Oscar nods for Best Music include ‘Up’, ‘Avatar’, ‘Sherlock Holmes
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their nominations for the 2010 Academy Awards way too frigging early this morning. Here then are the nominees for the music categories (i.e. the only ones you give a damn about).
Music (Original Score)
Avatar – James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer
Up – Michael Giacchino
Music (Original Song)
The Princess and The Frog, “Almost There” – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
The Princess and The Frog, “Down In New Orleans” – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Paris 36, “Loin de Paname” – Music by Reinhardt Wagner, Lyric by Frank Thomas
Nine, “Take It All” – Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
Crazy Heart, “The Weary Kind” – Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
My apologies to Buck Sanders, who was nominated with Marco Beltrami, for not appearing in my nominated composer graphic above. Buck, there are no pictures of you on the internet.
While you're at it:
- January 12, 2010: Acad Rulez: Randy Newman’s ‘Frog’ score squashed
- January 22, 2008: '07 Academy Award noms announced
- November 18, 2009: ‘Frog’ and dance: details on ‘The Princess and The Frog’ soundtrack
- January 22, 2009: '08 music Oscar noms announced
- March 1, 2006: Song to 'Crash' and burn?
Lucius Dillon said,
February 2, 2010 @ 4:32 pm
Is it me, or does it look like Hans is taking a dump all over the other composers in that picture?
Ryan Keaveney said,
February 2, 2010 @ 4:35 pm
Desplat does look like he’s caught wind of something particularly fragrant.