This is Fresh Air. I'm David B. and Kooley, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, Infra Terry Gross.

Today, we feature interviews with two people nominated for Oscars for their work on the Jane Campy in film The Power of the Dog,

composer Johnny Greenwood, and actor Benedict Cumberbatch. The film is nominated for 12 Oscars in total.

First, we'll listen to Terry's interview from last month with Johnny Greenwood.

He was known as the lead guitarist and keyboard player for the rock band Radiohead.

When screenwriter and director Paul Thomas Anderson asked him to write the score for his film There Will Be Blood.

That score was described in Rolling Stone as a sonic explosion that reinvented what film music could be.

Greenwood wrote the scores for Anderson's subsequent films, including Phantom Thread and The Master, which opened like this.

Greenwood also writes a lot of film music that is more avant-garde, but some of the avant-garde music is influenced by his love of Baroque.

He studied classical music when he was young, played in a youth orchestra, and has been a composer in residence at the BBC Concert Orchestra.

You can hear his music in three very different recent movies.

Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film, Likrish Pizza, which is set in the 70s, Spenser starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana,

and The Power of the Dog, which is set in Montana in 1925.

In the beginning of The Power of the Dog, two brothers who own a large cattle ranch are hurting the cattle to market.

This is the music we hear.

Jenna Greenwood, welcome to Fresh Air. I love your music. It's a pleasure to have you on our show.

That music that we just heard from The Power of the Dog, it starts like it's going to be very western-ish, but not quite.

And then there's other potentially menacing music intruding on it. It's a buzzy ominous sounding melody interfering with this western-ish kind of sound.

So, and it lets you know that this isn't going to be a conventional western, even though they're hurting cattle.

And it also lets you know that bad things are going to be interfering.

What's happening musically? What are you doing musically?

I think westerns have a traditional sound, which is big sweeping strings and sort of Copeland style harmonies, which are not only beyond me,

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