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World Soundtrack Award
The World Soundtrack Awards, launched in 2001 by the Film Fest Gent, is aimed at organizing and overseeing the educational, cultural and professional aspects of the art of film music, including the preservation of the history of the soundtrack and its worldwide promotion. The event takes place yearly in Ghent, Belgium with the ceremony usually at the Capitole Concert Hall. Usually, the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé performs the awarded music at the ceremony. Main Awards The three main categories are: * Film Composer of the Year *Television Composer of the Year * Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film Other awards * Discovery of the Year * Public Choice Award (2001–2002, 2004–) *Lifetime Achievement Award * Sabam Award for the Most Original Composition by a Young International Composer * Major Contribution to the Art of Film Music and Sound (handed out occasionally) * Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a Soundtrack (2001) * Best Original Score of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Soundtrack Award For Best Original Song Written Directly For A Film
The World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film is one of the three main prizes given by the World Soundtrack Academy to honour the best movie soundtracks. It has been given out each year since the Awards' debut in 2001. "†" means that the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Winners and nominees * 2001: ''Moulin Rouge!'', for the song " Come What May" – David Baerwald ** '' Artificial Intelligence: A.I.'', for the song "For Always" – John Williams & Cynthia Weil ** '' Atlantis: The Lost Empire'', for the song "Where the Dream Takes You" – Dianne Warren & James Newton Howard ** ''Azzurro'', for the song "Quante Cose Chiare" – Louis Crelier & Lucia Albertoni ** '' Felicidades'', for the song "Soy un Angelito" – Daniel Tarrab & Andrés Goldstein * 2002: '' Monsters, Inc.'', for the song " If I Didn't Have You" – Randy Newman, Billy Crystal & John Goodman † ** '' Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within'', for the song "The Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Soundtrack Award For Discovery Of The Year
Discovery of the Year is an award handed out yearly at the World Soundtrack Awards to commemorate an excellent piece of musical work in the field of TV and movie soundtracks that seemed to come out of nowhere, hence the title of the award. It has been handed out since the World Soundtrack Awards' debut in 2001. The category sometimes has multiple nominees and sometimes does not. *2001 ''Moulin Rouge!'' and ''Kiss of the Dragon'' - Craig Armstrong **''Beck - "Hämndens pris"'' - Adam Nordén **''Ftina tsigara'' - Panayotis Kalantzopoulos **''The Man Who Cried'' - Osvaldo Golijov **''Pollock'' - Jeff Beal **'' Wo hu cang long'' - Tan Dun *2002 ''The Time Machine'' - Klaus Badelt *2003 '' Cidade de Deus'' - Antonio Pinto *2004 ''21 Grams'' - Gustavo Santaolalla **''Chasing Liberty'' and ''Les Fils du vent'' - Christian Henson **'' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' - Jon Brion **'' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' - Iva Davies, Christopher Gordon & Richard Tognet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Soundtrack Award For Most Creative Use Of Existing Material On A Soundtrack
The award for Most Creative Use of Existing Material on a Soundtrack was an award for the World Soundtrack Awards. It was awarded only in the first year of the World Soundtrack Awards, in 2001. There were no other nominees, just a winner. Winners *2001: ''Moulin Rouge!'' - Baz Luhrmann, Craig Armstrong & Marius De Vries Marius de Vries (born 1961) is an English music producer and composer. He has won a Grammy Award from four nominations, two BAFTA Awards, and an Ivor Novello Award. Education Marius de Vries was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, Bedfor ... ReferencesWorld Soundtrack awards at IMDb {{WSA Chron World Soundtrack Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Soundtrack Award For Major Contribution To The Art Of Film Music And Sound
The award for Major Contribution to the Art of Film Music and Sound is a very special award that has been handed out only once since the Awards' 2001 debut. It is still considered an official category by the World Soundtrack Academy, so more awards could be handed out in the future. The award is to commemorate work that has changed film music into what we see now. Winners *2004 '' Purple Rain'' - To Prince & The Revolution (Prince, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Bobby Z., Matt Fink & Brownmark Mark Brown (born March 8, 1962), better known by the stage name Brown Mark, also styled Brownmark and BrownMark, is an American musician, bassist and record producer. Life and career Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, Brown's early ...) in honor of the twentieth anniversary of their legendary movie '' Purple Rain''. ReferencesWorld Soundtrack Awards at IMDb {{WSA Chron World Soundtrack Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Soundtrack Award For Soundtrack Composer Of The Year
The World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year (a.k.a. "Film Composer of the Year") is one of the three main prizes given by the World Soundtrack Academy to honour the best movie soundtracks and the people who work on them. Winners and nominees * 2001 John Williams ('' A.I. Artificial Intelligence'') ** Rachel Portman ('' Chocolat'', '' The Legend of Bagger Vance'') ** Yann Tiersen ('' Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain'') ** Hans Zimmer (''Hannibal'', ''Pearl Harbor'', '' The Pledge'', ''An Everlasting Piece'') ** Carter Burwell (''A Knight's Tale'', '' Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2'', ''Before Night Falls'') * 2002 Patrick Doyle (''Gosford Park'') ** James Horner ('' A Beautiful Mind'') ** Hans Zimmer ('' Black Hawk Down'') ** Howard Shore ('' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'') ** Randy Newman ('' Monsters, Inc.'') * 2003 Elliot Goldenthal (''Frida'') ** Terence Blanchard (''25th Hour'') ** Elmer Bernstein ('' Far From Heaven'') ** Howard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fenton
George Richard Ian Howe (born 19 October 1949), known professionally as George Fenton, is an English composer. Best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, he has received five Academy Award nominations, several Ivor Novello, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and BMI Awards, and a Classic BRIT. He is one of 18 songwriters and composers to have been made a Fellow of the Ivors Academy (formally BASCA). He has frequently collaborated with the directors Richard Attenborough, Nora Ephron, Alastair Fothergill, Stephen Frears, Nicholas Hytner, Ken Loach, Andy Tennant, Neil Jordan and Terry Gilliam. Early life and career George Fenton was born in 1949 in Bromley, Kent, one of five siblings. He was educated at Carn Brea School and St Edward's School, Oxford. He began learning the guitar at the age of 8 and at St Edwards studied the organ with Peter Whitehouse. He did not attend music college but continued to study with Pete Whitehouse and subsequently with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue (12 March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards, including an Academy Award for '' A Little Romance'' (1980), three César Awards (1979, 1980, 1981), two ASCAP Awards (1988, 1990), and one Gemini Award for '' Sword of Gideon'' (1987). He was also nominated for four additional Academy Awards for '' Anne of the Thousand Days'' (1969), '' The Day of the Dolphin'' (1973), '' Julia'' (1977), and ''Agnes of God'' (1985), four additional César Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Genie Award for ''Black Robe'' (1991). The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' named him "the Mozart of cinema." Delerue was the first composer to win three consecutive César Awards for ''Get Out Your Handkerchiefs'' (1979), '' Love on the Run'' (1980), and '' The Last Metro'' (1981). Georges Delerue was named Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France's highest honours. Early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Armstrong (composer)
Craig Armstrong, (born 29 April 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981, and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Armstrong's score for Baz Luhrmann's ''Romeo + Juliet'' earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, ''Moulin Rouge!'' and ''The Great Gatsby''. His score for the former earned him the 2001 American Film Institute's composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and a BAFTA. Armstrong was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the biopic '' Ray''. His other feature film scoring credits include ''Love Actually'', Oliver Stone's ''World Trade Center'', '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' and ''The Incredible Hulk''. Life and career Armstrong w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for '' Life of Pi''. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on the miniseries '' World Without End.'' Early life and education Danna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but his family moved to Burlington, Ontario, when he was four weeks old. He is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He studied music composition at the University of Toronto, winning the Glenn Gould Composition Scholarship in 1985. Career Danna served for five years as composer-in-residence at the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto (1987–1992). Works for dance include music for ''Dead Souls'' (Carbone Quatorze Dance Company, directed by Gilles Maheu 1996), and a score for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's ''Gita Govinda'' (2001) based on the 1000-year-old c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Fest Gent
Film Fest Ghent, spelt Film Fest Gent in Flemish and also known as International Film Fest Gent, is an annual international film festival in Ghent, Belgium. The festival held its first edition in 1974, under the name Internationaal Filmgebeuren Gent, and has since grown into the largest film festival in Belgium. The festival also puts the spotlight on film music; since 2001, Film Fest Ghent has hosted the World Soundtrack Awards, a series of prizes for the best soundtracks for film and television. The festival takes place every year in October, with an international jury awarding the Grand Prix for Best Film and the Georges Delerue Award for Best Soundtrack or Sound Design. Apart from the official competition, there are sections such as global cinema, classics, and an annual special focus. From 2000 to 2018, a European short film competition was organised. In 2019, the short film competition was reformed into an international competition, with the International Short Film Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concert
A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir, or band. Concerts are held in a wide variety and size of settings, from private houses and small nightclubs, dedicated concert halls, amphitheatres and parks, to large multipurpose buildings, such as arenas and stadiums. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called ''arena concerts'' or ''amphitheatre concerts''. Informal names for a concert include ''show'' and ''gig''. Regardless of the venue, musicians usually perform on a stage (if not actual then an area of the floor designated as such). Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment. Before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. For large concerts or concert tours, the challenging logistics of arranging the musicians, venue, equipme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Daniel Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 – December 11, 2022) was an American composer, best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch, notably '' Blue Velvet'', the ''Twin Peaks'' saga (1990–1992, 2017), '' The Straight Story'', and '' Mulholland Drive''. Badalamenti received the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his "''Twin Peaks'' Theme". Badalamenti also received a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the World Soundtrack Awards's Academy in 2008, and the "Henry Mancini Award" from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 2011. Early life Angelo Daniel Badalamenti was born on March 22, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York, the second of four children born to John and Leonora (née Ferrari) Badalamenti. His father, who was of Sicilian descent from the town Cinisi, was a fish market owner. He began taking piano lessons at age eight. By the time Badalamenti was a teenager, his aptitude at the piano earned him a summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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