The GoldSpirit Awards, yearly granted through the website BSOSpirit, are devoted to soundtracks and film music fans. BSOSpirit was released on 2001, as a Spanish website relating soundtracks and film music. Attempting to emphasize and recognize the role of the music in movies (contrary to other awards), since 2002, visitors can vote for their favorite scores and composers of the last year for the GoldSpirit Awards. The name GoldSpirit comes from the contraction of ''Goldsmith'' (for the late composer

Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for five films in the ''Star Trek'' franchise and three in the ''Rambo'' franch ...

, an homage to his figure) and ''Spirit'' (for ''BSOSpirit''). ''BSO'' stands for ''Banda Sonora Original'' (in English, ''Original Soundtrack'', OST).

Categories

The list of categories in the GoldSpirit Awards is the following: *Best Song *Most Deceiving OST *Best Edition/Re-edition of an OST from the Past *Best Song Album *Best Unreleased Score *Best Record Label *Best Horror Theme/Cue *Best Drama Theme/Cue *Best Action Theme/Cue *Best Comedy Theme/Cue *Best Epic Theme/Cue *Best Romantic Theme/Cue *Best Theme/Cue *Best Score in Other Media (Videogames, TV, Documentary) *Best Horror Score *Best Drama Score *Best Adventure/Action/Thriller Score *Best Comedy Score *Best Animation Score *Best Fantasy/Sci-fi Score *Best Spanish Score *Most Revealing Newcomer *Best Spanish Composer *Best Composer *Best Score Also, since 2005, the winners are awarded in a special ceremony included as part of the International Conference on Film Music 'City of Úbeda', located by the end of July at

Úbeda Úbeda (; from Iberian ''Ibiut'') is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with 34,733 (data 2017) inhabitants. Both this city and the neighbouring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the ...

(Jaén, Spain).

External links

Cinezik.fr
8e Goldspirit Awards, Ubeda 2009 - Palmarès !
BSOSpirit
- Spanish website about soundtracks and film music
International Conference on Film Music 'City of Ubeda'
- Official website American film awards {{film-award-stub