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Well, the Oscar nominations are coming out tomorrow, so any guesses as to what scores will be on the ballot?
I’ll guess first:
Best Music, Original Score
Big Fish – Danny “sometimes credited as Oingo Boingo” Elfman
Seabiscuit – Randy “We love it!” Newman
Finding Nemo – Thomas “not as good as his father” Newman
Return of the King – Howard “scored the score for The Score” Shore
The Last Samurai – Hans “Christian Anderson” ZimmerYeah…sounds about right, to me. And it all sounds about right that Shore’s gonna get it.
I’m not entirely sure that Shore is allowed to be nominated. Last year, he didn’t get a nomination due to the fact that Two Towers contained themes from Fellowship, which of course won the Oscar. That must mean that Return of the King isn’t eligible for the Oscar either. Odds are that the Oscar will go to Gabriel Yared for Cold Mountain. I didn’t see the movie, but it seems like everyone loves Cold Mountain, and lower-level composers usually win the Oscar.
Randy Newman declined to submit his score for “Seabiscuit” so it won’t be nominated. There was friction between him and the director.
Nat
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi was nominated for best original score.
Isn’t there a NEW rule though? That they are now ruling out sequels for Best Score?
>Isn’t there a NEW rule though? That they are now ruling out sequels for Best Score?
Yeah.
My predictions (which doesn’t mean I like them – besides Big Fish):
Big Fish – Danny Elfman
Cold Mountain – Gabriel Yared
Last Samurai – Hans Zimmer
Finding Nemo – Thomas Newman
Mystic River – Clint EaswoodThat rule is bullshit apparently. LOTR got nominated yet again.
The score has to be at least 51% Original if it’s based on music from a previous film.
Nat
This only goes to prove my theory that the Oscars and other major award shows are totally illegitimate. My opinion will change if Danny Elfman wins, of course, because I’m never pleased unless I get what I want, so…until then, I’m gonna say that it’s rigged.
Illegitimate? Uh…sure, it’s a big popularity contest, but a blanket statement that the event is illegitimate is a bit much. I’m sure they have a far more detailed batch of rules for what can and can’t be nominated than the average one of us is aware (although they did post a bunch of criteria on the website a few years ago). If LOTR got nominated this year but not last, there must be a reason why it is allowed this year…and I think it’s obvious: Listen to TT, and it is a LOT of the FOTR score, whereas ROTK has a massive bulk of the score that is very original to this film alone.
Man i just find the whole affair to be pretensious; all this crap over a golden statuette, and for what? – For proving to the world they can tell the best story? They should just take all the proceeds and use them to bulk up the movies they nominate when it goes to DVD.
What do you think the Oscars are, if not but a large advertisement for the films and those people who make them?
It’s really nothing more than that. If Danny wins then that will generate a small boost in the sale of the Big Fish soundtrack because we are talking millions of viewers on a global scale. Also, a lot of times, smaller films can be rewarded next to larger ones that can only help their bottom line like “Lost In Translation” and “The Triplets of Belleville” for example.
Nat
“What do you think the Oscars are, if not but a large advertisement for the films and those people who make them?”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
I think LotR:RotK will win for best score unfortunately. Don’t get me wrong; Howard Shore deserves the Oscar (I love the Rohan theme), but I hope Danny’s work on Big Fish will win. It’s unlikely, though.
It is true that when you boil it down, what you have is a bunch of hotheads awarding themselves for something called an achievement which — let’s face it — is not nearly as important as most of the other things going on in the world.
I mean, if there were never another movie ever made, the world WOULD keep on spinning.
But I still have fun watching.
No it wouldn’t. Not for me anyway.
You poor thing. I can only pass on the advice dozens of my obnoxious peers in junior high said to me during those nerdy years of my education:
Get a life.
(All in good fun.)
Art is an essential need of human life. If no more movies were made, we’d be okay as long as there were still paintings, literature, music, etc. (especially since film has yet to come into its own as a real artistic medium)–but if all art forms were somehow abolished (although I don’t think such a thing would be possible, there would be underground art produced to fill this human need), the world *would* stop turning. Humanity would retrogress to the dark ages, and die.
ever seen equilibrium?
Nope.
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