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Feb 10, 2020 · Hildur Gudnadottir is the first woman to win Oscar for best original score. Published Sun, Feb 9 2020 10:56 PM EST. Sarah Whitten @sarahwhit10. WATCH LIVE. Key Points.
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The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. [1] Some pre-existing music is allowed, though, but a contending film must ...
- February 27, 1935; 88 years ago
- Alfred Newman (9)
- John Williams
- Thomas Newman
- Randy Newman
- Hildur Guðnadóttir
- Alexandre Desplat
No disrespect to the great John Williams, whose 52 (FIFTY-TWO!) nominations accurately reflect the life’s work of a man who’s done more to shape the sound of modern cinema than just about anyone else who’s ever lived, but even his nods for the good “Star Wars” sequels felt a bit automatic, and his recognition for “The Rise of Skywalker” is borderli...
Thomas Newman has composed the score for every movie that Sam Mendes has ever made (save for the score-less “Away We Go”), stretching all the way back to the indelible music he wrote for “American Beau...
Randy Newman — who’s won two of the 20 Academy Awards for which he’s been nominated, but will soon be 0-for-8 in this category — has a far better showing in this year’s Best Original Score category than he does in the Best Original Song contest. Forky tribute “I Won’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” may belong in the trash, but Newman’s Sunday afterno...
A classically trained cellist who’s played with bands like Múm, Throbbing Gristle, and Animal Collective, Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir would stand out from the other nominees in this category even if she weren’t the only woman among them. And while “Joker” — uh — may not be the most necessary or welcome movie in the awards mix this year, t...
It’s not even a little close. The coldest possible take: Alexandre Desplat — an 11-time nominee who won for “The Shape of Water” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” — has emerged as the most prolific and virtuosically gifted film composer of his time. And yet, the music he contributed to Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” epitomizes why each new Desplat scor...
Feb 10, 2020 · The 2020 Academy Awards went down on Sunday night, and one of music’s biggest names came away with an award. ... Meanwhile, DC Comics' Joker film won Best Original Score for the work of composer ...
Feb 9, 2020 · The Icelandic composer is the first woman to win Best Original Score in over 20 years. ... The most shocking snubs and surprises of the 2020 Oscar nominations. Oscars 2022 winners list: Will Smith
Best original score. Winner: Joker - Hildur Guðnadóttir; Little Women - Alexandre Desplat; Marriage Story - Randy Newman; ... Oscars 2020 pictures: Red carpet glamour. Published. 10 February 2020.
