Oscars 2012 Best Original Score Nominee: John Williams for War Horse

This is the second nomination by John Williams this year, and it's for War Horse.  It's a fantastic sounding soundtrack - it just breathes the breadth and landscape and the scope required from that period!

This is the first song from the soundtrack -

Oscars 2012 Best Original Score Nominee: Alberto Iglesias for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

This is the third Oscar nomination for Alberto Iglesias in this category.  He was nominated before for The Constant Gardener and The Kite Runner.  I love the sound of the trumpets here!  So seductive and it really fits the profile of the movie!  If I could vote, it would actually go to this movie!  I just love it!

This is the first track from the soundtrack album and its entitled George Smiley -

Oscars 2012 Best Original Score Nominee: Howard Shore for Hugo

Howard Shore has already won three Oscar awards from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - twice for this category and once for the Best Original Song.  This year, he gets his fourth nomination for the movie, Hugo.  This is the first track from the movie - and it has a Parisian feel to it!

Oscars 2012 Best Original Score Nominee: Ludovic Bource for The Artist

This is the first nomination for Ludovic Bource. This song is the main theme of the movie, and it's entitled George Martin.

Oscars 2012 Best Original Score Nominee: John Williams for The Adventures of Tintin

John Williams dominates the Best Original Score category this year with nominations for this movie and for War Horse.  These are his 46th and 47th nominations respectively!

This is the first song from the soundtrack of this movie - and even with this snippet, you can easily see that it's been written for the Tintin -