Original Score

Oscars 2018: Listen to All 15 Shortlisted Best Original Score Hopefuls

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has released its shortlist for Best Original Score for the upcoming 91st Oscars. Comprising of 15 original scores from the year in film 2018, the list includes well-known films like Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War and A Quiet Place alongside smaller films like The Death of Stalin and Isle of Dogs, plus presumed Oscar frontrunners in this category: First Man, If Beale Street Could Talk and Mary Poppins Returns.

You can now listen to all 15 scores from start to finish on Spotify and judge for yourself which five will ultimately be nominated. As for me, I am currently predicting The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Black Panther, First Man, If Beale Street Could Talk and Mary Poppins Returns. Listen to all the shortlisted scores embedded below:

Annihilation – Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

Avengers: Infinity War – Alan Silvestri

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Carter Burwell

Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson

BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard

Crazy Rich Asians – Brian Tyler

The Death of Stalin – Christopher Willis

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – James Newton Howard

First Man – Justin Hurwitz

If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell

Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat

Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman

A Quiet Place – Marco Beltrami

Ready Player One – Alan Silvestri

Vice – Nicholas Britell