Why Christopher Nolan “Dark Knight” was unable to get the best nomination “Oscar”

Not everyone agrees with the best Batman movie score, but people usually agree that the Dark Knight score is high. If nothing else is impossible to love these Last 30 seconds “I’m not a hero”, Which is usually played in the movie when Batman does something particularly cool. Marks for other films in the “Dark Knight” trilogy, but “Batman begins” feels inappropriate compared to his successor and The evaluation for the “dark knight rises” He feels that he is in vain to return this magic to the “dark knight”.

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But intense and atmospheric foras like music in “Dark Knight”, it did not win the Oscar for the best original music, and was not even nominated. As reported at the time“The music branch of the academy operated after the five people were attributed to the score. Although no one seems to know how many people could be involved, it was too much.”

Although Hans Zimmer and James Newton Hovard are the main names attached to the score, music editor Alex Gibson, music designer Mel Vesan and composer Lorn Balf are also counted. They apparently “signed a statement, saying that Zimmer and Howard were the main composers of work,” but it was not enough for the Academy to change. “Dark Knight” was nominated in eight Oscar categories and won two of them, but Oscar for the best original score ended AR Rahman for “millionaire”. Hoard could not be too upset at least; In the same year, he was also nominated for his “Defiance” score.

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In terms of “Dark Knight”, the musical category is a little far -fetched because it is not like a movie soundtrack in any case really consists of just one or two people. For example, Hans Zimmer spoke a lot about how he works with a whole team of people for each movie. “I never hide my staff”, Zimmer explained in an interview with 2013“But as a composer, I am the chief architect. This means responsibility for the original idea, style, theme, orchestration and instrumental instruments. A great idea. But in a two -hour number, especially in how I work, you need a little help.”

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He explained how his soundtracks are made by “programmers, arrangers, assistants, additional composers … In the room with the director, editor and music editor, they will become the participants of the process.” Zimmer told how he tries to count the people he works as much as possible, but in the end it is not practically for the album to have so many names in front and in the center: “Sometimes it’s just impossible.” An additional loan of the composer “inevitably means that someone in another department must give up their merit.”

On the bright side it is unlikely to be like Zimmer or Howard never got proper. Zimmer was nominated on “Oscar” 12 times during his career and won one twice, most recently for his first movie “Duna” in 2022 (his The assessment of the second movie “Dunes” was not lucky.) Meanwhile, Howard was nominated for Oscar nine times, though he has not won yet. They may not have received a chance for a “dark knight”, but at least the Academy allowed them much more opportunities down.

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