Best score
1 – Alberto Iglesias for The Room Next Door–this music is a portal to enter the story’s repressed memories.
2 – Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist–a disturbed, phantasmic counterpoint to the film’s images.
3 – Louis Sclavis, Alexey Kochetkov e Kioomars Musayyebi for Why War–a continuous musical flow that turns the film into a polyphonic oratorio.
Best Original Song
Finalement, from Claude Lelouch’s film of the same name, performed by Kad Merad and Barbara Pravi.
Best Classic Song
Come as You Are by Nirvana, in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer.
Best Cover
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, performed by Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux.
Best Aria
Maria Callas in O mio babbino caro, from Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.
Sound design
Corinne de San Jose for her work in Phantosmia by Lav Diaz–the perfect sound of tropical rainforest.
Closing Credits
The Brutalist–for the unmatched anthem of joy that is One for you, One for me by La Bionda played over those illegible end credits.
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