The Georges Delerue Award for Best Music, or Georges Delerue Prize / Prix Georges Delerue, is an award for the best film score. It is named after the French composer Georges Delerue, and was first awarded at the 1985 Film Fest Gent festival. Past winners include: Benny Andersson, Ry Cooder, Bruno Coulais, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Kamen, Astor Piazzolla, Rachel Portman, Howard Shore, Toru Takemitsu, and Vangelis.
Awards Each year, two prizes are awarded of €10,000 and €15,000. Winners are sometimes declared using the following categories: Best Musical Documentary (shortened to 'BMD' in the table below) Best Use of Existing Music (shortened to 'BUEM' in the table below) Best Original Music (shortened to 'BOM' in the table below) Best Application of Music (shortened to 'BAM' in the table below) Best Use of Music in Film (shortened to 'BUMF' in the table below)
Award winners Year Award Winner(s) Nationalityof Winner(s)(At Time of Award) Film Ref. 1985 Switzerland Tosca's Kiss (Il bacio di Tosca) France Détective 1986 United States Crossroads , Finland Da Capo 1987 Winner Belgium Life Is Beautiful 1988 Winner Argentina Sur 1989 Winner Japan Black Rain Austria The Seventh Continent 1990 Winner United States The Krays 1991 Winner Algeria Cheb 1992 Winner United States Bob Roberts 1993 Winner Taiwan The Puppetmaster 1994 Winner Belgium La Partie d'échecs 1995 Winner France Cyclo 1996 Winner France Microcosmos 1997 Winner Greece Kavafis 1998 Winner United Kingdom Claire Dolan 1999 Winner United Kingdom Ratcatcher 2000 Winner China Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2001 Winner Slovakia Landscape 2002 Winner Canada Spider 2003 Winner Poland Pornografia 2004 Winner Miguel Miranda, José Tobar Chile Machuca 2005 Winner United Kingdom Proof 2006 Winner , Delphine Mantoulet France Transylvania 2007 Winner Sweden You, the Living 2008 Winner Tajikistan Two-legged Horse 2009 Winner United States A Rational Solution 2010 Winner Hong-jip Kim South Korea The Housemaid 2011 Winners Evgueni & Sacha Galperine Russia The Invader 2012 Winner France Something in the Air 2013 Winner Taiwan A Touch of Sin 2014 Winner Boris Debackere Belgium Violet 2015 Winner Johnnie Burn United Kingdom The Lobster 2016 Winner United States Home 2017 Winner United States A Ciambra 2018 Winner United Kingdom High Life 2019 Winners Mica Levi (soundtrack) and Lena Esquenazi (sound design) United Kingdom, Cuba Monos 2020 Winners Cristian Lolea & Miroslav Toth (soundtrack) Romania, Slovakia Servants 2021 Winner Ruben De Gheselle (soundtrack) Belgium Clara Sola 2022 Winners Tobias Koch & Jannik Giger (soundtrack) Switzerland Drii Winter 2023 Winner Jerskin Fendrix (score) United Kingdom Poor Things 2024 Winner Miguel Gomes Portugal Grand Tour 2025 Winner Stillz, Arca (score) Colombia United States Barrio Triste
References
External links
Ghent International Film Festival IMDb