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 24th World Soundtrack Awards Gala, taking place in Ghent, Belgium, on October 16th.
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:
- A Haunting in Venice – Hildur Guðnadóttir
- Abigail – Brian Tyler
- Along Came Love – Amine Bouhafa
- American Fiction – Laura Karpman
- American Symphony – Jon Batiste
- Anselm – Leonard Küßner
- Antarctica Calling – Cyrille Aufort
- Argylle – Lorne Balfe
- Barbie – Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
- Blue Beetle – The Haxan Cloak (as Bobby Krlic)
- Cabrini – Gene Back
- Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget – Harry Gregson-Williams
- Christmas on Cobbler Street – Gaute Storaas
- Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms – Gordy Haab, Monkodran
- Damsel – David Fleming
- Depot – Reflecting Boijmans – Paul M. Van Brugge
- Doctor Jekyll – Blair Mowat
- Dragonkeeper – Arturo Cardelús
- Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer
- Eileen – Richard Reed Parry
- Empire Queen: The Golden Age of Magic – Nicolas Repetto
- Ferrari – Daniel Pemberton
- Finally Dawn – Massimo Martellotta
- Flaminia – Fabio Frizzi
- Forgotten Love – Paweł Lucewicz
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Tom Holkenborg
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – Dario Marinanelli
- Godzilla Minus One – Naoki Satô
- Haunted Mansion – Kris Bowers
- IF – Michael Giacchino
- In Love and Deep Water – Takatsugu Muramatsu
- In the Land of Saints and Sinners – Diego Baldenweg, Lionel Baldenweg, Nora Baldenweg
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – John Williams
- Jacob the Baker – Sharon Farber
- Jul med Astrid Lindgren – Gaute Storaas
- Killer Book Club – Arnau Bataller
- Killers of the Flower Moon – Robbie Robertson
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – John Paesano
- La guerra dei nonni -Umberto scipione
- La ternura – Fernando Velázquez
- Les chèvres! – Christophe Julien
- Lisa Frankenstein – Isabella Summers
- Little Rose 2 – Bartosz Chajdecki
- Migration – John Powell
- Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie – Jeremy Zag
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Lorne Balfe
- Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose – Bill Prokopow
- Napoleon – Martin Phipps
- Nimona – Christophe Beck
- No Love Lost – Julie Roué
- Nyad – Alexandre Desplat
- Ocho apellidos marroquís – Vanessa Garde
- Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson
- Origin – Kris Bowers
- PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie – Pinar Toprak
- Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix
- Road to Boston – Lee Dong-jun
- Saltburn – Anthony Willis
- Second Tour – Christophe Julien
- See You on Venus – George Kallis
- Seiyoku – Tarô Iwashiro
- Slotherhouse – Sam Ewing
- Smoke Sauna Sisterhood – Edvard Egilsson, Eeter
- Society of the Snow – Michael Giacchino
- Something Is About to Happen – Zeltia Montes
- Sound of Freedom – Javier Navarrete
- Stormskerry Maja – Lauri Porra
- The American Society of Magical Negroes – Michael Abels
- The Book of Clarence – Jeymes Samuel
- The Boy and the Heron -Joe Hisaishi
- The Boys in the Boat – Alexandre Desplat
- The Color Purple – Kris Bowers
- The Creator – Hans Zimmer
- The Cuckoo’s Curse – Diego Navarro
- The Dreamer – Amaury Chabauty
- The First Omen – Mark Korven
- The Goat Life – A.R. Rahman
- The Heist Before Christmas – Samuel Karl Bohn
- The Hill – Geoff Zanelli
- The Holdovers – Mark Orton
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – James Newton Howard
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter – Bear McCreary
- The Last Wife – Christopher Wong
- The Marvels – Laura Karpman
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – Christopher Benstead
- The Miracle Club – Edmund Butt
- The Nun II – Marco Beltrami
- The Peasants – Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski
- The Pigeon Tunnel – Philip Glass, Paul Leonard-Morgan
- The Piper – Christopher Young
- The Primevals – Richard Band
- The Tearsmith – Andrea Farri
- The Watchers – Abel Korzeniowski
- The Zone of Interest – Mica Levi
- Thelma the Unicorn – John Powell
- There’s Something in the Barn – Lasse Enersen
- Visions – Philippe Rombi
- Wonderwell – William Ross
- Young Woman and the Sea – Amelia Warner
All members of the public may vote for the WSA Public Choice Award via the website at https://www.filmfestival.be/en/news/vote-for-the-wsa-public-choice-award-2024.
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 13th and October 16th.