Reply To: Any opinions on the Oscars?
I remember when I was young and used to get very upset when my favourites didn’t win the Oscars, but my ambivalence is near-total these days.
Congratulations to Ludwig G – I thought Sinners was OK but the real magic seemed to come from getting very talented musicians to just do their thing, and the use of songs was unusually good. He’s really not my cup of tea – which is fine, things move on and he’s clearly very highly regarded by most people.
The ambivalence comes because I didn’t really have a horse in the race. I do love Desplat and I thought Frankenstein was fine, but it’s not exactly one of his best (not even his best of 2025 in my mind). I also like Max Richter a lot and Hamnet has a lot going for it, but (a bit like Sinners perhaps) it’s perhaps not really the original score that people noticed musically within the movie. Jonny Greenwood, I don’t get – there’s nothing interesting in his film music for me.
The one I would have voted for if forced to choose from this set of five would have been Bugonia. There IS something interesting in there, something different, an ambition which seemed quite exciting to me.