Tag: Best Original Score

If Nolan’s objective was to create an immersive experience, Zimmer’s score does much of the heavy lifting to achieve this. I can’t think of a score since John Williams’ Jaws soundtrack that has been as instrumental in achieving the director’s goals.

Wow. So the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences shortlisted their qualifiers for the Best Original Score award. I say shortlist, his is actually…

It is common law for many, many popular films, those loved by the moving-going public, and even professional film critics, to not make it big…

The front-runners heading into the final straight of the 1995 Oscar race seemed to be Sense and Sensibility and Apollo 13. That was until the…

So with a worthy entry here overshadowed by her co-star, I remember 2012 the year of Oscar contender movies like Hyde Park on Hudson, The Best Exotic…

So with all the movies released in the year 2013 it came down to two apparently. The Picture / Director split at the Oscar was…

So I’m going to go out on my own this one time only, and want to just salute the year of 2007 for Part 7….

Two perfectly pleasant and accomplished movies, with a taste of France and the movies, went head to head in 2012. But we are not going…

Crash. The verb to describe the significance of Jack Nicholson’s announcement, as well as the actual name of that Best Picture winner. It was a collision that knocked…

Had a certain movie budget-bombed as it looked for a while it would, then 1997 at the Oscars would have been a well fought out…

Oh how I would like to start our Oscar-less series by writing resentfully about how Forrest Gump won over more voters in AMPAS than Pulp…