This morning, the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced. Here are the music-related nominations:
Best Original Score:
- The Book Thief – John Williams
- Gravity – Steven Price
- Her – William Butler and Owen Pallett
- Philomena – Alexandre Desplat
- Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman
Best Original Song:
- Alone Yet Not Alone From Alone Yet Not Alone, Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel
- Happy From Despicable Me 2, Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
- Let It Go From Frozen, Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
- The Moon Song From Her, Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
- Ordinary Love From Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson
Steven Price and William Butler & Owen Pallett were nominated for the first time in any category. John Williams received his 49th Oscar nomination, Thomas Newman was honored for the 12th time, Alexandre Desplat received his 6th nomination (in eight years). Bruce Broughton has been nominated once before in the Best Original Score category. All of the other composers in the Best Original Song category are first time nominees.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network.
Geez, they are stuck so deep in Williams’ ass they could count the turns of his intestines…
I’m a voting member. JW is simply better than everyone else. What other criteria
matters!
This is exactly what Macejko said. JW will always be nominated because he is John Williams, regardless of the music he writes. I don’t say he’s not good, but his scores aren’t systematically among the five best scores of the year, but yet every single one of them gets nominated.
Great picks, as usual the Academy is smart enough not to go for some of the titles that inexplicably got nominated by other organizations.
Surprised to see them include Arcade Fire in the line up. Not bad, but I can see them giving it to Steven Price; I mean, they did give it to Alex Ebert (a relative unknown) at the Golden Globes. Williams will always be nominated – especially with his dramatic scores.
The song from Frozen is “Let It Go”, not “Let it Snow”.