Son Lux is the first band ever to be nominated for best original score at the Oscars with Everything Everywhere All at Once, and this year they’re the only composer to own noms in original score and original song the latter for their collaboration with Mitski and Oscar winner/former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne with “This is a Life”, the end credits song of the A24 movie.
The only other band to ever be nominated at the Oscars were The Beatles, but never in original score, rather the extinct category of Original Song Score for their movie Let It Be.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, © A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
As lead bandmember of Son Lux, Ryan Lott, tells us here on Crew Call, the band, which also includes Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang, was the first hire on the feature film by the Daniels, the filmmakers being huge...
The only other band to ever be nominated at the Oscars were The Beatles, but never in original score, rather the extinct category of Original Song Score for their movie Let It Be.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, © A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
As lead bandmember of Son Lux, Ryan Lott, tells us here on Crew Call, the band, which also includes Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang, was the first hire on the feature film by the Daniels, the filmmakers being huge...
- 3/2/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The Academy Awards are just weeks away — and a new cohort of performers has been announced. On Monday, the Oscars revealed that Talking Heads’ David Byrne will be joined by Stephanie Hsu and trio Son Lux to perform the song “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The track — which featured vocals by Mitski and songwriting by Ryan Lott, who fronts Son Lux — is one of the nominees for Best Original Song, alongside Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up,” Sofia Carson and Diane Warren’s “Applause,” Lady Gaga...
The track — which featured vocals by Mitski and songwriting by Ryan Lott, who fronts Son Lux — is one of the nominees for Best Original Song, alongside Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up,” Sofia Carson and Diane Warren’s “Applause,” Lady Gaga...
- 2/27/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” will be everywhere at the Oscars, including on stage for a live performance. The Academy announced that David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu and Son Lux will perform “This Is a Life,” the Oscar-nominated song from the film, at the awards ceremony on March 12. Nominated for Best Original Song, “This Is a Life” was written by Byrne, Ryan Lott and Mitski, with lyrics by Byrne and Lott.
An Oscar winner himself, Byrne is best known for his work as the lead singer and guitarist of the pioneering post-punk band The Talking Heads.
Son Lux (Jess Nijjer)
Lott is the founder and frontman of the experimental music trio Son Lux, whose other two members are Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia. They received a Best Original Score nomination for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
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An Oscar winner himself, Byrne is best known for his work as the lead singer and guitarist of the pioneering post-punk band The Talking Heads.
Son Lux (Jess Nijjer)
Lott is the founder and frontman of the experimental music trio Son Lux, whose other two members are Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia. They received a Best Original Score nomination for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
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- 2/27/2023
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu and Son Lux will take the stage at the 95th annual Academy Awards to perform “This Is a Life,” the Oscar-nominated song from Everything Everywhere All at Once.
“This Is a Life,” with music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski, and lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne, is nominated for best original song at this year’s Oscars, which will be handed out March 12 the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
Byrne, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for the band Talking Heads, won an Oscar for the original score of the 1987 film The Last Emperor in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su.
Hsu is nominated this year for best actress in a supporting role for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Her upcoming credits include appearances in the series Poker Face and American Born Chinese, and a starring role...
“This Is a Life,” with music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski, and lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne, is nominated for best original song at this year’s Oscars, which will be handed out March 12 the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
Byrne, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for the band Talking Heads, won an Oscar for the original score of the 1987 film The Last Emperor in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su.
Hsu is nominated this year for best actress in a supporting role for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Her upcoming credits include appearances in the series Poker Face and American Born Chinese, and a starring role...
- 2/27/2023
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thirty-five years after winning the Oscar for original score for Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, David Byrne is back at the 95th edition of the awards ceremony performing the Oscar-nominated song “This is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once with the pic’s composers and song writer Son Lux and the pic’s Oscar nominated supporting actress Stephanie Hsu. Japanese sing Mitski sings the end credits song in the movie with Byrne.
Ryan Lott, Byrne and Mitski wrote the music for “This Is A Life”, with lyrics by Lott and Byrne.
Byrne was the founding member, lead singer and guitarist for the critically acclaimed band Talking Heads. Byrne shared his 1988 Oscar win for Last Emperor with composers Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su.
Hsu has already won multiple awards this season, most recently taking four honors at last nights SAG Awards, including the marquee Ensemble in a Motion Picture.
Ryan Lott, Byrne and Mitski wrote the music for “This Is A Life”, with lyrics by Lott and Byrne.
Byrne was the founding member, lead singer and guitarist for the critically acclaimed band Talking Heads. Byrne shared his 1988 Oscar win for Last Emperor with composers Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su.
Hsu has already won multiple awards this season, most recently taking four honors at last nights SAG Awards, including the marquee Ensemble in a Motion Picture.
- 2/27/2023
- by Denise Petski and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s anybody’s game: this is a rare year when any of the five original-score nominees could win the Oscar. Two of the nominees are previous winners, two more are past nominees; only one is a newcomer, and it’s a three-man ensemble.
Four films are period pieces: an admired German-language war film, a character study set against the Irish civil war, an epic of late 1920s Hollywood, and a coming-of-age story for a young filmmaker in the ‘50s and ‘60s; the fifth is a wild, anarchic tale of a Chinese American family that saves the universe.
And the nominees are:
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
For this adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque classic, German composer Volker Bertelmann used his great-grandmother’s turn-of-the-century harmonium, a pump organ whose carefully mic’d interior noises sounded to him like “a war machine.”
Bertelmann’s scary three-note “destruction” motive — which...
Four films are period pieces: an admired German-language war film, a character study set against the Irish civil war, an epic of late 1920s Hollywood, and a coming-of-age story for a young filmmaker in the ‘50s and ‘60s; the fifth is a wild, anarchic tale of a Chinese American family that saves the universe.
And the nominees are:
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
For this adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque classic, German composer Volker Bertelmann used his great-grandmother’s turn-of-the-century harmonium, a pump organ whose carefully mic’d interior noises sounded to him like “a war machine.”
Bertelmann’s scary three-note “destruction” motive — which...
- 2/23/2023
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Oscar race for Best Original Score is the most interesting and competitive in years. You’ve got surprise composers Son Lux (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and Volker Bertelmann (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) going up against 90-year-old legend John Williams (“The Fabelmans”) and returnees Justin Hurwitz (“Babylon”) and Carter Burwell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”).
Which means there are several unusual components to this race. Four out of five films are Best Picture nominees (with “Babylon” as the outlier) and period pieces (with “Eeaao” as the contemporary multiverse entry), and there’s old-school versus new-school, with experimental rock band Son Lux taking on four celebrated vets: Williams has five Oscars and a record 53 nominations; Hurwitz has two Oscars for “La La Land” (score and original song “City of Stars”); and Burwell and Bertelmann have three and two nominations, respectively.
And not a clear favorite among them.
Which means there are several unusual components to this race. Four out of five films are Best Picture nominees (with “Babylon” as the outlier) and period pieces (with “Eeaao” as the contemporary multiverse entry), and there’s old-school versus new-school, with experimental rock band Son Lux taking on four celebrated vets: Williams has five Oscars and a record 53 nominations; Hurwitz has two Oscars for “La La Land” (score and original song “City of Stars”); and Burwell and Bertelmann have three and two nominations, respectively.
And not a clear favorite among them.
- 2/15/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
We will update all our Oscar predictions throughout the season, so keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2023 Oscar race. The nomination round of voting will take place from January 12 to January 17, 2023, with the official Oscar nominations announced on January 24, 2023. The final voting is between March 2 and 7, 2023. Finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.
See our initial thoughts for what to expect at the 95th Academy Awards here.
The State of the Race
The Oscar nominees for Best Original Score on Tuesday were led by 90-year-old John Williams, who received his 53rd nomination for Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans.” The remainder of the field is composed of two-time “La La Land” winner (score and original song) Justin Hurwitz for “Babylon,” three-time nominee Carter Burwell for “The Banshees of Inisherin,...
See our initial thoughts for what to expect at the 95th Academy Awards here.
The State of the Race
The Oscar nominees for Best Original Score on Tuesday were led by 90-year-old John Williams, who received his 53rd nomination for Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans.” The remainder of the field is composed of two-time “La La Land” winner (score and original song) Justin Hurwitz for “Babylon,” three-time nominee Carter Burwell for “The Banshees of Inisherin,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander representation prevailed at this year’s Oscar nominations, fueled largely by A24’s indie event, Everything Everywhere All at Once with 11 noms. The breakthrough comes in the wake of Parasite‘s 6 Oscar noms/4 wins in 2020, and Minari‘s six Oscar noms/one win.
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- 1/24/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Ninety-year-old John Williams received his 53rd nomination, and a team of composers was nominated for original score for only the eighth time in Oscar history during this morning’s Academy Awards nominations.
Yet, despite the presence of two women and three African-American composers on this year’s 15-film shortlist, none made the final five. So Chanda Dancy (“Devotion”) and Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Women Talking”) were left off, as were Michael Abels (“Nope”) and Terence Blanchard (“The Woman King”).
With his nomination for “The Fabelmans,” the venerable Williams, scoring his 29th film over the past 50 years for director Steven Spielberg, retains his record as the most-nominated composer and most-nominated living person.
He already has five Oscars, including three for Spielberg, and according to Academy statistics is also believed to be the oldest nominee in a competitive award category.
Son Lux’s nomination for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is especially interesting as...
Yet, despite the presence of two women and three African-American composers on this year’s 15-film shortlist, none made the final five. So Chanda Dancy (“Devotion”) and Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Women Talking”) were left off, as were Michael Abels (“Nope”) and Terence Blanchard (“The Woman King”).
With his nomination for “The Fabelmans,” the venerable Williams, scoring his 29th film over the past 50 years for director Steven Spielberg, retains his record as the most-nominated composer and most-nominated living person.
He already has five Oscars, including three for Spielberg, and according to Academy statistics is also believed to be the oldest nominee in a competitive award category.
Son Lux’s nomination for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is especially interesting as...
- 1/24/2023
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Nearly 50 songs make up the soundtrack for A24’s next film, Everything Everywhere All at Once — and Andre 3000’s flute is featured on four of them. On Wednesday, Feb. 23, the experimental trio Son Lux detailed the soundtrack album they helmed for the sci-fi comedy, which is set to arrive April 8.
The massive track list also prominently features a duet with Mitski and David Byrne, “This is a Life,” as well as contributions from Randy Newman (“Now We’re Cookin”) and Moses Sumney (“Fence”). As for Andre 3000, the Outkast musician played flute on four tracks,...
The massive track list also prominently features a duet with Mitski and David Byrne, “This is a Life,” as well as contributions from Randy Newman (“Now We’re Cookin”) and Moses Sumney (“Fence”). As for Andre 3000, the Outkast musician played flute on four tracks,...
- 2/23/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
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