Is it really worth getting excited at the possibility of the Academy's music branch being progressive enough to make room for Daft Punk in this year's list of Best
Original Score nominees?
This year's crop of
Original Score nominees hits all the markers that we've come to expect.
[USA Today] • Geoff Boucher and Rebecca Keegan note the eclectic flair of this year's Best
Original Score nominees.
BEST
ORIGINAL SCORE Nominees: Carter Burwell — «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Alexandre Desplat — «The Shape of Water» Jonny Greenwood, «Phantom Thread» John Williams, «The Post» Hans Zimmer, «Dunkirk»
The best
original score nominees include Into the Wild, Grace is Gone (scored by Clint Eastwood), The Kite Runner, Atonement, and Eastern Promises.
One of the best parts of Oscar season is NPR's rundown of the Best
Original Score nominees by music critic Andy Trudeau.
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Original score nominee Alexandre Desplat, for «The Shape of Water,» via email.
Not exact matches
«Passengers», largely panned by critics, is also a double
nominee (
Original Score, Production Design).
McCraney is among several LGBT
nominees, which also includes Mica Levi (Best
Original Score for Jackie), Scott Rudin (Best Picture for Fences), Benj Pasek (up twice for Best
Original Song for La La Land) and Bryon Howard, co-director of Best Animated Feature
nominee Zootopia, which tells the story of a female rabbit police officer fighting prejudice and triumphing over xenophobia.
Hans Zimmer could contend for Best
Original Score and when you toss in a possible Best Picture nod and the longshot possibility of a Director, Screenplay, or Supporting Actor nod, this could be a double - digit
nominee next January 2013.
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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.
Best
Original Song and Best
Original Score will now be narrowed to a 15 - film shortlist before a second round produces the five
nominees
Perhaps the last awards - season film that relied on music to this extent was The Artist, which walked away with both best
original score and best picture; though The Shape of Water faces stiff competition, especially from first - time Oscar
nominee Jonny Greenwood (for Phantom Thread) and perpetual
nominee Hans Zimmer (for his experimental Dunkirk
score), expect it to pull off the same trick (and underwater, at that).
The screenplay will be written by Oscar
nominee David Magee based on The Mary Poppins Stories by P.L. Travers, with Oscar
nominee and Tony Award winner Marc Shaiman composing an all - new
score and Shaiman and Emmy
nominee and Tony Award winner Scott Wittman writing
original songs.
Golden Globe
Nominee —
Original Score Critics» Choice Award
Nominee — Best
Score Venice Film Festival — WINNNER — Soundtrack Stars for Best
Score Award Hollywood Music in Media Awards — WINNER — Best
Original Score Feature Film Austin Film Critics Association — WINNER — Best
Score Las Vegas Film Critics Society — WINNER — Best
Score Phoenix Film Critics Society — WINNER — Best
Original Score St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association — WINNER — Best Music
Score Chicago Film Critics Association — Nomination — Best
Original Score Houston Film Critics Association — Nomination — Best
Original Score San Diego Film Critics Society — Nomination — Best
Original Score Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association — Nomination — Best
Original Score Satellite Awards —
Nominee — Best
Original Score
Every year since then, the
Original Score winners have all been Best Pic
nominees or Best Picture winners.
In the past 15 years, only one film has won
Original Score that wasn't either a Best Picture winner or
nominee.
Dunkirk has taken over the # 1 spot in
Original Score from Blade Runner 2049 as it was recently announced that Hans Zimmer will be taking over composing duties from frequent Denis Villeneuve collaborator and two - time Oscar
nominee Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Music (
Original Score): I feel like there could be an alternate universe where Alexadre Desplat could have represented more than half of the
nominees (he
scored Argo, Zero Dark Thirty and Moonrise Kingdom in 2012, among others).
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.
Barber made the Academy Awards shortlist this year for Best
Original Score for Best Picture
nominee «Manchester by the Sea,» directed by Kenneth Lonergan (also a
nominee for Best Director).
And the eventual
nominees for Best
Original Score reflected, if nothing else, a continued break with tradition.
The first round of announcements, for
nominees in 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, will take place at the oddly specific time of 5:22 a.m. PT / 8: 22 a.m. ET.
At 5:22 a.m. PT / 8: 22 a.m. ET,
nominees were announced in 11 categories: Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling,
Original Score, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film.