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Oscar Score Race Pits Veterans Against Rookies
The Oscar race for score pits veterans like John Williams against newcomers Laura Karpman ('American Fiction') and Jerskin Fendrix ('Poor Things').
He used a 65-piece orchestra (all strings, brass and harp) to augment the synthesizer sounds he envisioned as gradually emerging from the nuclear research, “almost like an impending doom” that the scientist fears for the future. Karpman’s jazzy score earned multiple favorable notices; Jeffrey Wright’s character is named Thelonious and nicknamed Monk, after the legendary jazz artist, so that was the starting point. Fendrix is also a possible dark-horse winner for his unconventional but widely noticed approach to “Poor Things.” Oscar voters sometimes use the music category to reward films that won’t win anything else, and if lead actress nominee Emma Stone misses out, the English pop musician-turned-film composer could benefit.
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