A very good movie, but I have a question....

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 2000)

I really enjoyed this movie. I've seen it several times and it has held my attention each time. My favorite part of this film, above some excellent acting by the leads, was Randy Edelman's outstanding dramatic score. My question is this, "Why was it overlooked at the Oscars?" It wasn't even nominated. I consider this score and James Horner's score for Glory to be among the best film scores in recent years. Both were not nominated for Academy Awards. I think this is rather sad. While I'm glad that Mr. Horner won for Titanic, I'd rather remember him for Glory as opposed to "My Heart Will Go On." Mr. Edelman's score work has been uneven, but he also wrote the highly memorable music for Last of the Mohicans. Again, he was not nominated. In fact, he has never been nominated for an Academy Award. I suppose that not much can be done about this now, but I thought it would be good to draw attention to these two scores as (well, perhaps slightly) short of masterpieces despite the fact that they were overlooked at Oscar time.