26th Film Music Critics Nominations

The Film Music critics have nominated a wide array of musical compositions for their awards. With multiple categories, it’s surprising that one of the Oscar nominees for Best Original Score (Killers of the Flower Moon) wasn’t nominated at all. Only two of them got multiple citations, Indiana Jones and Oppenheimer. It’s a good sign for both at the Oscars.

Nominations Tallies

(3) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Oppenheimer, The Piper
(2) The Boy and the Heron, Godzilla Minus One, Society of the Snow, Star Trek: Picard
(1) Ahsoka, All the Light We Cannot See, Americna Fiction, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Barbie, Blue Whales: Return of the Giants, The Boys in the Boat, Chaplin, Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms, The Creator, The Crime Is Mine, Elemental, The Fall of the House of Usher, Forgotten Love, God of War: Ragnarok – Valhalla, Haunted Mansion, A Haunting in Venice, Heidi/Jane Eyre, Hogwarts Legacy, Hook, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, In Love and Deep Water, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Laurence Rosenthal: Music for Film and Television, Libres, Life on Our Planet, M3GAN, MacArthur, The Man Who Knew Too Much/On Dangerous Ground, Migration, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Napoleon, Night After Night, The Nun II, One Piece, The Peasants, Peter Pan & Wendy, Planet of Lana, Poor Things, Rangers of the Lost Ring, The Rock, Séance on a Wet Afternoon/Katharine Hepburn, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Star Wars: Jedi – Survivor, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Supercell, A Symphonic Celebration: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki, Wild Isles

The Nominations

Score of the Year

The Boy and the Heron
Godzilla Minus One
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Oppenheimer
The Piper

Best Original Score for a Drama Film

The Boys in the Boat
Forgotten Love
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Society of the Snow

Best Original Score for a Comedy Film

Americna Fiction
Barbie
The Crime Is Mine
Haunted Mansion
In Love and Deep Water

Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure/Thriller Film

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Rangers of the Lost Ring
Supercell

Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film

The Creator
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
Godzilla Minus One
Peter Pan & Wendy
Poor Things

Best Original Score for a Horror/Thriller

A Haunting in Venice
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
M3GAN
The Nun II
The Piper

Best Original Score for an Animated Film

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Migration
The Peasants
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Original Score for a Documentary

Blue Whales: Return of the Giants
Libres
Life on Our Planet
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Wild Isles

Best Original Score for Television

Ahsoka
All the Light We Cannot See
The Fall of the House of Usher
One Piece
Star Trek: Picard

Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
God of War: Ragnarok – Valhalla
Hogwarts Legacy
Planet of Lana
Star Wars: Jedi – Survivor

Film Music Composition of the Year

Can You Hear the Music – Oppenheimer
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Movement 2 – The Piper
Found – Society of the Snow
Helena’s Theme – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Leaving Spacedock – Star Trek: Picard

Film Composer of the Year

Lorne Balfe
Laura Karpman
Bear McCreary
John Williams
Christopher Young

Breakthrough Composer of the Year

Sherri Chung
Pawel Lucewicz
Michael “Mika” Penniman Jr.
Lukasz “L.U.C.” Rostkowski
Corey Wallace

Best Archival Release – Re-Release or Re-Recording

Chaplin
Heidi/Jane Eyre
Hook
Laurence Rosenthal: Music for Film and Television
MacArthur
The Man Who Knew Too Much/On Dangerous Ground
Night After Night
The Rock
Séance on a Wet Afternoon/Katharine Hepburn
A Symphonic Celebration: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki