Now that the momentary hyperventilation at the prospect of Thom & Co. visiting your town has subsided, we move onto the next Radiohead topic of the day: Will Jonny Greenwood win an Academy Award for his brilliant work on Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood?
Well, first he’ll have to get nominated for one. But he’s a shoo-in, no? EW call Jonny’s score “revolutionary.” (Also, they also absolutely adore the movie, except when they don’t.) And in a good sign of things to come, he won Best Score at the Critics Choice Awards. He wasn’t there, though, so he’ll have to grab it from Snoop next time they hang out.
Or maybe there won’t even be an Oscars! Well not a televised one anyway, due to the Writers’ Strike, and if the fate of the Golden Globes’ televised presentation is any indication. (They’ve been scrapped in favor of a press conference at 9PM on Sunday, following a Going For Gold special at 7PM featuring Matt Lauer, an interview with William Shatner, the D-list comedy of Kathy Griffin, and predictions from the Football Night In America team — seriously).
Anyway, being the unbiased connoisseurs of this year’s film soundtracks and scores that we are, we would totally give it to Mr. Greenwood. There’s sublime string section moments, eerie, creepy counterpoint, and just at touch of irony to tracks like “Prospectors Arrive” featuring “Exit Music (From A Film)”-flavored chord changes. It’s masterful work. And that’s coming straight from objective, non fanboys. Of course.
Listen to “Future Markets” here.
Also: There Will Be Blood. Best Picture. Y/y? (And give Phillip Seymour Hoffman one or two for Charlie Wilson’s War/Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead/The Savages while you’re at it.)
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his wife is likely to a get a nomination this year as well for her art direction work in atonement. i guess that makes them this years ‘it’ couple.
I hope he wins
I hope he wins as well. It isn’t the standard Hollywood score. I sensed shades of Ennio Morricone along with Jonny’s obscure 20th century french composers.
pete, that isn’t his wife. his wife’s name is sharona, not sarah.
his score MADE (and daniel day lewis)this movie…
had anybody else scored this film, it wouldn’t have had the same impact….oscars around the table!
JONNY FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He should share it with Penderecki if he wins because he’s definitely biting his style… and I mean that as a compliment.
It’s not all Penderecki though. The eerie stuff sure, but definitely Olivier Messiaen and even a little Arvo Part. Pretty wild for a film, and better than most modern composition stuff you hear in films. The movie also too is brilliant. Definitely on some sort of ‘Godfather’ like level of a story.
Sure. Part, Messiaen, Berg. Name them all, and your obscure composers. I honestly think Jonny was borrowing from Penderecki. Which is not a bad thing in itself.
But any well off composer could do a Penderecki score. Could any well off actor do Daniel Day Lewis’ performance? I don’t know, but, if there’s going to be an Oscar for this move it better go to DDL. Then Jonny.
*your obscure French composers, that is.