AFT Awards: Best Original Score

This is the twentieth category of the 6th 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):
Brave, Compliance, Footnote, Simon and the Oaks, Zero Dark Thirty

The winner:
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dan Romer and Behn Zeitlin) created a triumphant anthem for its gloriously unique lead character and her magnificent universe.

Other nominees:
Moonrise Kingdom (Alexandre Desplat)
Anna Karenina (Dario Marianelli)
Ruby Sparks (Nick Urata)
The Master (Jonny Greenwood)