The Cannes Soundtrack Award is an independent award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. [1]
Year | English Title | Original Title | Composer | Nationality of Composer |
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2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Jozef van Wissem | Netherlands | |
2014 | Maps to the Stars | Howard Shore | Canada | |
2015 | The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘 | Lim Giong | Taiwan |
2016 | The Neon Demon | Cliff Martinez [2] | United States | |
2017 | Good Time | Oneohtrix Point Never [3] | ||
2018 | Leto | Лето | Roma Zver and German Osipov | Russia |
2019 | Pain and Glory | Dolor y Gloria | Alberto Iglesias [4] | Spain |
2021 | Annette | Ron Mael, Russell Mael [5] | United States | |
Paris, 13th District | Les Olympiades | Rone [6] | France | |
2022 | EO | IO | Paweł Mykietyn | Poland |
2023 | The Zone of Interest | Mica Levi | United Kingdom | |
2024 | Emilia Pérez | Clément Ducol, Camille | France |
Year | English Title | Original Title | Composer | Nationality of Composer |
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2016 | Slack Bay | Ma Loute | Bruno Dumont [7] | France |
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος; was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece.
Lim Giong is a Taiwanese musician, DJ, actor, and an active figure in the Taiwanese experimental electronic music scene. He is known for recording rock songs in Taiwanese Hokkien, starting with his first hit song "Marching Forward" in 1990. He is also known as writing film scores for directors such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke, and Bi Gan. His has received numerous awards for his work, including the Cannes Soundtrack Award in 2015 for The Assassin.
Ray Williams is a British A&R music producer and publisher. He discovered Elton John and introduced him to Bernie Taupin. Williams has been a prominent figure of the music and film industry for many years as a press agent, A&R head, artist manager, film music producer, and publisher. He was the music supervisor of films including The Last Emperor, Absolute Beginners, and Naked Lunch.
Paweł Jan Mykietyn is a Polish award-winning composer and clarinetist.
Nicola Piovani is an Italian classical musician, theater and film score composer. In 1998, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score for Roberto Benigni's film Life Is Beautiful (1997).
Francesco is a 1989 historical drama film about the life of St. Francis of Assisi. It is directed and co-written by Liliana Cavani, and stars Mickey Rourke as Francis and Helena Bonham Carter as the future St. Claire. The screenplay is adapted from Hermann Hesse’s 1904 book Francis of Assisi. Vangelis composed the musical score.
Micaela Rachel "Mica" Levi, also known by their stage name Micachu, is an English musician, composer, producer, singer, and songwriter.
Crush is a 1992 New Zealand drama film directed by Alison Maclean. It was winner of four film awards and was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Jessica Hausner is an Austrian auteur and screenwriter, a professor at Filmacademy Vienna.
Arsalan Nami better known as Arsi Nami, is a Swedish-Persian actor, music therapist, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and philanthropist living in Manhattan, New York. He earned himself 14 international Best Actor awards in 2022/23 for his role of Dylan Steere in Aion, a film presented and sponsored by FujiFilm. The awards was given by the New York International Film Awards, Tokyo Film Awards, Chicago Indie Film Awards, Sweden Film Awards, Cannes Silk Road Film Awards, Brazil Visions Film Fest, San Diego Movie Awards and Best Istanbul Film Festival to name a few. Thanks to his remarkable performance in Aion, the film was also selected and screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, California
Blinkity Blank is a 1955 animated short film created by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada. It won, among other awards, both the Short Film Palme d'Or at Cannes and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film.
The Artist is a 2011 French comedy drama film in the style of a black-and-white silent film or part-talkie. It was written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius, produced by Thomas Langmann and stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood, between 1927 and 1932, and focuses on the relationship between a rising young actress and an older silent film star as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the "talkies".
Film Fest Gent, also known as International Film Fest Gent, is an annual international film festival in Ghent, Belgium. The festival held its first edition in 1974, under the name Internationaal Filmgebeuren Gent, and has since grown into the largest film festival in Belgium. The festival also puts the spotlight on film music; since 2001, Film Fest Gent has hosted the World Soundtrack Awards, a series of prizes for the best soundtracks for film and television.
Khaled Mouzanar is a Lebanese music composer, songwriter, writer and film producer. He has composed music scores for several films, including After Shave, Caramel, Where Do We Go Now? and Capernaum (film). In 2008, he recorded Les Champs Arides, his first solo album as a singer and songwriter. His work is rooted in various genres, including classical, contemporary and folk music. His compositions are also influenced by Brazilian choro, Argentinian tango and oriental melodies.
Vivek Maddala is a four-time Emmy-winning composer who focuses on writing music for feature films, theater and dance productions, and television. He is known for composing music scores for films such as Kaboom, Highway, and the Peabody-winning American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, as well as for silent film restorations for Turner Classic Movies, including a 90-minute score for the Greta Garbo film The Mysterious Lady (2002). Additionally, Maddala writes, produces, and performs as a multi-instrumentalist with various recording artists. He is a Sundance Lab Fellow for film composition, and has had work premiere at the Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, and Sundance film festivals. Maddala has received six Emmy nominations, with four wins, in the category of "Outstanding Music Direction and Composition."
Nicholas Britell is an American film and television composer. He has received numerous accolades including an Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award. He has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Barry Jenkins' Moonlight (2016) and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and Adam McKay's Don't Look Up (2021). He also scored McKay's The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018). He is also known for scoring Battle of the Sexes (2017), Cruella (2021), and She Said (2022).
Youth is a 2015 comedy-drama film written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is the director's second English-language film, and stars Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as best friends who reflect on their lives while holidaying in the Swiss Alps. It is a story of the eternal struggle between age and youth, the past and the future, life and death, commitment and betrayal. The cast also includes Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda.
Jean-Michel Bernard is a French pianist, composer, educator, orchestrator, and music producer. He is well known for regularly writing, performing, and scoring for films, such as The Science of Sleep, Hugo, Paris-Manhattan, Ca$h, and Be Kind Rewind.
Javier Bayon is a Spanish film music composer. He has scored for prestigious directors as Icíar Bollaín, Juanjo Giménez Peña, Kike Maíllo and Darren Lynn Bousman. As an orchestrator has worked for composers as Richard Band, Ludovico Einaudi, Javier Navarrete and Pharrell Williams. He took top honors at the 5th International Film Music Competition 2016, which took place within the framework of the 12th Zurich Film Festival at the Tonhalle Zürich. Bayon won the Golden Eye for Best International Film Music
Drive My Car is a 2021 Japanese drama film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe. Based on Haruki Murakami's 2014 short story of the same name, it stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as a theatre director who directs a multilingual production of Uncle Vanya while dealing with the death of his wife. Reika Kirishima, Tōko Miura, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon, Sonia Yuan, Ahn Hwitae, Perry Dizon, Satoko Abe, and Masaki Okada also star.