The Academy music branch has expanded its Oscar original-score shortlist from 15 to 20 films this year, widening the field of potential nominees in a year of varied approaches and soundscapes.
Composer Kris Bowers already has an Oscar, but it’s not for music; it’s for producing the 2023 documentary short subject “The Last Repair Shop.” His best shot yet for music awards is “The Wild Robot,” about a machine that becomes mother to an orphaned gosling on an island without human inhabitants.
Director Chris Sanders “wanted the music to really be an emotional voice in the story, like another character,” Bowers says. He decided on an orchestral score
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