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This is one way to bring me back to reality…. The Fabelmans’ omission from the BAFTA selection may indicate that the bookmakers have been seriously overestimating Williams’ chances for an Oscar-win this year. Of course either Women Talking or Babylon will take the award! That’s just the way the universe works I guess.
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What happened?
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I think The Fabelmans is a wonderful score actually. The Main Theme is beautiful, in all its renditions (The Fabelmans, Mother And Son and the latter part of The Journey Begins), but the secondary theme -the one heard in Mitzi's Dance- is a great theme as well. After having seen the film, the music underscoring that particular scene is a moment of brilliance and it has deeply heightened my appreciation for the secondary theme, actually the most prominent theme in the film itself. To label this theme -and the music underscoring an essential moment in the film- as 'forgettable', really doesn't sound right. The secondary theme is also featured as a memorable piano solo piece (Reverie) and later it appears in The Letter and as part of The Journey Begins. Reflections and The House contain their own thematic material (The House worked wonderfully in the film as well) and all in all I feel there is really a lot of interesting things happening in about 25 minutes of original music.
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‘The Fabelmans may no longer be at the top of the Best Picture chart, but it is the favorite to win Best Original Score. John Williams will likely earn his record-setting 52nd Oscar nomination this year for Spielberg’s drama and this could be his sixth win. His toughest competition could be from two previous winners - Justin Hurwitz for Babylon and Hildur Guðnadóttir for Women Talking.’ http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2022/12/26/team-experience-predictions-round-3-oscar-shortlists.html
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'One other competition I’m following closely is the battle for the Best Original Score Oscar. Currently, consensus has formed around Justin Hurwitz’s bombastic composition for Babylon, but with Universal playing up John Williams’ last collaboration with Steven Spielberg in The Fabelmans, might he just sweep through the season? I’m not ready to go there yet (it’s a very sparse score, and one that’s far less distinctive than Babylon‘s – or even Women Talking‘s and Pinocchio‘s for that matter), but watch this space.' https://weliveentertainment.com/weliveawards/zoe-2023-academy-awards-predictions-december-23/ Despite what your personal opinion of the score is -and whether you feel the score deserves an Oscar or not-, The Fabelmans is generally considered -together with Women Talking and Babylon- as a strong frontrunner for the Original Score Award at this point, stronger than any Williams-score since Memoirs Of A Geisha. https://www.goldderby.com/awardshows/expert-predictions/oscars-nominations-2023-predictions/score/sort/recent/ https://nextbestpicture.com/oscar-predictions-best-original-score/ https://awardswatch.com/2023-oscar-predictions-original-score-december/
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Women Talking wins best score at the St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards: https://awardswatch.com/2022-st-louis-film-critics-association-winners-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-women-talking-elvis/ I think John Williams' score was the only nomination (runner-up) for The Fabelmans. Right now, Hildur Guðnadóttir's Women Talking is the #1 favorite for the upcoming award ceremonies, including the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.
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Does classical composer John Adams hate John Williams?
Sandor replied to Aliandra's topic in General Discussion
Film music from France and Italy can be just as -if not more (!)- sentimental as American film music. I think Adams just doesn't get the concept of film music, or film in general for that matter. -
An article in German: https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/br-klassik-empfiehlt/cd/john-williams-the-fabelmans-soundtrack-album-der-woche-100.html