Alternative Oscars: The Nominees & Winners For Every Category
4. Best Original Score
![Moonlight Chiron](https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2016/12/e8bcaae553913069-600x338.jpg)
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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