AFT Awards: Best Original Score

This is the eleventh category of the 12th 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: American Animals, Charm City, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Mary Poppins Returns, Widows

The winner:
First Man (Justin Hurwitz) movingly and triumphantly orchestrated the determination and wonder behind going into space and landing on the moon.

Other nominees:
The Death of Stalin (Christopher Willis)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Nicholas Britell)
Black Panther (Ludwig Göransson)
Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat)