Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Jon Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Carter Burwell
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“Jon Williams”
Any relation? 😛
Yes, he’s Hank’s brother.
And after the other guy did all the rest.
Looking good for Desplat.
Well, after the ‘There Will Be Blood’ disqualification saga, it would be nice for Jonny Greenwood to get the nod.
Well, Hans Zimmer appropriated Greenwood’s sound for his ‘Dunkirk’ soundtrack so Jonny will win vicariously if Zimmer wins.
Greenwood’s work on “The Phantom Thread” deserves recognition. Airy and yet tinged with bad humor just like Day Lewis’ character.
Interesting to see 20 Academy Award Nominations for films with Renee Fleming on the soundtrack: 13 for ‘The Shape of Water’, where she sings a new arrangement of the Harry Warren classic ‘You’ll Never Know’ accompanied by the LSO; plus 7 for ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ where her 20-year-old recording of ‘Last Rose of Summer’ is used twice.
Maybe film producers should use classical artists more often?
The version of “You’ll Never Know” for Rene Fleming (by Desplat?) doesn’t do much for me, but I love the recording of her composed by Desplat for “Guardians of Galaxy” a few years ago. Those beautiful chest tones just kill me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMmj8WvEPUI
Perhaps a bad compositional use of the voice at 2:10, but still, a wonderful recording. It reminds us of the wonderful musicals that could be written if composers just had some decent librettos and real orchestras in the pit.
Sorry, wrong url. Here’s the right one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3raIPaVBo
John William´s score is easily the best.There are no classically trained Composers around anymore.He is the last dinosaur in a world of Jingles.
Not being interested in Star Wars, I saw the other four movies nominated in this category, and Desplat’s score for The Shape Of Water is my clear favorite among them.