show song Music

Superhero Stories Take Off in Emmys’ Music Categories

Reading now: 143
variety.com

Jon Burlingame Not so long ago, composers doing “genre” material — horror, science fiction, fantasy — saw an Oscar or Emmy nomination as a longshot, namely because voters didn’t seem to take those projects seriously.But times have changed.

Six of the 11 nominees in Emmy’s two narrative-fiction music categories have some element of sci-fi, fantasy or horror, in addition to two of the nominated songs, two main-title themes and four of the music supervision nominees.Why the turnabout?

Variety asked several of this year’s music nominees for their thoughts, and each offered a slightly different answer.“When you talk about awards recognition, a lot of the time it’s really about what’s in the collective consciousness,” says TV Academy music.

Read more on variety.com
The website starsalert.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA