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Some categories haven’t had that much renewal since I last reviewed them. Best Original Score is an exception. Principally, this is because the category is very difficult to judge before hearing the scores, not to mention last minute personnel changes (as composers always seem to be the most disposable members of film crews). As I […]
TECH SUPPORT: Best Original Score — Volume II
Posted by gerardkennedy · 7:12 pm · November 19th, 2009
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Original Score — Volume I
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:51 am · September 2nd, 2009
As long as humanity has been recording history, music has been immensely important in society. Not only can it be joyous and entertaining, but it can capture the mood and feel of a time and a place. Cinema has been no exception in this regard. The creation of original music for a film is awarded […]
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TECH SUPPORT: Final predictions
Posted by gerardkennedy · 5:27 pm · February 18th, 2009
After six months of Tech Support previews and interviews, the films have arrived, the nominations have been announced and the guilds, the critics and BAFTA have all announced their preferences. Today we take a final look at the races before the envelopes are opened on Sunday. BEST ART DIRECTION After guild and BAFTA wins, I […]
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Is ‘Slumdog’ score too pop?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:20 pm · January 29th, 2009
Thanks to Nat Rogers at The Film Experience for pointing out a really worthwhile article in the Wall Street Journal, in which music critic Jim Fusilli takes a close look at this year’s nominees for Best Original Score. It’s not a category which tends to inspire much intelligent coverage in mainstream outlets, so it’s great […]
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Diss
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:15 pm · January 23rd, 2009
I’m sitting here at the Arlington Theatre awaiting the big Kate Winslet/Montecito Award presentation and they played, I believe, a bit from Thomas Newman’s “Revolutionary Road” score a moment ago, and it got my blood up once again. Not to harp on how wrong the Academy got it this year, but Thomas’s work deserved a […]
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Take that, Oscar: Grammy nominates ‘Dark Knight’ duo
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:24 am · December 4th, 2008
The Academy’s petty disqualification of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s score for “The Dark Knight” from Oscar contention has already caused much gnashing of teeth on these pages, so here’s something to compound the embarrassment. It seems the Grammy voters are rather less fussy. Zimmer and Howard’s work was nominated yesterday in the category […]
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OFF THE CARPET: Getting to know you
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:19 am · November 17th, 2008
This is the first season I can think of, at least since I’ve been covering this crazy beat on the west coast, that studios have become so terrified by the media that guild screenings are preempting press screenings with such consistency. Some have whined about “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” screening for SAG 10 […]
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