Jon Burlingame Not so long ago, composers doing “genre” material — horror, science fiction, fantasy — saw an Oscar or Emmy nomination as a longshot, namely because voters didn’t seem to take those projects seriously.But times have changed.
Six of the 11 nominees in Emmy’s two narrative-fiction music categories have some element of sci-fi, fantasy or horror, in addition to two of the nominated songs, two main-title themes and four of the music supervision nominees.Why the turnabout?
Variety asked several of this year’s music nominees for their thoughts, and each offered a slightly different answer.“When you talk about awards recognition, a lot of the time it’s really about what’s in the collective consciousness,” says TV Academy music.
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