Michael Abels, the US composer behind Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Us, has been invited back to Ghent to present a selection of his work after winning the Discovery of the Year award in 2019. The Discovery of the Year award will be contested between British composers Tom Howe ( A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon) and Christopher Willis ( The Personal History Of David Copperfield) US musicians Bryce Dessner ( The Two Popes) and Daniel Lopatin ( Uncut Gems) and Russia’s Dascha Dauenhauer ( Berlin Alexanderplatz). The ceremony and concert, which will take place on October 24 as the closing event of 47th Film Fest Ghent in Belgium, will be broadcast online to give the festival’s international audience the opportunity to “attend” in spite of Covid-19 travel restrictions.įrench composer Desplat is set to join the ceremony as the guest of honour, having previously added five World Soundtrack Awards to his two Oscars for The Shape Of Water and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Iceland’s Guðnadóttir won the Academy Award for Joker. The contenders were all Oscar-nominated earlier this year, with the exception of Wallfisch who also composed the score for The Invisible Man. The nominees for the coveted Film Composer of the Year award include Alexandre Desplat ( Little Women), Hildur Guðnadóttir ( Joker), Thomas Newman ( 1917), Benjamin Wallfisch ( It Chapter Two) and John Williams ( Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker).
The World Soundtrack Awards has unveiled the nominations for its 20th edition, which is set is to go ahead as a physical event as well as being streamed live and online for the first time.