A Reminder List of works submitted in
the Original Score category will be made available with a nominations ballot to all members of the Music Branch, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements.
One hundred fourteen scores from eligible feature - length motion pictures released in 2013 are in contention for nominations in
the Original Score category for the 86th Oscars ®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.
This year, Desplat won an Academy Award in the Best
Original Score category for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
At this point, Eight's best chance at a nomination is in the Best
Original Score category, where it will compete against John Williams» sentimental and tough to beat Star Wars score.
The Sundance winning documentary that wowed cinema audiences last November and December is also up for another IFTA as Crowded House musician Nick Seymour has been nominated in the Best
Original Score category for his work on the film.
Thomas Newman is doing original music and with his incomparable track - record (14 nominations, 13 of which were in
the Original Score category) is almost certain to be nominated for his fifteenth time.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA — One hundred four scores from eligible feature - length motion pictures released in 2012 are in contention for nominations in
the Original Score category for the 85th Academy Awards ®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced that 114 original scores are eligible in
the Original Score category for the 87th Academy Awards, the same number that qualified last year.
One major surprise this season was in the Best
Original Score category, won by Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water.
Not exact matches
Earlier this week Bovada, one of the most popular offshore sportsbooks, posted odds for eleven of the fourteen film
categories — omitting Best Screenplay, Best
Original Score and Best
Original Song.
Horner, 61, whose other credits include the
scores for «Braveheart,» «Glory» and «Legends of the Fall,» has won two Oscars, in the Best Music,
Original Song
category and Best Music,
Original Dramatic
Score categories, both for «Titanic.»
A smaller film like Before Midnight was never going to be in with a shot for any of the main
categories but its witty and intelligent script, co-written by director Richard Linklater and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, should have
scored an
original screenplay nod.
If Tarantino fails to gain entrance into the
Original Screenplay and Director
categories (which would be understandable after all the shade his controversial interviews have thrown on his peers) and the Best Picture field isn't big enough to support this, the film should likely still compete for Best Cinematography and Best
Original Score honors.
As Steve Pond points out, the official list of 77 films competing for Best
Original Score makes for easily the narrowest field of the general
categories.
And speaking of which, additional folks who may well have an Oscar shot here are Cinematographer Grieg Fraser,
Original Score composer Alexandre Desplat, and longshot Supporting Actress hopeful Jennifer Ehle, who, nomination or not, turns in some of the best work in her
category this year.
In 2011, IFJA added a
category for Best
Original Score!
The standard
categories are Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best
Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction / Production Design, Best Visual Effects, Best
Score, Best Foreign - Language Film, Best Animated Film and Best Documentary.
Denis Villeneuve's visionary sci - fi sequel «Blade Runner 2049» nearly swept the technical
categories, taking home Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best
Original Score.
It's not as if Amistad was completely shut out, either, picking up nominations in Supporting Actor (Hopkins),
Original Dramatic
Score (one of the few years where musicals and comedies were given a separate
category), Cinematography, and Costume Design.
Unfortunately, since it is animated, Isle has little chance of being recognized in any
category other than Best Animated Feature, with the possible exception of
Original Score.
Original Score is a particularly competitive
category...
Best Picture Will Win: The Artist Deserves to Win: The Artist Overlooked: Bridesmaids Best Director Will Win: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Deserves to Win: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Overlooked: David Fincher (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) Best Actor Will Win: George Clooney (The Descendants) Deserves to Win: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Overlooked: Ryan Gosling (Drive) Best Actress Will Win: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) Deserves to Win: Viola Davis (The Help) Overlooked: Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) Best Supporting Actor Will Win: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) Deserves to Win: Max von Sydow (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) Overlooked: Albert Brooks (Drive) Best Supporting Actress Will Win: Octavia Spencer (The Help) Deserves to Win: Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) Overlooked: Carey Mulligan (Drive) Best
Original Screenplay: Will Win: Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) Deserves to Win: Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo (Bridesmaids) Overlooked: Lars von Trier (Melancholia) Best Adapted Screenplay: Will Win: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants) Deserves to Win: Steve Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin (Moneyball) Overlooked: Tate Tatlor and Kathryn Stockett (The Help) Predictions for Secondary
Categories Animated Feature: Rango Art Direction: Hugo Foreign Language Film: A Separation Cinematography: The Tree of Life Costume Design: The Artist Documentary Feature: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Film Editing: The Artist Makeup: The Iron Lady
Original Score: The Artist
Original Song: «Man or Muppet» (The Muppets) Sound Editing: Hugo Sound Mixing: Hugo Visual Effects: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Original Score is one of the most interesting
categories year in and year out, with the list of films that were disqualified being almost...
The nominations will begin with the
categories cinematography, costume design, film editing, makeup and hairstyling,
original score, production design, animated short film, live action short film, sound editing, sound mixing, and visual effects.
In fact every best picture nominee except for The English Patient was set in the present or recent past meaning they were a non-factor in such below the line
categories as art direction, costume, makeup, the sound
categories and (w / the exception of Shine)
original score.
Mr. Armstrong brings his mystifying and poignant composition experience, having worked on Romeo & Juliet and Moulin Rouge, which he was awarded a Golden Globe in the Best
Original Score Motion Picture
category.
From a selection of films across 21
categories, the groundbreaking Mad Max: Fury Road leads the field, securing 11 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (George Miller), Best Ensemble Cast, as well as Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup & Hairstyling, Production Design,
Original Score, Sound Design, and Visual Effects.
But Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» was shut out of pretty much all the major
categories this year, save for
Original Score for Ennio Morricone and a Supporting Actress nod for Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor John Krasinski («The Office») follow at 8:38 ET to reveal these
categories: actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, directing, editing, foreign language film,
original score, picture, production design, visual effects, adapted screenplay and
original screenplay.
Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir received four honors, including Outstanding Achievement in Direction and for
Original Score, which was the first time that
category was presented.
Now that we have shortlists and finalists in multiple
categories, here are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions in Cinematography, Film Editing,
Original Score,
Original Song, Production and Costume Design, Sound Editing and Mixing, Visual Effects, Makeup & Hairstyling and Animated Feature for second half of December from the Gold Rush Gang.
including updates long and short lists in the Best Picture, Best Foreign Film, Best
Original Score, Best
Original Song, Best Visual Effects and Best Hair and Makeup
Categories.
Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, and
Original Score are four
categories, bar none, where the film is in desperate need of recognition.
A handful of below - the - line Oscar
categories have been particularly friendly to horror over the years, in particular Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects, and Best
Original Score.
They may have enjoyed a three - year run of nominations in the
category, finally taking the gold with «Up» earlier this year, but Pixar's hot streak in Best
Original Score will not continue at the 2010 Oscars.
The Post garnered nominations in nearly every major
category, including Best Motion Picture, Drama, Best Actor and Actress nods for Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, plus Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best
Original Score.
And it's all about the tunes as we're joined by Alejandra for the
categories Best
Original Score and Best
Original Song for the 87th Academy Awards.
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But though the Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated the film in six
categories — Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best
Original Score — it lost in all of them, to three different films.
Other winners in the film
categories were Lady Bird for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical); Guillermo del Toro for Best Director for The Shape of Water; Gary Oldman for Best Actor (Drama) for Darkest Hour; Saoirse Ronan for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) for Lady Bird; James Franco for Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for The Disaster Artist; Allison Janney for Best Supporting Actress for I, Tonya; In the Fade for Best Foreign Feature; Coco for Best Animated Feature; Alexandre Desplat for Best
Original Score for The Shape of Water; and «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman for Best
Original Song.
Additionally, while the fact three of the eight Best Picture nominees (Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road and Room) focus on female protagonists, the lack of women in a number of major
categories (notably directing, but also cinematography and
original score) continues to be vexing, the overall demographic makeup of Academy membership (primarily Caucasian and over the age of 65) leading to voting trends that remain troublesome, to say the least.
Get Out was the only film centering on a person of color to
score a Best Picture nomination but it showed up big in the major
categories, with three additional nominations: Director, Lead Actor, and
Original Screenplay.
«Interstellar» was nominated in five
categories at the Oscars in 2015:
Original Score, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects.
The other movies that won in three
categories were The Grand Budapest Hotel (Best Ensemble Cast, Best Production Design and Best
Original Score) and Gravity (Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Visual Effects).
The technical
categories are hard to say for something like this at this early juncture, but the ones I could see in a perfect world are Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best
Original Score.
La La Land is nominated for six Golden Globes including Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Ryan Gosling) and Best Actress (Emma Stone) in the Musical or Comedy
categories, Best
Original Score and Best Screenplay.
As touched on previously, La La Land was the biggest winner on the night, coming out on top in every
category it was nominated, including «best picture, comedy or musical,» «actress, comedy or musical,» «actor, comedy or musical,» «director,» «screenplay,» «
original score,» and «
original song».
Media Mikes.com staff voted on four additional
categories — BEST
ORIGINAL SCORE, BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY and BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY.
I'm hoping Miller wins Director, DiCaprio finally gets his oscar, Stallone wins a well deserved best supporting actor, Blanchett gets a nod for the amazing Carol, Shaun the Sheep was awesome lol, Ex Machina for
original screenplay, The Revenant for cinematography, anything but TFA for
original score and that Mad Max wins all the SFX
categories:).
One could see Academy favorite Gustavo Santaolalla singled out for his
Original Score, but if there's one more craft
category that might make room for August, it's Art Direction, as production designer David Gropman meticulously packed and dressed the Oklahoma home that was purchased specifically for the production.