They’re competing against James Newton Howard’s soaring, elegiac music for Paul Greengrass’s post-Civil War western “News of the World,” starring Tom Hanks. Howard has been nominated eight times, including for “Defiance” and “Michael Clayton.” He’s overdue. Terence Blanchard follows up his first nomination for Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” with his second, for Lee ’s 60s-flashback to Vietnam, “Da 5 Bloods” (Netflix), the film’s only nomination. Also in the running is Emile Mosseri’s BAFTA and CCA-nominated score for Lee Isaac Chung’s ’80s rural Korean-American family drama “Minari” (A24).
Universal Here are our Oscar predictions, listed in order of their likelihood to win. No film will be deemed a frontrunner unless I have seen it. Frontrunner: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (“Soul,” Disney/Pixar) Contenders Emile Mosseri (“Minari,” A24) James Newton Howard (“News of the World,” Universal) Terence Blanchard (“Da 5 Bloods,” Netflix) Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (“Mank,” Netflix) Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
