The 92nd Academy Awards- The Oscars-Best Music (Original Score)
The Academy Awards honors all different kinds of achievements made in cinema over the previous year. There are the obvious awards that people pay attention to and then there are numerous categories that go through the rest of what makes a movie great. Something we don’t really think about when we watch movies is all of the smaller details and most of the time, the music,or score, of the film. Sometimes films use music from various artists in the background to amplify a scene and other times they use music written specifically for them. Original music written for movies is the category we will be going over nominees for now.
First up on the list of nominees we have Hildur Guðnadóttir for her work on the movie Joker. It should be no surprise that she is on the list because Joker has been nominated for so many other categories. That is to say, there is a lot going for that movie and the score being incredible enough to be nominated is no surprise.
The next nomination for Best Music is for Alexandre Desplat for his work on the film Little Women. He has won two Academy Awards, for his musical scores to the films The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water. Little Women is up for a few different Academy Awards, so adding Best Music to that list shouldn’t be much of a surprise.
Following that, we have Randy Newman for his composition of music for the movie Marriage Story. Newman is known for his distinctive voice and his work on numerous Disney-Pixar animated films. Marriage Story is yet another film to have numerous nominations, and Best Original Score just seems to make sense.
The next nominee for Best Music is the movie 1917 and more specifically, composer Thomas Newman. Cousin of singer- songwriter Randy Newman, Thomas Newman worked with Sondheim on Broadway plays. He has done other award winning films before, including The Shawshank Redemption, and the 1994 Little Women.
The final nominee for Best Music is John Williams for his work on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Star Wars is known for having epic and incredible music. This time around is no different and the music would have to be great since this is supposed to be the last mainline film. Of course the list would be rounded out like this since the franchise is known for its score.
If you want to know some other nominees for different categories, we have also gone over Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Directing Nominees, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, Best Film Editing, Best International Feature, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.