Alexandre Desplat Film Composer of the Year & Best Film Score of the Year

Both the ceremony and the concert were attended by an impressive list of VIPS from the film music world such as Alexandre Desplat, Marvin Hamlisch, A.R. Rahman, Reinhold Heil, Johhny Klimek and Alti Ovarsson, Jérôme Lemmonier and Andrew Lockington among others. During and after the World Soundtrack Awards ceremony, musical performances were held featuring Hamlisch, Desplat and last year's WSA Discovery Of The Year honoree Marc Streitenfeld all backed by the 80 member Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé, Marvin Hamlisch & Alexandre Desplat THE RESULTS FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, COCO AVANT CHANEL, LARGO WINCH, CHÉRI) BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON by Alexandre Desplat BEST ORIGINAL SONG WRITTEN FOR FILM "JAI HO" from 'Slumdog Millionaire' Music by: A.R. Rahman Lyrics by Gulzar and Tanvi Shah Performed by A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaksmi Iyver, Vijay Prakash Published by KM Musiq ltd DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR NICO MUHLY "THE READER" LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD MARVIN HAMLISCH PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD "TWILIGHT" CARTER BURWELL SABAM AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG EUROPEAN COMPOSER CHRISTOPHER SLASKI The World Soundtrack Awards are organized in cooperation with Port of Ghent, Sabam, the province East-Flanders, the Ghent City Marketing Fund and Belgacom. More info: www.worldsoundtrackacademy.com