The Academy Awards’ shortlists are a blessing and a curse.Blessing in that it truly helps awards strategists and publicists hone their efforts and marketing dollars toward a sampling of candidates in the final run-up to nominations.
In the case of the Music Branch and the Original Score category, film scores are typically punished over quota rules, i.e. this year a film’s music needs to be comprised of 60% of original score, versus 50% in prior years.
Also, if any of the music was ever pre-conceived in another medium, not specifically written for the film; then forget it. You’re disqualified.
I.E. a bulk of Mark Orton’s haunting folksy score from Alexander Payne’s 2013 feature Nebraska were from tracks the composer previously wrote, despite
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