Here are the last four categories I
have to run down before finalizing my early predictions: Score, Song,
Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing.
Best Original Score
Best
Original Score is nearly impossible to anticipate because the score
is often one of the final elements of a film to be completed. Will
this finally be Alexandre Desplat's year? Can Hans Zimmer return to
the fold for a superhero movie even though his influential work on
Nolan's Dark
Knight
trilogy was completely ignored by AMPAS? A mixture of Best Picture
nominees and previously nominated composers is usually what ends up
reaping nominations from this notoriously insular branch:
Alexandre
Desplat, The
Monuments Men
Howard
Shore, The Wolf of Wall
Street
Steven
Price, Gravity
Hans
Zimmer, Man
of Steel
???,
The Counselor
Also consider: After Earth,
The Butler, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, Star
Trek Into Darkness
Best Original Song
Best Original Song is even more of a
mystery than Score because you can rarely tell what films will even
have original songs, but I'm willing to guess these three films may
provide:
T-Bone Burnett & Marcus Mumford,
Inside Llewyn Davis
Robert Lopez & Kristen-Anderson
Lopez, Frozen
Randy Newman, Monsters
University
The two sound categories were very kind to Best Picture nominees last year, with only one non-Best Picture nominee cited in either category (Skyfall). So I'm borrowing mostly from my own predicted Best Picture pool, with Star Trek Into Darkness fleshing things out:
Best Sound Mixing
Gravity
Inside Llewyn
Davis
The Monuments
Men
Star Trek Into
Darkness
The Wolf of
Wall Street
Also consider: Captain
Phillips, The Hobbit, The Lone Ranger, Iron Man
3, Pacific Rim
Best Sound Editing
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Lone Ranger
The Monuments
Men
Star Trek Into
Darkness
Also consider: The Hobbit,
Iron Man 3, Monsters University, Pacific Rim,
The Wolf of Wall Street
