Tuesday morning’s (Jan. 22) Oscar nominations for best original score includes some returning favorites — Alexandre Desplat, Marc Shaiman and Nicholas Britell — as well as first-timers Terence Blanchard and Ludwig Göransson. Billboard talked to the nominees to find out how they got the good news and about working on their nominated project. Read More.
Why the ‘BlacKkKlansman’ score could (and should) earn Terence Blanchard his first Oscar nod, LA Times
One of the most arresting sequences in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” — based on the true story of an African American cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in 1970s Colorado — comes right at the beginning of the movie. Read More.