What Won: Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel) With two out of five of the Best Original Score nominations bearing his name, Alexandre Desplat was odds on favourite to win this year. Thankfully, it was his creatively fitting soundtrack to The Grand Budapest Hotel that got him on the stage, instead of the rather typical score for The Imitation Game. What Should Have Won: Hans Zimmer (Interstellar) This is Round Two of what has strangely become a big fight between Wes Anderson and Christopher Nolan, which again sees the former's film win out. Of course, it is just one of two almost-matched films being favoured, but again here it's hard to not say Interstellar doesn't edge it. It's massive and operatic, to the extent that just hearing a few notes sets images of swirling stars and black holes off in your mind. The only real problem with the score is that it at points drowns out the dialogue, although that's more a mixing issue than Hans Zimmer's fault. For a more political reason, this marks yet another time Zimmer's work for Nolan has been ignored; he also lost out for Inception to The Social Network.
