The World Soundtrack Award

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The World Soundtrack Award

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The World Soundtrack Award honours a soundtrack or even a lifework.

The statuette is based on a sinewave. This is a sound wave as it is represented on a computer screen. We cut down the sinewave to one single stylised undulation. By then looping a sequence of 5 such undulations (the horizontal lines of a stave) we created a crown.

A soundtrack fills the space of a theatre and is not subject to gravity : it floats in the air. That is why the sinewave is captured in an abstract and transparent space. The dark base is a reference to bakelite; the old much-preferred material for the widespread transistor radio.

The World Soundtrack Awards shall be distributed annually to mark and celebrate outstanding achievements in scoring music for motion pictures, and to honor other achievements as provided for in the rules and approved by the advisory board of the organizing body, the World Soundtrack Academy. The awards shall be presented at an annual ceremony. Awards in the form of trophies shall be given annually for the following achievements:

Soundtrack Composer of the Year
Best Original Soundtrack of the Year - Orchestral
Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film*
Discovery of the Year (emerging film composing talent)**
Public Choice Award*** (audiences from around the world will be asked to vote for)
Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award**
Major Contribution to the Art of Film Music and Sound** - i.e. to special achievements such as the most creative use of existing material in a soundtrack, sound editing, etc. These awards shall be given at such times as in the judgment of the Board of the WSA there are deserving recipients, but are not necessarily given each year
* The WSA Advisory Board selects the nominees in this category.
The WSA Voting Members are asked to select the winner in the final voting round.
** Voted by the WSA Advisory Board
*** Voting takes place via http://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com. Public can vote between 1 July 2006 and 15 September 2006.
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