Nominated for Best Original Score 
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is staring down the barrel of old age. He's retiring from the university, his marriage to Marion (Karen Allen) is ending, and everything looks like the beginning of the end. Then his goddaughter, Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) shows up, followed by government agents and an honest-to-God Nazi (Mads Mikkelsen). Thanks, Operation Paperclip! Dr. Voller has a brand new name and affiliation with the U.S. space program but has never forgotten that in the last days of the 3rd Reich, Dr. Jones and his compatriot Basil Shaw (Toby Jones), Helena's father, stole the legendary Antikythera mechanism from him. Designed by Archimedes, the Antikythera was broken into two parts and hidden to keep it from the hands of Roman invaders. Helena needs the piece, the Nazis want it, and Indy...needs to feel needed?
This felt much closer in tone to the early trilogy. It is still trying to recapture a glory of days gone by but it's a better attempt than the last one. The de-aging is incredible, even if it is morally and ethically a gray area, and Waller-Bridge is very game. I wouldn't mind seeing her having a spin-off. Although I suspect Disney will keep trotting out Ford as long as he can still say yes. Or agree to have his likeness used in perpetuity superimposed over some young, underpaid body double.
It's streaming on Disney+ if you want a nostalgia hit!
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