World Soundtrack Awards 2010



10th World Soundtrack Awards October 23, 2010

Best Original Soundtrack: Fantastic Mr. Fox

The 10th World Soundtrack Awards were given out on 23 October 2010 in Ghent, Belgium.

World Soundtrack of the Year
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Alexandre Desplat
 * Avatar by James Horner
 * Where the Wild Things Are by Carter Burwell
 * A Single Man by Abel Korzeniowski
 * Sherlock Holmes by Hans Zimmer

Soundtrack Composer of the Year
Alexandre Desplat for Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Julie & Julia, and The Ghost Writer
 * Carter Burwell for Where the Wild Things Are, A Serious Man, The Kids Are All Right, The Blind Side, and Howl
 * John Powell for Green Zone, How to Train Your Dragon, Knight and Day, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
 * Danny Elfman for The Wolfman and Alice in Wonderland
 * Hans Zimmer for It's Complicated and Sherlock Holmes

Best Original Song
T-Bone Burnett (lyrics), Ryan Bingham (music/lyrics/performer) for "The Weary Kind" in Crazy Heart
 * Anika Noni Rose (performer), Randy Newman (music/lyrics) for "Almost There" in The Princess and the Frog
 * Jon Thor Birgisson for "Sticks and Stones" in How to Train Your Dragon
 * Kuk Harrell (lyrics), Simon Franglen (music/lyrics), Leona Lewis (performer), James Horner (music/lyrics) for "I See You" in Avatar
 * Paul McCartney for "(I Want to) Come Home" in Everybody's Fine

Discovery of the Year
A Single Man by Abel Korzeniowski
 * The Book of Eli by Atticus Ross
 * Skin by Hélène Muddiman
 * District 9 by Clinton Shorter
 * The Last Station by Sergei Yevtushenko

Public Choice Award

 * A Single Man by Abel Korzeniowski

SABAM Award for Best Young European Composer

 * Karzan Mahmood

Lifetime Achievement Award

 * John Barry