Movie Music UK Awards 2018 – Winners

The prestigious website Movie Music UK, commanded by Jon Broxton, which has been doing reviews of film / TV / video games soundtracks since 1997, published recently the list for the best soundtracks of 2018; the ‘Movie Music UK Awards 2018’.

 

The soundtrack ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ by Marc Shaiman was chosen as best soundtrack of the year and Spanish composer Roque Baños best composer of 2018, giving the ‘Breakthrough composer of the year’ award to Spanish composer Manuel Riveiro.

 

Here you have the list of nominees and winners in all the categories:

Score of the year

  • Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald – James Newton Howard
  • Max And Me – Mark Mckenzie
  • Solo – John Powell
  • Watership Down – Federico Jusid

 

Composer of the year

  • Roque Baños
  • Ludwig Göransson
  • James Newton Howard
  • Federico Jusid
  • Marc Shaiman

 

Breakthrough Composer Of The Year

  • Manuel Riveiro
  • Thomas Adès
  • Mark Chait
  • Romaric Laurence
  • Amelia Warner

 

Best Original Song

  • “A Cover is Not the Book” from MARY POPPINS RETURNS; written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, performed by Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • “Can You Imagine That” from MARY POPPINS RETURNS; written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, performed by Emily Blunt
  • “Fall on Me” from THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS; written by Fortunato Zampaglione, Ian Axel, Chad Vaccarino, and Matteo Bocelli, performed by Andrea Bocelli and Matteo Bocelli
  • “I’ll Never Love Again” from A STAR IS BORN; written by Stefani Gerrmanotta, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, and Aaron Raitiere, performed Lady Gaga
  • “Push and Pull” from VIDEOMAN, written by Sveinung Nygaard, performed by Sveinung Nygaard feat. Niki Yrla

 

Best Drama Score

  • MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, music by Max Richter
  • COLETTE, music by Thomas Adès
  • THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, music by Roque Baños
  • RÉMI SANS FAMILLE, music by Romaric Laurence
  • VICE, music by Nicholas Britell

 

Best Comedy Score

  • MARY POPPINS RETURNS, music by Marc Shaiman
  • CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, music by Geoff Zanelli and Jon Brion
  • CRAZY RICH ASIANS, music by Brian Tyler
  • LOS FUTBOLÍSIMOS, music by Fernando Velázquez
  • HILFE, ICH HAB MEINE ELTERN GESCHRUMPFT/HELP, I SHRUNK MY PARENTS, music by Anne Kathrin Dern

 

Best Action/adventure/thriller Score

  • LA SOMBRA DE LA LEY/GUN CITY, music by Manuel Riveiro
  • BENJI, music by Kostas Christides
  • THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB, music by Roque Baños
  • JIM KNOPF UND LUKAS DER LOKOMOTIVFÜHRER, music by Ralf Wengenmayr
  • RED SPARROW, music by James Newton Howard

 

Best Fantasy/sci-fi/horror Score

  • SOLO, music by John Powell
  • BLACK PANTHER, music by Ludwig Göransson
  • FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD, music by James Newton Howard
  • JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM, music by Michael Giacchino
  • READY PLAYER ONE, music by Alan Silvestri

 

Best Animation Score

  • MAX AND ME, music by Mark McKenzie
  • LÓI: ÞÚ FLYGUR ALDREI EINN/PLOEY: YOU NEVER FLY ALONE, music by Atli Örvarsson
  • MÅNELYST I FLÅKLYPA, music by Knut Avenstroup Haugen
  • MAQUIA: WHEN THE PROMISED FLOWER BLOOMS, music by Kenji Kawai
  • WATERSHIP DOWN, music by Federico Jusid

 

Best Documentary Score

  • TIDES OF FATE, music by Pinar Toprak
  • THE DEVIL WE KNOW, music by Brian Tyler
  • EQUUS: THE STORY OF THE HORSE, music by Darren Fung
  • SNOW TO SAND, music by Frederik Wiedmann
  • WILD, music by Matthijs Kieboom

 

Best Original Score For Television

  • OTROS MUNDOS, music by Carlos Martin Jara
  • AIQING DE BIANJIANG/FRONTIER OF LOVE, music by Mark Chait
  • AWALEM KHAFIA/HIDDEN WORLDS, music by Khaled Hammad
  • LA CATEDRAL DEL MAR, music by Federico Jusid
  • LOST IN SPACE, music by Christopher Lennertz

 

Best Original Score For A Video Game

  • OCTOPATH TRAVELER, music by Yasunori Nishiki
  • MOSS, music by Jason Graves
  • NI NO KUNI II: REVENANT KINGDOM, music by Joe Hisaishi
  • THRONEBREAKER: THE WITCHER TALES, music by Piotr Adamczyk, Marcin Przybyłowicz, and Mikolai Stroinski
  • WORLD OF WARCRAFT: BATTLE FOR AZEROTH, music by Glenn Stafford, Neal Acree, Sam Cardon, David Arkenstone, Clint Bajakian, and David Duke

 

The complete list of nominees and winners, with an extensive explanation in each of the sections, can be found at the following link:

https://moviemusicuk.us/2019/02/01/movie-music-uk-awards-2018/