Which, of the 15 shortlisted original scores for 2022, will Oscar’s music branch choose as their final five nominees in the category?
It is as diverse a group as the branch has ever considered, both in terms of the composers and the nature of their music. The composers hail from seven different countries; two are women and five are people of color.
Five are past Oscar winners and five others are past Oscar nominees, although it’s the newcomers to the Oscar race who seem to be sparking the most attention in these final days before nomination voting begins Thursday.
Their music ranges from traditional orchestra to elaborate choral work, electronic sounds to experimental compositional techniques. Approximately 390 music-branch voters are eligible to vote.
A guide to the shortlist contenders:
“The Fabelmans”
Topping the list is 90-year-old John Williams, whose 29th film for director Steven Spielberg is the last in an unprecedented collaboration stretching over 50 years.
It is as diverse a group as the branch has ever considered, both in terms of the composers and the nature of their music. The composers hail from seven different countries; two are women and five are people of color.
Five are past Oscar winners and five others are past Oscar nominees, although it’s the newcomers to the Oscar race who seem to be sparking the most attention in these final days before nomination voting begins Thursday.
Their music ranges from traditional orchestra to elaborate choral work, electronic sounds to experimental compositional techniques. Approximately 390 music-branch voters are eligible to vote.
A guide to the shortlist contenders:
“The Fabelmans”
Topping the list is 90-year-old John Williams, whose 29th film for director Steven Spielberg is the last in an unprecedented collaboration stretching over 50 years.
- 1/10/2023
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
In scoring “She Said,” the movie about two New York Times reporters uncovering the Harvey Weinstein sexual-assault scandal, composer Nicholas Britell’s search for the right sound, and the right collaborator, led him just steps away: to his wife, classical cellist Caitlin Sullivan.
“There was something about the sonic possibilities of what a cello can do that, intuitively, felt right,” the three-time Oscar nominee tells Variety. “And that this might be a project where I was able to have Caitlin be a co-producer of the score. I would write the music, but Caitlin would not just record for me, as she has in the past, but really sit and talk with me about this, to get her instincts.”
Britell conceived the score with the cello as a primary voice, but also with himself on piano and a 15-piece string orchestra in New York – not just the primary location of the...
“There was something about the sonic possibilities of what a cello can do that, intuitively, felt right,” the three-time Oscar nominee tells Variety. “And that this might be a project where I was able to have Caitlin be a co-producer of the score. I would write the music, but Caitlin would not just record for me, as she has in the past, but really sit and talk with me about this, to get her instincts.”
Britell conceived the score with the cello as a primary voice, but also with himself on piano and a 15-piece string orchestra in New York – not just the primary location of the...
- 11/18/2022
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
If you’re curious about what New York and regional theaters across the country will look and feel like in the future, the 31st annual DirectorFest can be your crystal ball. Four up-and-coming directors will showcase brand-new work, the result of their Drama League Directors Project fellowships, in five performances Dec. 13–16 at Tbg Theatre. “These are the directors you’ll see at the major theaters and on Broadway in five to 10 years,” said Gabriel Shanks, executive director of the Drama League. This year’s fellows, Elena Heyman, Michael Leibenluft, Caitlin Sullivan, and Michael Osinski, all received assistant opportunities at New York and major regional theaters, as well as a master directing retreat under the tutelage of Red Bull Theater’s Jesse Berger. Fully produced with casting directors, Equity actors, and a production crew, DirectorFest 2014 is the grand culmination of each fellow’s efforts. “The exciting thing this year is you...
- 12/15/2014
- backstage.com
The same festival that helped launch the careers of Diane Paulus, Pam MacKinnon, John Rando, and over 300 other eminent directors returns Dec. 13–16 at Tbg Theatre. DirectorFest 2014, an evening of four short plays presented by the Drama League Directors Project fall fellows, promises to showcase the American theater’s foremost rising talents. Directors Elena Heyman, Michael Leibenluft, Caitlin Sullivan, and Michael Osinski will premiere new work from Callie Kimball, Clare Barron, Dipika Guha, and Sheila Callaghan, respectively, at the 31st annual one-act festival. “There is no better way to see the future of theatre than at DirectorFest,” said Gabriel Shanks, executive director of the Drama League, in a statement. “The imagination and daring of these four directors is incredibly inspiring; I can’t wait, once they inevitably make it to Broadway and beyond, to say that DirectorFest is where they began their journeys.” Shanks also pointed out all four of this...
- 11/17/2014
- backstage.com
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