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‘Saltburn,’ ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ ‘American Fiction’ Artisans and More Take Us Behind the Scenes at Variety’s FYC Fest: The Shortlist
Variety editors spoke with the creatives behind several films recently shortlisted by the Academy.
When it came to scoring that haunting opening scene of Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) in Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” composer Anthony Willis stresses that the use of the choir was a strategic decision. Director, writer and producer Matteo Garrone created “Io Capitano” — which follows two young men who leave Dakar for Europe — to give a voice to “people that usually don’t have voice.” He was inspired to tell this story as the arrival is usually the only part that is televised — not the difficult journey. In distinguishing the two communities represented in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” re-recording mixer Eugene Gearty described his approach as one closely linked with both production and set design: “What I saw in backgrounds was faithfully developed visually.
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