The Batman: Michael Giacchino's Score Deserves An Oscar Nomination

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Before composing the score for The Batman, Michael Giacchino had scored Matt Reeves’ previous films Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and War for the Planet of the Apes, so he was probably a shoo-in for The Batman job no matter what. But Giacchino has a track record for producing memorable superhero themes in an era where they’re hard to come by. Whereas John Williams’ Superman theme and Danny Elfman’s Batman theme can be hummed on a moment’s notice, superhero fans are hard-pressed to remember how any recent comic book movie theme goes (except, at a push, Alan Silvestri’s Avengers theme).

In the past couple of decades, Giacchino has graced superhero cinema with two of its last remaining hummable themes: the theme from The Incredibles, which evokes the pulpy tone of classic superhero stories, and the theme from Tom Holland’s Spider-Man movies, which revamps the theme from the old animated series with orchestral backing. So, whether he’d been a frequent collaborator of Reeves’ or not, Giacchino was the perfect composer for The Batman. Giacchino was so thrilled to work on a Batman movie that he completed the main theme within a few weeks of being hired.

Listen To Full The Batman Theme By Michael Giacchino

With a four-note riff repeated over and over, gradually getting louder and louder, Giacchino’s captivating Batman theme builds to the Bat’s arrival like the shark approaching in Jaws. This Batman theme can’t be hummed as easily as Elfman’s, but it’s still memorable. Like Ludwig Göransson’s Mandalorian theme, Giacchino’s Batman theme is a subtle but distinctive melody that manages to be catchy without being easily replicated by the human voice – and it perfectly captures the brooding antihero it