By Arlene R. Weiss
The Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards® were announced this morning, Tuesday, January 24th. A wonderful surprise this year came in the nominations for Best Original Score, with legendary film composer, and winner of five previous Academy Awards®, John Williams, receiving two nomination nods this year for his two, motion picture collaborations with Director Steven Spielberg.
Williams received a nomination for his deeply emotional, eloquent, sublime score composed for Spielberg’s “War Horse”. Williams also is nominated for scoring Spielberg’s performance capture 3D animated film, “The Adventures Of Tin Tin”.
Songwriter Bret McKenzie received a very much and well deserved nomination for Best Original Song, for penning both the music and lyrics to the enchanting and very clever, “Man Or Muppet” for “The Muppets”. Here’s hoping “The Muppets’” very talented stars Jason Segel and his muppet brother Walter perform the song in formal attire, live on the Oscars Telecast, recreating their show stopping number from the movie!
It would indeed be a rare and sparkling treat also having John Williams conduct and perform with a full orchestra, both of his supreme nominated scores, in addition to having all of the nominated film composers perform their scores live.
The Nominees For Music Best Original Score In A Motion Picture are:
The Nominations For Music Best Original Song In A Motion Picture are:
Nine films received nominations for Best Picture, including “War Horse”, “The Tree Of Life”, “The Descendents”, “Moneyball”, “Midnight In Paris”, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” and “The Help”.
Two of the films nominated this year for Best Picture are both highly acclaimed and reverential films, that both honor and pay tribute to the history, art, and craft, of movie making. Director Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo”, which racked up eleven nominations and Director Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Artist”, with ten nominations, with both Directors also receiving nominations for Best Directing.
Billy Crystal is back on board to host the awards show and bring his stellar levity to the momentous, black tie affair and proceedings.
To read the complete list of all of this year’s nominees, go to http://www.oscars.org/awards/
The ceremony will be broadcast live, Sunday, February 26, 2012 on the ABC Television Network, 7:00pm EST and 4:00pm PST.
You can also watch the broadcast on the Official Websites for The Academy Awards®, www.oscars.org and www.oscar.go.com.
You can also interact and comment live, do live Q&A’s, view live interviews with the nominees, catch the A-List red carpet fashionista arrivals, and experience all the up to the minute, behind the scenes and after show happenings on the Official Oscars YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/
Many Congratulations and Best Wishes to all of this year’s Oscar nominated composers and songwriters, and to all of this year’s Academy Awards® nominees!
© Copyright January 24, 2012 By Arlene R. Weiss-All Rights Reserved
Fred S (12 years ago)
The nomination process for Best Original Song is flawed. Voters rate each song from 6 to 10. There is an incentive to give your preferred songs a “10” and the rest a “6” to maximize the impact of your vote. As a result all but the most uniformly popular songs (Muppets, Rio) are weighed down with low votes and can’t make the minimum threshold of 8.25. In a year with so many strong candidates it’s a shame that Oscar viewers will only be exposed to two songs…