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"Old Dogs" Score Composer Eligible For Oscar, Karen O and Brian Eno Disqualified
The Academy Awards nomination committee has announced the short list of candidates for the Best Score category, and whoever did the score for Race to Witch Mountain is totally getting shit-faced right now.
You know who won't be celebrating? Karen O and Brian Eno, who were up for nomination for Where the Wild Things Are and The Lovely Bones respectively. Eno's disqualification has more to do with him deciding not to launch an Oscar campaign (he's apparently very busy), and O's Where the Wild Things Are was tossed out for being a collaborative effort (scores can only by new material composed by one person (or two, working as equals)). O is still eligible to win an Oscar for Best Original Song, however.
The likely favorite is Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' score for The Road, even though that undercut a lot of the emotional moments of the film (If you heard minor chords, bad shit was about to happen. Which is okay, I guess, but it made some of the emotional beats seem phoned in. In case you are curious, I hold 11 PhDs in film scoring).
The Oscars go down on March 7. [Pitchfork]
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I still need to see the Road.
I liked Where the Wild Things Are but found the score really obtrusive. Maybe it works better as a standalone record.
I think my expectations were too high for Where the Wild Things Are. I left unmoved.
I never saw it, but I heard some people say it was boring.
I hated the score for Wild Things, when heard as a standalone record. Nick, let's just fuse ourselves and create the opinion that Karen O's work for the film sucks.