My guess:

1. The Patriot - John Williams
2. Dinosaur - JNH (Not really my cup of tea, but Disney usually gets nominated in this category)
3. Gladiator(?) - Hans Zimmer (A wild guess, if it is being nominated for other categories e.g. Best Sound, Best Picture?)
4. Road to El Dorado - Zimmer could get another nomination (TTRL and PoE)

(this is where I play Ford Thaxton)

Gladiator and The Road To El Dorado CANNOT be nominated, as the scores were credited to more than one composer (in the case of El Dorado, at least 3, and in the case of Gladiator, the recount is already in progress). You can thank David Byrne and R. (won't even try it) Sakamoto for that.

My guesses?

Without even hearing it, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will be nominated (and will probably win) because it was written by a composer who doesn't write many film scores and is from a foreign land.

If the Academy could look past crap films, Bless The Child would be a great choice for a nomination. Well, maybe Chris Young will get one for The Gift. That would be cool.

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Originally posted by Shaun Rutherford:
Gladiator and The Road To El Dorado CANNOT be nominated, as the scores were credited to more than one composer

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Hm, I completely forgot that rule. No Chicken Run, then, although it would deserve at least a nomination.

I'd like to see Goldsmith nominated for Hollow Man, he too would deserve it. But I guess we won't see this happen.

I guess that rules out my main secret nomination hope - Chicken Run.

Ah well -

The Patriot
Dinosaur
Legend of Bagger Vance
2 out of these 3:
Mission to Mars (maybe?)
U-571
X-Men

I'm going by those released so far that i've heard - so I'm missing out on all the late oscar-tailored films that are coming out now.

Too bad that Harry Potter isn't coming out in time; Williams being nominated is more or less certain, but while I like The Patriot, it's not that great. I have a feeling that Potter could become his next Hook/Jurassic Park, and if this turns out to be true, it would deserve a nomination much more than Patriot.

Of course, the academy might try to be "serious" and choose Patriot, anyway...

NP: Home Alone 2 (John Williams) - I'm still annoyed that from the first score, Somewhere in my Memory was nominated for best song; it's nice but the true masterpiece from both scores is Star of Bethlehem.

Ok, ranting finished.

NP (when editing the message): Voodoo Lounge (The Rolling Stones)

You'd discover they (sic) scores written by more then (sic) one composer can be nominated.

Remember this:

Good Research keeps me from making a fool of myself.

READ IT
LEARN IT
REMEMBER IT.

The Golden Globes nominate whatever they want, hence the Philip Glass/Burkhard Dallwitz win for Truman, but don't you guys remember every year we go through this? I'll do a search and see what I can find.
Under the rules of eligibility for Best Original Score, I found this:

Only the principal composer(s) or song writer(s) responsible for the conception and execution of the work as a whole shall be eligible for an award. This expressly excludes from eligibility all of the following:

f. scores assembled from the music of more than one composer.

Thanks,
Shaun

Tha Patriot
Gladiator
Dinosaur
Legend of Bagger Vance

Thats is for now. I was planning to make a list of predicitons for the Oscars, looks like I need to get on to that.

Happy Thanksgiving!

--Kyp
Writer/Editor

On the other hand, the major nomination period is about to begin. There are still a few oscar movies coming till christmas.

-Gladiator
-Unbreakable
-The Yards
-The Patriot (I really hope this doesn't get nominated!)
-The Grinch
-The Legend of Bagger Vance
-Dinosaur
-Pay It Forward

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Originally posted by sean:
I doubt very much that Mission To Mars would be nominated.

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Of course it won't.

But them again, the Oscar is nothing else than a popularity contest.
Nothing to do with art or anything...