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8 unusual facts about film score


Deutscher Filmpreis

Until 2004 a single prize was awarded for the technical categories of cinematography, film editing, production design, art direction and musical score under the rubric "Outstanding Singular Achievement"

Erik Moseholm

As a music composer he composed music for all sizes of orchestras and also created theatre and film music.

Liberty Stands Still

The techno score was produced and composed by Convertino, and orchestrated with sound design by Film Composer and Film Music Producer Robert Muzingo.

Rasheed Attre

Rasheed Attre (1919 – December 18, 1967) was a Pakistani film music composer.

Tell Me You Love Me

No episode has a music score or soundtrack, except for one song which generally starts in the last two to three scenes and carries over the closing credits.

Trinity and Beyond

The film's music (composed by William Stromberg) was performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, symbolizing the end of the cold war.

Xerath

Xerath was originally started as an experiment to combine Film score style composition with syncopated guitar rhythms and crushing metal grooves.

Zeudi Araya

In 1973, songs composed by Piero Umiliani she sang in the score of another Scattini film where she played the lead role (La ragazza fuoristrada) were released on a 45 rpm record.


28 Days Later: The Soundtrack Album

The original score was composed by John Murphy, and tracks from Brian Eno, Grandaddy and Blue States which featured in the movie also appear on the album.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Most of the music for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was written by British composer Stephen Barton, who had also contributed to film scores by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Colour Blossoms

For the film's score Yonfan travelled personally to India to find a local composer, eventually hiring the talents of Surender Sodhi, a veteran of the Indian film industry.

Franklin J. Schaffner

Jerry Goldsmith composed the music for seven of his films, including Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Islands in the Stream and The Boys from Brazil.

Gitmo – The New Rules of War

In 2006, the musical score composed by Krister Linder won first prize for music in a TV feature at the Festival international Musique et Cinéma in Auxerre, France.

Gunbuster

Fans have speculated that this was due possibly to its similarity to Vangelis' score, given that the piece was a homage.

Hot One

He split with the band in 1999 and went on to write scores for such films as Boys Don't Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, Tigerland, Palindromes, The Woodsman and Little Fish among others.

Hummie Mann

Hummie Mann (Born October 29, 1955 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a two-time Emmy award-winning American film score composer.

I Taw a Putty Tat

Amongst the musical quotations in the Carl Stalling film score (with or without lyrics accompanying them) are extracts from Singin' in the Bathtub, She Was an Acrobat's Daughter and Ain't We Got Fun.

Jean Derome

Derome has composed scores for over 30 films, working with a number of Quebec film directors, including Michèle Cournoyer, Jacques Leduc, Pierre Hébert and Jean Detheux.

John D. F. Black

Black also was the executive producer of the detective movie Trouble Man (1972), which starred Robert Hooks and whose musical score was written by Marvin Gaye.

Kevin Brownlow

Brownlow's championing of the film succeeded, and the restored version, with a new score by Carl Davis, was shown in London and New York City in 1980 and 1981, and again in London in 2013 with the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Len Arran

Len Arran (born Leonard Arran, 7 June 1961, Thornaby-on-Tees, England) is an English composer of film scores, and songwriter for Skunk Anansie and solo artist Deborah Dyer (Skin).

Michael Leckrone

His father, Harold Leckrone M.M. '57, was the high school band teacher, but never pressured his son to follow in his professional footsteps, which included a contribution to the score of the 1986 film Hoosiers.

Mike Schurr

Notable productions include original film score and sound design for the movies UnConventional and Shorty both executive produced by actor Danny Aiello.

My Summer of Love

The score of the film was written by Goldfrapp and the movie theme is a variation of the Goldfrapp song "Lovely Head", which was the first song of their 2000 album Felt Mountain.

Nobuhiko Morino

Nobuhiko Morino is a Japanese film composer who usually partners up with Daisuke Yano on his film scores.

Pokémon 3: The Movie

Shinji Miyazaki wrote the original film score, while Ralph Schuckett composed the score for the International and Japanese DVD releases.

Porky's Hare Hunt

The incidental music heard throughout the piece are scored arrangements of "Bei Mir Bistu Shein," a popular swing tune of the time which has since become a standard, and "Hooray for Hollywood," from the contemporary motion picture Hollywood Hotel and now a quintessential Hollywood theme, among others.

Ricky Hyslop

He also composed music for the CTV Television Network programs The Human Journey and Being Human and composed the film score for the 1977 feature film Why Shoot the Teacher.

Secondhand Lions

The film score was composed by Patrick Doyle and features music by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Ola Onabule, in addition to Doyle.

The Creation of the Humanoids

The musical score consists of electronically generated sounds and wordless female vocalizing that suggests the Theremin music often used in science fiction films of the 1950s (e.g., The Day the Earth Stood Still and It Came from Outer Space).

The Wisdom Tree

The film score was composed by William Storkson, and features seven solo compositions rendered by Shweta Jhaveri, an Indian classical music vocalist and composer.

Yaariyan

Sachin Ahuja, Jaidev Kumar and Onkar composed the music while the film score is composed by Aadesh Shrivastava.

Yaprak Özdemiroğlu

Daughter of Atilla Özdemiroğlu, a film score composer and arranger, Özdemiroğlu was born in Ankara, the Turkish capital.


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Abel Korzeniowski

2010 World Soundtrack Academy 2010 for Best Original Film Score of the Year - A Single Man

Ambre Hammond

Lalo Schifrin, a renowned Hollywood film score writer has composed a double concerto for Ambre Hammond and trumpeter James Morrison which was premiered on 19 July 2007 at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony; the concert was later broadcast on ABC Television.

Ammavin Kaipesi

Film score and soundtrack of Ammavin Kaipesi are composed by Rohit Kulkarni who earlier composed music for Porkkalam.

An Awfully Big Adventure

In addition to the original film score composed by Richard Hartley, the Irish folk song "The Last Rose of Summer" is used as O'Hara's theme music throughout the film.

Carpark North

Robert (2004) - Best Film Score ("Transparent & Glasslike")

Chandee

The film score and soundtrack of Chandee were composed by Chinna and Nr Sankar who composed the Music for Simha, The soundtrack, consists of six tracks, with lyrics penned by Bhaskara Batla Ravi Kumar, and Ramajogayya Sastry and renowned poet Chandrabose.

Chris Palmer

Christopher Palmer (1946–1995), English film score arranger, historian, biographer

Coenraad Bloemendal

He then worked with the late pianist on two other occasions: a cello solo which Gould wrote for him to play in his radio program "The Quiet in the Land" and a cello and bass piece which he played with Joel Quarrington as part of a film score Gould wrote for the Canadian movie "The Wars" directed by Robin Phillips shortly before he died.

Dallas Chamber Symphony

On February 26, 2013, as part of its film series, the DCS Premiered a new all-strings film score to the silent-film horror classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Conrad Veidt.

Desi Kattey

Kailash Kher roped in to compose the film score for Desi Kattey.

Distant Past

The episode title Distant Past was taken from the title of a bit of underscoring in Stephen Sondheim's film score for Alain Resnais's Stavisky.

Eito Prem

The film score of the film as well as the soundtrack was scored by Habib Wahid.

Elie Siegmeister

He also composed for Hollywood (notably, the film score of They Came to Cordura, starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, 1959) and Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land, 1944, book by Walter Kerr).

Filmworks XXIII: El General

Filmworks XXIII: El General is a film score by American composer John Zorn for Natalia Almada's documentary El General which depicts Mexican politician Plutarco Elías Calles.

Folman

Ari Folman (born 1962), Israeli film director, film score composer and screenwriter

Gastr del Sol

1996's Upgrade & Afterlife included a would-be film score by O'Rourke, "Our Exquisite Replica of 'Eternity'", and an extended interpretation of the John Fahey piece "Dry Bones in the Valley" featuring guest Tony Conrad on violin.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

The film score of Hachi: A Dog's Tale was composed by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek.

I, Superbiker

The film score was written & recorded by David Vanian David Vanian, the frontman of the punk & alternative rock band The Damned.

Joseph Bishara

Although Bishara's film score work began with the Biblical drama Joseph's Gift in 1998, most of his subsequent work has comprised horror films like Unearthed and The Gravedancers in 2006 and Night of the Demons in 2009.

Karsten Vogel

He has composed for Radiojazzgruppen, the Danish National Chamber Orchestra and written a film score for the movie Er I bange, Er du grønlænder.

Kevin Mathews

In addition, Mathews is an accomplished film score writer, and has composed music for acclaimed Singapore director Eric Khoo’s feature films and has also contributed music to other Singaporean films like Stories About Love, One Leg Kicking, Invisible Children, Lucky 7, Anita's Complaint and The Carrot Cake Conversations as well as TV series such as Drive and Seventh Month.

Legend of the Eight Samurai

The colorful film score features a mixture of synthesizers and "real" strings produced by Nobody, and a couple of power ballads performed by John O'Banion: Satomi Hakkenden, composed by Joey Carbone and written by Kathi Pinto, and Hakkenshi no Tēma (White Light) (八剣士のテーマ), composed by Joey Carbone and Richie Zito, written by David Palmer.

Loscil

Eight of his songs were featured on the film score of the 2004 documentary ScaredSacred by award-winning documentary filmmaker Velcrow Ripper.

My Dear Enemy

Music director Kim Jeong-beom composed a jazz film score with influences from 1930-40s American music as well as Latin jazz.

Nilo Alcala

He won Best Movie Theme Song and was also nominated for Best Film Score at the 34th Metro Manila Film Festival for his music in the movie "Homecoming" by renowned Filipino director Gil Portes.

Patrick Hawes

He left teaching to pursue his career in composing and in 2002 he wrote his first film score The Incredible Mrs Ritchie, directed by Paul Johansson.

Robert Irving III

Later, Irving extended this musical direction on projects such as his film score for the feature film Street Smart also with André Lassalle on guitar (1985), starring Morgan Freeman and Christopher Reeve -- with Miles Davis as featured instrumentalist.

Robin Pecknold

Also, he has started a band with sister Aja, called Rainbow Fang, and has worked with Past Lives' Morgan Henderson on "film score-type music".

Russell Keable

His research in LA led to the first live performance of Korngold's film score The Sea Hawk.

Shrimathi

A remake of 2004 Bollywood film Aitraaz, it is produced by Shankare Gowda and features the original soundtrack and film score by Gurukiran.

Silent Gunpowder

At the 1990 Pula Film Festival (the Yugoslavian version of the Academy Awards), the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović), and Best Makeup (Snježana Tomljenović).

Soulsavers

The pair are also making headway as film score composers, with a portfolio of work that includes the feature documentary BattleGround: 21 Days on the Empire's Edge produced by the Guerrilla News Network.

Teenkahon

Playback singer Arnab Chakrabarty roped in to compose the film score for Teenkahon.

The Besnard Lakes

The band wrote their first film score for the film Sympathy for Delicious, from actor/director Mark Ruffalo.

The Boy in the Oak

The film score is composed by Jessica Albarn's brother Damon Albarn, who is known as the singer for Blur and frontman and songwriter for the Gorillaz.

The Midnight Meat Train

The "official" soundtrack from Lakeshore Records (only containing two remixes of the separately available actual film score) was produced and remixed by Justin Lassen and includes the bands and artists Iconcrash, Breaking The Jar, Blind Divine, Manakin Moon, Three Dot Revelation, Apocalyptica, Slvtn, Alu, Robert Williamson, Johannes Kobilke, Second Coming, Illusion of Order, Jason Hayes, Gerard K Marino, Penetrator, and Digital Dirt Heads.

The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice

The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice (originally titled The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays One Never Knows: Original Film Score for "No Sun in Venice") is a soundtrack album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1957 for Roger Vadim's No Sun in Venice and released on the Atlantic label.

The Seventh Victim

Most controversially, the film resolves with the suicide of one of the main characters (contrary to the spirit if not the letter of the Production Code), and is possibly the only Hollywood film score of the period to end in a minor key.

The Young Girls of Rochefort

The most famous songs from this film score, which is generally less acclaimed than that for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, are "A Pair of Twins" ("Chanson des Jumelles" in French) and "You Must Believe in Spring" ("Chanson de Maxence").

Threshing machine

In his film score for "Of Mice and Men" (1939) and consequently in his collection "Music for the Movies" (1942), American composer Aaron Copland titled a section of the score "Threshing Machines," to suit a scene in the Lewis Milestone film where Curley is threatening Slim over giving May a puppy, when many of the itinerant worker men are standing around or working on threshers.

Window Connections

Anupam Roy roped in to compose the film score for Window Connections.