Ludwig Göransson’s victory for best original score for Sinners at the BAFTA Awards on Sunday Feb. 22 increases the already strong odds that he’ll win the Oscar in the same category on March 15. Göransson’s score had previously won at the Critics Choice Awards, the Golden Globes and the Grammys, among other precursor awards.
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This year’s other nominees for best original score are Jerskin Fendrix for Bugonia, Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Max Richter for Hamnet and Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another. This is Desplat’s 12th nomination in the category, the third for both Greenwood and Göransson, Fendrix’s second and the first for Richter.
A sign of Göransson’s dominance this year is that he is the only composer who is nominated for both best original score and best original song. He shares a song nod with Raphael Saadiq for “I Lied to You” from Sinners.
Another sign: This marks the first time that Göransson has been nominated for both best original score and best original song in the same year. He had a previous song nomination, for “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but he wasn’t nominated for that score.
The 98th Academy Awards ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Conan O’Brien hosting for the second year in a row. An award for best casting will be presented for the first time, bringing the total number of competitive Oscar categories to 24 – about one-quarter of the number of Grammy Awards presented this year (95).
If Göransson does win the Oscar, he’ll set these six records.
