Two musicals are among the five Oscar nominees for best original score. But what’s really being honored in that category? The songs, the background score, or the entirety of the music in the film?
It’s a question that has plagued Oscar voters for many years. Four of Alan Menken’s eight Oscars are for “original score,” all for Disney animated musicals. But did voters understand that they were not voting for Menken’s songs—which dominated films like “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast”—but rather the dramatic music between the vocals?
That’s the case again this year, with original-score nods for both “Emilia Perez” and “Wicked.” “Perez” was also
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