The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1981 in the category Best Instrumental Composition, losing out to composer John Williams and his score to the film The Empire Strikes Back.
The 1980 movie Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back used Hardangerjøkulen as a filming location, for scenes of the ice planet Hoth, including a memorable battle in the snow.
Martin is known among Star Wars fans for her less-than-adulatory review of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, which she referred to as a “good junk movie” with “no plot structure, no character ... development, no ... original vision of the future”.
He was the musical supervisor for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Monsignor, and The Fury.
Coinciding with early nineties when the video boom was over the company began to buy American film catalogs for television distribution, with titles such Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, Apocalypse Now, and Tucker.
In addition to being a pun on the film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the phrase refers to the ways post-colonial voices respond to the literary canon.
Ottoman Empire | Order of the British Empire | Russian Empire | Roman Empire | British Empire | Holy Roman Empire | German Empire | Byzantine Empire | Mughal Empire | Austrian Empire | First French Empire | Back to the Future | Empire of Japan | Empire State Building | Vijayanagara Empire | Spanish Empire | Boardwalk Empire | Empire | Back to the Bible | Mongol Empire | Second French Empire | Order of the Indian Empire | Portuguese Empire | Achaemenid Empire | Parthian Empire | Maratha Empire | Western Roman Empire | Seleucid Empire | The Empire Strikes Back | Hackney Empire |
The AFF is the first festival to focus on the contribution of the screenwriter, and 2001's honorees were Lawrence Kasdan (writer/director of Grand Canyon, Mumford, The Big Chill; writer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back) and Gary David Goldberg Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge).
The game largely takes place during the events of Episode IV: A New Hope; however, the sequences on Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back are included.
Mark explains the original plan for the video: "We're off to Iceland to shoot it up in the mountains, imagine vast area covered in snow, think Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back, we're all dressed Han Solo style with Rebel Alliance logos with rescue flares going up in the night and we're gonna comes across 'Snow Jawas'. Whilst Tim makes a quest across the snow scape searching for his "Flying V" just in time for the solo. How epic".
Lucas is also a fan of Sergio Leone's film Once Upon a Time in the West, and according to Leone's biographer, Christopher Frayling, he listened to the score from Leone's film while editing The Empire Strikes Back.