Ennio Morricone’s music for “The Hateful Eight” and John Williams’ score for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will be among the 112 scores competing at this year’s Oscars in the Best Original Score category, the Academy announced on Wednesday.
In both of the last two years, 114 scores qualified.
One question mark before the release of the list was Morricone’s score for Quentin Tarantino‘s film, the first Western the legendary Italian composer had scored in decades.
Some of the music from the film was originally written for but never used in the 1982 remake of “The Thing,” Tarantino said at a recent Q&A.