World Soundtrack Awards 2010

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10th World Soundtrack Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> October 23, 2010 </div>

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Best Original Soundtrack:<br> <big>Fantastic Mr. Fox</big> </div>

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

Awards

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, ', 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 '
• 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 <small>"The Weary Kind"</small> in Crazy Heart

• Anika Noni Rose (performer), Randy Newman (music/lyrics) for <small>"Almost There"</small> in The Princess and the Frog
• Jon Thor Birgisson for <small>"Sticks and Stones"</small> in How to Train Your Dragon
• Kuk Harrell (lyrics), Simon Franglen (music/lyrics), Leona Lewis (performer), James Horner (music/lyrics) for <small>"I See You"</small> in Avatar
• Paul McCartney for <small>"(I Want to) Come Home"</small> 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

External links

• 10th World Soundtrack Awards