Gustavo wins!

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Best Original Score Oscar goes to Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel. Screwed for the third or fourth time by Sasha Stone and Tom O'Neil!

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 25, 2007 at 8:07 PM

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lesterg says ...

Please let this be the LAST award for Babel this evening...

Posted by lesterg at February 25, 2007 8:11 PM

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DarthCorleone says ...

O.k. The score for Babel was pretty good. (I'd have gone with Pan's Labyrinth among the nominees.) Question, though.

Gustavo actually recycled at least one piece of music he used for another film (The Insider), and it's a rather pivotal scene. Does anyone know if any other music was recycled? And doesn't that seem like a bit of a cheat? It's cool music and all, Gustavo does a great job...I just think that if a film is going to win the Oscar for best score that ideally the music should have been composed specifically for that film.

Posted by DarthCorleone at February 25, 2007 8:24 PM

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brightness says ...

After giving Morricone the lifetime, the Academy gives it to the worst score of the five. Santaolalla is now a two time winner, more than Goldsmith and Morricone combined in competitive oscars.

Posted by brightness at February 25, 2007 8:24 PM

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brightness says ...

Corleone, that piece is named Iguazu, which was NOT even written for The Insider. Mann used it in that movie, and again AGI used it in Babel. That's the clip the Academy used for the nomination, and it's not written for the film. This should be a flat out outrage, but then again, awards shows don't care about film scores.

Posted by brightness at February 25, 2007 8:33 PM

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DarthCorleone says ...

brightness >> Yeah, I kind of suspected it might not have been composed for The Insider, as I'd heard it in a couple other places since as well. I used to be a bit of a film score nerd back in the day, so perhaps I tend to take note of cues better than the average Academy voter. I'll investigate this on the internet...I'm sure the film-score-centric sites are discussing it.

Posted by DarthCorleone at February 25, 2007 9:47 PM

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The Winchester says ...

Thank you all. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out where I heard it before. To know that it wasn't even written for Babel is slightly disappointing. I thought it would have gone to The Queen, but I'm such a Thomas Newman fan I was secretly hoping for his win ala The Departed. (Meaning it's not his best work, but it's still adequate enough to merit an award)

Posted by The Winchester at February 25, 2007 10:23 PM

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