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First off, I have to apologize for how infrequently I update the polls. Trying to balance the weekly columns and the other columns I occasionally write with my actual day job makes the polls a low priority, to say the least. Also, to be honest, after 14 years of being the principal contributor to the free FSM site, I have trouble coming up with new poll ideas.
Back when we started the polls, there was an unfortunate trend for unknown people to skew the polls by voting repeatedly for the same candidate -- generally Hans Zimmer or one of his proteges/collaborators. Not that there aren't Zimmer devotees on this site -- I'm just skeptical that they represent 98 percent of this site's readers.
I had hoped that the era of Zimmer-skewing was long gone. Until I happened to look at the favorite-Anton-Yelchin-score poll and saw that Ramin Djawadi's Fright Night had earned a whopping 54.43 percent of the votes, over more plausible candidates like Giacchino's first Star Trek (19.88 percent).
So today I uploaded a new poll, on which 2016 score is most likely to receive an Oscar nomination (not which 2016 score you're most looking forward to, a very different question).
The winner already, with 47 votes (roughly 94 percent) -- Hans Zimmer's Inferno (the third in the Da Vinci Code series).
Really, guys?
So if you're wondering why I don't update the poll more often, there's two good reasons.
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And, just now, my vote for THE BFG (haven't heard it yet, but come on, how is it not a plausible nominee?) is the first one for that score. So strange.
Considering how rarely I've been updating the polls these last few years (some remain active for 6 months or more), I can hardly blame people for not noticing the poll had changed, which is one reason why The BFG didn't have more votes in the first few hours.
Now, Zimmer's Dunkirk I can see as a plausible nominee (for 2017) -- but Inferno?
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While this forum is not particularly Zimmer-friendly (much to my frustration at times), I think you may be misevaluating the audience of your polls, Scott. I think there are less forum members participating there, and more casual visitors and guests to the site. And since Zimmer is bigger now than he has ever been, and the MAIN film composer for the younger generation (younger than us, anyway), it's perfectly understandable. And -- may I add -- commendable. It's great that Zimmer is the gateway into film music for so many these days; just as Williams and Goldsmith and Horner and others were for us back in the day.
I can certainly accept that Zimmer fans may be a sort of "silent majority" that frequent the site without speaking up, but the combination of an overwhelming vote for Djawadi's Fright Night (is this a score that anyone ever talks about? And I say that as someone who actually prefers the remake to the 80s film) and the nearly instant 47 votes for Inferno suggests something a little less kosher.
(Much as I may have been critical privately and publicly of Zimmer's music in the past, Interstellar is probably my favorite score of 2014).
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I wouldn't call it a "conspiracy." I'd assume more likely one fan who figured out a simple way to vote over and over again, which used to happen a lot when I started working on the site over a decade ago.
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