Interview With "First Man" Composer, Justin Hurwitz

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Justin Hurwitz has in a short amount of time, through his collaborations with Damien Chazelle on "La La Land" and "First Man," made a huge impact on the cinematic landscape with his memorable film scores for both movies. An Oscar-winner for the former and now, recently shortlisted for this year's Oscar for the later, the 33 year old composer was kind enough to chat with us about his work on "First Man" and take us into his creative process behind one of the year's most celebrated film scores. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - @nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-…d1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast.
0:36.6	This is Daniel Howitt, and I'm joined today by Justin Hurwitz, Oscar-winning composer of Lalleland, Whiplash, and this year's Neil Armstrong Biopic First Man. Justin, thanks for talking with us today.
0:47.7	Hey, yeah, thanks for having me. Well, first of all, congratulations on making the short list for the Academy Award for Original Score yesterday.
0:56.0	That's pretty awesome.
0:57.2	Thank you.
0:57.9	So obviously, we're right in the heart of Oscar season.
1:01.1	What's it like being kind of caught up in this in awards season, awards runs?
1:05.7	Is it weird?
1:06.5	Is it fun or exciting, draining?
1:10.7	It's kind of all of those.
1:13.1	It's definitely fun.
1:16.4	It's, yeah, there's just a lot of, a lot of stuff going on,
1:21.9	a lot of opportunities to show the movie and to talk with people about it.
1:27.3	We did it a couple years ago.
1:30.3	It was the same kind of schedule for me with, you know, some screenings every week.
1:35.3	And it's, yeah, it's exciting.
1:38.3	You work so long on the movie and you're just kind of in a in a cave doing it and and then to finally uh put
1:46.4	it out there and um kind of it's kind of the opposite of what what we are naturally what we
1:53.4	naturally do and are probably inclined to do at least speaking as a composer or or speaking for
1:59.2	myself which is to privately make music and music. And now it's a lot of
2:04.9	talking to people and, you know, out at events with people, which is not normally what I do
2:12.0	on a daily basis when I'm actually working. It's very much the opposite. But it's fun to sort of be back in the world
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