How does a Music category with Leonard Bernstein in it not automatically give the award to the Leonard Bernstein music?!? It's because that was not the focus of the film. Some bits were in there, but the movie was about the man and his relationship with his wife (and his sexuality).

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​This should be a non-Bernstein lock. Jerskin Fendrix (you may choose between a Seinfeld-variation on the Jerk Store joke, OR an attempt at a Jimi Hendrix joke...but not both!) wrote a score that changed the movie in a way that hasn't happened since The Power of the Dog. Ironcially, he's up against the guy who set the modern standard in nonagenarian John Williams. If not for his score, Jaws does not become the standard bearer of the summer blockbuster. Fendrix' quirky, dissonant music played up the irony and the humour in Poor Things. I will be disappointed when the sentimental vote goes to the all-time Oscar leader.

 

Hey, Johnny -- the Jerskin called and they're out of Purple Haze!**

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• Ludwig Goransson, Oppenheimer

• Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things

• Leonard Bernstein, Maestro

• Laura Karpman, American Fiction

• John Williams, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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**-This is why you were advised not to try this.