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Very interesting, I've experienced something similar in my very small carreer as a short-film composer, particularly on a series project that I backed down from. Karelm, are you allowed to tell us the name of the animated film? I'm curious about it.

KFP2 is the best of the three scores and it feels the most balanced to my ears. My favorite cue is this little beauty -which I believe is by Lorne Balfe: However, if you listen to this... (watch your ears!) You'd think this is a Zimmer cue... but you'd be wrong. It's Powell. So it's a little harder to tell on this one who did who, at least by ear, compared to the first score which is a lot easier in that regard.

I seem to recall that he confirmed in the comments of the Instagram post that it was neither KFP4 nor Chicken Run 2.

Angela Morley's extraordinary score for Watership Down also comes to mind, when most of her work was for TV.

Yes, because as this board clearly has shown over the years, every Oscar nominated score was worthy of the nomination...

Finally watched it on the big screen. Overall it was good, I liked it but I did find it a bit too long. Also, to me there were two competing movies -one being the family drama and the other the filmmaking stuff- that never quite ended up relating as much as I hoped. I actually found myself more interested in most of the family drama stuff than the movie-making material. Personally, I think the movie suffers a bit by presenting the kid Sammy at the start. It's like there are 20 minutes of movie at the beggining before it actually starts to get going. Personally, I think it would have been better to start with the Sammy that accompanies us through most of the movie. While I loved the ending, the whole movie left me feeling a bit... empty. And kinda sad. It's the least Spielberg-ian movie of his carreer. Which is both its biggest strenght and its biggest weakness.

Why would composing music have any biological determination? It's not really a natural thing per se, for starters. I feel like you're trying to find every other explanation possible except the number one that's it's rooted in society and culture. I don't think biology plays any part in the arts, except maybe in the physical aspect.

Sexism against men? ...what

Yes, I know what it stands for but people use it for everything.

what is it with the obsession people have with the word woke

PR.

In the world of classical music in particular, women for a really long time were not seen as composers -they could succeed by being players of certain types instruments: the piano, flute, harp and such... So the way I see it, and similarly to what others have adressed, imagine being a woman and wanting to pursue a carreer as a film composer, for example. This in a lot of enviroments gets quickly dismissed as "tradition" dictates composing is a man's job, whatever that means. People having their limits. If life constantly tells you you shouldn't be doing that job, for example, you will either keep going despite the odds or give up and seek something else. It's a complex subject and I think all of us are still learning about it. And we have a long way to go.

I believe the point isn't that there SHOULD be a female composer nominated just because. It is quite a known fact that film-composing is mostly a "boy's club" thing, so women are getting far less opportunities in the field than men and that reflects itself on the nominations -even if such awards aren't really relevant anymore, but the Oscars are still the highest profile awards out there so it ends up being representative on some level of the status quo. That being sad, most of us here are guys so I don't know if we are really the best judges to comment on this highly complicated topic.

A gig's a gig.

My dream would have been a super honest and intimate portrait of Williams like the documentary about pianist Martha Argerich's life done by her daughter. I realize this would've been impossible, but this is the format of documentaries that I strive to find and adore to watch. It's called Bloody Daughter and you can watch it on YouTube for free. I really recommend it: Alas, it seems we're gonna get the traditional stuffy type of documentary... Oh well, at least it's better than nothing. Should be a decent watch, hopefully.

It totally is! It's Morricone writing in that sytle and going bonkers with the orchestra.

That it's not covered with testimonies from other people that consist only of praises for the man. For example, the Morricone documentary was fantastic mostly for Ennio himself still being alive when they recorded the documentary and for getting to hear a lot of his best works in the cinema, but the testimonies from other people weren't all that interesting. And they had to cover so much ground that most of the actually interesting stories didn't have a chance to have a proper ending.

How I wish they'd remaster this score

Great news! I just hope it's not the typical stuffy format that most average documentaries have.

Surrender! Tomorrow never AFRICAAAAAAAA

Oh, Michael. How I miss you

He could form a club with Miyazaki.