BAFTA Nominations 2017
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the nominations for the 71st British Academy Film Awards, honoring the best in film in 2017.
In the Best Original Music category, which is named in memory of the film director Anthony Asquith, the nominees are:
- ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for The Shape of Water
- JONNY GREENWOOD for Phantom Thread
- DARIO MARIANELLI for Darkest Hour
- BENJAMIN WALLFISCH and HANS ZIMMER for Blade Runner 2049
- HANS ZIMMER for Dunkirk
This is the eighth BAFTA nomination for Desplat, who won for “The King’s Speech” in 2010 and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” in 2014; the second nomination for Greenwood; the third nomination for Marianelli; the first nomination for Wallfisch; and the ninth BAFTA film award nomination for Zimmer. Zimmer also has music nominations from the BAFTA TV Awards and the BAFTA Games Awards.
The winners of the 71st BAFTA Awards will be announced on February 18, 2018.
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It’s a shame that Wallfisch doesn’t get equal billing for Dunkirk, given that the most effective bit of the score – the reworking of Nimrod – was his work. And the most subtle bit in an otherwise less-than-subtle score.
Also a shame that there’s no nomination for Christopher Willis – his score for The Death of Stalin was my 2017 highlight. I assumed it was “real” Soviet music until I saw the credit.
Two nominations for Zimmer? They’re out of their minds…