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[nympholept]

Trent and Atticus scored a movie. Benefit for us: new music!
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Comments

[meowhouse]

A score is written for the movie although a lot of times there are songs that were written (and which are provided on the CD) that didn't end up making it into the movie. Although, I think (but am not 100% positive) that as far as awards go, the nomination is based only on the parts of the score that were in the movie--not any additional songs that are released on the CD but were not IN the movie.

And you're right, it's still a soundtrack even if it's also a score: all scores are soundtracks, but not all soundtracks are scores. A soundtrack might have both original scored compositions and previously released songs, so the entire thing would be called "the movie soundtrack" but the original compositions part of it would be "the score." Such as, Gabriel Yared wrote the original score for The English Patient, the soundtrack of which also includes previously released songs by Ella Fitzgerald.

Yared, for example, won the Oscar for Best Original Score. That covers the part of the soundtrack that he actually wrote--not the other songs that were in the film and on the CD, even if he picked out those songs himself as the musical director.

[nympholept]

I imagine that one could win "Best Original Score" simply for the music in the movie, without releasing the music separately, or am I wrong?

[meowhouse]

I believe that is correct. I think the separate release is more of a marketing & revenue angle.

I do think there is a requirement that the score still be compelling even when there's no film playing on top of it, but it's also, and maybe first, supposed to be an integral part of the movie. It's supposed to be a case of that music being part of THAT movie--not just good music that could be a good addition to some other movie. I think that's where the requirement that the score be specifically written for a specific movie comes in. But I don't think it's correct that it has to be released separately to qualify for awards. (I could be wrong about that.)

As far as TSN goes, I almost always see the movie first and then get the score. This time obviously I am doing the reverse and to me this score stands way up on its own even without a movie behind it. I'm trying to be objective and not just think that because I'm a fan already of the persons who wrote it. Heck I like Gabriel Yared and so I want to like everything he writes, but I don't.