Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Soul, directed by Pete Docter and Munk, directed by David Fincher)

The authors of the cartoon "Soul" used two whole soundtracks to create additional contrast between the worlds. Our world is accompanied by light variations on the theme of jazz by John Baptiste, and the afterlife is accompanied by calm electronic music performed by constant co-authors Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. This division works well in the film - but a bit puzzling when you keep in mind the soundtrack that Reznor and Ross also penned for Monk by David Fincher, another Oscar nominee for Best Music in a Film.
For Monk, the authors put synthesizers aside, recalled their classical musical education (Reznor studied jazz in college), and used only the instruments available at the time of Citizen Kane's script, which the film is about to write. The result is a slightly ironic, but in keeping with the spirit of the times soundtrack. It will be rather strange if academics do not celebrate the work of Reznor and Ross also because, most likely, with ten nominations "Munk" will receive a minimum of awards, as was the case with "Irishman". And, most likely, success awaits him in nominations like this one.

Emile Mosseri (Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chun)

Emile Mosseri, the author of the excellent music for last year's Kadjillionaire, was nominated for the music for Minari. The design of both films has a lot in common: the sound is deceptively optimistic and familiar to the listener, but if, in the case of Kadjillionaire, another confirmation of the incorrectness and otherness of the world of the main characters was hidden behind the pleasant facade of the soundtrack, in Minari all the music seems to be hidden behind a veil. It can be interpreted as a haze of memories - director Lee Isaac Chun partially created the film script based on stories from his childhood. Mosseri's music proves how ghostly our childhood stories can be and asks how rosy they can be.

Terence Blanchard (Five of the same blood, directed by Spike Lee)

Spike Lee's longtime collaborator Terence Blanchard earned his second nomination for "Five of the Same Blood." And although the rich author's film is filled with completely different music, for example, two-thirds of it consists of the album What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, the compositions written specially for the film deserve no less interest. Blanchard skillfully maneuvers between the ever-changing moods of the picture, just as Lee himself experiments with the frame format - in military flashbacks he builds up the necessary pathos, in the initial, almost comedic part, adds joyful notes, in the end he combines these two moods, creating a complex one. multidimensional soundtrack.

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