This doesn't deserve the oscar
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UncleBobMartin — 18 years ago(September 30, 2007 01:23 PM)
The jazz players on this soundtrack are all strong improvisatory soloists, an entirely different kind of music than the usual "film score," and in no way comparable to Morricone or Goldsmith. Both of those men are genius composers and deserve their shelves-ful of nominations and awards. But, in recreating a momentous period of jazz history, Hancock created a unique jazz document with its own historical importance, that also fulfilled its purpose as film score damn-near-perfectly.
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michaeljbachman — 14 years ago(June 28, 2011 04:31 PM)
It deserved to win the Oscar despite the outstanding score from The Mission. Herbie Hancock wrote a great score and the music fit the movie prefectly. He didn't play exacty in the Bud Powell style as the piano player in the movie, but then the movie wasn't centered on the piano player but the fictional sax player Dale Turner (who lived a life much like Bud did in Paris from 1959-64).
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Bluedusk — 14 years ago(September 11, 2011 07:05 AM)
I agree with your comment. Many films have a great symphonic soundtrack written by great composers, and said composers will have other opportunities to win an Oscar for another great soundtrack. From Prokofiev to Hans Zimmer cinema has been served by a bunch of superb classical music composers.
But here we're playing on another ground, it's a jazz soundtrack, and not just a jazzy one like in many other films. Apart from 'Round Midnight I can only think of Bird and The Naked Lunch as movies featuring such fine jazz music.
So the academy decided they should give the Oscar to this score, because true jazz isn't used so often in cinema.