Alien: Covenant Awards

[Corporal Hicks]

Thought it was time we got a thread going about any awards that Covenant pulled in.

Jed Kurzel just won Best Soundtrack Album for Covenant from Screen Music Awards - https://twitter.com/APRAAMCOS/status/929995533984325632



It also also nominated for a bunch of awards with Golden Trailer and won Best Horror Poster with the initial teaser poster.

http://www.goldentrailer.com/gta-18-nominees/?

[tleilaxu]

Deserved win for Jed Kurzel.

[Jango1201]

The soundtrack was part of the reason why I kept revisiting Covenant. Definitely a deserved win.

[BigDaddyJohn]

I thought there was a little too much stuff similar to the first Alien soundtrack, but all the other original pieces were really good.

[Highland]

One of the few highlights of the film. Although I did love Pembertons King Arthur better.

[0321recon]

Looks like Fassbender hitched a supporting role nomination from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society

https://mobile.twitter.com/mavericksmovies/status/942263842591055872

[Gash]

I thought there was a little too much stuff similar to the first Alien soundtrack, but all the other original pieces were really good.

That's what I like about it, the way it plays around with the themes of ALIEN, feels so much more connected because of it. Goldsmith's contribution to the feel of ALIEN was so fundamentally important that it's slightly bizarre that it's taken so long to properly reinstate it as the theme of the loneliness of deep space. There are moments where a change from minor to major changes the familiar into something more forward-looking and appropriate to a colonisation vessel. It's true that he might be riding the coat tails of Goldsmith a little but if it works for the film then it should be rewarded. Great tracks that accompany the deploying of the solar sails and the chestburster are probably the highlights amongst the original compositions. I like the med-bay track for it's building intensity, which was very effective as the scene played out, and there's a weirdness to the pathogen deployment and the Engineer city that's also effective - not quite the quality of Goldsmith going full weird - a little more modern and generic than that, but still - the soundtrack is one of the most effective amongst recent films because it largely (and respectfully) harks back to an era of stronger film music composition.