| MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Chris Pepper | Evan Kost | James Narvey | Kenneth Polishchuk | Júlia Albuquerque | Monika Nikolić | Richard Anthony | Robert Schirmer | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | La La Land | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
| 2 | Lion | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 37 |
| 3 | Moonlight | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 30 |
| 4 | Jackie | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 15 | ||
| 5 | The BFG | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | ||||
| 6 | Florence Foster Jenkins | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| 6 | Kubo and the Two Strings | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| 6 | Nocturnal Animals | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
| 6 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | ||||||||||||
| Loving | ||||||||||||
| Patriots Day | ||||||||||||
| The Red Turtle | ||||||||||||
| Zootopia |
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2026 San Francisco International Film Festival Reviews: ‘Two Pianos,’ ‘If I Go Will They Miss Me,’ ‘Filipiñana,’ ‘Elder Son’ [SFFILM] 
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