Aug 9, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min · 13 segments
Get ready to hear the music, members of the jury! For this week's case, your detectives dive DEEP into the Best Original Score category from 2010. They examine how Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders…
Claire Mae LewisHost
Dean CoburnHost
Morgan WardHost
It's truly like, I mean, we'll talk about these movies, but if you take away the movies and just look at this list of people being nominated, pretty good category.
And I do think that you actually have a decent variety in terms of the musical stylings that are being represented here.
It's not like when we did 1997 where we're like, and all of these scores are like nice orchestral pieces and I'm a little bored.
All of these scores are also incredibly unique and specific to their own films, which I think is fun.
think all these scores are very nicely representative of these composers and like the kind of work that they tend to do, which is always fun.
Like I love when a composer does something that's like kind of outside of their usual bag and I'm like, okay, period.
But like, it's also fun with this lineup that like, this is kind of like a nice, like, If you're looking for an idea of what a James Horner score is, you're looking to the Avatar score.
These are very classic scores within these people's specific styles and genres that they like to work in, which I think is a fun avenue for us to talk about these composers.
And I do think that, again, we've got our sort of tale of dueling films here, as we are often having.
Or one of the only categories where neither of those two movies win the category.
Which I think is just cool.
And I think...
It's truly like, I mean, we'll talk about these movies, but if you take away the movies and just look at this list of people being nominated, pretty good category.
And I do think that you actually have a decent variety in terms of the musical stylings that are being represented here.
It's not like when we did 1997 where we're like, and all of these scores are like nice orchestral pieces and I'm a little bored.
All of these scores are also incredibly unique and specific to their own films, which I think is fun.
think all these scores are very nicely representative of these composers and like the kind of work that they tend to do, which is always fun.
Like I love when a composer does something that's like kind of outside of their usual bag and I'm like, okay, period.
But like, it's also fun with this lineup that like, this is kind of like a nice, like, If you're looking for an idea of what a James Horner score is, you're looking to the Avatar score.
These are very classic scores within these people's specific styles and genres that they like to work in, which I think is a fun avenue for us to talk about these composers.
And I do think that, again, we've got our sort of tale of dueling films here, as we are often having.
Or one of the only categories where neither of those two movies win the category.
Which I think is just cool.
And I think...
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