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Oscar Nominees 2015, Best Original Score (Part 1 of 6): Alexandre Desplat’s The Grand Budapest Hotel

Film Music Notes Posted on January 21, 2015 by Mark RichardsAugust 28, 2017

2014 was another busy year for Alexandre Desplat, who scored a total of five films released that year, of which both The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Imitation Game have been nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Score. The … Continue reading →

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Oscar Nominees 2015, Best Original Score (Part 2 of 6): Alexandre Desplat’s The Imitation Game

Film Music Notes Posted on January 29, 2015 by Mark RichardsFebruary 14, 2019

In addition to earning two Oscar nominations in 2014, Alexandre Desplat managed to score some of the year’s biggest box-office successes as all five of the films he scored ranked within the top fifty-five. These include The Grand Budapest Hotel, … Continue reading →

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Oscar Nominees 2015, Best Original Score (Part 3 of 6): Jóhann Jóhannsson’s The Theory of Everything

Film Music Notes Posted on February 5, 2015 by Mark RichardsFebruary 5, 2015

No stranger to film scoring, Jóhann Jóhannsson has been writing music for films for the last fifteen years (mainly for films from his native Iceland and from Europe), and has had plenty of experience in scoring other narrative works such … Continue reading →

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Oscar Nominees 2015, Best Original Score (Part 4 of 6): Gary Yershon’s Mr. Turner

Film Music Notes Posted on February 12, 2015 by Mark RichardsAugust 28, 2017

English composer Gary Yershon has largely staked out his career in various realms of dramatic music, scoring mainly for theater but also for television, radio, and film. His experience in writing original music for feature films has been for the … Continue reading →

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Oscar Nominees 2015, Best Original Score (Part 5 of 6): Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar

Film Music Notes Posted on February 18, 2015 by Mark RichardsAugust 28, 2017

When director Christopher Nolan first approached his regular composer, Hans Zimmer, to write the score for Interstellar, he wanted to avoid the clichés associated with the science-fiction genre and “engage Hans in a very pure creative process.” To do this, … Continue reading →

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Oscar Nominees 2015 (Part 6 of 6): Prediction, Best Original Score

Film Music Notes Posted on February 20, 2015 by Mark RichardsFebruary 20, 2015

While predicting the future is something we can only dream of, I have always found that digging into the past reveals recurring patterns that tend to point in a particular direction. Even so, with this year’s Oscar race for the … Continue reading →

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