Best Score Predictions

Cary from Film Score Monthly has sent us his annual predictions for score and song. And they are, as follows (his last year’s predictions after the jump):

2009:
Top Contenders
“Avatar” – James Horner
“Coco Before Chanel” – Alexandre Desplat
“The Informant” – Marvin Hamlisch
“Public Enemies” – Elliot Goldenthal
“Up” – Michael Giacchino

Good Shots

“The Lovely Bones” – Brian Eno
“Ponyo” – Joe Hisashi
“Sherlock Holmes” – Hans Zimmer
“Sin Nombre” – Marcelo Zarvos
“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” – Alexandre Desplat
Longshots
“Invictus” by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
“The Road” – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
“A Serious Man” – Carter Burwell
“A Single Man” РAbel Korzeniowski
“Up in the Air” – Rolfe Kent

Think Outside the Box
“Broken Embraces” – Alberto Iglesias
“Brothers” – Thomas Newman
“The Last Station” – Sergei Yevtushenko
“Moon” – Clint Mansell
“Star Trek” – Michael Giacchino

Song:

Top 5:
“All is Love” – “Where the Wild Things Are”
“Almost There” – “The Princess and the Frog”
“Cinema Italiano” – “Nine”
“I See You” – “Avatar”
“The Weary Kind” – “Crazy Heart”

Next 5:
“God Bless Us Everyone” – “A Christmas Carol”
“I Can See in Color” – “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
“Take it All” – Nine”
“Trust Me” – “The Informant”
“Other Father Song” – “Coraline”

PREVIOUS PREDICTIONS
* Actual Nominee
2008:
Most Likely
Curious Case of Benjamin Button—Alexandre Desplat *
Defiance—James Newton Howard *
Milk—Danny Elfman *
Revolutionary Road—Thomas Newman
WALL·E—Thomas Newman *

Longshots
Slumdog Millionaire—A.R. Rahman*(+)

2007:
If I Had a Ballot
Alexandre Desplat, Lust, Caution
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Evening
James Newton Howard, The Lookout
Alberto Iglesias, The Kite Runner*
Dario Marianelli, Atonement*

Buzz-worthy and Longshots
Marco Beltrami, 3:10 to Yuma*
Ratatouille—Michael Giacchino*

I didn’t see coming: Michael Clayton – James Newton Howard*