‘Power of the Dog,’ ‘Don’t Look Up’ Among Netflix Films Vying for Music Oscar
variety.comJon Burlingame editorNetflix has never won an Oscar for music. But that could change this year, as at least three of its late-year releases are strong candidates for nomination in the original-score category: “The Power of the Dog,” by Jonny Greenwood; “Don’t Look Up,” by Nicholas Britell; and “The Lost Daughter” by Dickon Hinchliffe.For Jane Campion’s western “Power of the Dog,” English composer Greenwood (of Radiohead fame) searched for sounds befitting the cowboy scene in 1925 Montana, and they turned out to be a handful of string instruments, a couple of French horns and a mechanical piano that was commonplace at the time.“We recorded the string groups while running random scenes from the film, and the colder they played, the better it.
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