2021 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE (October)

With delayed tentpoles like Dune from Warner Bros and MGM/UA’s No Time to Die, Emile Mosseri’s elegant score from A24’s Minari pushes him all the way into the top 5 this month.

Here are my ranked 2021 Oscar predictions in Original Score for October.

Green – moves up; Red – moves down; Blue – new entry this month

1. Soul (Pixar)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (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

Other Contenders

Ammonite (Neon)
Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran

Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)

David Fleming and Hans Zimmer

The Midnight Sky (Netflix)
Alexandre Desplat

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
Branford Marsalis

Mulan (Disney+)
Henry Gregson-Williams

News of the World (Universal Pictures)
James Newton Howard

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

Tenet (Warner Bros)

Ludwig Göransson

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Paramount Pictures)
Kris Bowers