AFT Awards: Best Original Score

This is the eleventh category of the 4th 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 pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
127 Hours, Alice in Wonderland, District 13: Ultimatum, How to Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist, The King’s Speech, The Last Airbender, The Social Network

The winner:
Inception (Hans Zimmer) used music to accompany its action scenes and also as an integral, spectacular part of its plot.

Other nominees:
Never Let Me Go (Rachel Portman)
The Ghost Writer (Alexandre Desplat)
Tamara Drewe (Alexandre Desplat)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Jacob Groth)