by Jonathan Broxton, with Peter Simons and Joe Bat

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 | In Memoriam| List of Eligible Scores


SCORE OF THE YEAR

 I don’t think I have ever had a more difficult time choosing an overall Score of the Year as I have in 2006. Three scores – Mychael Danna’s The Nativity Story, Mark Isham’s The Black Dahlia and Tykwer/Heil/Klimek’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - all stood head and shoulders above the others, each brilliant and unique and their own way. Danna’s is a superbly moving work to accompany the story of Christmas, which makes exquisite use of ancient middle-Eastern instruments, sweeping symphonic scoring, magical vocal performances, and famous melodies from several well-known carols interpolated into the fabric of the score. Isham’s is a wonderfully evocative recreation of Los Angeles in the 1950s, which makes brilliant use of jazz rhythms, period textures, Golden Age sensibilities and his own virtuoso trumpet to evoke a supremely detailed and eloquent mood. Tykwer, Heil and Klimek threw off the shackles of their ‘electronic droning’ past to write a darkly elegant orchestral score for their movie, allowing the Berliner Philharmoniker and a number of sensational vocal soloists to give lyrical voice to the story of a man who is both evil and seductive. At one time or another I had written paragraphs proclaiming all three of them to be the winner, but then I would flip-flop back and forth to one of the others, and be back to square one. I even considered awarding a three-way tie for first place, but that seemed a bit of a cop-out. So, in the end, I gave the award to the score which connected with me most on a purely emotional level – which, after a lot of decision and indecision, ultimately turned out to be The Nativity Story. Danna’s magisterial orchestral and choral writing, especially during the score’s finale, is by far the most moving work of the year, and solely from it eliciting that emotional response in me, it has the tiniest edge over its competitors.

The other two scores making up the final five, which should in no way be considered afterthoughts, are Brett Rosenberg’s Half Light and Klaus Badelt’s The Promise. Rosenberg came out of left-field to write a sweeping, romantic, poignant Celtic-flavoured score for the Demi Moore supernatural drama, which went straight to DVD in the United States, but was saved from musical oblivion by producer Mikael Carlsson and his groundbreaking digital label MovieScore Media. Badelt, meanwhile, confounded all expectations by writing a sweeping symphonic score with a definite Oriental flavour and a multitude of interesting vocal effects for director Chen Kaige’s visually sumptuous Chinese fantasy.

PETER SIMONS’ PICKS: JAVIER NAVARRETE for Pan’s Labyrinth, DANNY ELFMAN for Charlotte’s Web, JAMES HORNER for All the King’s Men, MARK ISHAM for The Black Dahlia, and CLINT MANSELL for the Fountain.


COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

 Mark Isham had a truly stellar year, scoring not only the exceptional THE BLACK DAHLIA, but also the political drama BOBBY, the snow-bound Disney adventure EIGHT BELOW, the sports drama INVINCIBLE and the crime thriller RUNNING SCARED, proving that he has matured into a composer capable of writing superb music across a variety of genres, and successfully mastering each of them. Mychael Danna also had a magnificent 2006, writing the music for the overall score of the year, THE NATIVITY STORY, in addition to the bittersweet comedy LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, the emotional drama AURORA BOREALIS, the Indian drama WATER, and the Terry Gilliam-directed fantasy TIDELAND in collaboration with his brother Jeff, but was just pipped to the post by the high-profile consistency of Isham’s projects. Alexandre Desplat’s profile continues to grow, as he showed with his four scores – the low-key comedy drama LIES AND ALIBIES, the critically acclaimed dramatic pair THE QUEEN and THE PAINTED VEIL, and the knockout thriller score FIREWALL, by far the best of its genre grouping this year. Hans Zimmer has one of his best and most consistent years in a long time, scoring the mega blockbusters THE DA VINCI CODE and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST to great effect, while still finding time to contribute to the sweet romantic comedy THE HOLIDAY, and the German animated sequel THE LITTLE POLAR BEAR 2 with former Media Ventures alumnus Nick Glennie-Smith. Speaking of former MV men, John Powell was one of the busiest men in Hollywood in 2006, writing music for HAPPY FEET, ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN, UNITED 93, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, and succeeding admirably across the disparate genres. More than any other composer, he has cemented his reputation as a fan favourite this year!

PETER SIMONS’ PICKS: MARK ISHAM, JAMES HORNER, CLINT MANSELL, JAVIER NAVARRETE, and JOHN POWELL.

Other composers who had impressive and busy years in 2006 included AARON ZIGMAN (7 scores), CHRISTOPHE BECK, HIMESH RESHAMMIYA and MARCELO ZARVOS (6 scores), JOHN DEBNEY and ANU MALIK (5 scores), and MARK ADLER, KLAUS BADELT, RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS, JAMES NEWTON HOWARD, ADRIAN JOHNSTON, ROBERT LANE, TREVOR RABIN and MARK THOMAS (4 scores).


NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

 Of all the composers who made their mainstream debuts in 2006, by far the most impressive was Douglas Pipes, whose exciting and energetic score for the animated family horror MONSTER HOUSE evoked the best styles of the genre, showcased his expert handling of a large symphony orchestra and earmarked him as a true talent to watch. Caine Davidson also impressed with his score for the demonic possession horror flick AN AMERICAN HAUNTING, which highlighted a genuine knack for all manner of orchestral and choral histrionics. Nicholas Dodd finally stepped out of the shadow of David Arnold, Mychael Danna, and all the other composers he has orchestrated and conducted for over the years, writing his first solo score for the French animated film noir RENAISSANCE, and proved that his impressive career working for others has not diminished his own compositional capabilities. Young Benjamin Wallfisch was best known as Dario Marianelli’s orchestrator prior to writing the score for the dark drama DEAR WENDY, which again proved that those who work behind the scenes often have as much – if not more – talent than those whose work they have been bolstering. Finally, and although he has been a prominent member of the classical world for more than a quarter of a century, Sir John Tavener wrote his very first actual film score in 2006, for Alfonso Cuaron’s CHILDREN OF MEN, and endowed it with a spiritual, reflective choral piece of grace, power and beauty.

Other newcomers worth watching out for in future years include ERRAN BARON COHEN (Borat), JEAN-MICHEL BERNARD (The Science of Sleep), JASON BRANDT (Night of the Living Dead 3D), SCOTT GLASGOW (Chasing Ghosts), NATHAN JOHNSON (Brick), NUNO MALO (The Celestine Prophecy), ELVIN D. ROSS (Medea’s Family Reunion), DAVID SCHOMMER (Accepted), MARC STREITENFELD (A Good Year), and MARCUS TRUMPP (Hollow Man II).


BEST SCORE - DRAMA OR ROMANTIC DRAMA

  • MYCHAEL DANNA for The Nativity Story (New Line) - review
  • MARK ISHAM for The Black Dahlia (Silva)
  • JAMES HORNER for All the King’s Men (Varèse Sarabande)
  • BRETT ROSENBERG for Half Light (Moviescore Media)
  • TOM TYKWER, REINHOLD HEIL and JOHNNY KLIMEK for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (EMI)
As with the overall Score of the Year category, the choice for Drama or Romantic Drama was one of the most competitive years in a long time – and for the same reasons. Again, Mychael Danna’s The Nativity Story just won out over Mark Isham’s The Black Dahlia, Tykwer/Heil/Klimek’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and Rosenberg’s Half Light, proving that this year – for a change – the strength of scoring in Dramatic films was by far the greatest. The other nomination in this category is for James Horner, who provided the Prohibition-era drama All the King’s Men a touch of fire and brimstone combined with the easy sounds of the Deep South, underscoring the rise to power and subsequent fall from grace of a corrupt politician with all the dramatic gusto one would expect.

PETER SIMONS’ PICKS: MARK ISHAM for The Black Dahlia, ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for The Painted Veil, JAMES HORNER for All the King’s Men, MARK ISHAM for Eight Below, and TOM TYKWER, REINHOLD HEIL and JOHNNY KLIMEK for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

Special mentions should also go to CRAIG ARMSTRONG for World Trade Center, BILL CONTI for Rocky Balboa, ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for The Queen, PATRICK DOYLE for Wah-Wah, ANNE DUDLEY for Tristan + Isolde, CLINT EASTWOOD for Flags of Our Fathers, STEPHEN ENDELMAN for Home of the Brave, GUY FARLEY for Land of the Blind, PHILIP GLASS for The Illusionist and Notes on a Scandal, ALEX HEFFES for The Last King of Scotland, MARK ISHAM for Bobby and Invincible, NATHAN JOHNSON for Brick, ADRIAN JOHNSTON for Lassie, THOMAS NEWMAN for The Good German and Little Children, RACHEL PORTMAN for The Lake House, JOHN POWELL for United 93, TREVOR RABIN for Flyboys, GRAEME REVELL for Goal! The Dream Begins, HOWARD SHORE for The Departed, MICHAEL W. SMITH for The Second Chance, JOHN TAVENER for Children of Men, BRIAN TYLER for Annapolis, NIGEL WESTLAKE for Miss Potter, and AARON ZIGMAN for Flicka.


BEST SCORE - COMEDY OR ROMANTIC COMEDY

  • ALAN MENKEN for The Shaggy Dog (Disney)
  • MYCHAEL DANNA for Little Miss Sunshine (Lakeshore)
  • THEODORE SHAPIRO for The Devil Wears Prada (unreleased)
  • ALEX WURMAN for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (unreleased)
  • HANS ZIMMER for The Holiday (Varèse Sarabande)
It was actually a pretty lightweight year as far as comedies go, with very few amusing delights to be had amongst the usual suspects. However, Alan Menken’s The Shaggy Dog pretty much stood head and shoulders above the others, combining exciting caper music with attractive orchestral themes in what is by far his best score since his Disney heyday in the early 1990s. Hans Zimmer’s gentle and whimsical orchestral score for the Transatlantic romantic house-swap comedy The Holiday recalled his best work in the genre and reminds us why he is often at his best when he is not scoring action blockbusters or pirate movies. Mychael Danna’s score for the independent hit Little Miss Sunshine is upbeat and band-based, was written in collaboration with the popular Colorado rock ensemble Devotchka, and provides a broad spectrum of emotional resonance for a cross-country road trip containing moments of bittersweet humour, tragic pathos and riotous slapstick. Teddy Shapiro’s unreleased score for The Devil Wears Prada captured the frenzied atmosphere of life at one of New York’s most prestigious fashion magazines, while maintaining a look at the rapidly changing fortunes of Anne Hathaway’s character as she transforms from mousy assistant into a glamorous, confident journalist. Finally, Alex Wurman scored Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby as a straightforward heroic sports movie, playing up to all the hilarious the NASCAR stereotypes but still capturing the inherent bravery of the men who drive at ludicrous speeds behind the wheels of souped-up super cars. Shake and bake!

PETER SIMONS’ PICKS: HANS ZIMMER for The Holiday, MYCHAEL DANNA for Little Miss Sunshine, ROLFE KENT for Failure to Launch, THEODORE SHAPIRO for The Devil Wears Prada, and ALEX WURMAN for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Rocky Bobby.

Special mentions should also go to ERRAN BARON COHEN for Borat, CHRISTOPHE BECK for Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties and The Pink Panther, JON BRION for The Break-Up, TEDDY CASTELLUCCI for My Super Ex-Girlfriend, GEORGE S. CLINTON for The Santa Clause 3, DANNY ELFMAN for Nacho Libre, ROBERT FOLK for Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS for Click, ANDREW GROSS for Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for RV, ADRIAN JOHNSTON for Kinky Boots, and ALAN WILLIAMS for Suits on the Loose.

BEST SCORE - ANIMATION

 Unlike in previous years, animated films did not produce a vast number of amazing scores in 2006. Nevertheless, many of them were worthy of praise, none moreso than Danny Elfman’s delightful new score for Charlotte’s Web, an live-action/animation combo which interpolated Elfman’s beautifully wistful and charming themes into its setting of innocence and friendship, and emerged as one of the composer’s loveliest and most charming efforts in years. One of the best things about the direct-to-DVD sequel Bambi II was Bruce Broughton’s beautifully expressive score, which captured the sylvan nature of the forest, while endowing the young deer’s childhood adventure with a sense of honour, nobility, wonder, and a great deal of fun. Nicholas Dodd finally stepped out of the shadow of David Arnold, Mychael Danna, and all the other composers he has orchestrated and conducted for over the years, writing his first solo score for the French animated film noir Renaissance, and proved that his impressive career working for others has not diminished his own compositional capabilities, while newcomer of the year Douglas Pipes wrote an exciting and energetic score for the animated family horror Monster House which evoked the best styles of the genre, showcased his expert handling of a large symphony orchestra and earmarked him as a true talent to watch. Finally, the massively popular Japanese game composer Nobuo Uematsu composed a stylish and satisfying orchestral-rock combo score for the straight to DVD adventure Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, which delighted fans of the enduringly popular game series, and built on the themes he has been evolving since the first Final Fantasy appeared in 1987.

PETER SIMONS’ PICKS: DANNY ELFMAN for Charlotte’s Web, HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS for Flushed Away, DOUGLAS PIPES for Monster House, and JOHN POWELL for Happy Feet and Ice Age 2.

Special mentions should also go to JOHN DEBNEY for The Ant Bully, Barnyard and Everyone’s Hero, GORDON GOODWIN for Bah Humduck!, RANDY NEWMAN for Cars, ERIC SERRA for Arthur and the Invisibles, ALAN SILVESTRI for The Wild, and HANS ZIMMER and NICK GLENNIE-SMITH for The Little Polar Bear 2.


BEST SCORE - THRILLER, ACTION OR ADVENTURE

 Alexandre Desplat continues his massively impressive foray into the upper echelons of the Hollywood film scoring world with his score for Firewall, the best thriller/action/adventure score of 2006. A whirlwind score full of slashing strings, bellowing brass, pounding percussion, and a number of flamboyant touches of orchestration, Firewall beat all-comers, despite being released way back at the beginning of the year. David Arnold wrote what is probably his best Bond score for Casino Royale his fourth effort in the series, and the first starring newcomer Daniel Craig. Arnold’s exciting, energetic music largely dispensed with the electronic nonsense that plagued Die Another Day, and was a fresher and more vibrant work because of it. 2006 Oscar nominee Dario Marianelli continued to enhance his reputation with the excellent V for Vendetta, which breathed new life into the old Guy Fawkes legend with apocalyptic orchestral themes, a soaring choral cue, and the best use of Tchaikovsky since 1812! Hans Zimmer revisited Klaus Badelt’s old ground on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which despite being totally anachronistic and simplistic, nevertheless seems to suit Jack Sparrow’s nautical adventures to a tee. At the other end of the spectrum, his work on The Da Vinci Code was classical and emotional, taking its inspiration from Dab Brown’s blockbuster book, and scoring the revelations about mankind’s religious history with choral power, stirring themes, and a touch of class.

PETER SIMONS’ PICKS: JAMES HORNER for Apocalypto, MICHAEL GIACCHINO for Mission Impossible III, DARIO MARIANELLI for V for Vendetta, ALAN SILVESTRI for Night at the Museum, and HANS ZIMMER for The Da Vinci Code.

Special mentions should also go to ANGELO BADALAMENTI for The Wicker Man, CHRISTOPHE BECK for The Sentinel, TERENCE BLANCHARD for Inside Man, DON DAVIS for The Marine, JAMES HORNER for Apocalypto, JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for Blood Diamond, MARK ISHAM for Running Scared, ALAN PARKER for Stormbreaker, TREVOR RABIN for The Guardian and Snakes on a Plane, and BRIAN TYLER for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.


BEST SCORE - FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION OR HORROR

  • PATRICK DOYLE for Eragon (RCA) - review
  • MARCO BELTRAMI for The Omen (Varèse Sarabande)
  • MYCHAEL DANNA and JEFF DANNA for Tideland (Rykodisc)
  • JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for Lady in the Water (Decca)
  • JOHN OTTMAN for Superman Returns (Rhino)
With no Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or Harry Potter to dominate proceedings, other scores got the chance to shine in the Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror arena. However, like in 2005, Patrick Doyle has taken the spoils for his massive fantasy score Eragon. The film itself has been ripped to shreds by critics, but the score itself is a soaring, triumphant orchestral feast, built around a tremendous recurring main theme, and featuring some monumentally exciting action music for the full orchestra and a large choir. James Newton Howard wrote a ghostly, other-worldly, beautifully realised score for M. Night Shyamalan’s critically lambasted Lady in the Water, which features several attractive themes, an enormous finale in “The Great Eatlon”, and was well received by virtually every major critic. Canadian composing brothers Michael and Jeff Danna gave director Terry Gilliam’s little-seen fantasy Tideland a unique, but highly effective musical voice, writing a number of beautifully twisted themes, delightfully offbeat marches, and utilized various unconventional instrumental touches in their accompaniment to topsy-turvy visual style of the former Python director’s film. However, arguably the two most difficult assignments of 2006 fell to Marco Beltrami and John Ottman, who had to follow in the musical footsteps of Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams respectively on the remake of The Omen and the latest incarnation of the man of steel, Superman Returns. Beltrami largely dispensed with the chanting Latin choirs and wrote a decent, straight-forward horror score, albeit with brief snippets of “Ave Satani” as a conciliatory tip of the hat to his predecessor. Ottman, on the other hand, used Williams’s classic Superman themes as part of the fabric of his expansive and enjoyable score, while building upon the musical stylistics in a manner which paid homage to the 1978 classic, while updating it for the 21st century and adding his own expressive touches.

PETER SIMONS’ PICKS: CLINT MANSELL for The Fountain, MARCO BELTRAMI for The Omen, JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for Lady in the Water, JOHN POWELL for X-Men: The Last Stand, and CHRISTOPHER YOUNG for The Grudge 2.

Special mentions should also go to NATHAN BARR for Hostel, MARCO BELTRAMI for Underworld Evolution, EDMUND BUTT for The Dark, NIGEL CLARKE and MICHAEL CSÁNYI-WILLS for The Thief Lord, CAINE DAVIDSON for An American Haunting, PATRICK DOYLE for Jekyll + Hyde, and SHIRLEY WALKER for Black Christmas and Final Destination 3.


BEST SCORE - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

  • DANNY ELFMAN for Deep Sea 3-D (unreleased)
  • MICHAEL BROOK for An Inconvenient Truth (Colosseum)
  • JANE ANTONIA CORNISH for So Goes the Nation (unreleased)
  • VIC FLEMING and PETER GOLUB for Wordplay (unreleased)
  • PHILIP GLASS for Roving Mars (Lakeshore)
After a couple of years when they were de rigueur in Hollywood, cinematic documentaries took a sabbatical in 2006, producing very few entries of note, either in terms of box office or musical excellence. Danny Elfman’s score for the IMAX documentary Deep Sea 3-D was the pick of the bunch – the film, which featured additional music by Deborah Lurie, allowed Elfman room to write a number of expressive orchestral cues to capture the astounding beauty and danger of life deep beneath the ocean waves. The most high-profile documentary was An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s movie warning the word about the dangers of global warming, which received an appropriate, effective, understated score from indie composer and musician Michael Brook. Philip Glass wrote one of his usual minimalist scores for another IMAX documentary, Roving Mars, but on this occasion his mesmerising string-based compositions worked well in juxtaposition with the eerie beauty of the surface of the red planet. LA-based British composer Jane Antonia Cornish is a talent to watch, having lent her considerable talent to So Goes The Nation, a documentary about the 2004 presidential election from the point of the view of the citizens of Ohio. Finally, Vic Fleming and Peter Golub impressed with their work on Wordplay, a fascinating documentary about the life of New York Times' long-time crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz.

Special mentions should also go to MARK ADLER for The Fall of Fujimori and When Do We Eat?, JEFF ATMAJIAN for Screamers, JEFF EDEN FAIR and STARR PARODI for Conversations with Other Women, MOGWAI for Zidane: A 20th Century Portrait, MARCELO ZARVOS for Our Brand in Crisis, and JOHN ZORN for The Workingman’s Death.

BEST SCORE - FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

 As ever, the Foreign Language category threw up a number of interesting choices, not only for their compositional excellence, but also the depth of work across a number of genres. I expect many will be surprised with the choice of Klaus Badelt’s The Promise, but its combination of sweeping dramatic themes, creative vocals, and exotic Chinese instruments made it a winner all the way, and proved beyond doubt that the much-maligned Badelt has more talent than people believe. Running a close- VERY close – second is Ennio Morricone’s score for the powerful Hungarian holocaust drama Fateless [Sorstalanság]. Morricone’s lushly beautiful themes, combined with Lisa Gerrard’s heartfelt vocal work, gave voice to the Hungarian Jews who died in WWII, and whose stories are told in director Lajos Koltai’s film. 2005 Oscar nominee Alberto Iglesias wrote his sixth score for director Pedro Almodóvar with Volver, which had all the life, snap, pizzazz and emotional resonance one comes to expect from the eccentric Spaniard’s work. The second score from Spain is Javier Navarrete’s Pan’s Labyrinth, a dark and vivid fantasy score for the full orchestra and choir, which breathes musical life into director Guillermo Del Toro’s magical adventure about a little girl’s journey into a mysterious magical world in Civil War-era Spain. Finally, French composer Philippe’s Rombi’s elegant score for the WWI drama Merry Christmas gave an appropriate emotional poignancy to the famous, tragic, wartime truce between opposing forces across the trenches of northern France.

PETER SIMONS’ PICKS: JAVIER NAVARRETE for Pan’s Labyrinth, KLAUS BADELT for The Promise, ALBERTO IGLESIAS for Volver, ENNIO MORRICONE for Fateless, and PHILIPPE ROMBI for Merry Christmas.

Special mentions should also go to ANDRE ABUJAMRA for Innocent Voices, ARMAND AMAR for Days of Glory, KRISTIN ASBJORNSEN for Factotum, ROQUE BANOS for Salome, PAOLO BUONVINO for Romanzo Criminale, HUGO DIAZ and LEON GEICO for Familia Rodante, PINO DONAGGIO for Do You Like Hitchcock?, LUCIO GODOY for The Aura, ALBERTO IGLESIAS for Take My Eyes, PETER KAM for Isabella, KENJI KAWAI for Seven Swords, FONS MERKEIS for Moonlight, CYRIL MORIN for La Petite Jerusalem, ANDRE PANDOLFO for Excellent Cadavers, FRANCO PIERSANTI for Don’t Tell, YURI POTEYENKO for Night Watch, EVANTHIA REBOUTSIKA for Babam Ve Oglum, NIKI REISER for Summer Storm, THE RZA and HOWARD DROSSIN for The Protector, ISAO TOMITA for The Hidden Blade, and SHIGERU UMEBAYASHI for Curse of the Golden Flower and Fearless.


BEST SCORE - TELEVISION

  • GEORGE FENTON for Planet Earth (BBC)
  • MURRAY GOLD for Doctor Who (BBC)
  • JOSEPH LO DUCA for The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines (La-La Land)
  • MARK McKENZIE for In From the Night (Intrada)
  • LALO SCHIFRIN for Abominable (Aleph)
Outstanding television scores were few and far between in 2006, and the two best of the year actually came from the UK. George Fenton, having already scored similar projects for the BBC with Blue Planet and Deep Blue once again turned his attention to the wonders of the natural world with Planet Earth, an astonishing nature documentary series which once again inspired the Englishman to compose a score full of majestic orchestral flourishes and distinctive themes which have heart, soul, energy, power, mysticism, and occasionally a great deal of humour. The task of scoring the BBC’s revitalisation of the classic Doctor Who series fell to up-and-coming composer Murray Gold, who not only breathed new life into Ron Grainer’s immortal main theme, but also wrote a stunningly powerful underscore combining orchestra with a lot of well-realised electronics, along with several memorable themes for the Doctor and his adversaries, and a dozen or so thunderous action cues which wouldn’t have sounded out of place in Independence Day. Joseph Lo Duca wrote the score for the second Librarian movie, Return to King Solomon’s Mines for the American TNT network, and had a lot of fun playing off the musical conventions of the Indiana Jones franchise, but endowing it with his own flair, creativity, and a whole lot of tongue-in-cheek fun. Mark McKenzie’s beautiful and delicate string-and-piano score for the emotional, intimate drama In From the Night proved once again what an immeasurable talent he is, and why with the best will in the world he should be writing for better movies than he is. Lalo Schifrin, meanwhile, composed a blood-and-thunder action/horror score for his son Ryan’s Bigfoot movie Abominable, which reminded listeners that he is much, much, more than the Mission Impossible jazz man. (In case you were wondering, Abominable played in theatres in other countries, but premiered on the Sci-Fi TV network in the US).

Special mentions should also go to MARK ADLER for The Ron Clark Story, JEFF BEAL for The Water is Wide, VELTON RAY BUNCH for Flight 93, JOHN CAMERON for The Path to 9/11, JOHN DICKSON for The Black Hole, JOHN FRIZZELL for A Little Thing Called Murder and Mrs. Harris, STEPHEN GRAZIANO for Avenger, ALEX HEFFES for Tsunami: The Aftermath, ADRIAN JOHNSTON for Gideon’s Daughter, JAN A.P. KACAMAREK for A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, ROBERT LANE for Elizabeth I, BARRINGTON PHELOUNG for Lewis, and MATTHIAS WEBER for Surrender Dorothy.

BEST SCORE – GAME

  • JOEL GOLDSMITH for Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
  • MATEO PASCUAL for Commandos Strike Force (unreleased)
  • KEVIN RIEPL for Gears of War (unreleased)
  • DOCK ROSENKRANZ for Gothic 3 (Revilo Rec/Alive)
  • HOWARD SHORE for SUN: Soul of the Ultimate Nation (Sony/BMG)
They say third time a charm. They were right. What can I say? Call of Duty 3 blew me away. Joel Goldsmith’s first entry continues Call of Duty’s successful trilogy, with Joel clearly inspired by his father, Jerry Goldsmith. The score includes a powerful main theme, epic marches, memorable action moments, and beautiful hymns. Departing from previous Commando games, Strike Force received mixed reaction from press and fans; however the score has only been praised. Composed by Mateo Pascual, the score features epic orchestra and chorus performances. The highlights are plentiful, including a great main theme, dramatic hymns, and militaristic action. Not only was Gears of War a must have game for any XBOX 360 owner, but it also turned out a must have score, composed by Kevin Riepl and performed by the Northwest Sinfonia. The score features many standout moments, with plenty of entertaining brutal action. The good news is the soundtrack is on the way. An unexpected, but welcome late 2006 addition, Gothic 3 continues the series and has composer Dock Rosenkranz return, this time with full orchestra and chorus. Gothic 3 boosts a great main theme, nice action, and beautiful underscore moments. The score features wonderful performances and features vocalist Lisbeth Scott and Taiko band GOCOO. SUN: Soul of the Ultimate Nation received more reaction for its music then the actual game. What would you expect from hiring Howard Shore? Anyone who was a fan of Shore’s Lord of the Rings trilogy music will feel at home. Shore provides all the big grand moments, action, and a surprisingly interesting amount of diversity and instrumentation that you don’t see often in game music. Commentary by Joe Bat.

Listen to clips from the nominated game scores! Call of Duty 3 #1, Call of Duty 3 #2, Commandos Strike Force #1, Commandos Strike Force #2, Gears of War #1, Gears of War #2, Gothic 3 #1, Gothic 3 #2, SUN #1, SUN #2.

Special mentions should also go to ROD ABERNETHY and JASON GRAVES for Star Trek: Legacy, JIM DOOLEY for SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALS Combined Assault, LEON WILLETT for Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, COLIN O’MALLEY for Superman Returns, JEREMY SOULE for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Prey, and CHRIS TILTON and MICHAEL GIACCHINO for Black.


BEST ORIGINAL SONG

 In a year of few truly memorable songs, Mychael and Elizabeth Danna’s soaring, spiritually rich powerhouse “In Rosa Vernat Lilium” stands head and shoulders above the rest. Performed by Azam Ali, and written to accompany the finale of The Nativity Story - no lesser event than the birth of Jesus Christ - Mychael’s enormous musical crescendos and Elizabeth’s poetic Latin lyrics gives the generally lacklustre film a monumental conclusion with a potent emotional content which never fails to deliver the goods. Running it a close second is the new Bond song, “You Know My Name” from Casino Royale, written by David Arnold and Chris Cornell, and performed with tortured rock-star gusto by Cornell himself. It’s the harshest, more abrasive and challenging Bond song in many years, but has a killer orchestral bridge lick which forms a core part of the score, and Cornell hammers the hard edged lyrics home with aplomb. Randy Newman’s “Our Town” from Cars, as performed by James Taylor, is another one of his traditionally bittersweet ballads, full of the traditional homespun Americana he excels at writing, and features his familiar ironic lyrics. Similarly, David A. Stewart and Glen Ballard’s “Ordinary Miracle” from Charlotte’s Web is heart-warmingly attractive and down-to-earth, and is given a rich and expressive performance by the lovely Sarah McLachlan, whose country-style vocal catch combines well with the earthy arrangements and lyrics which espouse simple dreams. Colorado indie rock band Devotchka (Nick Urata, Tom Hagerman, Jeanie Schroeder and Shawn King) contributed several original songs to the tragic-comic road movie Little Miss Sunshine, with lead singer Urata channelling the spirit of Roy Orbison, and the whole package having an invigorating acoustic sound missing from a lot of today’s rock music.

Special mentions should also go to BRYAN ADAMS, ELIOT KENNEDY and ANDREA REMANDA for “Never Gonna Break My Faith” from Bobby; SHERYL CROW for “Try Not to Remember” from Home of the Brave; PATRICK DOYLE, JEMMA GRIFFITHS and LESTER MENDEZ for “Once in Every Lifetime” from Eragon; TOBY KEITH and RANDY SCRUGGS for “Broken Bridges” from “Broken Bridges”; HENRY KRIEGER, ANNE PREVEN and SCOTT CUTLER for “Listen”, “Love You I Do” and “Patience” from Dreamgirls; AVRIL LAVIGNE and LUKASZ GOTTWALD for “Keep Holding On” from Eragon; TIM McGRAW for “My Little Girl” from “Flicka”; PRINCE for “The Song of the Heart” from Happy Feet; SEAL and CHRISTOPHER BRUCE for “A Father’s Way” from The Pursuit of Happyness and NICK URATA, TOM HAGERMAN, JEANIE SCHROEDER and SHAWN KING for “You Love Me” from “Little Miss Sunshine”.


BEST SINGLE CUE

  • PATRICK DOYLE for “Eragon” from Eragon
  • KLAUS BADELT for “Freedom of the Wa” from The Promise
  • MYCHAEL DANNA for “A Star Shall Come Forth” from The Nativity Story
  • DANNY ELFMAN for “Wilbur’s Homecoming” from Charlotte’s Web
  • MARK ISHAM for “The Zoot Suit Riots” from The Black Dahlia
  • DARIO MARIANELLI for “Evey Reborn” from V for Vendetta
  • JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for “The Great Eatlon” from Lady in the Water
  • JOHN TAVENER for “Fragments of a Prayer” from Children of Men
  • TOM TYKWER, REINHOLD HEIL and JOHNNY KLIMEK for “Streets of Paris” from Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  • HANS ZIMMER for “CheValiers de Sangreal” from The Da Vinci Code
Special mentions should also go to ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for “Firewall” from Firewall, RICHARD HARVEY for “Kyrie for the Magdalene” from The Da Vinci Code, JAMES HORNER for “Give Me the Hammer and I’ll Nail ’em Up!” from All the King’s Men, ENNIO MORRICONE for “Fateless” from Fateless, JOHN POWELL for “The Funeral” from X-Men: The Last Stand, BRETT ROSENBERG for “Main Title” from Half-Light, and HANS ZIMMER for “Poisoned Chalice” from The Da Vinci Code.

BEST RE-RELEASE OR RE-RECORDING

  • HOWARD SHORE, PETER JACKSON and PAUL BROUCEK (producers) for Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers: The Complete Recordings (Reprise)
  • DOUGLASS FAKE (producer) for Bruce Broughton’s Tombstone (Intrada)
  • DOUGLASS FAKE (producer) for Mark McKenzie’s Blizzard (Intrada)
  • FORD A. THAXTON and JAMES NELSON (producers) for Henry Mancini’s Lifeforce (BSX)
  • ROBERT TOWNSON (producer) for Elmer Bernstein’s The Birdman of Alcatraz (Varèse Sarabande CD Club)
Special mentions should also go to LUKAS KENDALL, JEFF BOND, NICK REDMAN and everyone at FILM SCORE MONTHLY for continuing their astonishing series of classic score re-released, which included Ron Goodwin’s Force 10 from Navarone, Leigh Harline’s The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Bernard Herrmann’s The Wrong Man, Maurice Jarre’s The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Ennio Morricone’s Guns for San Sebastian, Lalo Schifrin’s The Liquidator, John Williams’s Goodbye Mr. Chips, and several others. Also to DOUGLASS FAKE and INTRADA, who released scores such as Elmer Bernstein’s Saturn 3, Jerry Goldsmith’s Inchon, and Leigh Harline’s House of Bamboo . To ROBERT TOWNSON and the VARÈSE SARABANDE CD CLUB, who re-released such classic scores as George Delerue’s An Almost Perfect Affair, Hugo Friedhofer’s Seven Cities of Gold, Jerry Goldsmith’s Runaway, and several long-forgotten efforts by Bill Conti. To MICHAEL V. GERHARD and MATT VERBOYS, whose LA LA LAND label released Jerry Goldsmith’s Breakheart Pass and John Morris’s neglected Spaceballs, and to FORD A. THAXTON and PROMETHEUS RECORDS, who provided a fitting tribute to Basil Poledouris with expanded releases of his scores for Farewell to the King and Quigley Down Under.

BEST COMPILATION

  • LUKAS KENDALL (producer) for Elmer Bernstein’s Film Music Collection (FSM)
  • DOUGLASS FAKE (producer) for Amazing Stories Vol.1 (Intrada)
  • DOUGLASS FAKE (producer) for Amazing Stories Vol.2 (Intrada)
  • JAMES FITZPATRICK (producer) The Essential Charlie Chaplin Film Music Collection (Silva)
  • ROBERT TOWNSON (producer) for Franz Waxman: A Centenary Celebration (Varèse Sarabande)

BEST UNRELEASED SCORE

  • BRUCE BROUGHTON for Bambi II
  • NIGEL CLARKE and MICHAEL CSÁNYI-WILLS for The Thief Lord
  • BILL CONTI for Rocky Balboa
  • DON DAVIS for The Marine
  • MARK ISHAM for Bobby
Other scores which could greatly benefit from a commercial score release include SIMON BOSWELL for The River King, PATRICK DOYLE for Jekyll + Hyde, TREVOR RABIN for Snakes on a Plane, THEODORE SHAPIRO for The Devil Wears Prada, SHIRLEY WALKER for Black Christmas, and ALEX WURMAN for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby


IN MEMORIAM

  • AKIRA IFUKUBE, 8 February
  • ALI FARKA TOURE, 6 March
  • CY FEUER, 17 May
  • GYÖRGY LIGETI, 11 June
  • MALCOLM ARNOLD, 23 September
  • NIGEL HOLTON, 26 October
  • BASIL POLEDOURIS, 8 November
  • KARL-ERNST SASSE, 12 November
  • SHIRLEY WALKER, 29 November

COMPLETE LIST OF ELIGIBLE SCORES (AND THEIR COMPOSER)

  • 10 ITEMS OR LESS (Antonio Pinto), 10th & WOLF (Aaron Zigman), 16 BLOCKS (Klaus Badelt), 2001 MANIACS (Nathan Barr), 3 NEEDLES (Christophe Beck), 36 (Ervin Kermorvant and Axelle Renoir), 36 CHINA TOWN (Himesh Reshammiya), 50 WAYS OF SAYING FABULOUS (Peter Scholes), 51 BIRCH STREET (H. Scott Salinas), 7 MUMMIES (Michael Turner), AAP KI KHATIR (Himesh Reshammiya), ABDUCTION: THE MEGUMI YOKOTA STORY (Shoji Kameda), ABOMINABLE (Lalo Schifrin), ABSOLUTE WILSON (Miriam Cutler), ACCEPTED (David Schommer), ADAM & STEVE (Roddy Bottum), ADRIFT (Gerd Baumann), THE ADVENTURES OF GREYFRIARS BOBBY (Mark Thomas), AFTER SUNDOWN (Stephen Barnett and Timothy E. Smith), AGNES AND HIS BROTHERS (Martin Todsharow), AIR BUDDIES (Brahm Wenger), AKEELAH AND THE BEE (Aaron Zigman), AL FRANKEN: GOD SPOKE (Ed Smart), ALIEN AUTOPSY (Murray Gold), ALL THE KING'S MEN (James Horner), ALPHA MALE (Stephen Warbeck), ALTERED (Tony Cora), AMBROSE BIERCE: CIVIL WAR STORIES (Peter Kopera and Jon McCallum), AMERICAN DREAMZ (Stephen Trask), AMERICAN GUN (Schuyler Fisk), AMERICAN PIE 5: THE NAKED MILE (Jeff Cardoni), AMERICANO (Sebastian Arocha-Morton), AN AMERICAN HAUNTING (Caine Davidson), AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (Michael Brook), ANDRE THE BUTCHER (Stephen E. Cox and Lee Riley), ANGEL-A (Anja Garbarek), ANITA & ME (Nitin Sawhney), ANKAHEE (Pritam Chakraborty), ANNAPOLIS (Brian Tyler), ANOTHER GAY MOVIE (Marty Beller), ANOTHER PUBLIC ENEMY (Jae Kwon Han), THE ANT BULLY (John Debney), ANTHONY KAUN HAI (Himesh Reshammiya), APOCALYPTO (James Horner), APRIL'S SHOWER (Peter Nashel), AQUAMARINE (David Hirschfelder), ARCHANGEL (Robert Lane), THE ARCHITECT (Marcelo Zarvos), ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (David Kitay), ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES (Eric Serra), ARTIE LANGE'S BEER LEAGUE (B.C. Smith), ASK THE DUST (Ramin Djawadi and Heitor Pereira), ASPHALT WARS (Mel Lewis), ASSASSIN IN BLUE (Nathan Lanier), ATL (Aaron Zigman), ATTACK FORCE (Barry Taylor), THE AURA (Lucio Godoy), AURORA BOREALIS (Mychael Danna), AUTUMN (Cyril Morin), AWESOME! I FUCKIN' SHOT THAT (The Beastie Boys), AZUMI (Taro Iwashiro)
  • BAABUL (Aadesh Shrivastava), BABAM VE OGLUM (Evanthia Reboutsika), BABEL (Gustavo Santaolalla), BACKSTAGE (Laurent Marimbert), BAH HUMDUCK! A LOONEY TUNES CHRISTMAS (Gordon Goodwin), BALL & CHAIN (Deane Ogden), BAMBI II (Bruce Broughton), BARBIE: MERMAIDIA (Eric Colvin), BARNYARD: THE ORIGINAL PARTY ANIMALS (John Debney), BASIC INSTINCT 2 (John Murphy), BATTLE IN HEAVEN (John Tavener), BE WITH ME (Kevin Matthews and Christine Sham), BEEN RICH ALL MY LIFE (Pete Whiteman), BEERFEST (Nathan Barr), BEHIND ENEMY LINES: AXIS OF EVIL (Pinar Toprak), BEING CYRUS (Salim Merchant and Suleman Merchant), THE BENCHWARMERS (Waddy Wachtel), BEOWULF & GRENDEL (Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson), BEYOND HONOR (David Mann), BHAGAM BHAG (Pritam Chakraborty), BIG LOVE (Mark Mothersbaugh), BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE 2 (George S. Clinton), THE BIG QUESTION (Alessandro Molinari), A BITTERSWEET LIFE (Yeong-Gyu Jang), BLACK CHRISTMAS (Shirley Walker), THE BLACK DAHLIA (Mark Isham), BLACK GOLD (Andreas Kapsalis), THE BLACK HOLE (John Dickson), BLACKWATER VALLEY EXORCISM (Joseph Bauer), BLOOD DIAMOND (James Newton Howard), BLOODRAYNE (Henning Lohner), THE BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO OLIVEROS (Pepe Smith and Mike Villegas), BOBBY (Mark Isham), BONE SICKNESS (Brian Paulin), BORAT (Erran Baron Cohen), THE BOSTON STRANGLER (Jay Bolan), BOYNTON BEACH CLUB (Marcelo Zarvos), BRATZ (Richard McHugh and Deddy Tzur), BREAK A LEG (Roger Bellon), BREAKING AND ENTERING (Gabriel Yared), BREAKING NEWS (Chi Wing Chung), THE BREAKUP ARTIST (Thomas De Renzo and Paul Conte), THE BREAK-UP (Jon Brion), BRICK (Nathan Johnson), THE BRIDESMAID (Mathieu Chabrol), BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING (Transcenders), BROKEN BRIDGES (Toby Keith and Randy Scruggs), BROKEN SKY (Arturo Villela), BROKEN TRAIL (David Mansfield and Van Dyke Parks), BROTHER BEAR 2 (Dave Metzger), BROTHERS OF THE HEAD (Clive Langer), BTK KILLER (Robert J. Walsh), BUBBLE (Robert Pollard), BUDDHA WILD: MONK IN A HUT (Charles David Denler), BUFFALO BOY (Ton That Tiêt), THE BUTCHER (Dennis Smith), THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT 2 (Michael Suby)
  • C.R.A.Z.Y. (David Bowie), CAKE (Andrew Lockington), THE CALIFORNIANS (Niels Bye Nielsen), CAMP SLAUGHTER (Brad Fowler), CANDY (Paul Charlier), CAPTAIN SABERTOOTH (Trond Bjerknes), CARLOS SAURA'S SALOME (Roque Baños), CARS (Randy Newman), CASINO ROYALE (David Arnold), CATCH A FIRE (Philip Miller), CAUTIVA (José Luis Castiñeira De Dios), CAVE OF THE YELLOW DOG (Börte), THE CELESTINE PROPHECY (Nuno Malo), CHANGING TIMES (Juliette Garrigues), CHAOS AND CADAVERS (Warren Bennett), CHARLIE WHITE (Philip Zikking), CHARLOTTE'S WEB (Danny Elfman), CHASING GHOSTS (Scott Glasgow), CHECKING OUT (Nicholas Pike), CHEECH (Normand Corbeil), CHILDREN OF MEN (John Tavener), THE CHOKE (Britton Ortize), CHRISTMAS AT MAXWELL'S (Richard John Baker), CHUP CHUP KE (Himesh Reshammiya), CLERKS II (James Venable), CLICK (Rupert Gregson-Williams), CLOSE TO YOU (Jae Jin Lee), COCAINE COWBOYS (Jan Hammer), CODE BREAKERS (Anthony Marinelli), COLD SHOWERS (Nicholas Lemercier), COLOR OF THE CROSS (Jean-Claude La Marre), COME EARLY MORNING (Alan Brewer), THE CONFESSOR (Gary Koftinoff), CONFETTI (Paul Englishby), THE CONRAD BOYS (Chelsea Lo), CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD (Emilio Kauderer), CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN (Jeff Eden Fair and Starr Parodi), COPYING BEETHOVEN (Antoni Lazarkiewicz), CORPORATE (Shamir Tandon), THE COVENANT (John Sereda), THE COVENANT (Tomandandy), COW BELLES (Kenneth Burgomaster), COWBOY DEL AMOR (Joseph Julián Gonzáles), CRANK (Paul Haslinger), CRASH LANDING (Neal Acree), CRAZY LIKE A FOX (David Kane), CROSSOVER (Matthias Weber), CUBAN BLOOD (Edesia Alejandro and Jose Padilla), THE CULT OF THE SUICIDE BOMBER (Dimitri Tchamouroff), CURIOUS GEORGE (Heitor Pereira), THE CURSE OF EL CHARRO (Rich Ragsdale), CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (Shigeru Umebayashi), THE CUTTER (Elia Cmiral), THE CUTTING EDGE: GOING FOR THE GOLD (Richard Bowers)
  • THE DA VINCI CODE (Hans Zimmer), THE DAMNED (Ed Quiroz), DANIKA (Gilad Benamram), DARK HARVEST 3: SCARECROW (Nathan Whitehead), DARK KINGDOM: THE DRAGON KING (Ilan Eshkeri), THE DARK (Edmund Butt), DARSHAN (Jean-Jacques Hertz and Francois Roy), DATE MOVIE (David Kitay), DAVE CHAPPELLE'S BLOCK PARTY (Cory Smith), DAY OF WRATH (David Schweitzer), DAYS OF GLORY (Armand Amar), DEAD BODIES (Ray Harman), A DEAD CALLING (Glen Morrissette), THE DEAD GIRL (Adam Gorgoni), DEAD MAN'S CARDS (Bernd Rest), DEAD WAVES (Hajime Yamane), DEATH & TEXAS (Roy Firestone), DEATH OF A PRESIDENT (Richard Harvey), THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Andreea Paduraru), DEATH RIDE (Maximum Indifference), DEBATING ROBERT LEE (Steven Chesne), THE DEBT (Martin Phipps), DECK DOGZ (Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek), DECK THE HALLS (George S. Clinton), DEEP SEA 3-D (IMAX) (Danny Elfman), DEEP WATER (Harry Escott and Molly Nyman), DÉJÀ VU (Harry Gregson-Williams), DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Joseph Arthur and Mick Harvey), DEN OF LIONS (Ron Hay), THE DEPARTED (Howard Shore), THE DETONATOR (Barry Taylor), THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (Theodore Shapiro), THE DEVIL'S MINER (Leonardo Heiblum and Andes Solis), DHOOM 2 (Pritam-Salim-Suleiman), DIL APNA PUNJABI (Sukhshinder Shinda), DINGLE BARRY (Zoran Bulatovic), DIRTY (Ryan Beveridge), DISTRICT B13 (Bastide Donny and Damien Roques), D'LUCKY ONES (Jessie Lasaten), DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? (Pino Donaggio), DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE (Junkie XL), DOG LOVER'S SYMPHONY (Jeff Marsh), THE DOGWALKER (Joel Diamond), DON (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy), DON'T COME KNOCKING (T-Bone Burnett), DON'T TELL (Franco Piersanti), DORM DAZE 2 (Peter Rafelson), DOWN IN THE VALLEY (David Salett), DR. DOLITTLE 3 (Christopher Lennertz), DRAWING RESTRAINT 9 (Björk), DREAMGIRLS (Stephen Trask), DREAMLAND (Anthony Marinelli), DRIVING LESSONS (Clive Carroll and John Renbourn), DROP DEAD SEXY (Deborah Lurie), DUANE HOPWOOD (Michael Rohatyn), DUCK SEASON (Alejandro Rosso)
  • EDISON FORCE (H. Scott Salinas), EDMOND (Bobby Johnston), EIGHT BELOW (Mark Isham), EIGHTEEN (Bramwell Tovey), EL CORTEZ (George Doering), EL SUENO DEL REGRESSO (Pedro Rivero Toledo), ELECTION (Tayo Lo), ELIZABETH I (Robert Lane), EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH (John Swihart), END GAME (Kenneth Burgomaster), END OF THE SPEAR (Ron Owen), ERAGON (Patrick Doyle), EROSION (Vincent Gillioz), THE ESCAPIST (Robert Lane), EVER AGAIN (Lee Holdridge), EVERYONE'S HERO (John Debney), EVERYTHING YOU WANT (Jay Bateman), EVIL (Francis Shaw), EVIL ALIENS (Richard Wells), EVILENKO (Angelo Badalamenti), EXCELLENT CADAVERS (Andrea Pandolfo), EXTREME DATING (Scott Gilman)
  • FACING THE GIANTS (Mark Willard), FACTOTUM (Kristin Asbjornsen), FAILURE TO LAUNCH (Rolfe Kent), THE FALL OF FUJIMORI (Mark Adler), FAMILIA RODANTE (Hugo Diaz and Leon Geico), FAMILY (Ram Sampath), FAMILY LAW (César Lerner), THE FAMILY PLAN (David Kitay), FANAA (Jatin-Lalit), FAQs (William V. Malpede), THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (Brian Tyler), FAST FOOD NATION (Friends of Dean Martinez), FAST TRACK (Edward Shearmur), FATELESS (Ennio Morricone), FAUSTBOOK (Jeffrey Leiser), FEARLESS (Shigeru Umebayashi), FEAST (Stephen Edwards), FEED (Gregg Leonard and Geoff Michael), FILM GEEK (Jason Wells), FINAL DESTINATION 3 (Shirley Walker), FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN (Nobuo Uematsu), FIND ME GUILTY (Jonathan Tunick), FIREWALL (Alexandre Desplat), FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (Clint Eastwood), FLANNEL PAJAMAS (Paul Hsu), FLICKA (Aaron Zigman), FLIGHT 93 (Velton Ray Bunch), FLOORED BY LOVE (Simon Kendall), FLUSHED AWAY (Harry Gregson-Williams), FLYBOYS (Trevor Rabin), FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (Christopher Guest), FORBIDDEN FRUITS (Charles Washington), THE FOUNTAIN (Clint Mansell), FOUR EYED MONSTERS (Andrew Peterson), THE FOX AND THE HOUND 2 (Joel McNeely), FREE ZONE (Jaroslav Jakubovic and Haba Alberstein), FREEDOMLAND (James Newton Howard), FRIENDS WITH MONEY (Craig Richey), THE FRONT LINE (Patrick Cassidy), FRONTERZ (David Shaw and Kathryn Bostic), FROZEN (Guy Michelmore), FUCK (Carvin Knowles), FUNNY VALENTINE (Greg Arnold), FUR (Carter Burwell)
  • GABRIELLE (Fabio Vacchi), GAME 6 (Yo La Tengo), THE GARDEN (Jon Lee), GARFIELD: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES (Christophe Beck), GETTING PLAYED (David Lawrence), GHOSTS NEVER SLEEP (Craig Stuart Garfinkle), THE GIDDEH: VOODOO CURSE (Joseph Trupiano), GIDEON'S DAUGHTER (Adrian Johnston), THE GIRL FROM MONDAY (Hal Hartley), GIULIANI TIME (David Carbonara), GLASS HOUSE 2: GOOD MOTHER (Steven Gutheinz), GLORY ROAD (Trevor Rabin), GOAL! THE DREAM BEGINS (Graeme Revell), GOD GREW TIRED OF US (Jamie Saft), GOLMAAL (Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani), THE GOOD GERMAN (Thomas Newman), THE GOOD SHEPHERD (Marcelo Zarvos and Bruce Fowler), A GOOD WOMAN (Richard G. Mitchell), A GOOD YEAR (Marc Streitenfeld), GOODNIGHT JOSEPH PARKER (Toledo Diamond), GRANDMA'S BOY (Waddy Wachtel), THE GREAT CHALLENGE (Christian Henson), THE GREAT NEW WONDERFUL (John Swihart), GRIDIRON GANG (Trevor Rabin), GRILLED (Adam Cohen), THE GROOMSMEN (Robert Gary and P.T. Walkley), THE GROUND TRUTH (Lee Curreri), THE GRUDGE 2 (Christopher Young), THE GUARDIAN (Trevor Rabin), A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS (Jonathan Elias), GUYS AND BALLS (Martin Todsharow), GYPO (Christiane Bjørg Nielsen)
  • HALF LIGHT (Brett Rosenberg), HALF-NELSON (Broken Social Scene), HAPPY FEET (John Powell), HARD CANDY (Harry Escott and Molly Nyman), THE HARD CORPS (Joseph Metcalfe), HARRY KNUCKLES AND THE PEARL NECKLACE (Graham Collins), HARSH TIMES (Graeme Revell), HAVE NO FEAR: THE LIFE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II (Carlo Siliotto), HAVEN (Heitor Pereira), HEADHUNTER (Vincent Gillioz), HEADSPACE (Ryan Shore), THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS (Marco Castoldi), HEART OF GOLD (Neil Young), THE HEART OF THE GAME (The Angel), HEARTSTOPPER (Eric Cadesky and Nick Dyer), HEIDI (Jocelyn Pook), THE HEIRLOOM (Jeffrey Cheng), HEROES (Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman), THE HIDDEN BLADE (Isao Tomita), HIDDEN PLACES (Roger Bellon), HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (David Lawrence), THE HILLS HAVE EYES (Tomandandy), THE HISTORY BOYS (George Fenton), HOKKABAZ (Ozan Colakoglu), THE HOLIDAY (Hans Zimmer), HOLLOW MAN II (Marcus Trumpp), HOLLYWOOD FAMILIA (Frank Aragon), THE HOLLYWOOD MOM'S MYSTERY (Jim Dooley), HOLLYWOODLAND (Marcelo Zarvos), HOME OF THE BRAVE (Stephen Endelman), HOODLUM & SON (Mark Thomas), HOOT (Phil Marshall), THE HOST (Byung Woo Lee), HOSTEL (Nathan Barr), HOUSE OF 9 (Mark Ryder), THE HOUSE OF SAND (João Barone and Carlo Bartolini), HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS (Mark Mothersbaugh), HOW TO GO OUT ON A DATE IN QUEENS (Shark), HOW TO LOSE YOUR LOVER (Stephen Trask), HUMANIST (Mu Yeong Lee), HUMKO DEEWANA KAR GAYE (Anu Malik), HUMKO TUMSE PYAAR HAI (Anand Raaj Anand), THE HUNT FOR EAGLE ONE (Mel Lewis), HUNT FOR JUSTICE (Michel Cusson)
  • I AM A SEX ADDICT (Hilary Soldati), I LIKE KILLING FLIES (Chris Toland), ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN (John Powell), IDIOCRACY (Theodore Shapiro), IDLEWILD (John Debney), I'LL ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (Justin Caine Burnett), THE ILLUSIONIST (Philip Glass), IMAGINE ME AND YOU (Alex Heffes), IN FROM THE NIGHT (Mark McKenzie), INFAMOUS (Rachel Portman), INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch), INSIDE MAN (Terence Blanchard), INVINCIBLE (Mark Isham), IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS (James Longley), THE IRIS EFFECT (Alexei Rybnikov), IRISH JAM (Guy Farley), IRON ISLAND (Mohammed Reza Aligholi), IRRESISTIBLE (David Hirschfelder), ISABELLA (Peter Kam), ISOLATION (Adrian Johnston), IT WAITS (Corey Jackson)
  • JAAN-E-MANN (Anu Malik), JAILBAIT (Ed Tomney), JEKYLL + HYDE (Patrick Doyle), JERICHO (David Lawrence), JESUS CAMP (Michael Furjanic and Neill S. Livingstone), JILLUNU ORU KAADHAL (A.R. Rahman), JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE (Richard Gibbs), JONESTOWN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PEOPLES TEMPLE (Tom Phillips), JU-ON 2 (Gary Ashiya), JUST MY LUCK (Teddy Castellucci)
  • KABHI ALVIDA NAA KEHNA (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy), KABUL EXPRESS (Julius Packiam), KALAMAZOO? (Tom Batoy and Alex Menck), KARAS - THE PROPHECY (Yoshihiro Ike), THE KEEPER (Sacha Puttnam), KEEPING MUM (Dickon Hinchliffe), KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS (John Debney), KELOGLAN VS. THE BLACK PRINCE (Rahman Altin), KETTLE OF FISH (Ryan Shore), KHOSLA KA GHOSLA (Bapi-Tutul), KIDULTHOOD (The Angel), KILLER DILLER (Tree Adams), KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST (Yoav Goren), THE KING (Max Lichtenstein), KINKY BOOTS (Adrian Johnston), KISSES AND CAROMS (Tim Daoust), KLEPTO (David De Laski), KRRISH (Salim Merchant and Suleman Merchant), THE KUMITE (Henry Lai), KURTLAR VASIDI - VALLEY OF THE WOLVES (Gökhan Kirdar)
  • LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO (Angelo Milli), LA PETITE JERUSALEM (Cyril Morin), LADY IN THE WATER (James Newton Howard), LADY VENGEANCE (Yeong Wook Jo), LAGE RAHO MUNNA BHAI (Shantanu Moitra), THE LAKE HOUSE (Rachel Portman), LAND OF THE BLIND (Guy Farley), LARRY THE CABLE GUY: HEALTH INSPECTOR (Stephen Phillips), LASSIE (Adrian Johnston), THE LAST DROP (David Julyan), LAST HOLIDAY (George Fenton), THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (Alex Heffes), THE LAST KISS (Michael Penn), LEFT IN DARKNESS (Corey Jackson), THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES (Ed Grenga), LEMMING (David Whitaker), LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN (Leonard Cohen), LEROY AND STITCH (J.A.C. Redford), LES AMANTS REGULIERS (Jean-Claude Vannier), LET'S GO TO PRISON (Alan Elliott), LETTERS FROM IWO-JIMA (Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens), THE LIBERTINE (Michael Nyman), THE LIBRARIAN: RETURN TO KING SOLOMON'S MINES (Joseph Lo Duca), LIE WITH ME (Byron Wong), LIES & ALIBIS (Alexandre Desplat), THE LISTENING (Christian Kusche), LITTLE ATHENS (Barak Moffitt), LITTLE BIGFOOT 2 (Jim Halfpenny), LITTLE CHILDREN (Thomas Newman), LITTLE FISH (Nathan Larson), LITTLE MAN (Teddy Castellucci), LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Mychael Danna), THE LITTLE POLAR BEAR 2 (Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith), A LITTLE THING CALLED MURDER (John Frizzell), LIVE FEED (Patrick Coble), THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Gabriel Yared), LOBO (Francesc Gener), LOLLILOVE (Peter Alton and Willie Wisely), LONDON (Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland), LONDON TO BRIGHTON (Laura Rossi), THE LONELY ONES (Rebecca Bolam), LONESOME JIM (Evan Lurie), LOOK BOTH WAYS (Amanda Brown), LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD (Michael Giacchino), LOOKING FOR KITTY (Robert Gary and P.T. Walkley), THE LOST CITY (Andy Garcia), LOVE + HATE (Rupert Gregson-Williams), LOVE COMES TO THE EXECUTIONER (Josh Mancell), LOVE FOR RENT (Jeff Cardoni), LOVE ON THE SIDE (Daryl Bennett), LOVERBOY (Michael Bacon), LOVE'S ABIDING JOY (Kevin Kiner), LOWER CITY (Carlinhos Brown and Beto Villares), LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN (Joshua Ralph)
  • MACHINED (Craig McMahon), MAD COWGIRL (Colin Chin), MAD SONG (Steven Argila), MAMMOTH (John Dickson), MAN OF THE YEAR (Graeme Revell), MAN PUSH CART (Peyman Yazdanian), MANDERLAY (Joachim Holbaek), MAPLE PALM (Rebecca Hansen), MARIE-ANTOINETTE (Brian Reitzell), MARILYN HOTCHKISS' BALLROOM DANCING & CHARM SCHOOL (Mark Adler), THE MARINE (Don Davis), MATERIAL GIRLS (Jennie Muskett), MEDEA'S FAMILY REUNION (Elvin D. Ross), MEE-SHEE: THE WATER GIANT (Pol Brennan), MEETING DADDY (Adam Fields), MENDY: A QUESTION OF FAITH (Jeremiah Lockwood), MERCENARY FOR JUSTICE (Stephen Edwards), MERE JEEVAN SAATHI (Nadeem-Shravan), MERRY CHRISTMAS (Philippe Rombi), THE MESMERIST (Brahm Wenger), MIAMI VICE (John Murphy), MINI'S FIRST TIME (Cato), MINOTAUR (Martin Todsharow), MIRACLE AT SAGE CREEK (Michael Turner), MIRACLE DOGS TOO (Boris Zelkin), MIRIAM (Peter Bernstein), MISCHIEF NIGHT (Murray Gold), MISS POTTER (Nigel Westlake and Rachel Portman), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (Michael Giacchino), MISTRESS OF SPICES (Craig Pruess), MONGOLIAN PING-PONG (He Wu), MONSTER HOUSE (Douglas Pipes), MOONLIGHT (Fons Merkeis), THE MOSTLY UNFABULOUS LIFE OF ETHAN GREEN (Roy Firestone), THE MOTEL (Nathan Larson), MOUNTAIN PATROL: KEKEXILI (Lao Zai), THE MOVIE HERO (Stephen Thomas Cavit), MOZART AND THE WHALE (Deborah Lurie), MR. FIX-IT (Kevin Saunders Hayes), MR. HELL (Brian Satterwhite), MRS. HARRIS (John Frizzell), MUHAMMAD: THE LAST PROPHET (William Kidd), MUTATION (David P. Johnson), MY FIRST WEDDING (Michel Cusson), MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND (Teddy Castellucci), MY TINY UNIVERSE (Greg Hale Jones)
  • NACHO LIBRE (Danny Elfman), NAKSHA (Pritam Chakraborty), NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER: THE RISE OF TAJ (Robert Folk), THE NATIVITY STORY (Mychael Danna), NEO NED (Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe), THE NET 2.0 (Stephen Endelman), NEW POLICE STORY (Tommy Wai), NEXT DOOR (Simon Boswell), NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM (Alan Silvestri), THE NIGHT LISTENER (Peter Nashel), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3-D (Jason Brandt), NIGHT WATCH (Yuri Poteyenko), NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS (Steve Isles), NO MONEY DOWN (Tree Adams), NOBODY'S LIFE (Xavier Capellas), NOTES ON A SCANDAL (Philip Glass), THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE (Mark Suozzo), NOW YOU KNOW (Larry Cordola and Matt Sorum), THE NUN (Zacarias de la Rova and Luc Suarez)
  • OFF THE BLACK (Alex Neville and Brian Petway), OFFSIDE (Yuval Barazani), THE OH IN OHIO (Bruno Coon), OLD JOY (Yo La Tengo), THE OMEN (Marco Beltrami), OMKARA (Vishal Bharadwaj), ON A CLEAR DAY (Stephen Warbeck), ON NATIVE SOIL (Michael Tavera), ONCE IN A LIFETIME (Matter Music), ONE LAST RIDE (Josh Abrahams), ONE LAST THING (Anton Sanko), ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING (J.A.C. Redford), ONE TAKE ONLY (Orange Music), ONLY HUMAN (Charlie Mole), OPAL DREAM (Christian Henson), OPEN SEASON (Ramin Djawadi), OUR BRAND IS CRISIS (Marcelo Zarvos), OUR ITALIAN HUSBAND (Guido Freddi), OVER THE HEDGE (Rupert Gregson-Williams), OZZIE (Florian Appl)
  • THE PAGE TURNER (Jérôme Lemonnier), THE PAINTED VEIL (Alexandre Desplat), PAN'S LABYRINTH (Javier Navarrete), PAPER DOLLS (Eli Soorani), PAPRIKA (Susumu Hirasawa), PEACEFUL WARRIOR (Bennett Salvay), PERCEPTION (Joel Somellian), PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (Tom Tykwer, Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek), PHAT GIRLZ (Stephen Endelman), PHIR HERI PHERI (Himesh Reshammiya), THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES (Christopher Slaski), PIERREPOINT (Martin Phipps), THE PINK PANTHER (Christophe Beck), PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST (Hans Zimmer), PIZZA (John Kimbrough), PLAN B (Botellita De Jerez), PLEDGE THIS! (Carlos Durango and Ralph Rieckermann), POOH'S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (Carl Johnson), POSEIDON (Klaus Badelt), POSTERBOY (Mark Garcia), PREACHING TO THE CHOIR (Nona Hendryx), THE PRESTIGE (David Julyan), PRIME SUSPECT: THE FINAL ACT (Nicholas Hooper), THE PRINCE AND ME 2 (Andrew Gross), PRINCESAS (Alfonso Vilallonga), THE PROMISE (Klaus Badelt), THE PROPOSITION (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis), THE PROTECTOR (The RZA and Howard Drossin), PROUD (Tasso Zapanti), PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS (Paul Mercer), PUERTO VALLARTA SQUEEZE (Lee Holdridge), PULSE (Elia Cmiral), THE PUMPKIN KARVER (David Kowal), PUPPETMASTER VS. DEMONIC TOYS (Peter Bernstein), THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (Andrea Guerra), PUSH (Tony Finno and Soma Sonic), PYAR KE SIDE EFFECTS (Pritam Chakraborty), PYARE MOHAN (Anu Malik)
  • THE QUEEN (Alexandre Desplat), QUEENS (Bingen Mendizabal), QUEER DUCK: THE MOVIE (Sam Elwitt), THE QUICK AND THE UNDEAD (Brian Beardsley and Pieter Schlosser), THE QUIET (Jeff Rona), QUINCEAÑERA (Victor Bock and Micko Westmoreland)
  • R.V. (James Newton Howard), RABBIT FEVER (Nick Ryan), RAMPAGE: THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER MURDERS (Ryan Beveridge), RANG DE BASANTI (A.R. Rahman), REAL - THE MOVIE (Rafael Arnau), THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN (Mark Orton), RED DOORS (Robert Miller), RED DUST (Robert Lane), REEKER (Dave Payne), RENAISSANCE (Nicholas Dodd), RENT CONTROL (Boris Zelkin), REST STOP (Bear McCreary), THE RETURN (Dario Marianelli), RETURNING MICKEY STERN (Jeff Jones), RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES (Wenjing Guo), RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR (Tomandandy), RING AROUND THE ROSIE (John Massari), THE RIVER KING (Simon Boswell), ROAD HOUSE 2: LAST CALL (Amotz Plessner), THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO (Harry Escott and Molly Nyman), ROBERT LUDLUM'S COVERT ONE - THE HADES FACTOR (J. Peter Robinson), THE ROCKET POST (Nigel Clarke and Michael Csányi-Wills), ROCKY BALBOA (Bill Conti), ROLLIN' WITH THE NINES (Sandy McLelland), ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES (Paul Chihara), ROMANTICO (Raz Mesinai), ROMANZO CRIMINALE (Paolo Buonvino), THE RON CLARK STORY (Mark Adler), ROOM 6 (Joe Kraemer), ROOMS FOR TOURISTS (Rodrigo Franco), ROVING MARS (IMAX) (Philip Glass), R-POINT (Pa Lan Dal), RUNNING SCARED (Mark Isham), RUNNING WITH SCISSORS (James S. Levine), RUSTY: THE GREAT RESCUE (Inon Zur)
  • SAAWAN (Aadesh Shrivastava), SAINT OF 9/11 (Michael Aharon), SALVAGE (Evan Wilson), SAMOAN WEDDING (Andy Morton), SANTA BABY (Misha Segal), THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE (George S. Clinton), SATANIC (Mikael Jacobson), SAVING SHILOH (Adam Gorgoni), SAW III (Charlie Clouser), A SCANNER DARKLY (Graham Reynolds), SCARY MOVIE 4 (James Venable), SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE (Dominik Scherrer), SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS (Christophe Beck), THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (Jean-Michel Bernard), SCREAM QUEEN (Ferris Gluck), SCREAMERS (Jeff Atmajian), SEA OF FEAR (Brandon Roberts), THE SECOND CHANCE (Michael W. Smith), SECOND IN COMMAND (Mark Sayfritz), SEE NO EVIL (Tyler Bates), SEE THIS MOVIE (Daniel Cage), THE SENTINEL (Christophe Beck), SEVEN SWORDS (Kenji Kawai), SEVERANCE (Christian Henson), SEVERED: FOREST OF THE DEAD (Clinton Shorter), SHAADI KARKE PHAS GAYE YAAR (Daboo Malik and Sajid Wajid), SHAADI SE PEHLE (Himesh Reshammiya), SHADOWBOXER (Mario Grigorov), SHADOWS IN THE SUN (Mark Thomas), THE SHAGGY DOG (Alan Menken), SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS (James Stemple), SHEM (Xavier Desfeuillet), SHERRYBABY (Jack Livesey), SHE'S THE MAN (Nathan Wang), SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (Peter Allen), SHOOTING DOGS (Dario Marianelli), SHORTBUS (Yo La Tengo), SHOW ME (Evelyne Datl), SHRINK RAP (Frank Becker), SHUT UP AND KISS ME (Andrew Gross), SHUT UP AND SING (The Dixie Chicks), SILENT HILL (Jeff Danna), SILENT SCREAM (Drew Fezzey and Scott Santos), SIR! NO SIR! (Buddy Judge), SISTERS IN LAW (D'Gary), SIXTY SIX (Joby Talbot), SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY (Claes Nystrom and Jonas Sorman), SLEEPING DOGS LIE (Gerald Brunskill), SLITHER (Tyler Bates), SNAKE MAN (Claude Foisy), SNAKES ON A PLANE (Trevor Rabin), SNAKES ON A TRAIN (Mel Lewis), SO GOES THE NATION (Jane Antonia Cornish), SOMERSAULT (Decoder Ring), SOMETHING NEW (Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman), SOMETHING SOMETHING… UNNAKUM ENNAKUM (Dev Sri Prasad), SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS (Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek), SORRY, HATERS (Raz Mesinai), SOUTHERN BELLES (Neil Perry and P.T. Walkley), SPIVS (David Julyan), SPYMATE (Brahm Wenger), STANDING STILL (B.C. Smith), STARTER FOR TEN (Blake Neely), STAY ALIVE (John Frizzell), STEP UP (Aaron Zigman), STEPHEN KING'S DESPERATION (Nicholas Pike), STICK IT (Mike Simpson), STOLEN (Peter Golub), STONED (David Arnold), STORMBREAKER (Alan Parker), THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (Andy Garfield), STRANGER THAN FICTION (Brian Reitzell), STRANGERS WITH CANDY (Marcelo Zarvos), STRAY DOGS (Mohammed Reza Darvishi), STREET FIGHT (James Baxter), STRYKER (Karman Omeosoo), STUART LITTLE 3: CALL OF THE WILD (Atli Örvarsson), STUDS (John Dunne), SUITS ON THE LOOSE (Alan Williams), SUMMER STORM (Niki Reiser), SUPERMAN RETURNS (John Ottman), SWEET LAND (Thomas Lieberman and Mark Orton), SWIMMERS (Paul Cantelon)
  • TAKE MY EYES (Alberto Iglesias), TAKE THE LEAD (Aaron Zigman), TALES FROM THE CRYPT: RITUAL (Shirley Walker), TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (Alex Wurman), TAMARA (Michael Suby), TATHASTU (Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani), TAXI 9211 (Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani), THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Randy Edelman), THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: THE MUSICAL (Patrick Leonard), TENACIOUS D IN: THE PICK OF DESTINY (Andrew Gross), TENANTS (Leigh Gorman), TERROR PEAK (Bruce Lynch), TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING (Steve Jablonsky), THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Rolfe Kent), THAT MAN: PETER BERLIN (Jack Curtis Dubowsky), THESE GIRLS (Ned Bouhalassa), THIEF (Richard Marvin), THE THIEF LORD (Nigel Clarke and Michael Csányi-Wills), THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE 30 (Daniel Teper), THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED (Michael S. Patterson), THROTTLE (Neal Acree), THROUGH THE FIRE (Pete Miser and Duncan Sheik), TIDELAND (Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna), THE TIGER AND THE SNOW (Nicola Piovani), TIME TO LEAVE (Philippe Rombi), TODAY AND TOMORROW (Luchi Camorra and Adrián Dárgelos), THE TOOTH FAIRY (Richard John Baker), TRAILER PARK BOYS: THE MOVIE (Blain Morris), TRISTAN + ISOLDE (Anne Dudley), TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY (Michael Nyman), TRUDELL (John Trudell), TRUST THE MAN (Clint Mansell), THE TRUTH (Dominik Scherrer), TSOTSI (Paul Hepker and Mark Kilian), TSUNAMI: THE AFTERMATH (Alex Heffes), TURISTAS (Paul Haslinger), TWELVE AND HOLDING (Pierre Foldes), TWO DRIFTERS (Gennadi Trofimov), TWO WEEKS (Heitor Pereira)
  • ULTIMATE AVENGERS: THE MOVIE (Guy Michelmore), ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2: RISE OF THE PANTHER (Guy Michelmore), ULTRAVIOLET (Klaus Badelt), UMRAO JAAN (Anu Malik), UNACCOMPANIED MINORS (Michael Andrews), UNCONSCIOUS (Sergio Moure), UNDERTAKING BETTY (Rupert Gregson-Williams), UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION (Marco Beltrami), UNIDENTIFIED (Jasper Randall), UNITED 93 (John Powell), UNKNOWN (Angelo Milli), UNKNOWN SOLDIER (Peter Calandra), UNNATURAL AND ACCIDENTAL (Clinton Shorter), USS POSEIDON: PHANTOM BELOW (David Reynolds)
  • V FOR VENDETTA (Dario Marianelli), VAJRA SKY OVER TIBET (David Hykes), VALLAVAN (Yuvan Shankar Raja), VANISHED (Robert Duncan), VENICE UNDERGROUND (Justin Caine Burnett), VENUS (David Arnold), THE VIRGIN OF JUAREZ (Aaron Zigman), VISIONS OF SUFFERING (Alexander Shevchenko), THE VISITATION (David Bergeaud), VIVA ZAPATERO! (Riccardo Giagni and Maurizio Rizzutto), VIVAH (Ravindra Jain), VOLVER (Alberto Iglesias)
  • WAH-WAH (Patrick Doyle), WAIST DEEP (Terence Blanchard), THE WAR TAPES (Norman Arnold), WASSUP ROCKERS (Harry Cody), WATER (Mychael Danna), THE WATER IS WIDE (Jeff Beal), WE ARE MARSHALL (Christophe Beck), WE GO WAY BACK (Laura Veirs), THE WEST WITTERING AFFAIR (Mark Tschanz), WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (Jim Dooley), WHEN DO WE EAT? (Mark Adler), WHEN THE SEA RISES (Philippe Roueche), WHITE RAINBOW (Marc Bonilla), WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? (Michael Brook), WHY WE FIGHT (Robert Miller), THE WICKER MAN (Angelo Badalamenti), THE WILD (Alan Silvestri), WILDERNESS (Mark Thomas), THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (George Fenton), WINDOW THEORY (Miles Ito), WINTER PASSING (John Kimbrough), WITHIN (Bryan Galvez), WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Yong-Jin Jeong), WONDROUS OBLIVION (Ilona Sekacz), THE WOODS (John Frizzell), WORDPLAY (Vic Fleming and Peter Golub), THE WORK AND THE GLORY III: A HOUSE DIVIDED (Sam Cardon), THE WORKINGMAN'S DEATH (John Zorn), WORLD TRADE CENTER (Craig Armstrong), WTC VIEW (Billy Alletzhauser and Todd Almond)
  • X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (John Powell)
  • A YEAR WITHOUT LOVE (Martin Bauer and Leo Garcia), YOU STUPID MAN (David Schwartz), YOU, ME AND DUPREE (Theodore Shapiro), YUN HOTA TO KYA HOTA (Viju Shah)
  • ZIDANE: A 21st CENTURY PORTRAIT (Mogwai), ZINDA (Nikhil Chinappa and Shibani Kashyap), ZINDAGGI ROCKS (Anu Malik), THE ZODIAC (Michael Suby), ZOMBIE HONEYMOON (Michael Tremante), ZOMBIE NATION (Robert J. Walsh), ZOOM (Christophe Beck), ZU WARRIORS (Ricky Ho)

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