Annihilation

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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Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury have once again joined forces with writer and director Alex Garland for the Paramount film ‘Annihilation’, starring Natalie Portman and produced by Scott Rudin and David Ellison.

Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury have once again joined forces with writer and director Alex Garland for the Paramount film ‘Annihilation’, starring Natalie Portman and produced by Scott Rudin and David Ellison.

“After our experience on Ex Machina, we obviously jumped at the chance to work on a new Alex Garland film. Right from the outset we could see 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. So whilst synths and electronics do play a key role in one specific (and crucial) part of the film, 90% of the score is actually made up of acoustic instruments including voices, warped strings and the bass waterphone. Our main musical challenges were to be part of the world the scientists are travelling through, which is on the one hand terrifying, and on the other full of a strange psychedelic beauty.”

For Alex Garland, Geoff and Ben’s partnership “sets an incredibly high bar of creative skill and integrity, with music that is brilliant, unique and truly cinematic,” and their score for Garland’s Oscar nominated ‘Ex Machina’ gained two World Soundtrack Awards nominations, and was the 2016 Ivor Novello Award winner for Best Original Score.

Other recent co-written credits include Ben Wheatley’s ‘Free Fire’ (executively produced by Martin Scorsese) and Charlie Brooker’s ‘Black Mirror: Men Against Fire’.

CD is presented as a digipack with 4 page printed booklet

'I find that the best scores are those that are able to help filmmakers tell a story without detracting from it, while also allowing an isolated listening experience around which those experiencing it can craft their own story. On Annihilation, Barrow and Salisbury achieve this profoundly and with great reward for listeners and, notably, filmgoers.' - Vehlinggo

More info at: Paramont Pictures