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Jan 8, 2014 - 10:01 PM
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Mr. Jack
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It´s always the same: it´s the movie that gets nominated - or the big name composer. Regardless of the score´s actual worth.
That's the way it's always been...Williams gets nominated for being John Freakin' Williams, Zimmer gets nominated simply by sheer volume of output, at least one blockbuster success gets nominated (that'd be Gravity this year)...it's very rare that a score for a flop/critically panned movie gets nominated. It took balls for something like, say, James Newton Howard's The Village to get nominated, which was commercially successful but the first of M. Night Shyamalan's movies to get heavily criticized for its absurd plot. Or The Good German, which made a buck ninety-eight at the box office (yes, Thomas Newman is an Oscar darling, but still). But at least four out of each five nominees are either matched up to the Best Picture nominees, or else are simply by composers who get nominated like clockwork every year (Williams, Newman, Zimmer if he's attached to a blockbuster like Inception or Oscar Bait flick like 12 Years A Slave).
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To my knowledge, 'Gravity' was made totally in the UK, CGI 'n all.
True, but an Italian movie entirely made in the US is still an Italian movie... if you see my point. No one calls Tim Burton's Batman a Britflick, not even the BBC.
True, still Gravity is different. Mexican director and writers, British producer, British crew, filmed in Britain, but American lead actors and American money. I'm not sure any one nation should have claim to it, which I'm sure would please Cuaron immensely.
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Jan 9, 2014 - 3:02 PM
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oyarsa
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To my knowledge, 'Gravity' was made totally in the UK, CGI 'n all.
True, but an Italian movie entirely made in the US is still an Italian movie... if you see my point. No one calls Tim Burton's Batman a Britflick, not even the BBC.
True, still Gravity is different. Mexican director and writers, British producer, British crew, filmed in Britain, but American lead actors and American money. I'm not sure any one nation should have claim to it, which I'm sure would please Cuaron immensely.
Well, if we count the people, there were more British (a whole crew) than lead actors (2), so the film can be considered British, American money and all.
As for the scores, I only got to listen to Gravity on the cinema and I liked it very much.
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