La World Soundtrack Academy ha anunciado la primera tanda de finalistas a los World Soundtrack Awards de 2019, cuyos ganadores serán dados a conocer el 18 de octubre en el Festival de Gante. Los nominados anunciados son:

• Compositor del año

1. Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk, Vice)
2. Daniel Pemberton (Yesterday, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Scarborough)
3. John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World)
4. Alan Silvestri (Avengers: Endgame, Welcome to Marwen)
5. Benjamin Wallfisch (Hellboy, Shazam!, Serenity, King of Thieves, The Vanishing, The Darkest Minds)

• Compositor televisivo del año

1. Kris Bowers (When They See Us, For the People, Black Monday, Warriors of Liberty City)
2. Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Jack Ryan)
3. Murray Gold (Years and Years, “Gentleman Jack)
4. Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chernobyl, Ófærð)
5. Jeff Russo (Legion, The InBetween, The Act, The Umbrella Academy, Star Trek: Discovery, Counterpart, Channel Zero, Snowfall)

• Mejor Canción

1. A Private War: "Requiem for a Private War" (Annie Lennox)
2. A Star is Born: "Shallow" (Lady Gaga, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando, Mark Ronson)
3. Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse; "Sunflower" (Swae Lee, Louis Bell, Post Malone, Billy Walsh, Carter Lang, Carl Rosens)
4. Mary Poppins Returns: "The Place Where Lost Things Go" (Marc Shaiman)
5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" (David Rawlings, Gillian Welch)