oscarsThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Among the invited artists this year a number of film composers, including Steven Price (The World’s End, Attack the Block) who received his first Academy Award this year for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, Steve Jablonsky who is best known for his collaborations with Michael Bay, including the Transformers movies, as well as films such as Ender’s Game, Battleship and Gangster Squad, Stanley Clarke who scored such movies as Passenger 57, The Best Man Holiday and Boyz N the Hood and Buck Sanders (Warm Bodies) who received an Oscar nomination for The Hurt Locker. Also invited to join the music branch are songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez who won their first Oscar this year for Let It Go from Frozen, Pharrell Williams who was nominated for his song Happy from Despicable Me 2 this year and Eddie Vedder who composed songs for such movies as Into the Wild and Eat Pray Love, Broadway composer Charles Strouse who worked on numerous films including 1982’s Annie and All Dogs Go to Heaven, music editor Earl Ghaffari whose credits include Frozen, Tangled and Wreck-It-Ralph, songwriter Tony Renis who was Academy Award-nominated for the song The Prayer from Quest for Camelot and music editor Angie Rubin who has worked on such films as Pitch Perfect, Se7en and Meet Joe Black. For the full list of the invited artists, click here.

  1. tiago says:

    “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.”

    So, I guess that Jablonsky doesn’t fit this. His only contribution to theatrical motion pictures was to make film music dumber and more generical.

    • Everan says:

      Steve does deserve to be here, but not because of his action music. Check Steamboy and Ender’s Game, and the emotional tracks from the Transformers franchise, not just the action music.
      Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve it.

    • Brent says:

      Tiago, I couldn’t disagree with you more. Sure, some of his scores are loud and obnoxious (Battleship anyone?). However, he is actually a pretty amazing composer considering he had no formal education (other than a music engineering degree). I actually think he’s one of the better guys to come out of RCP (him, Harry and John).

      You shouldn’t make generalizations. All the greats have had their own versions of “loud and/or dumb” scores.

  2. Robbie says:

    I agree with Brent and Everan, Steve is a worthy addition. Battleship was definitely not his shining moment, but his music for Revenge of the Fallen, Enders Game, The Island and Your Highness are second to none! Obviously he is not Jerry Goldsmith or John Williams, but he has a unique vision of film music and am glad he shares it with us.

  3. Everan says:

    FYI, if anyone’s interested, the score for Age of Extinction is in mastering process. And from people that already saw the film, they mention a new Autobot theme.