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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)

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.

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

And the Nominees Are:

  • Ludwig Göransson — “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures)
  • Robbie Robertson— “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures)
  • Laura Karpman — “American Fiction” (MGM)
  • Jerskin Fendrix — “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures)
  • 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

    Oscars Predictions Categories

    BEST PICTURE | DIRECTOR | BEST ACTOR | BEST ACTRESS | SUPPORTING ACTOR | SUPPORTING ACTRESS | ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY | ADAPTED SCREENPLAY | ANIMATED FEATURE | PRODUCTION DESIGN | CINEMATOGRAPHY | COSTUME DESIGN | FILM EDITING | MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING | SOUND | VISUAL EFFECTS | ORIGINAL SCORE | ORIGINAL SONG | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE | INTERNATIONAL FEATURE | ANIMATED SHORT | DOCUMENTARY SHORT | LIVE ACTION SHORT

    About the Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, is Hollywood’s most prestigious artistic award in the film industry. Since 1927, nominees and winners have been selected by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Seventeen branches are represented within the nearly 10,000-person membership. The branches are actors, associates, casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, directors, documentary, executives, film editors, makeup and hairstylists, marketing and public relations, members-at-large, members-at-large (artists’ representatives), music, producers, production design, short films and feature animation, sound, visual effects and writers.

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