6 Brian Tyler Scores Not Submitted For Oscar (Updated!)
UPDATED! Brian Tyler has confirmed that none of his scores were submitted for the Academy this year. His scores for films in 2009 are The Killing Room, Dragonball: Evolution, Fast & Furious, Middle Men, The Final Destination and Law Abiding Citizen. I will update further when I know more. Thanks for the heads up Brian!
Other composers not so lucky are Marco Beltrami who got In The Electric Mist and Knowing ineligible for the Oscars.
Another strange exclusion is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Nicholas Hooper.
Angels & Demons by Hans Zimmer is not eligible as well. There is a rule that goes like this: “scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other preexisting music, diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs, or assembled from the music of more than one composer shall not be eligible”. Angels & Demons used themes from The Da Vinci Code, but then why didn’t Terminator: Salvation by Danny Elfman, Star Trek by Michael Giacchino and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen got disqualified? I think the real reason is probably Zimmer’s use of more composers. Strange then that many of the scores deemed eligible are written and composed by more than one composer.
Critics favorites Pope Joan by Marcel Barsotti and The Red Canvas by James Patterson are also ineligible.
Here are some of the more important exclusions this year:
9 by Deborah Lurie & Danny Elfman
Agora by Dario Marianelli
Angels & Demons by Hans Zimmer
Crossing Over by Mark Isham
Dragonball: Evolution by Brian Tyler
Effi Briest by Johan Soderqvist
Fast & Furious by Brian Tyler
Hachiko: A Dog’s Story by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Halloween II by Tyler Bates
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Nicholas Hooper
In The Electric Mist by Marco Beltrami
Knowing by Marco Beltrami
Law Abiding Citizen by Brian Tyler
Lesbian Vampire Killers by Debbie Wiseman
Monsters Vs. Aliens by Henry Jackman
Pope Joan by Marcel Barsotti
Ricky by Philippe Rombi
Streetfighter: The Legend of Chun-Li by Stephen Endelman
Surrogates by Richard Marvin
Taking Woodstock by Danny Elfman
The Final Destination by Brian Tyler
The Fourth Kind by Atli Orvarsson
The International by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil
The Red Canvas by James Patterson
The Soloist by Dario Marianelli
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 by Harry Gregson-Williams
The Ugly Truth by Aaron Zigman
The Unborn by Ramin Djawadi
The Vampire’s Assistant by Stephen Trask
Where The Wild Things Are by Carter Burwell
Whiteout by John Frizzell
X-Men Origins: Wolverine by Harry Gregson-Williams
Year One by Theodore Shapiro
Here is the list of eligible scores:
- ADAM (Christopher Lennertz)
- ADORATION (Mychael Danna)
- ADVENTURES OF POWER (Ethan Gold)
- ALIENS IN THE ATTIC (John Debney)
- AMELIA (Gabriel Yared)
- ASTRO BOY (John Ottman)
- AVATAR (James Horner)
- BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (Mark Isham)
- BRIGHT STAR (Mark Bradshaw)
- BROKEN EMBRACES (Alberto Iglesias)
- BROTHERS (Thomas Newman)
- BY THE PEOPLE: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA (Craig Wedren)
- CHERI (Alexandre Desplat)
- CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (Mark Mothersbaugh)
- COCO BEFORE CHANEL (Alexandre Desplat)
- CORALINE (Bruno Coulais)
- COUPLES RETREAT (A.R. Rahman)
- CREATION (Christopher Young)
- DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Alan Silvestri)
- DISTRICT 9 (Clinton Shorter)
- DRAG ME TO HELL (Christopher Young)
- DUPLICITY (James Newton Howard)
- AN EDUCATION (Paul Englishby)
- EVA (Vlady Cnejevici)
- EVERYBODY’S FINE (Dario Marianelli)
- FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Alexandre Desplat)
- (500) DAYS OF SUMMER (Mychael Danna /Rob Simonsen)
- G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (Alan Silvestri)
- GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST (Rolfe Kent)
- HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (Cliff Eidelman)
- HOTEL FOR DOGS (John Debney)
- THE HURT LOCKER (Marco Beltrami / Buck Sanders)
- ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (John Powell)
- THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS (Jeff & Mychael Danna)
- THE INFORMANT! (Marvin Hamlisch)
- INKHEART (Javier Navarrete)
- INVICTUS (Kyle Eastwood / Michael Stevens)
- IRON CROSS (Roger Bellon)
- IT’S COMPLICATED (Hans Zimmer / Heitor Pereira)
- JULIE & JULIA (Alexandre Desplat)
- LAND OF THE LOST (Michael Giacchino)
- THE LAST STATION (Sergey Yevtuchenko)
- THE LIGHTKEEPERS (Pinar Toprak)
- THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (Rolfe Kent)
- THE MISSING LYNX (Sergio de la Puente)
- MOON (Clint Mansell)
- MY SISTER’S KEEPER (Aaron Zigman)
- NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN (Alan Silvestri)
- OLD DOGS (John Debney)
- ORPHAN (John Ottman)
- PARIS 36 (Reinhardt Wagner)
- PLANET 51 (James Brett)
- PONYO (Joe Hisaishi)
- THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Randy Newman)
- THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (Michael Rohatyn)
- PUBLIC ENEMIES (Elliot Goldenthal)
- PUNCTURED HOPE (David Brandstaetter)
- RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (Trevor Rabin)
- THE ROAD (Nick Cave / Warren Ellis)
- RUDO Y CURSI (Leoncio Lara)
- A SERIOUS MAN (Carter Burwell)
- 17 AGAIN (Rolfe Kent)
- SHERLOCK HOLMES (Hans Zimmer)
- SIN NOMBRE (Marcelo Zarvos)
- A SINGLE MAN (Abel Korzeniowski)
- SKIN (Helene Muddiman)
- STAR TREK (Michael Giacchino)
- THE STONING OF SORAYA M (John Debney)
- SUNSHINE CLEANING (Michael Penn)
- TERMINATOR SALVATION (Danny Elfman)
- TETRO (Osvaldo Golijov)
- THAT EVENING SUN (Michael Penn)
- THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE (Mychael Danna)
- TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (Steve Jablonsky)
- THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (Alexandre Desplat)
- 2012 (Harald Kloser / Thomas Wander)
- THE UNINVITED (Christopher Young)
- UP (Michael Giacchino)
- UP IN THE AIR (Rolfe Kent)
- WATCHMEN (Tyler Bates)
- THE YOUNG VICTORIA (Ilan Eshkeri)
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I loved John Ottman’s score for Astro Boy. Far more excellent than expected, much like the movie.
Jorn Tillnes Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
It was a good score. Haven’t seen the movie yet. Will be surprised if it gets a nomination though.
Hello Jorn. Actually, none of my scores were submitted to the academy this year.
Jorn Tillnes Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Thanks for clearing that up Brian. Updated the article.
Hey Jorn what do you think of Young’s Drag Me To Hell? “Drag Me To Hell” and “Concerto To Hell” are great but the rest… I don’t know how to put it. It’s not clear, rather abstract and doesn’t move me at all.
Jorn Tillnes Reply:
March 30th, 2010 at 8:35 am
I like Drag Me To Hell. The main title is fantastic and the rest is not bad at all. It’s not a score that gets a regular listen, but I rarely listen to horror scores. I enjoy the more sweeping thematic scores and the hardcore action scores usually.
ReuvenNathaniel Reply:
April 1st, 2010 at 5:24 am
If you measure it in Geek score?
Jorn Tillnes Reply:
April 1st, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Hmm I think it would be a 7 or a 7.5. I have a feeling it will grow on me if I keep listening to it, but I don’t want to (listen to it that is). What score would you give?
ReuvenNathaniel Reply:
April 4th, 2010 at 9:39 am
I beg your pardon?
Jorn Tillnes Reply:
April 5th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
You asked me what Geek score I would give it and I answered 
ReuvenNathaniel Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 8:46 am
No, the part when you asked me what “What would you give?”. What would I give?
Jorn Tillnes Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Yes I meant what Geek Score would you give… out of 10.
Oh.. I’ll give it 6 out of 10 I think. I love stand-alone scores and “Drag Me to Hell” is not one (the first and the last track being an important exception).
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I too am puzzled by some of the exclusions. For some of the titles you listed, the most likely reason is that they never played a one-week qualifying run in Los Angeles. That’s definitely the case with AGORA and THE RED CANVAS.
As for the films that did open and had wide releases, who can say. The Music Branch are an odd bunch. Whether the composers didn’t submit the material or certain scores were ruled ineligible, we’ll never know about most of them.
By the way, Rolf Kent’s 17 AGAIN and Silvestri’s CHRISTMAS CAROL were not excluded. They’re definitely on your list (see DISNEY’S ACC for Silvestri).
P.S. Watched HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE last night finally and the Nicholas Hooper score was even duller in the film. And it NEEDED a score to give it some life. Those movies just get worse and worse and I didn’t think that was possible. All just my opinion of course.
Jim Lochner´s last blog ..Oscar’s Eligible Scores – 2009
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Jorn Tillnes Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I would LOVE to see Agora nominated. Shame if they didn’t sent in their For Your Consideration discs.
Bah, I thought the list was alphabetical so I went through every score I knew came out in 2009. Did you know that 1 comes between Sa and Sh? I sure didn’t. Thanks for the heads up! Will update the article
You watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and found a score? Where!?
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Jim Lochner Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
As far as I know, AGORA hasn’t opened in the U.S. yet so it’s not eligible. Maybe in 2010?
As for “1,” it’s only because they spell it out, as in “Seventeen.” Whatever. LOL
And I was being generous to the HP “score”. hehe
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Jorn Tillnes Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Hah! Seventeen… that has to be it.