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Academy Reveals Shortlists for Ten Categories!
Just a few moments ago, the Academy revealed their ten shortlists for the 94th Oscars. Now, we know which films are advancing in the following categories: Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short Subject, Best International Feature Film, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Animated Short Film, Best Live Action Short […] More
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The Top 25 Best Original Song Winners So Far
First of all, I hope everyone is having a safe Memorial Day. That’s the most important, obviously. Now, on to the new list! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 […] More
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in Op-ed
Before the Gold: Best Original Song
This month we’re taking a look at this year’s Oscar nominees and digging into their past work to find hidden gems that you may have overlooked, or specific credits that may have influenced their Oscar-nominated work this year. This year’s Best Original Song nominees range from two first-time movie song composers to one of the […] More
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Awards Radar Oscars Shortlist Analysis: Original Song
Are there any categories harder to predict than Best Original Song? The music branch has notoriously excluded frontrunners in this category before (“See You Again” from Furious 7, “The Wrestler” from The Wrestler). There always seems to be room for a stray song from the end credits of a documentary. We’re still trying to figure […] More
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in Editor, Interviews
Interview: Talking “Everybody Cries” from ‘The Outpost’ with Larry Groupé, Rod Lurie, and Rita Wilson
Among the many things to love about Rod Lurie‘s intense and impeccably made The Outpost, there’s an original song called “Everybody Cries” that features prominently. What could so easily have been a throwaway bit of music instead becomes a summarization of what the cast, as well as the real soldiers who inspired the film, went […] More
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11th Annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards Cite Diane Warren, ‘The Outpost,’ and More
Could Diane Warren be on the way to her first Oscar win? If the 11th Annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards had their way, that would be a resounding yes. The 11 time Oscar nominee (most recently nominated last year for her song “I’m Standing With You” from Breakthrough) won the award for outstanding song in a feature […] More
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Listen to the ‘Mank’ Score and Original Song from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
With David Fincher’s much-anticipated Citizen Kane-inspired Mank landing on Netflix today, the world gets to not only see the film many critics are hailing as the Oscar front-runner, but hear the full score, composed by Oscar-winning duo (and newly-inaugurated Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, which also debuts today. This lustrous score […] More
