Alternative Oscars: The Nominees & Winners For Every Category

4. Best Original Score

Moonlight Chiron
A24

WINNER: Moonlight

Even if it didn't have any musical score to speak of, Moonlight would be a masterful drama, but award-winning composer and pianist Nicholas Britell helps take it to the next level with his deeply affecting, violin-driven compositions.

The signature track, Middle of the World, is a work of awe-inspiring beauty, and anchors a musical score that perfectly cements and compliments the movie's sumptuous themes and gorgeous visual style.

Arrival was a very close second here, but as its signature song actually isn't an original composition, it gets the silver (while the Academy in fact disqualified it completely on these grounds).

RUNNERS-UP:

2. Arrival

3. La La Land

4. Jackie

5. Hell or High Water

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