From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

Director Joseph Kaczynski follow one big movie star triumph, Top Gun Maverick, with another last year's F-1 starring Brad Pitt.

And, like Top Gun Maverick, F-1 was also nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, along with four others.

It won this year for Best Sound Design.

So now we revisit the sounds of the director of F1, Joseph Kaczynski.

I was thinking about the way you use music.

I mean, I love the daft punk stuff and in 1983.

I mean, there's a real textual thing you do with music.

Yes, I think music is very much part of my creative process.

And I love nothing more than being able to kind of put something on the headphones and go for a walk

and just let the images just start to play.

And certainly, Oblivion came out of listening to M83 and walking around Santa Monica

when I was unemployed, my first 18 you know, 18 months in L.A., dreaming up this story that eventually I got to make into a film, which was an amazing experience.

You really use music basically as kind of an emotional metaphor where the characters are going through.

Yes, I think, you know, I think the soundtrack, the score, your ears almost drive emotion more

than your eyes do. I think the eyes are a little more analytical, intellectual.

Music and sound somehow can resonate deeply in a way that, you know, and when those two things are working together,

you know, for me, that's kind of like my most memorable moments when I think of cinema, you know,

if I think back to like Strauss and, you know, the Space Station in 2001, sequences like that,

to me, are kind of the purest form of cinema.

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