Academy Award Fraud

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I'm with you on Elfman, too.

I loved Eflman scores from Pee Wee's Big Adventure up through Batman. Then he lost me, which is sad, I thought some of his work was just great. He lifted up the Burton films (which always seem to crap out and lose focus and steam about 2/3 way through them)

I'm a big Howard Shore fan and don't get me started on the old classic film composers, gosh but some of the scores are just great.

I've not seen Babel yet and as for Brokeback, all I can remember is the basic theme and that is from it being drilled into my head from watching all the trailer parodies last year

But, if the rules are such as iSm spells out, then I agree the award is not deserved. So I guess you blame the nominating committee?

Korngold, Steiner, Tiomkin, Hermann, Rozsa and Waxman all had a unique (to them) style and sound. But I can remember almost none of them borrowing or using themes from an earlier score.