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Boy did Auli'i Cravalho hit it out of the park in her performance on the Oscars tonight. A star is born, wow!
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Since I seem to be the only one watching, let me just say for the record that Lin-Manuel Miranda was robbed!
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Feb 27, 2017 - 2:54 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Since I seem to be the only one watching, let me just say for the record that Lin-Manuel Miranda was robbed!
Miranda will have to wait a little longer for the final piece of his EGOT.
Had he won, Miranda, 37, would have been the youngest to complete the four-part collection. He has three Tony awards. He has two Grammys for the cast recordings of “Hamilton” and “In the Heights,” and won an Emmy for the music and lyrics for the 2013 Tony award show.
With his Pulitzer Prize for “Hamilton,” he would have become just the third person to win the so-called PEGOT, joining the composers Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch.
While Miranda made no progress toward the EGOT, Viola Davis moved a step closer to it with her win for best supporting actress. She lacks a Grammy, but became the 23rd person to win an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony. She had won her first Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the original production of "King Hedley II." Her second Tony came in 2010 for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rose Maxson in the revival of August Wilson's play "Fences." In 2015 she became the first black woman of any nationality to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC drama "How to Get Away with Murder." If Davis eventually were to win a Grammy Award, she would be the second African-American woman (after Whoopi Goldberg) to win the EGOT.
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I can't be the only one who thinks the score is a fantastic 5-star effort. I'm baffled at the lack of gushing here!
And this is my first time with a Mancina work too.
I like the movie, but I didn't expect the songs and score to play so well on their own. I honestly found the score an even more exciting listen than Christophe Beck's Frozen, Michael Giacchino's Zootopia, so on.
I might want to set the tracks in film order someday, but for once, I actually find the album plays pretty nicely as is.
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The best part of the deluxe edition is listening to Miranda do his best Bowie impersonation on Shiny. Jemaine Clement must have heard and said "Yeah, but it needs more Tim Curry."
EDIT: I just read an interview with Clement. "If you hear Lin’s demo [of “Shiny”], which is on the soundtrack, you can tell that he’s doing an impression of my impression of David Bowie."
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Dec 12, 2017 - 11:01 AM
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Solium
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I can't be the only one who thinks the score is a fantastic 5-star effort. I'm baffled at the lack of gushing here!
And this is my first time with a Mancina work too.
I like the movie, but I didn't expect the songs and score to play so well on their own. I honestly found the score an even more exciting listen than Christophe Beck's Frozen, Michael Giacchino's Zootopia, so on.
I might want to set the tracks in film order someday, but for once, I actually find the album plays pretty nicely as is.
As I noted before, I love most of the songs in the film, and they seem to compliment or actually inter-wind thematically with the score. It's hard for me to actually tell what is song and what is score sometimes. There's some wonderful, thematic, epic, emotional music here, but what really was a let down was the action music- Which was mostly percussion.
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