Interview With "The Wild Robot" Composer Kris Bowers & The Sound Team

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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"The Wild Robot" had its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received enthusiastic reviews for its animation, story, heart, and music. An adaptation of Peter Brown's beloved, award-winning, No. 1 New York Times bestseller, the Dreamworks Animation film has gone on to gross over $300 million worldwide, won more Best Animated Feature prizes than any other film in 2024, including the Critics Choice Award, Annie Award, and Producers Guild Of America Award. And now, it's been nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score, and Best Sound. Composer Kris Bowers, supervising sound designer Randy Thom, supervising sound editor Brian Chumney, re-recording mixer Gary A. Rizzo, and supervising sound editor Leff Lefferts were all kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the film's soundscape, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Peacock from Universal Pictures and is up for your consideration for this year's Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score, and Best Sound. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free 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, and this is Daniel Howitz interview with the Oscar nominated composer for the Wild Robot, Chris Bowers, the Oscar nominated sound team including Supervising Sound Designer Randy Tom, Supervising Sound Editor Brian Chumney, re-recording mixer Gary A. Rizzo and supervising sound editor, Left Leopards.
0:21.7	I do not have the programming to be a mother.
0:24.9	They all need to eat, but yours needs to swim and fly.
0:32.9	He's a run.
0:34.5	His chances aren't super good.
0:39.3	I will protect him. Find that, uh,
0:41.3	inside you.
0:43.3	Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
0:46.3	You should work on that.
0:48.3	And I don't know
0:50.3	on the ground.
0:51.3	Don't be afraid.
0:53.3	I don't think I could love Don't be afraid. Ready?
0:57.0	I can use a boost.
1:03.0	All right, hello everyone.
1:05.0	So excited to talk with all.
1:07.0	You've got a full house for this episode here.
1:10.0	I'm so excited to talk with the whole sound team and composer Chris Bowers about the wild robot.
1:17.7	One of my favorite movies of the year.
1:20.0	So thank you all for joining me.
1:21.9	And congrats to all of you on your Oscar nominations.
1:25.1	Incredible.
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