By Tommy Pearson
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominations for this years Oscars and the music and song categories throw up some interesting surprises.
In the Best Score category Dario Marianelli follows up his Golden Globe success with another nomination for Atonement; Alberto Iglesias gets a nod for The Kite Runner (the film's only nomination); and then 3 scores that this writer didn't see coming - James Newton Howard's Michael Clayton; Michael Giacchino's fun Ratatouille; and Marco Beltrami gets his first Oscar nom for 3:10 To Yuma.
In the Best Song category, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz get 3 nominations - yes, 3! - for Enchanted; Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova for 'Falling Slowly' from Once; and the song 'Raise it Up' gets a nomination for August Rush (writers unspecified, bizarrely).
See all the nominations at the official Oscar site.
I think Marianelli and Iglesias lead the field and I will stick my neck out and say that Atonement will win it for Marianelli. It feels like it is his year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominations for this years Oscars and the music and song categories throw up some interesting surprises.
In the Best Score category Dario Marianelli follows up his Golden Globe success with another nomination for Atonement; Alberto Iglesias gets a nod for The Kite Runner (the film's only nomination); and then 3 scores that this writer didn't see coming - James Newton Howard's Michael Clayton; Michael Giacchino's fun Ratatouille; and Marco Beltrami gets his first Oscar nom for 3:10 To Yuma.
In the Best Song category, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz get 3 nominations - yes, 3! - for Enchanted; Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova for 'Falling Slowly' from Once; and the song 'Raise it Up' gets a nomination for August Rush (writers unspecified, bizarrely).
See all the nominations at the official Oscar site.
I think Marianelli and Iglesias lead the field and I will stick my neck out and say that Atonement will win it for Marianelli. It feels like it is his year.