AFT Awards: Best Original Score

This is the eleventh category of the 10th 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.

Runners-up:
Arrival, Hell or High Water, Pelé: Birth of a Legend, The Light Between Oceans

The winner:
La La Land (Justin Hurwitz) had a wonderful, memorable melody to it that made its story all the more whimsical, ranging from melancholy to furiously exciting.

Other nominees:
Nocturnal Animals (Abel Korzeniowski)
Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
OJ: Made in America (Gary Lionelli)
Lion (Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka)