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A Joe Hisaishi Oscar Nomination Could Have Made History
As the Academy Awards gets with the times, Best Original Score is still left in the dust.
The waltz from Howl’s Moving Castle is as distinctive as any body of cinematic music from the past 20 years, bouncing with a sense of ease and delight, breaking free from the confines of the dark, sometimes tragic film in which it’s featured. Hisaishi’s music here is like a big beautiful bird puffing out its chest as much as any other character, apt for a film that must balance the usually strict rules of a Miyazaki universe with the intentionally flitting nature of a story about herons, canaries, and pelicans. This year, new Oscars eligibility rules went into effect, mandating that a movie meet two of four criteria “designed to encourage equitable representation on- and offscreen.” In theory, this means the Academy is more open than it’s ever been to non-American filmmakers.
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