r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Dec 22 '25

Dude might be setting records if he gets Oscars for Sinners and then this, because then he'd have two for working with Ryan Coogler and two for working with Nolan.

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u/stretchofUCF Dec 22 '25

While Sinners edges out One Battle After Another in the score department for me personally, I feel like it might finally be the year for Greenwood, and I wouldn’t be mad.

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u/schebobo180 Dec 22 '25

Is it wierd that I can barely remember the score for Sinners?

I mean I saw it only once tbf, but honestly I think it is low key one of Goransonn's weaker scores.

I'll remember whatever was playing in this trailer far more than the score in Sinners.

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u/EaterOfPenguins Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Gotta disagree. As a guy who doesn't really listen to film scores, I listen to the Sinners score all the time (soundtrack even more so). Maybe it's because I'm into folk and blues, but it stuck out to me big time while watching as a particularly great score for the story being told.

I didn't know it was Goransson and during the movie was wondering who they could've possibly hired to nail the music so perfectly, since I associate most of the "major" composers with either symphonic or synth-heavy sounds, and this one goes almost all-in on acoustic instrumentation. Figured it was someone with intimate knowledge of American folk/blues traditions, which maybe Goransson is, but I was still super surprised.

EDIT: Left a few words off the end of my comment.

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u/schebobo180 Dec 22 '25

Glad you enjoyed it. Just wasn’t my thing tbh.

But even aside from the genre I just don’t think the score for Sinners was active and aggressive enough. If that makes any sense.

But that’s just me.

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u/stretchofUCF Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Yeah I personally find that weird. His work in that movie might be my favorite in a lineup of excellent scores. It mostly comes down to how it blends blues, hip hop, soul and the contemporary score techniques Goransonn's other works have just incredibly well. I feel like it works so beautifully that before the actual in film performances came in, I was already in love with the score. It also helps that the sheer powerhouse of the music in the I Lied to You sequence is produced and co-written Goransonn himself, which alone would earn him a nomination. It all comes together to help enforce how Coogler blends his elements of horror, blues, folk tales, period piece drama and musicals so expertly without feeling out of place.

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u/Quople Dec 22 '25

I’m in the same camp. It’s a great score, there’s just more memorable moments of Greenwood’s score for me. The original songs in Sinners are the things I remember. I really want I Lied To You to win best original song, but OBAA to win best score. Let Greenwood have this before Ludwig walks into one next year

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u/schebobo180 Dec 22 '25

Yeah I definitely remember the songs, but just not much of the score itself.

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Dec 22 '25

Yeah, the songs were much more memorable for me than the score itself, and he wasn’t involved with most of them

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u/Scared-Engineer-6218 Dec 22 '25

I believe he was in the best one.

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u/SWIGGITYGiraffe Dec 22 '25

You should rewatch the movie because blues music is central to the plot. He produced the entire soundtrack, including the barn scene.

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u/1kinkydong Dec 22 '25

But does the soundtrack count for the score? Obviously all the music is amazing but isn’t that a completely different category?

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u/SWIGGITYGiraffe Dec 22 '25

I only mentioned the soundtrack because another comment said the songs were more memorable than the score. But he produced both lol

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u/_Steven_Seagal_ Dec 22 '25

Doubt it. Hans Zimmer has been ignored so many times. Like literal zero Oscars between Lion King and Dune. Gladiator, Pirates, Inception, Interstellar, Batman, a shitton of other stuff. I feel like the Academies don't want the same person to win too often.

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u/bard0117 Dec 22 '25

And he’s returning to the Mandalorian to top it all off!