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American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (lost to the score of The Red Violin) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of The Legend of 1900), and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards.


A Box of Rain

The book's title comes from "Box of Rain", a song recorded and made famous on the Dead's 1970 studio classic, American Beauty.

Anthem of the Sun

The making of Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead, and American Beauty are described by former members and associates of the Grateful Dead in the 1997 Classic Albums documentary Anthem to Beauty.

Conrad Hall

Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films such as In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, and Road to Perdition.

Conrad W. Hall

Before becoming cinematographer, he worked with his father on several productions including A Civil Action (1998) and American Beauty (1999) as camera operator and director of photography (second unit).

Disturbia: Original Motion Picture Score

Beltrami's recently released Live Free or Die Hard does a considerably better job at this sort of thing.

Heartbreaks and Earthquakes

Between some tracks the mixtape also features excerpts from films The Craft, Kill Bill, Cruel Intentions, Beyond the Black Rainbow, and American Beauty, which also separate the mixtape into four segments.

Kelly Trump

She has performed in story-driven German adult films, such as German Beauty (an adult adaptation of American Beauty), Eiskalte Engel (the German title of Cruel intentions), the 00Sex series (based on James Bond) and Ariella the Mermaid.

Stephen Barncard

He is best known for his work producing rock albums of the 1970s, including the Grateful Dead's American Beauty and David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name.

Steve Tavaglione

Tavaglione lives in Southern California, and is a leading studio musician for television programs such as CSI, CSI: NY and Charmed, and films including The Good German, Alpha Dog, Bridge to Terabithia, Finding Nemo, Road to Perdition, American Beauty.

The Matrix: Original Motion Picture Score

In September 2008 Varèse Sarabande released an expanded to 78 minutes version of the score, that was limited to 3000 copies.

Totally Fucked Up

The technique becomes popular throughout 1990s film, evident also in such later works as Reality Bites (1994) American Beauty (1999) and The Blair Witch Project (1999).


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