AFT Awards: Best Original Score

This is the ninth category of the 1st Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order by film title. Winners will be announced in late February.

**I have omitted descriptions for each of the nominees for a few categories because they have become repetitive. For some of my own invented categories, they will return.**

I have read that the score for “The Darjeeling Limited” may not be entirely original, but I am leaving it in.

Runners-up:
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
MICHAEL CLAYTON
SOUTHLAND TALES

The nominees:
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES
ATONEMENT
THE DARJEELING LIMITED
THE LIVES OF OTHERS
RATATOUILLE