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57. Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media

The Adventures Of Tintin - The Secret Of The Unicorn

John Williams, composer

[Sony Classical]

The Artist

Ludovic Bource, composer

[Sony Classical]

The Dark Knight Rises

Hans Zimmer, composer

[WaterTower Music]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers

[Null/Madison Gate]

Hugo

Howard Shore, composer

[Howe Records]

Journey

Austin Wintory, composer

[Sony Computer Entertainment America]

That's sweet! I'm not sure if it will win but It's cool to see it's the only video game on the list.

I'm rooting for Hugo, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Journey!

It's got no chance, but I do like that the gaming industry is being taken (semi) seriously like this. After all, some of the gaming studios' musical output clearly rivals mainstream media, but that's rarely, if ever, recognised.

Impressive

Game soundtracks pretty much crush film soundtracks as standalone things. Film soundtracks have a handful of short motifs, game soundtracks can have over a hundred unique songs. They're also much more memorable than the ambience of most films.

I played Journey but honestly I didn't even realize there was music roflmao

I was too engrossed in the visuals.

Wow, that, that is a sight.
Probably one of the most brilliant soundtracks in the latest years of gaming. My last favorite being katamari damacy 1, and most recently, persona 4.

Well deserved, my favorite soundtrack of the year.

Absolutely. After all, a movie lasts for only a couple or so hours at most, where a game may be anything from 6 hours to, well, potentially hundreds. Different media require different supporting music options, obviously. Games, as you say, frequently have significantly longer, deeper, more complicated soundtracks than movies, but I wouldn't say they are necessarily better. That depends upon the composers at hand.