Oscar Prediction: Best Music (Score)

okay, it looks like i am going to only going to get three posts up here at lunch (meaning that my celebrity morgue report will have to wait until later), so i'll keep going with another Oscar Prediction. This time, we're dealing with Best Music (Score).

The nominees:

• Brokeback Mountain
• The Constant Gardener
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Munich
• Pride and Prejudice

One of the things that has always amazed me about filmmaking (and thus convinced me that i can't do it) is the way that the director of a film can make it so his work is accentuated by the musical score. would we remember Star Wars as a classic had George Lucas not gotten John Williams to produce such a memorable score for the film? to me, the score can make a difference between a good film and a great film.

and thus, we come to my prediction for Best Score: Brokeback Mountain. the score for Brokeback Mountain is an essential part of its success. One of the big themes running through the movie is Ennis Del Mar's inability to profess his love for Jack Twist. thus they enter a cycle where Ennis and Jack are escaping to the great wilderness of Wyoming to express their love. the sweeping themes of the score which mimic the inherent sadness of Ennis' struggle to come to grips with his own feelings while also giving a largeness to the scenery that surrounds the two cowboys, become essential to painting the backdrop on which Brokeback Mountain occurs. Ang Lee, being a good technical filmmaker knows this, and uses his score to accentuate the film. i assume that this is going to be the big winner of Oscar night (I predict that it will win 6 Oscars overall) and this score will most likely be one of the six.

next: Best Music (Song)