Vote for the WSA Public Choice Award 2025

Who will follow in the footsteps of Benji Merrison (SAS: Red Notice), Alfonso G. Aguilar (Klaus), Amelia Warner (Mr. Malcolm's List) and many others? It's up to you! You get to decide who wins the Public Choice Award 2025. Cast your vote now, until 21 August 2025, 23:59 (CEST). Mid-September, the five nominated scores will be announced. The nominees will be invited to join us during the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert on 15 October 2025.

How do you vote?

Go through the following steps to vote for the Public Choice Award 2025:

• Log in to your MyFFG account on our website. Don't have one? You can easily create one here.

• Go to the voting platform and cast your vote!

• You can also find the voting form in the tab 'Public Choice & Game Music Award' in your MyFFG account.

Don't forget to vote for the WSA Game Music Award as well, an audience award for the best piece of game music of the past year.

Longlist Public Choice Award 2025

• 35-Nen-me no Rabu Retaa (35th Year Love Letter) - Tarô Iwashiro
• A Different Man - Umberto Smerili
• A Minecraft Movie - Mark Mothersbaugh
• A Normal Family - Sung-woo Jo
• A Working Man - Jared Michael Fry
• Acma Game: The Final Key - Yugo Kanno
• Alien: Romulus - Benjamin Wallfisch
• Anatema - Vanessa Garde
• Bambi, l'histoire d'une vie dans les bois (Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods) - Laurent Perez Del Mar
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Danny Elfman
• Buffalo Kids - Fernando Velázquez
• Buio come il cuore - David Cerquetti
• Captain America: Brave New World - Laura Karpman
• Conclave - Volker Bertelmann
• Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force - Gordy Haab
• Decoded - Lorne Balfe, Kevin Riepl
• Den Svenska Torpeden (The Swedish Torpedo) - Martin Dirkov
• Descalzos - Oscar Martin Leanizbarrutia
• Detective Kien: The Headless Horror - Christopher Wong, Ian Rees, Garrett Crosby
• Diamanti - Giuliano Taviani, Carmelo Travia
• Dog Man - Tom Howe
• Drop - Bear McCreary
• Ein Mädchen namens Willow (A Girl Named Willow) - Fabian Römer
• Emilia Pérez - Camille, Clément Ducol
• Endurance - Daniel Pemberton
• Europa Centrale - Zbigniew Preisner
• Final Destination: Bloodlines - Tim Wynn
• Flow - Gints Zilbalodis, Rihards Zalupe
• Fly Me to the Moon - Daniel Pemberton
• Gladiator II - Harry Gregson-Williams
• Harbin - Cho Young-Wuk
• Harold and the Purple Crayon - Batu Sener
• Here - Alan Silvestri
• Heretic - Chris Bacon
• HITPIG! - Isabella Summers
• Hola Frida - Laetitia Pansanel-Garric
• Horizon: An American Sage, Chapter One - John Debney
• Into the Mortal World - Roc Chen
• Isla perdida (Haunted Heart) - Zbigniew Preisner
• Juror #2 - Mark Mancina
• Kantauri - Joseba Beristain
• L'abbaglio (The Blunder) - Emanuele Bossi, Michele Braga
• L'Amour ouf (Beating Hearts) - Jon Brion
• La Cache (The Safe House) - Diego Baldenweg, Nora Baldenweg, Lionel Baldenweg
• La Città Proibita (Forbidden City) - Fabio Amurri
• La Farfalla Impazzita - Giuliano Taviani, Carmelo Travia
• Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) - Jérôme Rebotier
• Le Routard - Ludovic Bource
• Lee - Alexandre Desplat
• Lilo & Stitch - Dan Romer
• Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps - Geoff Zanelli
• Mariposas Negras (Black Butterflies) - Diego Navarro
• Martha - Colin Stetson
• Megalopolis - Osvalda Golijov
• Memoir of a Snail - Elena Kats-Chernin
• Mickey 17 - Jung Jae-il
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - Max Aruj, Alfie Godfrey
• Moana 2 - Mark Mancina
• Monster Summer - Frederik Wiedmann
• Moon le panda (Moon the Panda) - Arman Amar, Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen, Camille Després, Mathieu Coupat
• Mufasa: The Lion King - Dave Metzger
• Natacha (presque) hôtesse de l'air - Erwann Chandon
• Ni chaînes ni maîtres (No Chains, No Masters) - Amin Bouhafa
• Nosferatu - Robin Carolan
• Operation Hadal - Elliot Leung
• Paddington in Peru - Dario Marianelli
• Queer - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• Reagan - John Coda
• Red One - Henry Jackman
• Salve María - Zeltia Montes
• Sinners - Ludwig Göransson
• Skal hilse fra naturen (A Call from the Wild) - Oliver Heuss
• Snow White - Jeff Morrow
• Super Charlie - Jonas Wikstrand
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story - Ilan Eshkeri
• Superklaus - Diego Navarro
• That Christmas - John Powell
• The 4:30 Movie - Bear McCreary
• The Brutalist - Daniel Blumberg
• The Critic - Craig Armstrong
• The King of Kings - Kim Tae-seong
• The Last Rodeo - Jeff Russo
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - Stephen Gallagher
• The Most Precious of Cargoes - Alexandre Desplat
• The Painted - Frederik Wiedmann
• The Piano Lesson - Alexandre Desplat
• The Return - Rachel Portman
• The Rose of Versailles - Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto
• The Six Triple Eight - Aaron Zigman
• The Substance - Raffertie
• The Wild Robot - Kris Bowers
• Thunderbolts* - Son Lux
• Toutes pour une (All for One) - Amine Bouhafa, Emilie Gassin, Ben Violet
• Twisters - Benjamin Wallfisch
• Unstoppable - Alexandre Desplat
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl - Lorne Balfe, Julian Nott
• Wicked - John Powell, Stephen Schwartz
• William Tell - Steven Price
• Wolf Man - Benjamin Wallfisch
• Woodwalkers - Anne-Kathrin Dern

Spotify Playlist

Listen to the Public Choice Award longlist on Spotify. Currently not all eligible scores are available on Spotify. Want to listen to all scores? Go to our voting platform where all scores are available for you.