9 Terrible 2015 Oscar Nominations - Corrected

5. Mica Levi (Under The Skin) Instead Of Johann Johansson (The Theory Of Everything) - For Original Score

Every individual piece of Johann Johannsson's The Theory of Everything score sounds basically the same. Seriously, give it a listen, and afterwards try to pick out a single melody from that aural soup. Johannsson's effort is altogether a faintly pleasant plod, but a plod nonetheless, all faux-emotive with its repetitive piano and strings, and sounding a lot like someone was trying to get an Oscar nomination (or, at the very least, to imitate to the point of almost ripping off Dario Marianelli's Oscar-winning score for Atonement). End result: mission accomplished. And so, the genuinely radical scoring of Mica Levi, for Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi mind-blower Under the Skin, has gone unrewarded in the process. Glazer's film may not have been to everyone's taste, but there's no denying that Levi's soundtrack is outstanding: frightening, moving, eerie and thrilling, it's a fluctuating, pulsating score that enhances and perfectly matches Under the Skin's odd skewed-realist imagery. Whereas Levi's Under the Skin soundtrack is new movie scoring at its best, Johannsson's work on The Theory of Everything is scoring at its least imaginative, sounding like it was made by a machine invented solely to produce generic music for historical romances.