Oscar Nomination Predictions: Will There Be Weird Choices for a Weird Year?
In a long season that’s been hard to endure and hard to predict, here are our best guesses in all 23 categoriesSteve Pond | March 11, 2021 @ 6:15 AM
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It’s time for Oscar voters to try and make sense of the movies from a year in which the movie business didn’t really exist. After 12 months of isolating and quarantining and watching movies that couldn’t go to theaters so they went to streaming services instead, the 9,300 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will take the measure of 2020 when nominations are announced on Monday.
Lolita Ritmanis Blizzard of Souls Score: An Oscar Long Shot?
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When Lolita Ritmanis was a little girl in Portland, Oregon, she didn’t even speak English. She spoke the native tongue of her parents, who fled the terrors of Communist Latvia in the years following World War II.
Now an Emmy-winning composer (and bilingual), she is on the Oscar shortlist for best original score for her rich orchestral and choral score for “Blizzard of Souls,” a World War I epic produced in her parents’ native country.
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As Oscar voting begins today, Ritmanis is an admitted long shot for a nomination. But her win Tuesday night at the Society of Composers & Lyricists’ virtual ceremony, in the independent feature score category, ups her chances considerably. And a review of the past 20 years of Oscar score nominations reveals at least eight that contained “dark horse” nominees (anyone remember “House of Sand and Fog,”
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Oscars Score and Song Frontrunners Come Into Focus as Shortlist Approaches
Ludwig Göransson is among the past winners in contention.
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As voting opens for the Oscar shortlists on Feb. 1, the picture is slowly coming into focus: Academy composers and songwriters are faced with one of the most diverse batches of scores they’ve ever heard.
The approximately 350 members of the Academy music branch are sifting through dozens of films to try and single out 15 scores and 15 songs worthy of placement on its shortlists, which will be revealed Feb. 9. These preliminary choices will be narrowed down to five final nominees in each category, to be announced March 15.
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The Women’s International Music Network (the WiMN) proudly announces another amazing honoree for the 2021 She Rocks Awards, sponsored by Positive Grid. Co-founder, guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Nancy Wilson of Heart will join the previously announced array of honorees. Full list is below.
With the current pandemic situation, and NAMM moving to a virtual convention, the She Rocks Awards are reimagining the ceremony to fit the current times and will follow suit with a virtual ceremony. The awards ceremony itself will continue to pay tribute to women in the music industry, with the ninth annual She Rocks Awards taking place at 6:30 pm PT on Friday, January 22, 2021. This high-energy evening will include live virtual music performances, awards and speeches, celebrity appearances, a fabulous silent auction, and much more, all available online. This year’s virtual event is free