2021 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE (October)
MINARI (Courtesy Sundance Institute)
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
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