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Oscars Original Score Contenders Bring Underlying Mystery, Tension and Emotion for Maximum Dramatic Effect
Contenders for the original score Oscar are an innovative mix with, for the first time in decades, two musicals among the nominees.
This year’s contenders for the original score Oscar are an innovative and international mix and, for the first time in more than a quarter century, two musicals are among the nominees: “Emilia Pérez” and “Wicked.” For “The Brutalist,” experimentalist composer Blumberg supplied Brady Corbet’s epic about a Holocaust survivor’s challenges in America with a small orchestra score played by just 18 musicians but recorded all over Europe. Highlighting the mystery and tension of Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller “Conclave” is Bertelmann’s music, which avoids traditional church sounds (organ, choirs) in favor of nervous string figures, explosive prepared piano and the colors of the Cristal Baschet, whose strange sonorities are the product of glass rods rubbed by wet fingertips.
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