET (Brian Eno), JAMES DEAN: FOREVER YOUNG (Timothy Wynn), JARHEAD (Thomas Newman), THE JEALOUS GOD (Michael Hammer), JIMINY GLICK IN LA-LA WOOD (David Lawrence), JO BOLE SO NIHAAL (Anand Raaj Anand), JUNEBUG (Yo La Tengo), JURM (Anu Malik and Anand Raaj Anand), JUST FRIENDS (Machine Head), JUST LIKE HEAVEN (Rolfe Kent)
  • KAAL (Anand Raaj Anand), KAMIKAZE GIRLS (Yôko Kanno), THE KEEPER: THE LEGEND OF OMAR KHAYYAM (Elton Ahi), KEEPING MUM (Dickon Hinchliffe), KEYS TO THE HOUSE (Franco Piersanti), KICKING & SCREAMING (Mark Isham), THE KID & I (Damon Fox), KIDS IN AMERICA (B.C. Smith), KING KONG (James Newton Howard), KING OF THE CORNER (Al Kooper), KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (Harry Gregson-Williams), KING'S GAME (Henrik Munch and Flemming Nordkrog), KING'S RANSOM (Marcus Miller), KINKY BOOTS (Adrian Johnston), KISNA (A.R. Rahman), KISS KISS BANG BANG (John Ottman), KONTROLL (Neo), KUNG FU HUSTLE (Raymond Wong), KYAA KOOL HAI HUM (Anu Malik), KYUN KI? (Himesh Reshammiya)
  • LANA'S RAIN (William Brown), LAND OF THE DEAD (Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek), LASSIE (Adrian Johnston), LAST DAYS (Rodrigo Lopresti), THE LAST MOGUL (Jim McGrath and Frank Kitching), LAURAS STERN (Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith), THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSE (Joby Talbot), LEFT BEHIND: WORLD AT WAR (Gary Chang), THE LEGEND OF ZORRO (James Horner), THE LETTER: AN AMERICAN TOWN AND THE SOMALI INVASION (Kareem Roustom), THE LIBERTINE (Michael Nyman), LIFE IS A MIRACLE (Dejan Sparavalo), LILA SAYS (Nitin Sawhney), LILO & STITCH 2: STITCH HAS A GLITCH (Joel McNeely), LITTLE MANHATTAN (Chad Fisher), LIVING LIFE (Justin Melland), THE LIZARD (Mohammed Reza Aligholi), LOGGERHEADS (Mark Geary), THE LONGEST YARD (Teddy Castellucci), LOOK AT ME (Philippe Rombi), LORD OF WAR (Antonio Pinto), LORDS OF DOGTOWN (Mark Mothersbaugh), LOS DEBUTANTES (Christian Heyne), LOST (Russ Landau), LOST EMBRACE (Cesar Lerner), A LOT LIKE LOVE (Alex Wurman), LOWER CITY (Carlinhos Brown and Beto Villares), LUCKY (Adnan Sami)
  • MACHUCA (Miguel Miranda and Jose Miguel Tobar), MAD HOT BALLROOM (Stephen Lutvak), MADAGASCAR (Hans Zimmer), MADISON (Kevin Kiner and Christopher Young), THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT (Mark Thomas), MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION (IMAX) (Blake Neely), MAIL ORDER WIFE (Mark Wike), MAIN AISA HI HOON (Himesh Reshammiya), MAINE PYAR KYUN KIYA (Himesh Reshammiya), MAN OF THE HOUSE (David Newman), THE MAN WHO COPIED (Leo Henkin), THE MAN (John Murphy), MANGAL PANDEY: THE RISING (A.R. Rahman), MARCH OF THE PENGUINS (Alex Wurman), MAREBITO (Toshiyuki Takine), MARGARET CHO: THE ASSASSIN TOUR (Paula Gallitano), THE MATADOR (Rolfe Kent), MATANDO CABOS (Santiago Ojeda), MATCH POINT (Dick Hyman), ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (Michael Andrews), MELINDA AND MELINDA (Dick Hyman), MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (John Williams), MEMORIES OF MURDER (Taro Iwashiro), THE MEMORY OF A KILLER (Stephen Warbeck), MICKYBO AND ME (Stephen Warbeck), THE MIGHTY CELT (Adrian Johnston), MILK AND HONEY (Hal Hartley), MILLIONS (John Murphy), MILWAUKEE MINNESOTA (Michael Convertino), MINDHUNTERS (Tuomas Kantelinen), MIRRORMASK (Iain Ballamy), MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED AND FABULOUS (Randy Edelman), MODIGLIANI (Guy Farley), MONSTER MAN (John Coda), MONSTER-IN-LAW (David Newman), MOOLADE (Boncana Maiga), MORNING RAGA (Amit Heri and Mani Sharma), MOTHER OF MINE (Tuomas Kantelinen), MR. & MRS. SMITH (John Powell), MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS (George Fenton), MRS. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT (Stephen Barton), MULAN II (Joel McNeely), MUNICH (John Williams), MURDERBALL (Jamie Saft), MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT (Rodney Whittenberg), MUST LOVE DOGS (Craig Armstrong), MY BIG FAT INDEPENDENT MOVIE (Joe Kraemer), MY DATE WITH DREW (Steven M. Stern), MY MOTHER'S SMILE (Riccardo Giagni), MY SUMMER OF LOVE (Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory), MYSTERIOUS SKIN (Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie)
  • NANNY McPHEE (Patrick Doyle), NAZAR (Anu Malik), NEAL-N-NIKKI (Salim Merchant and Suleman Merchant), NEVER BEEN THAWED (Thomas Laufenberg and John Morris), THE NEW WORLD (James Horner), NIGHT WATCH (Yuri Poteyenko), THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY (Rupert Gregson-Williams), NINA'S TRAGEDIES (Asaf Amdurski and Shlomi Shaban), NINE LIVES (Edward Shearmur), THE NINTH DAY (Alfred Schnittke), NO ENTRY (Anu Malik), NOBODY KNOWS (Gontiti), NOEL (Alan Menken), THE NOMI SONG (Klaus Sperber), NORTH COUNTRY (Gustavo Santaolalla), NOVEMBER (Lew Baldwin)
  • OFF THE MAP (Gary De Michele), THE OIL FACTOR (Fritz Heede), OLDBOY (Yeong-Wook Jo), OLIVER TWIST (Rachel Portman), ON A CLEAR DAY (Stephen Warbeck), ON THE OUTS (Ricardo Leigh and Brian Satz), ONE LAST DANCE (John Swihart), ONE LOVE (Simon Bass), ONE MORE ROUND (Todd Erickson), ONE SIX RIGHT (Nathan Wang), ONG-BAK: THE THAI WARRIOR (Clubbing Atomix), ONLY HUMAN (Charlie Mole), THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET (Guilherme Bernstein Seixas), OUT OF SEASON (Guy Farley), OVERNIGHT (Peter Nashel), THE OYSTER FARMER (Stephen Warbeck)
  • THE PACIFIER (John Debney), PAHELI (M.M. Kreem), PALINDROMES (Nathan Larson), PARADISE NOW (Jina Sumedi), PARINEETA (Shantanu Moitra), THE PERFECT MAN (Christophe Beck), PINDU DI KUDI (Sardool Sikander and Aman Hayer), POOH'S HEFFALUMP MOVIE (Joel McNeely), PRETTY PERSUASION (Gilad Benamram), PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Dario Marianelli), PRIME (Ryan Shore), PRIMO AMORE (Banda Osiris), PRINCESA (Giovanni Venosta), PRIVATE (Alter Ego), THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE OHIO (John Frizzell), THE PRODUCERS (Mel Brooks), THE PROMISE (Klaus Badelt), PROOF (Stephen Warbeck), PROTOCOLS OF ZION (John Zorn), PURE (Dana Niu)
  • RACING STRIPES (Mark Isham), THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE (Cezary Skubiszewski), RAMJI LONDONWALEY (Vishal Bharadwaj), REBOUND (Teddy Castellucci), RED-EYE (Marco Beltrami), REEL PARADISE (Norman Arnold), RENT (Jonathan Larson), RETURN TO SENDER (Harry Gregson-Williams), REVENGE OF THE SITH (John Williams), REVOLVER (Nathaniel Mechaly), THE RIDER NAMED DEATH (Anatoly Kroll), THE RING TWO (Henning Lohner and Martin Tillman), THE RINGER (Mark Mothersbaugh), RIZE (Jose Cancella and Amy Marie Beauchamp), ROBOTS (John Powell), ROCK SCHOOL (Charles Raggio), ROLL BOUNCE (Stanley Clarke), RUMOR HAS IT (Marc Shaiman)
  • SAHARA (Clint Mansell), SAINT RALPH (Andrew Lockington), SALAAM NAMASTE (Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani), THE SANDLOT 2 (Laura Karpman), SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC (Liam Lynch and Sarah Silverman), SARKAR (Amar Mohile), SAVING FACE (Anton Sanko), SAW II (Charlie Clouser), SCHIZO (Clancy Sigal), SCHULTZE GETS THE BLUES (Dirk Niemeier and Thomas Wittenbecher), SCORCHED (John Frizzell), SCREEN DOOR JESUS (Max Lichtenstein), SEARCHING FOR THE WRONG-EYED JESUS (Jim White), SECUESTRO EXPRESS (Angelo Milli), SEPARATE LIES (Stanislas Syrewicz), SEQUINS (Michael Galasso), SERENITY (David Newman), SEX SELLS: THE MAKING OF TOUCHE (Peter Karr), SHAADI NO.1 (Anu Malik), SHABD (Shekhar-Vishal), SHADOW OF FEAR (Stephen Edwards), SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMEO DALLAIRE (Mark Korven), SHALLOW GROUND (Steve London), SHOPGIRL (Barrington Pheloung), SHOUJYO: THE ADOLESCENT (Shigeru Umebayashi), SILSILAY (Himesh Reshammiya), SIN CITY (Robert Rodriguez/John Debney/Graeme Revell), THE SISTERHOOD OF TRAVELING PANTS (Cliff Eidelman), THE SKELETON KEY (Edward Shearmur), SKY BLUE (Il Won), SKY HIGH (Michael Giacchino), SLUTTY SUMMER (Scott Starrett), SMILE (Neil Giraldo), SOMERSAULT (Decoder Ring), SON OF THE MASK (Randy Edelman), SOPHIE SCHOLL (Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek), A SOUND OF THUNDER (Nick Glennie-Smith), SPEAK (Christopher Libertino), SPIRIT TRAP (Guy Fletcher), THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham), STANDER (David Holmes), A STATE OF MIND (Barnaby Taylor), STATE PROPERTY 2 (Kerry Muzzey), STAY (Thad Spencer), STEALTH (Brian Transeau), STEAMBOY (Steve Jablonsky), STOLEN CHILDHOODS (Miriam Cutler), STONED (David Arnold), STREETS OF LEGEND (Michael Suby), STRINGS (Jørgen Lauritsen), STUEY (Jeff Eden Fair and Starr Parodi), SUBMERGED (Guy Farley), SUNSET STORY (Peter Golub), SUPERCROSS (Jasper Randall), THE SWENKAS (Povl Kristian), SWIMMING UPSTREAM (Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek), SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (Byeong-Il Kim), THE SYRIAN BRIDE (Cyril Morin), SYRIANA (Alexandre Desplat)
  • TAJ MAHAL (Naushad), THE TALENT GIVEN US (David Dyas), TARA ROAD (John Keane), TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY (Stephen Edwards), TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette), TARZAN II (Mark Mancina), TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE (Blake Leyh), THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (Brian Mann), THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS (Steven Argila), THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (Marco Beltrami), THREE DANCING SLAVES (Camille Rocailleux), THREE OF HEARTS (Ross Levinson and Catie Curtis), THE THREE ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA (Sanna Salmenkallio), THUMBSUCKER (Tim De Laughter and Brian Reitzell), TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE (Danny Elfman), TODAY YOU DIE (Stephen Edwards), TONY TAKITANI (Ryuichi Sakamoto), TOOLBOX MURDERS (Joseph Conlan), TORREMOLINOS 73 (Nacho Mastretta), TOUCH THE SOUND (Evelyn Glennie and Fred Frith), TRANSAMERICA (David Mansfield), TRANSPORTER 2 (Alexandre Azaria), TRAUMA (Alex Heffes), TRAVELLERS AND MAGICIANS (Dechen Dorjee and Jigme Drukpa), THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE (Debbie Wiseman), THE TUNNEL (Harald Kloser), TURTLES CAN FLY (Hossein Alizadeh), TWIST OF FAITH (Blake Leyh)
  • UNCLE NINO (Larry Pecorella), UNDEAD (Cliff Bradley), UNDERCLASSMAN (Brian Transeau), UNDISCOVERED (David Baerwald), UNLEASHED (Massive Attack), UNTOLD SCANDAL (Byung Woo Lee), THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL (Jim Papoulis), UNVEILED (Jakob Hansonis), UP AND DOWN (Aleš Brezina), THE UPSIDE OF ANGER (Alexandre Desplat), URBAN LEGENDS: BLOODY MARY (Jeff Rona), USHPIZIN (Iosef Bardanashvili)
  • VAADA (Himesh Reshammiya), VALIANT (George Fenton), VENOM (James Venable), VIRUDDH (Ajay Atul)
  • WAITING (Adam Gorgoni), A WAKE IN PROVIDENCE (Ed Alton), WALK ON WATER (Ivri Lider), WALK THE LINE (T-Bone Burnett), WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (Julian Nott), WAQT: THE RACE AGAINST TIME (Anu Malik), WAR OF THE WORLDS (John Williams), THE WAR WITHIN (David Holmes), A WAY OF LIFE (David Gray), THE WEATHER MAN (Hans Zimmer), WEDDING CRASHERS (Rolfe Kent), THE WEDDING DATE (Blake Neely), THE WEEPING MEADOW (Eleni Karaindrou), WHERE THE TRUTH LIES (Mychael Danna), THE WHITE COUNTESS (Richard Robbins), WHITE NOISE (Claude Foisy), WHO'S YOUR DADDY? (Nathan Wang), THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL (Chris Michie), WILD SIDE (Jocelyn Pook), WILD THINGS 3: DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH (Steven M. Stern), WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD (Simon Fisher-Turner), WINTER SOLSTICE (John Leventhal), WOLF CREEK (Frank Tetaz), THE WORK AND THE GLORY: AMERICAN ZION (Sam Cardon), THE WORLD (Lim Giong), THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN (J. Peter Robinson), WRITER OF O (Hélène Blazy)
  • XXX: STATE OF THE UNION (Marco Beltrami)
  • YAKEEN (Himesh Reshammiya), THE YEAR OF THE YAO (James Venable), YES (Sally Potter), YOURS MINE AND OURS (Christophe Beck)
  • ZATHURA (John Debney), ZIZEK! (Jeremy Barnes)

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