The International Film Music Critics Association is delighted to announce its continued partnership with Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards.
As has been the case since 2016, the IFMCA was again asked to create the shortlist for the WSA Public Choice Award, the winner of which will be revealed at the 23rd World Soundtrack Awards Gala, taking place in Ghent, Belgium, on October 21st.
The IFMCA uses data from the preceding year’s IFMCA Awards vote, combined with other information, to create the 100-entry long list of titles for consideration. This year’s long list is as follows:
- About My Father – Stephanie Economou
- AKA – Etienne Forget
- Amsterdam – Daniel Pemberton
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – Christophe Beck
- Asteroid City – Alexandre Desplat
- Athena – Benoit Heitz
- Avatar: The Way of the Water – Simon Franglen
- Babylon – Justin Hurwitz
- Black Adam – Lorne Balfe
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ludwig Göransson
- Brian and Charles – Daniel Pemberton
- Bunker – Andrew Morgan-Smith
- Chevalier – Kris Bowers, Michael Abels
- Chupa – Carlos Rafael Rivera
- Close – Valentin Hadjadj
- Couleurs de l’incendie – Guillaume Roussel
- Creed III – Joseph Shirley
- Dalíland – Edmund Butt
- De Familie Claus 3 (The Claus Family 3) – Anne-Kathrin Dern
- Devotion – Chanda Dancy
- Diabolik: ginko all’attacco! – Aldo de Scalzi, Pivio Pischiutta
- Dog Gone – Emily Bear
- Don’t Worry Darling – John Powell
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – Lorne Balfe
- Elemental – Thomas Newman
- El Cuarto Pasajero – Roque Baños
- Emily – Abel Korzeniowski
- Enola Holmes 2 – Daniel Pemberton
- Everything Will Change – Gary Marlowe
- EO – Pawel Mykietyn
- Fast X – Brian Tyler
- Flamin’ Hot – Marcelo Zarvos
- Glass Onion – Nathan Johnson
- Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom – Evan Call
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – John Murphy
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat
- Hunt – Yeong-Wook Jo
- Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) – Volker Bertelmann
- Jeanne du Barry – Stephen Warbeck
- Juste ciel! – Mathieu Lamboley
- La guerre des Lulus – Mathieu Lamboley
- La piel de tambor – Roque Baños
- Le cours de la vie – Vladimir Cosma
- Le tigre et le président – Mathieu Lamboley
- Legend of the Forest – Alan Williams
- L’envol (Scarlet) – Gabriel Yared
- Libres – Oscar Martin Leanizbarrutia
- Lightyear – Michael Giacchino
- Los renglones torcidos de dios – Fernando Vélazquez
- Luck – John Debney
- M3gan – Anthony Willis
- Medieval – Philip Klein
- Mrs Harris Goes to Paris – Rael Jones
- Mr. Malcolm’s List – Amelia Warner
- Nope – Michael Abels
- On a Wing and a Prayer – Brandon Roberts
- Onze natuur (Our Nature) – Dirk Brossé
- Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank – Bear McCreary
- Pearl – Tyler Bates, Timothy Williams
- Rangers of the Lost Ring – Panu Aaltio
- Peter Pan & Wendy – Daniel Hart
- Pinocchio – Alan Silvestri
- Prancer: A Christmas Tale – Mark McKenzie
- Prey – Sarah Schachner
- My Sailor, My Love – Michelino Bisceglia
- Renfield – Marco Beltrami
- See How They Run – Daniel Pemberton
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods – Christophe Beck
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton
- Strange World – Henry Jackman
- Supercell – Corey Wallace
- Supermarsu 2 (Super Furball Saves the Future) – Panu Aaltio
- Sweetwater – Jeff Cardoni, Martin Guigui
- The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell
- The Fabelmans – John Williams
- The Flash – Benjamin Wallfisch
- The Land of Dreams – Fabrizio Mancinelli
- The Legend & Butterfly – Naoki Sato
- The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken
- The Lost King – Alexandre Desplat
- The Pale Blue Eye – Howard Shore
- The Railway Children Return – Edward Farmer, Martin Phipps
- The Reef: Stalked – Mark Smythe
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie – Brian Tyler
- The Whale – Rob Simonsen
- The Woman King – Terence Blanchard
- Thor: Love and Thunder – Michael Giacchino, Nami Melumad
- Three Thousand Years of Longing – Tom Holkenborg
- Till – Abel Korzeniowski
- Titina – Kåre Vestrheim
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – Jongnic Bontemps
- Under the Fig Trees – Amin Bouhafa
- Violent Night – Dominic Lewis
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – Leo Birenberg, Zach Robinson
- Wendell & Wild – Bruno Coulais
- Where the Crawdads Sing – Mychael Danna
- White Noise – Danny Elfman
- Wildcat – Patrick Jonsson
- Wolf – Matthijs Kieboom
- Zodi et Téhu: frères du désert – MIKA
All members of the public may vote for the WSA Public Choice Award via the website at https://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com/news/vote-for-the-public-choice-award-2023.
The World Soundtrack Awards are presented annually to mark and celebrate outstanding achievements in scoring music for motion pictures. It is part of the annual Film Fest Gent, which has been held in the city of Ghent, Belgium, since 2000, and this year takes place between October 19th and October 21st.