It’s weird that my top 5 in Original Score is the same as last month, right? It’s a pretty tough category, full of previous winners like Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Soul and Mank), Ludwig Göransson (Tenet) and Alexandre Desplat (The Midnight Sky) and nominees like Terence Blanchard (Da 5 Bloods and One Night in Miami…) and News of the World‘s James Newton Howard (8!) going up against first-timers trying to break in like Emile Mosseri (Minari), Daniel Pemberton (The Trial of the Chicago 7) and Branford Marsalis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom).
What to do, what to do…
Here are my ranked 2021 Oscar predictions in Original Score for November.
Green – moves up; Red – moves down; Blue – new entry this month
1. Soul (Pixar)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (and John Batiste, if eligible)
2. Mank (Netflix)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
Daniel Pemberton
4. Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)
Terence Blanchard
5. Minari (A24)
Emile Mosseri
6. The Midnight Sky (Netflix)
Alexandre Desplat
7. News of the World (Universal Pictures)
James Newton Howard
8. Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)
David Fleming and Hans Zimmer
9. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
Branford Marsalis
10. Tenet (Warner Bros)
Ludwig Göransson
Ammonite (Neon)
Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran
Let Them All Talk (HBO Max)
Thomas Newman
The Life Ahead (Netflix)
Gabriel Yared
Mulan (Disney+)
Henry Gregson-Williams
One Night in Miami… (Amazon Studios)
Terence Blanchard
Over the Moon (Netflix)
Steven Price
Respect (MGM/UA)
Kris Bowers
Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
Abraham Marder and Nicolas Becker
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Paramount Pictures)
Kris Bowers
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