Oscar Nomination News
In the flurry of a.m. Oscar nod news yesterday, the music and audio-related awards may have gotten a little drowned out. These are the nominees:
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
- How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
- The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
- Coming Home from Country Strong (Sony Pictures Releasing (Screen Gems)) Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
- I See the Light from Tangled (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
- If I Rise from 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
- We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Achievement in sound editing
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Richard King
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
- Tron: Legacy (Walt Disney) Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
- True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
- Unstoppable (20th Century Fox) Mark P. Stoeckinger
Achievement in sound mixing
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
- The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
- Salt (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
- True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland