World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year

Winners and nominees

2000s

2001

• Moulin Rouge! and Kiss of the Dragon – Craig Armstrong
  • Beck - "Hämndens pris" – Adam Nordén
  • Ftina tsigara – Panayotis Kalantzopoulos
  • The Man Who Cried – Osvaldo Golijov
  • Pollock – Jeff Beal
  • Wo hu cang long – Tan Dun

2002

• The Time Machine – Klaus Badelt
  • Thunderpants – Rupert Gregson-Williams
  • Lagaan – A.R. Rahman
  • Frailty – Brian Tyler
  • Minoes – Peter Vermeersch

2003

• Cidade de Deus – Antonio Pinto
  • Children of Dune – Brian Tyler
  • One Hour Photo – Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek
  • Les Triplettes de Belleville– Benoit Charest

2004

• 21 Grams – Gustavo Santaolalla
  • Chasing Liberty and Les Fils du vent – Christian Henson
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Jon Brion
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – Iva Davies, Christopher Gordon & Richard Tognetti
  • La Puta y la ballena – Daniel Tarrab & Andrés Goldstein

2005

• The Incredibles – Michael Giacchino
  • Dear Wendy – Benjamin Wallfisch
  • Deuda – Andrés Goldstein & Daniel Tarrab
  • Layer Cake – Ilan Eshkeri
  • The Syrian Bride – Cyril Morin

2006

• Babam Ve Oglum – Evanthia Reboutsika
  • Les Brigades du Tigre – Olivier Florio
  • Monster House – Douglas Pipes
  • The Proposition – Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
  • The Thief Lord – Nigel Clarke & Michael Csányi-Wills

2007

• XXY & Inheritance – Daniel Tarrab & Andrés Goldstein
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – Nicholas Hooper
  • Mr. Brooks – Ramin Djawadi
  • The Science of Sleep – Jean Michel Bernard
  • La Tourneuse de Pages – Jerome Lemonnier

2008

• American Gangster – Marc Streitenfeld
  • Aanrijding in Moscou –
  • Before the Rains – Mark Kilian
  • The Escapist – Benjamin Wallfisch
  • El Orfanato – Velásquez Fernando

2009

• The Reader – Nico Muhly
  • Babylon A.D. – Atli Örvarsson
  • Crying with Laughter – Lorne Balfe
  • Demain dès l'aube – Jérôme Lemonnier
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth – Andrew Lockington

2010s

2010

• A Single Man – Abel Korzeniowski
  • Skin – Hélène Muddiman
  • The Book of Eli – Atticus Ross, Claudia Sarne, and Leopold Ross
  • District 9 – Clinton Shorter
  • The Last Station – Sergey Yevtushenko

2011

• The First Grader and The Rite – Alex Heffes
  • Limitless – Paul Leonard-Morgan
  • Natural Selection and Hamill – iZLER
  • Hanna – The Chemical Brothers (Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands)
  • X-Men: First Class and Gulliver's Travels – Henry Jackman

2012

• Albert Nobbs – Brian Byrne
  • Immortals – Trevor Morris
  • Take Shelter – David Wingo
  • Lola Versus & Nobody Walks – Fall On Your Sword
  • The Raven, Sleep Tight & Cold Light of Day – Lucas Vidal

2013

• Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
  • Copperhead – Laurent Eyquem
  • Oblivion – Anthony Gonzalez & Joseph Trapanese
  • Hammer of the Gods & Summer in February – Benjamin Wallfisch
  • The Spectacular Now & The Way Way Back – Rob Simonsen

2014

• Cuban Fury & The Counselor – Daniel Pemberton
  • Calvary – Patrick Cassidy
  • La Chair de Ma Chair & Zum Geburtstag – Jérôme Lemonnier
  • Gravity & The World's End – Steven Price
  • The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet – Denis Sanacore

2015

• Birdman – Antonio Sánchez
  • But Always & Highway of Love – Zhiyi Wang
  • Ex Machina – Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Portishead)
  • A Most Violent Year – Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)
  • Spooks: The Greater Good – Dominic Lewis

2016

• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – Joe Kraemer
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane & The Boy – Bear McCreary
  • The Big Short – Nicholas Britell
  • Eddie the Eagle – Matthew Margeson
  • Synchronicity – Ben Lovett

2017

• Moonlight – Nicholas Britell
  • Get Out – Michael Abels
  • Lady Macbeth – Dan Jones
  • Lion – Hauschka & Dustin O'Halloran
  • My Cousin Rachel – Rael Jones

2018

• Mudbound – Tamar-kali
  • Nostalgia – Laurent Eyquem
  • Sicario: Day of the Soldado – Hildur Guðnadóttir
  • Girl – Valentin Hadjadj
  • Mary Shelley – Amelia Warner

2019

• Us - Michael Abels
  • The Last Tree – Segun Akinola
  • Green Book – Kris Bowers
  • Where Hands Touch – Anne Chmelewsky
  • Under the Silver Lake – Disasterpeace

2020s

2020

• The Two Popes – Bryce Dessner
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz – Dascha Dauenhauer
  • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon – Tom Howe
  • Uncut Gems – Daniel Lopatin
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield – Christopher Willis

2021

• The Reason I Jump – Nainita Desai
  • Wild Indian – Gavin Brivik
  • Calamity – Florencia Di Concilio
  • Infidel – Natalie Holt
  • Promising Young Woman – Anthony Willis

2022

• Drive My Car – Eiko Ishibashi
  • Pleasure – Karl Frid
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once – Son Lux
  • Coppelia – Maurizio Malagnini
  • The Edge of War – Isobel Waller-Bridge

2023

• Avatar: The Way of Water – Simon Franglen
  • Golda – Dascha Dauenhauer
  • Suzume – RADWIMPS / Kazuma Jinnouchi
  • Knock at the Cabin – Herdís Stefánsdóttir
  • The Menu – Colin Stetson

2024

• Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix
  • In the Land of Saints and Sinners – Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg and Lionel Baldenweg
  • Ezra – Carlos Rafael Rivera
  • Julie Keeps Quiet (Julie zwijgt) – Caroline Shaw
  • Saltburn – Anthony Wills

2025

• The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
  • Nosferatu – Robin Carolan
  • Mickey 17 – Jung Jae-il
  • Mufasa: The Lion King – Dave Metzger
  • Sentimental Value – Hania Rani

References

• List of World Soundtrack Awards Winners & Nominees