Thursday Movie Picks: Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Oscar Winners Edition)

    Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Oscar Winners Edition)

    Wandering through the Shelves hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday’s theme and explain why you chose those movies.

    Today’s theme is Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Oscar Winners Edition), so here are my choices!

    Best Original Score: Beauty and the Beast (1992)

    This is by far my favorite Disney (non-Pixar) movie. I grew up listening to the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack, and I still love it. I had forgotten that this score won an Oscar, and I think it’s so deserving. Its theme song, Beauty and the Beast, also won the Oscar for Best Original Song, and I would be lying if I said I didn’t have the song on my phone so I could occasionally belt it out.

    Best Original Score: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

    So by now, if you’ve been reading my TMPs every week, you’ll know how much I love the LOTR trilogy. I seem to choose it for nearly every movie-centric theme. The score of this movie is so beautiful and adds so much to its cinematic presentation. I can still hear The Shire in my head. Actually, I think I’ll go put it on right now. Also, The Departure of Boromir is probably my favorite piece from the first movie.

    Best Original Score: Titanic (1997)

    Look, this soundtrack blew up when the movie was released. Mostly due to Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On and so I think James Horner’s score is oftentimes forgotten. His work on Glory made me a lifelong fan of his, and I adored his original score for Titanic. I feel he was long overdue for his Oscar, and I’m so happy he won before his untimely death.

    Best Original Song: Chim Chim Cher-ee (Mary Poppins)

    Mary Poppins is one of my favorite movies! It’s definitely a cozy, watch when I’m feeling down sort of movie. The songs are all magical and Chim Chim Cher-ee is one of my favorites. I know Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is the most famous music from this film, but it’s actually my least favorite! Stay Awake, Feed the Birds, Jolly Holliday…and who can forget, Sister Suffragette? Chim Chim Cher-ee was a deserving winner.

    Best Original Song: Man or Muppet (The Muppets)

    I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that Bret McKenzie is an Oscar winner. Man or Muppet is so much fun and McKenzie himself has described this song as “sincere but ridiculous”, which is honestly the absolute truth.

    Best Original Song: Into the West (The Return of the King)

    What?? Sara, another LOTR choice? You betcha! While I enjoyed May It Be (Enya) from the first film, Into the West is a gorgeous farewell to the entire trilogy and who better to sing it than the incomparable Annie Lennox. The lyrics, the music… such a beautiful homage to the films. “Don’t say we have come now to the end.” That was exactly how I felt when the credits began to roll on The Return of the King. Three years of this cinematic journey and I was so sad when it ended. ROTK really did sweep the Oscars that year, including Annie Lennox for the original song. I still listen to it frequently.
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