Oscars 2024: Which 149 movies are eligible for Best Original Score?

Chris Beachum
·4 min read

Our PMC sister website Variety is reporting that the motion picture academy has named 149 movies as eligible for Best Original Score at the 2024 Oscars. See the complete list below of every score currently on the ballot for the music branch. A total of 15 will be announced this Thursday, December 21, on the Oscar short list. A final five will be revealed on January 23 as the the actual nominees.

SEEOscars 2024: Which 94 tunes are eligible for Best Original Song?

Gold Derby has been offering you the opportunity to predict the Best Original Score category for the past few weeks. Among some of the surprise omissions: “Asteroid City,” “Flora and Son,” “The Little Mermaid” and “Wonka.” Each film used too much non-original music to remain qualified.

More from GoldDerby

According to our most current Gold Derby odds with over 6,800 people predicting, here are the scores ranked in the top 10:

1. “Oppenheimer” – 71/20 odds
2. “Killers of the Flower Moon” – 4/1 odds
3. “Poor Things” – 9/2 odds
4. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” – 15/2 odds
5. “The Zone of Interest” – 21/2 odds
6. “Elemental” – 16/1 odds
7. “The Color Purple” – 25/1 odds
8. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” – 42/1 odds
9. “Society of the Snow” – 46/1 odds
10. “The Boy and the Heron” – 50/1 odds

Complete list of 149 Best Original Score candidates:

All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
American Symphony
Anselm
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Baby Ruby
Barbie
The Beanie Bubble
Beau Is Afraid
Big George Foreman
Blue Beetle
Blue Jean
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Bottoms
The Boy and the Heron
The Boys in the Boat
The Burial
Butcher’s Crossing
Carmen
Cassandro
Chevalier
Cocaine Bear
The Color Purple
Common Ground
The Creator
Creed III
Daliland
The Deepest Breath
Dicks: The Musical
Dream Scenario
Dreamin’ Wild
Drift
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
80 for Brady
Eileen
Elemental
The End We Start From
The Equalizer 3
Every Body
The Face of the Faceless
Ferrari
Fingernails
Five Nights at Freddie’s
Flamin’ Hot
The Flash
Foe
Fool’s Paradise
Freud’s Last Session
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Golda
Good Grief
A Good Person
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
Hadik
A Haunting in Venice
Heart of Stone
Here. Is. Better.
The Holdovers
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Inside
The Inventor
Invisible Beauty
The Iron Claw
It Ain’t Over
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
John Wick: Chapter 4
Journey to Bethlehem
Jules
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Knock at the Cabin
Landscape With Invisible Hand
The League
Leave the World Behind
Leo
The Lesson
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Mafia Mamma
The Magician’s Elephant
The Marvels
Master Gardener
Migration
A Million Miles Away
The Miracle Club
Miranda’s Victim
The Monkey King
Monster
The Mother
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
My Love Affair With Marriage
Napoleon
Nimona
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
The Nun II
Nyad
Once Within a Time
Oppenheimer
Origin
Past Lives
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The Peasants
The Persian Version
The Pigeon Tunnel
Polite Society
Poor Things
The Promised Land
Radical
Reptile
Ruby Gelman, Teenage Kraken
Rustin
Saltburn
Scream VI
Sharper
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
She Came to Me
Shortcomings
Silver Dollar Road
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Society of the Snow
A Song Film By Kishi Bashi: “Omoiyari”
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Stamped From the Beginning
Starbright
The Starling Girl
State of the Unity
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Story Ave
Strays
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Sweetwater
The Teachers’ Lounge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Tetris
They Cloned Tyrone
A Thousand and One
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2018 (Everyone Is a Hero)
Walid
War Pony
What Happens Later
Wish
Your Fat Friend
The Zone of Interest

PREDICT the 2024 Oscar nominees through January 23

Make your predictions at Gold Derby now. Download our free and easy app for Apple/iPhone devices or Android (Google Play) to compete against legions of other fans plus our experts and editors for best prediction accuracy scores. See our latest prediction champs. Can you top our esteemed leaderboards next? Always remember to keep your predictions updated because they impact our latest racetrack odds, which terrify Hollywood chiefs and stars. Don’t miss the fun. Speak up and share your huffy opinions in our famous forums where 5,000 showbiz leaders lurk every day to track latest awards buzz. Everybody wants to know: What do you think? Who do you predict and why?

SIGN UP for Gold Derby’s free newsletter with latest predictions

Best of GoldDerby

Sign up for Gold Derby's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Click here to read the full article.