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Basque composer Alberto Iglesias was selected Tuesday among the nominees to the Oscar Awards for the best Original Score for the original score of Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Starring Gary Oldman and Collin Firth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy tells the story of the head of British Intelligence, Control, that resigns after an operation in Budapest goes badly wrong in the early 1970s during the Cold War. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent, a mole, and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it was. Smiley, forced into retirement by the departure of Control, is asked by a senior government figure to investigate the story.

Fellow nominees of Iglesias were John Williams for The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, Ludovic Bource for The Artist and Howard Shore for Hugo.

It is the third nomination for the Donostia-San Sebastian-born artist, who also won nominations for his work in The Constant Gardener and The Kite Runner.

Iglesias is one of the most significant composers in the Spanish State and has created several original scores for films by Julio Medem and Pedro Almodovar. Among Iglesias' critically acclaimed musical scores were Almodovar's The Flower of My Secret (1995), Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999) and Talk to her (2002) and Bad Education (2004)