Best Original Score - Action/Adventure
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The International Film Music Critics Award nominees for Best Original Score - Action/Adventure are:
The Bourne Ultimatum by John Powell
Ghost Rider by Christopher Young
Live Free or Die Hard by Marco Beltrami
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End by Hans Zimmer
Spider-Man 3 by Christopher Young
Winner 2006 (Award for action/thriller): The Da Vinci Code by Hans Zimmer
The action/adventure category is a little bit disappointing this year. There are a few soundtracks I’d like to see in there like Transformers, Hitman, War, Shooter and The Kingdom. Christopher Young has not one, but two nomination in the same category for Ghost Rider and Spider-Man 3. Marco Beltrami, John Powell and Hans Zimmer are represented with The Bourne Ultimatum, Live Free or Die Hard and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
The Bourne Ultimatum by John Powell is a powerful score, a proper action score, but it lacks something that The Bourne Supremacy had, it feels like it’s not done and Mr. Powell had to finish in a hurry. Still, it’s entertaining and a top contender this year. Ghost Rider by Christopher Young is a very weak score, and I am very surprised at its conclusion. When you listen to it, it feels light as a feather. It’s an action score, but it doesn’t feel suspenseful, you just get annoyed by it’s lack of substance. Live Free or Die Hard by Marco Beltrami also suffers a bit from a lack of substance, a little meat on the bones. It’s better than Ghost Rider, but it shouldn’t really be here in my opinion and I wonder if it was included because the success of the movie. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End by Hans Zimmer is a fun action score, but it varies too much between action and comedy at times. Possibly the best score in the Pirates series though. Spider-Man 3 by Christopher Young is a good action score, but probably my disappointment of the year. He fails to live up to Danny Elfman’s excellent scores for Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. Still, it is one of the best scores in this category this year.
- My choice: The Bourne Utlimatum by John Powell
- Probable winner: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End by Hans Zimmer
Listen to the scores here:
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