The nominations for the 2021 Golden Globe Awards, coming February 28th, have arrived. Among the many star-studded nominations, Britain’s own Atticus Ross has joined Trent Reznor for the Best Score in a Motion Picture category. Ross was nominated in this category twice for his collaborative work with Reznor on the two films Mank and Soul, which Jon Batiste was greatly involved in the writing process as well.
This is not the first major award Ross has been nominated for in his long-running music career, he has also won in many categories he has been nominated in. In 2010, he joined Reznor to win the Academy Award for Best Original Score for their work on The Social Network. In 2013, they teamed up once again to win the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their work on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Ross and Reznor have a long history of producing award-winning scores and soundtracks since their collaborations began in 2005 when Ross worked with Reznor’s band Nine Inch Nails. Ross and Reznor developed a kinship through their collaborations and eventually Ross was invited to become an official member in 2016.
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Ross has been working in film and television scoring for more than a decade when he first worked on the soundtrack for the television series Touching Evil with his wife Claudia Sarne and his brother Leopold Ross. He won his first award for a score, when in 2010 he was given the BMI award and the World Soundtrack Award for his work on The Book of Eli.
This year Ross and Reznor face a varied and talent group of opponents for the award, Other nominees in the Best Score Motion Picture category include Alezandre Desplat, Ludwig Goransson, James Neton Howard, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Life Ahead, One Night in Miami. Mank and Soul will be going up against The Midnight Sky and Tenet among many others.
This year’s Golden Globe Awards will be hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler this February. 28th, originally scheduled for January but delayed because of saftey concerns surrounding the Covid19 global pandemic. The show will be live-streamed from The Hilton in Beverly Hills, California and will be aired a 8 p.m. Eastern US time on the American network NBC.
