Final Oscar Predictions: Original Score – Nothing Looks Like It Can Beat Ludwig Göransson’s Powerful Music on ‘Oppenheimer’

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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Original Score

Weekly Commentary (Updated March 7, 2024): It’s Ludwig Göransson taking home another Oscar for “Oppenheimer,” following his first win for “Black Panther.”

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Will Win: “Oppenheimer” (Ludwig Göransson)
Could Win: “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Robbie Robertson)
Should Win: “Oppenheimer”
Should have been here: “Saltburn” (Anthony Willis) and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Daniel Pemberton)

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The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10.

And the Nominees Are:

1. Ludwig Göransson — “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures)

2. Robbie Robertson— “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures)

3. Laura Karpman — “American Fiction” (MGM)

4. Jerskin Fendrix — “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures)

5. John Williams — “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (Walt Disney Pictures)

Eligible Titles (Alphabetized by Studio)**

• ”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”

2022 category winner: “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) — Volker Bertelmann

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