So, both The Social Network and Inception are considered the front runners when it comes to the original score category for award season. The Social Network has already been chosen as the best score by the Boston Film Critics and LA Film Critics.
The Social Network is by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and Inception is by Hans Zimmer.
Even though I’d love to see Trent at the Academy Awards, I think Inception, to me, is better. I think people are loving TSN score because they haven’t listened to Trent a billion times. He’s done better work in my opinion, and the Inception score is just so layered and awesome, it takes the cake.
Now, will I be happy if Trent wins? Of course — it’s fuckin’ Trent, and that’d be awesome. But it’s like if Heath Ledger won for A Knight’s Tale instead of the Dark Knight. Add to the mix that Hans already has won an Oscar. He won for The Lion King. So right there, Inception is tons better than what he won for before. So maybe it would be poetic justice for Trent and Atticus to win for what I consider to be a lackluster score, beating out what I consider to be superior?
I think I’ve put way too much thought into this already…