The shortlist:
Music – Original Score
Hans Zimmer, “Interstellar”
Alexandre Desplat, “The Imitation Game”
Johann Johannsson, “The Theory of Everything”
Alexandre Desplat, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Gary Yershon, “Mr Turner”
Desplat, for sure.
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
He is already music director of the Metropolitan…
The conductor continues his agitation for a new…
The Berlin Philharmonic chief conductor Kirill Petrenko has…
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Well, Alexandre’s score is certainly better than Herr Zimmer’s dreadful “soundscape”. However it’s not his best work. It’s a bit of a shame he had to stoop to the “new Hollywood sound” and embrace that pseudominimalism that is so en vogue these days. (the parallel octaves in the straightforward F minor parts are incredibly grating)
Have I missed something? Why Desplat ‘for sure’? The smart money will be on The Theory of Everything.
Even though Mr Turner is the most strikingly original…
My impression has always been that the best score oscar goes to a film that in the opinion of the academy deserved another oscar, but best actor/actress/etc had already been assigned to some other film, so film score it is.
It is mindboggling to look at some of the film music we now consider classics of the genre and marvel at what other non-entity received the best film score oscar in that same year.