Oscar 2015 - Music

One of the few sections this year where we have a decent competition, without a certain winner is the soundtracks section. Alexandre Desplat, nominated constantly during the last years has two entries here. The first, which is also my option for the winner, is the score from "The Grand Budapest Hotel". The tune fits perfectly the movie, and remembers a bit of the rhythms from "Fantastic Mr. Fox". Well, same director, same composer, similar score ...
"The Imitation Game" is the second movie featuring music composed by Desplat. Completely different compared with the first nomination. From tempos to instrumental composition. I have to admit that lately I'm pleasantly surprised of how versatile can this guy be when writing music. Typically a movie score composer, no matter how good he is, starts to get repetitive. It's not the case here & I hope it'll last ...
Talking about good composers but who tend to re-use too much of what they're composing, we have another surprise this year. Hans Zimmer manages to produce something new in "Interstellar". Although still following the same style, superbly simple but incredibly efficient = incremental construction of tracks merged gradually, it seems that the nuances are more suave and the melodic variation at the level of the track is not anymore based only on loops executed with a different instrument, pitch, etc.
Until "Mr. Turner" I didn't hear about "Gary Yershon". Again, we have here something interesting. A soundtrack that I don't think I could listen outside the movie. The highs are so dense that they're scratching my ear. Somehow though, it gets tolerable in relation with what you see on screen = fits perfectly with the context.
Johann Johannsson has an ok soundtrack in "The Theory of Everything". However, a bit too ... normal. Which unfortunately tends to please the Academy, but I think/hope won't be the case this year.