2025 Original Score Awards Roundup

Here's the annual 2025 Roundup of Original Score nominations and winners from various awards associations. Winners will be marked in red and updated regularly!

ACADEMY AWARD
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

GOLDEN GLOBE

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE 

F1 (Hans Zimmer)

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Hamnet (Max Richter)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Sirat (Kangding Ray)

BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS (BAFTA)

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM

Bugonia (Jerskin Fendrix)

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Hamnet (Max Richter)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Wicked: For Good (John Powell, Stephen Schwartz)

SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM

Eternity (David Fleming)

Out of the Nest (Fabrizio Mancinelli)

Rental Family (Jonsi, Alex Somers)

Straw (Dara Taylor)

To Kill a Wolf (Sara Barone, Forest Christenson)

Train Dreams (Bryce Dessner)

ANNIE AWARDS
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE PRODUCTION

Arco (Arnaud Toulon)

Elio (Rob Simonsen)

KPop Demon Hunters (KPop Demon Hunters Music Team)

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Mari Fukuhara)

Zootopia 2 (Michael Giacchino)

SATELLITE AWARDS (INTERNATIONAL PRESS ACADEMY)
ORIGINAL SCORE

F1 (Hans Zimmer)

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Hamnet (Max Richter)

A House of Dynamite (Volker Bertelmann)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

ATLANTA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Runner Up: One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

AUSTIN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
BEST SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

CHICAGO FILM CRITICS AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

*One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

COLUMBUS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST SCORE

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Hamnet (Max Richter)

Marty Supreme (Daniel Lopatin)

Runner Up: One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

DALLAS-FORT WORTH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
BEST MUSICAL SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Runner Up: Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

FLORIDA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
BEST SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Runner Up: The Mastermind (Rob Mazurek)

GEORGIA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

F1 (Hans Zimmer)

Hamnet (Max Richter)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Runner Up: Train Dreams (Bryce Dessner)

HOUSTON FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

F1 (Hans Zimmer)

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Marty Supreme (Daniel Lopatin)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

INDIANA FILM JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION
BEST MUSICAL SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Runner Up: One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

LAS VEGAS FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
BEST SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
BEST MUSIC SCORE

Sirat (Kangding Ray)

Runner Up: Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

NORTH CAROLINA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST MUSIC

Bugonia (Jerskin Fendrix)

Marty Supreme (Daniel Lopatin)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Train Dreams (Bryce Dessner)

OKLAHOMA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE

BEST SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Runner Up: One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

PHILADELPHIA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE

BEST SOUNDTRACK/SCORE

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Runner Up: One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

PHOENIX CRITICS CIRCLE
BEST SCORE

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

*One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Sirat (Kangding Ray)

PORTLAND CRITICS ASSOCIATION
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Marty Supreme (Daniel Lopatin)

The Mastermind (Rob Mazurek)

Runner Up: One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Sirat (Kangding Ray)

Train Dreams (Bryce Dessner)

SAN DIEGO FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
BEST USE OF MUSIC

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Runner Up: Hedda (Hildur Guðnadóttir)

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Bugonia (Jerskin Fendrix)

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Train Dreams (Bryce Dessner)

SEATTLE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

*One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST MUSIC SCORE

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Hamnet (Max Richter)

*One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

The Testament of Ann Lee (Daniel Blumberg)

UTAH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

F1 (Hans Zimmer)

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Runner Up: Hamnet (Max Richter)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

WASHINGTON DC AREA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Hamnet (Max Richter)

Marty Supreme (Daniel Lopatin)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

LONDON FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT (FOR MUSIC)

Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

The Mastermind (Rob Mazurek)

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST MUSIC

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS
BEST SCORE

F1 (Hans Zimmer)

Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)

Hamnet (Max Richter)

Marty Supreme (Daniel Lopatin)

One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)

*Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

SATURN AWARDS
BEST MUSIC