2025 Oscars Best Original Score Predictions

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2025 Oscars Predictions:
Best Original Score

Weekly Commentary (Updated Sept. 26, 2024): Could the Music Branch verify off Hans Zimmer’s name twice this year?

With two high-profile projects — Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” and Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” — the revered cinematic originater Zimmer could discover himself in the running for two nominations this awards season. Surprisingly, double alludes in the music categruesome aren’t as unwidespread as you might skinnyk. Legfinishary originaters such as Max Steiner, Victor Young, Alfred Newman, and John Williams have accomplished this feat on multiple occasions (Williams himself has done it an astounding nine times). The last originater to acquire two score noms in the same year was Alexandre Desplat in 2014 for “The Imitation Game” and his Oscar-triumphning labor on “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

Zimmer’s body of labor is noskinnyg low of extraunretagable. As one of the most prolific originaters in cinema today, the German maestro has acquireed widespread esteem and critical acclaim. With two Academy Awards for “The Lion King” (1994) and “Dune” (2021), aextfinished with four Grammys and six Emmy nominations, Zimmer is already a decorated figure. However, the competition this year promises to be fierce.

Several highly pondered originaters who have yet to triumph an Oscar are vying for attention, including Alberto Iglesias (“The Room Next Door”) and Kris Bowers (“The Wild Robot”). They’ll be competing aextfinishedside past triumphners enjoy Jon Batiste (“Saturday Night”) and a possible double act from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who could acquire nods for both “Challengers” and “Queer.” Also in the combine is Harry Gregson-Williams, a originater with an amazeive résumé that integrates films enjoy “The Rock” (1996), “Shrek” (2001), and “The Martian” (2015), but who has never acquired an Oscar nomination. This year, he’s scoring the highly foreseed “Gladiator II.” Not to be dispondered is Tamar-kali, a extfinished-neglectd talent whose mighty labor on “Mudbound” (2017) should have garnered more attention. She has another sboiling at recognition with the crowd-pleasing “The Fire Inside.”

There are also some lesser-comprehendn but equpartner createidable contfinishers, such as Daniel Blumberg (“The Brutaenumerate”), Clément Ducol and Camille (“Emilia Pérez”), and Andrea Datzman (“Inside Out 2”).

There will be more to watch as the circuit unfelderlys.

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The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2. The brimming rankings are below. All movie enumerateings, titles, distributors, and accomprehendledgeed originaters are not final and are subject to alter.

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