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 25th World Soundtrack Awards Gala, taking place in Ghent, Belgium, on October 15th.
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:
- 35-Nen-me no Rabu Retaa (35th Year Love Letter) – Tarô Iwashiro
- A Different Man – Umberto Smerili
- A Minecraft Movie – Mark Mothersbaugh
- A Normal Family – Sung-woo Jo
- A Working Man – Jared Michael Fry
- Acma Game: The Final Key – Yugo Kanno
- Alien: Romulus – Benjamin Wallfisch
- Anatema – Vanessa Garde
- Bambi, l’histoire d’une vie dans les bois (Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods) – Laurent Perez Del Mar
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Danny Elfman
- Buffalo Kids – Fernando Velázquez
- Buio come il cuore – David Cerquetti
- Captain America: Brave New World – Laura Karpman
- Conclave – Volker Bertelmann
- Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force – Gordy Haab
- Decoded – Lorne Balfe, Kevin Riepl
- Den Svenska Torpeden (The Swedish Torpedo) – Martin Dirkov
- Descalzos – Oscar Martin Leanizbarrutia
- Detective Kien: The Headless Horror – Christopher Wong, Ian Rees, Garrett Crosby
- Diamanti – Giuliano Taviani, Carmelo Travia
- Dog Man – Tom Howe
- Drop – Bear McCreary
- Ein Mädchen namens Willow (A Girl Named Willow) – Fabian Römer
- Emilia Pérez – Camille, Clément Ducol
- Endurance – Daniel Pemberton
- Europa Centrale – Zbigniew Preisner
- Final Destination: Bloodlines – Tim Wynn
- Flow – Gints Zilbalodis, Rihards Zalupe
- Fly Me to the Moon – Daniel Pemberton
- Gladiator II – Harry Gregson-Williams
- Harbin – Cho Young-Wuk
- Harold and the Purple Crayon – Batu Sener
- Here – Alan Silvestri
- Heretic – Chris Bacon
- HITPIG! – Isabella Summers
- Hola Frida – Laetitia Pansanel-Garric
- Horizon: An American Sage, Chapter One – John Debney
- Into the Mortal World – Roc Chen
- Isla perdida (Haunted Heart) – Zbigniew Preisner
- Juror #2 – Mark Mancina
- Kantauri – Joseba Beristain
- L’abbaglio (The Blunder) – Emanuele Bossi, Michele Braga
- L’Amour ouf (Beating Hearts) – Jon Brion
- La Cache (The Safe House) – Diego Baldenweg, Nora Baldenweg, Lionel Baldenweg
- La Città Proibita (Forbidden City) – Fabio Amurri
- La Farfalla Impazzita – Giuliano Taviani, Carmelo Travia
- Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) – Jérôme Rebotier
- Le Routard – Ludovic Bource
- Lee – Alexandre Desplat
- Lilo & Stitch – Dan Romer
- Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps – Geoff Zanelli
- Mariposas Negras (Black Butterflies) – Diego Navarro
- Martha – Colin Stetson
- Megalopolis – Osvalda Golijov
- Memoir of a Snail – Elena Kats-Chernin
- Mickey 17 – Jung Jae-il
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Max Aruj, Alfie Godfrey
- Moana 2 – Mark Mancina
- Monster Summer – Frederik Wiedmann
- Moon le panda (Moon the Panda) – Arman Amar, Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen, Camille Després, Mathieu Coupat
- Mufasa: The Lion King – Dave Metzger
- Natacha (presque) hôtesse de l’air – Erwann Chandon
- Ni chaînes ni maîtres (No Chains, No Masters) – Amin Bouhafa
- Nosferatu – Robin Carolan
- Operation Hadal – Elliot Leung
- Paddington in Peru – Dario Marianelli
- Queer – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
- Reagan – John Coda
- Red One – Henry Jackman
- Salve María – Zeltia Montes
- Sinners – Ludwig Göransson
- Skal hilse fra naturen (A Call from the Wild) – Oliver Heuss
- Snow White – Jeff Morrow
- Super Charlie – Jonas Wikstrand
- Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Ilan Eshkeri
- Superklaus – Diego Navarro
- That Christmas – John Powell
- The 4:30 Movie – Bear McCreary
- The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
- The Critic – Craig Armstrong
- The King of Kings – Kim Tae-seong
- The Last Rodeo – Jeff Russo
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – Stephen Gallagher
- The Most Precious of Cargoes – Alexandre Desplat
- The Painted – Frederik Wiedmann
- The Piano Lesson – Alexandre Desplat
- The Return – Rachel Portman
- The Rose of Versailles – Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto
- The Six Triple Eight – Aaron Zigman
- The Substance – Raffertie
- The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers
- Thunderbolts* – Son Lux
- Toutes pour une (All for One) – Amine Bouhafa, Emilie Gassin, Ben Violet
- Twisters – Benjamin Wallfisch
- Unstoppable – Alexandre Desplat
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Lorne Balfe, Julian Nott
- Wicked – John Powell, Stephen Schwartz
- William Tell – Steven Price
- Wolf Man – Benjamin Wallfisch
- Woodwalkers – Anne-Kathrin Dern
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-wsa-public-choice-award-2025.
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 14th and October 16th.