W ogóle Muzyczne Razzie zawsze były dla mnie pomyłką. Nie wspominając, że Morricone za The Thing nominowali.“Awards from the past” ? Or “A warning from my arse”?
It has just been brought to my attention that without my realizing it, I was nominated for an award in 2003. Turns out, the “Stinkers Bad Movie Awards” gave out a nod for “Most Intrusive Musical Score” of the year.
These were the nominees:
John Powell - GIGLI Ed Shearmur - CHARLIE’S ANGELS FULL THROTTLE Trevor Rabin - BAD BOYS II Trevor Jones - THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
And whilst GIGLI won many of the other categories for which it was nominated, I fell victim to the usual apathy that my work sometimes invokes in critics and committees. The gong went to Ed Shearmur, and though I happen to be a fan of Ed’s writing, in this case, I feel quite aggrieved that he beat me. This was a situation where I feel I rose so highly to the occasion, that were one to create the very definition of “Most Intrusive Musical Score”, the music of GIGLI would encapsulate the “how, when, where and why” of musical intrusion. Never before has a score sounded more effortless in its attempt to redirect attention away from the images and story. The creative masterpiece equivalence of ugly crying.
And yet, hardly anyone noticed, including me! Ah well. I do still feel I have another score like that in the chamber! Let us hope a film will come along needing crassly-overt-sentiment-made-aural, and give me another chance.
John Powell
PS - The real puzzle is why the GIGLI score seems to have been temped into almost every romantic comedy since...
