Annihilation
(19 tracks)

Lakeshore Records congratulates film composers and soundtrack partners Benjamin Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Annihilation) and Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Lakeshore Records congratulates film composers and soundtrack partners Benjamin Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Annihilation) and Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk),whose remarkable scores are on the Academy Awards Best Score shortlist!

There were one hundred fifty-six scores that were eligible this year, and the Music Branch of The Academy voted on who would make the shortlist. Out of this pool, 15 scores will advance to the nominations round on January 22, 2019. See the full list at Oscars.org.

The 91st Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Congratulations to all the nominees this year!

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Annihilation—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring a score by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow.

From visionary writer and director Alex Garland and based on the acclaimed best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation stars Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Tuva Novotny. Portman plays Lena, a biologist and former soldier, that joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X - a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.

Garland remarks that Salisbury and Barrow’s partnership “Sets an incredibly high bar of creative skill and integrity, with music that is brilliant, unique and truly cinematic.”

Salisbury and Barrow note: “After our experience on Ex Machina, we obviously jumped at the chance to work on a new Alex Garland film, and it was very exciting, as right from the outset we could see that we were going to have to use a wider musical pallet than we did on Ex Machina, and operate on a bigger and broader scale.”