World Soundtrack Awards 2022

Second wave of nominees have been announced!

Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Academy have announced the final wave of nominees for the prestigious World Soundtrack Awards 2022 in the categories Discovery of the Year, Public Choice Award, Best Original Score for a Belgian Production and the Sabam Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer. The list features lots of WSA newcomers, such as experimental band Son Lux, Japanese singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi and composer Batu Sener. Nainita Desai, Discovery of the Year 2021, continues her incredible trajectory as a possible winner of the Public Choice Award 2022. All nominees for the WSA2022 have now been revealed. The Academy also announces one winner: this year's WSA Industry Award goes to the Alliance for Women Film Composers.

The 22nd edition of the World Soundtrack Awards takes place on 22 October in the renovated Concert Hall of Music Centre De Bijloke in Ghent. Guest of honour is American film composer and jazz artist Mark Isham. He will be joined by last year’s Discovery of the Year winner Nainita Desai and this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Bruno Coulais. Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by Maestro Dirk Brossé, will perform music written by these three composers during the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert.

List of nominees:

Discovery of the Year:

* Karl Frid – Pleasure
* Eiko Ishibashi – Drive My Car
* Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All at Once
* Maurizio Malagnini – Coppelia
* Isobel Waller-Bridge – Munich: The Edge of War

Public Choice Award:

* 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible – Nainita Desai
* Charlotte – Michelino Bisceglia
* Gunpowder Milkshake – Frank Ilfman
* The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild – Batu Sener
* The King’s Daughter – Joseph Metcalfe, John Coda, Grant Kirkhope

Best Original Score for a Belgian Production:

* Inexorable – Vincent Cahay
* Nowhere – Demusmaker
* SpaceBoy – The Penelopes

Sabam Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer:

* John Konsolakis
* Giacomo Rita
* Robert Wallace

Film Composer of the Year:

* Germaine Franco - Encanto
* Jonny Greenwood - The Power of the Dog, Spencer
* Daniel Hart - The Green Knight, The Last Letter from Your Lover
* Alberto Iglesias - Parallel Mothers
* Daniel Pemberton - The Bad Guys, Being the Ricardos, Brian and Charles, The Rescue
* Hans Zimmer - Dune, No Time to Die, The Survivor

Television Composer of the Year:

* Nicholas Britell - Succession (Season 3)
* Jung Jae-il - Squid Game
* Hesham Nazih - Moon Knight
* Theodore Shapiro - Severance
* Cristobal Tapia de Veer - The White Lotus

Best Original Song:

* Blome Swete Lilie Flour, from The Green Knight – written and performed by Daniel Hart
* Hold My Hand, from Top Gun: Maverick – written by Bloodpop and Stefani Germanotta, performed by Lady Gaga
* Just Look Up, from Don’t Look Up – written by Nicholas Britell, Ariana Grande, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Taura Stinson, performed by Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi
* No Time to Die, from No Time to Die – written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, performed by Billie Eilish
* Strange Game, from Slow Horses – written by Daniel Pemberton and Mick Jagger, performed by Mick Jagger
* We Don’t Talk About Bruno, from Encanto – written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, performed by Adassa, Carolina Gaitán – La Gaita, Diane Guerrero, Mauro Castillo, Rhenzy Feliz, Stephanie Beatriz

More info at: World Soundtrack Awards