These are the nominees for the 26th World Soundtrack Awards!

Hildur Guðnadóttir is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, two-time Grammy, BAFTA, and Emmy-winning Icelandic artist, who has been manifesting herself at the forefront of experimental pop and contemporary. Her work for film, television, and video games includes Joker, Joker: Folie á Deux, TÁR, Women Talking, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalena, Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 2042, and the HBO series Chernobyl. Hildur was named Television Composer of the Year and Film Composer of the Year by the World Soundtrack Academy.

Max Richter is an Oscar-nominated composer and one of the most influential and acclaimed musical voices of his generation. Renowned for redefining contemporary classical music through the seamless fusion of traditional orchestration and modern electronic elements, Richter’s work spans solo albums, ballet, film, fashion and installation. His singular ability to translate profound human experience into sound has earned him a vast global following, with his catalogue now surpassing three billion streams worldwide.

Jonny Greenwood is an English composer and musician, best known as guitarist and keyboardist of Radiohead. Alongside his work with the band, he has built an extensive career in orchestral composition and film scoring, collaborating regularly with director Paul Thomas Anderson since There Will Be Blood (2007). His most recent film score is for Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025), released on Nonesuch Records. Greenwood served as Featured Artist for the Hallé's 2025–26 season.

Film after film, Alexandre Desplat, a true cinephile, develops his own style, his singularity and his incomparable art to produce a special tone, an identity for each movie score. His music plays like another actor on and off screen creating a vibration and showing the invisible emotions of the characters. The richness of his writing allows him not only to write epic symphonic scores but to mix World music or Jazz instrumentation in his soundtracks for Argo, Zero Dark Thirty or The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Daniel Pemberton is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning composer and songwriter who has regularly been cited as one of the most exciting and original new voices working in modern film scoring today. He has scored films for some of the industry’s most legendary figures such as Ridley Scott (All the Money in the World, The Counselor), Danny Boyle (Yesterday, Steve Jobs), Aaron Sorkin (Being The Ricardos, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Molly’s Game), and Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., King Arthur: Legend of the Sword).

Multi-Academy and Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Finneas O’Connell has quietly emerged as an unassumingly ubiquitous presence in popular music and culture. He achieved stratospheric success through his work with his sister Billie Eilish, earning eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song for “No Time To Die” from No Time To Die and “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie.

David Fleming is an Emmy-winning American composer who has written music for film and television. He co-scored James Gunn’s DC film Superman and HBO’s The Last of Us, for which he received a WSA nomination as Television Composer of the Year as well as an SCL Award nomination. His score for Ron Howard’s Jim Henson: Idea Man earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and ASCAP Composer’s Choice Award for Documentary Score of the Year, with his work on Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith bringing him a second Emmy nomination.

Martin Phipps has won two BAFTAs, five Ivor Novello Awards and received multiple Emmy nominations for writing music to many of the most interesting television series of recent years. He is most known for his work on the Leftbank Pictures/ Netflix series The Crown, Sir Ridley Scott’s Napoleon for Apple, and the first season of BBC’s smash hit Peaky Blinders. Benji Merrison is a British composer working across film and television, known for his distinctive scores for Dynasties and The Green Planet.

Dave Porter is a Los Angeles–based composer for film and television, perhaps best known for his enduring creative partnership with one of Hollywood’s most respected storytellers, Vince Gilligan. Beginning with the remarkable pilot episode of Breaking Bad in 2007, Porter composed the original music for the critically acclaimed spin-off Better Call Saul, brought the Breaking Bad universe to the big screen with his score for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, and wrote the mysterious score for Apple TV+’s hit series Pluribus.

Jeff Russo is an Emmy Award-winning and Grammy-nominated composer, scoring varied and compelling music for film, television and video games. His music can be heard on shows such as Apple TV+’s Cape Fear, Amazon Prime’s season 2 of Citadel, FX’s Alien: Earth, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, Cursed, and Altered Carbon, and Fargo, for which Russo received an Emmy in 2017 and four additional nominations.

written by Charli XCX, John Cale, Nathan Klein, Finn Keane | performed by Charli XCX, John Cale

written by Kim Eun-jae, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Teddy Park | performed by Huntrix

written by Stephen Schwartz | performed by Cynthia Erivo

written by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Nia DaCosta | performed by Mariam Wallentin

written by Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner | performed by Nick Cave