20 Things You Somehow Missed In Shutter Island
12. It Has No Original Music
Shutter Island is such an absurdly atmospheric movie despite the fact that it doesn't feature any original music at all.
Rather, Scorsese opted to hire his regular collaborator Robbie Robertson as a music supervisor, to select existing music for inclusion in the film.
And so, Shutter Island's soundtrack consists of nothing more than classical music (both centuries-old and recent), including the likes of Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, John Cage, Ingram Marshall, and Max Richter.
As much as the film was praised for its cannily picked soundtrack, this immediately disqualified Shutter Island from being nominated for the Best Original Score Oscar, due to its total reliance on existing music.