International Film Music Critics Association

Obsessive yes, but it's been a slow week award wise:

FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR
The Ghost Writer- Alexandre Desplat
How to Train Your Dragon- John Powell
Inception- Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech- Alexandre Desplat
TRON: Legacy- Daft Punk

FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
Alexandre Desplat
Danny Elfman
James Newton Howard
John Powell
Hans Zimmer

BREAKOUT COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
Oscar Araujo
Arnau Bataller
Daft Punk
Herbert Gronemeyer
Nuno Malo

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A DRAMATIC FILM
Amalia- Nuno Malo
Black Swan- Clint Mansell
The Karate Kid- James Horner
The King's Speech- Alexandre Desplat
True Grit- Carter Burwell

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A COMEDY FILM
The Lightkeepers- Pinar Toprak
Lo- Scott Glasgow
Nanny McPhee Returns- James Newton Howard
Potiche- Phillippe Rombi
Vampires Suck- Christopher Lennertz

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN ACTION\ADVENTURE\THRILLER FILM
Buried- Victor Reyes
The Ghost Writer- Alexandre Desplat
Inception- Hans Zimmer
Robin Hood- Marc Streitenfeld
Salt- James Newton Howard

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A FANTASY\SCI-FI\HORROR
Alice in Wonderland- Danny Elfman
Daybreakers- Christopher Gordon
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1- Alexandre Desplat
The Last Airbender- James Newton Howard
TRON: Legacy- Daft Punk

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN ANIMATED FEATURE
How to Train Your Dragon- John Powell
The Illusionist- Sylvain Chomet
Legend of the Guardians- David Hirschfelder
Tangled- Alan Menken
Toy Story 3- Randy Newman

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A DOCUMENTARY
The Battle of Britain- Miguel d'Oliveira
Babies- Bruno Coulais
Oceans- Bruno Coulais
Waiting for 'Superman'- Christophe Beck
The Wildest Dream- Joel Douek

FILM COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR
Alice in Wonderland- "Alice's Theme" (Danny Elfman)
The Ghost Writer- "The Truth About Ruth" (Alexandre Desplat)
How to Train Your Dragon- "Test Drive" (John Powell)
How to Train Your Dragon- "Forbidden Friendship" (John Powell)
The Last Airbender- "Flow Like Water" (James Newton Howard)

Or the I Love You Alexandre Desplat Awards, as the master composer received seemingly nineteen nods for ten films!!  2010 was a great year for film scores, I sincerely believe one of the strongest in recent years, with terrific pieces of music that effectively meshed with the tones of the films.  My favorites:

• The Ghost Writer- with it's clever nod to old school Bernard Herrmann\Hitchcock.  Fun, tense, yet playful.
• Black Swan- stupid Academy for making Clint Mansell's eerie, yet hypnotic music ineligible-- paranoia hardly felt so aurally blissful.
• The Social Network- different, yet sublime-- sadly overlooked here...
• Inception- already feels iconic...follows a grand tradition of music that will be synonymous with it's source like Jaws, Star Wars and The Godfather.
• I Am Love- like the film itself, just achingly pretty.