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World Soundtrack Academy
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: *World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year, Film Composer of the Year *Television Composer of the Year *World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film, Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film Other awards *World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year, Discovery of the Year *World Soundtrack Award - Public Choice, Public Choice Award (2001–2002, 2004–) *World Soundtrack Award - Lifetime Achievement, Lifetime Ach ... [...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] |
World Soundtrack Award For Best Original Soundtrack Of The Year
The WS Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the Year is one of the three main prizes given by the World Soundtrack Academy to honour the best movie soundtracks. "†" means that the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Winners and nominees * 2001 '' Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)'' – Yann Tiersen ** ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence'' – John Williams ** '' Before Night Falls'' – Carter Burwell ** '' Hannibal'' – Hans Zimmer ** ''Moulin Rouge!'' – Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries * 2002 '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' – Howard Shore † ** '' Black Hawk Down'' – Hans Zimmer ** '' Monsters, Inc.'' – Randy Newman ** '' Spider-Man'' – Danny Elfman ** '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' – John Williams * 2003 ''Frida'' – Elliot Goldenthal † ** ''Catch Me If You Can'' – John Williams ** ''Gangs of New York'' – Howard Shore ** '' The Hours'' – Philip Glass ** ''Road to Perdition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Power Of The Dog (film)
''The Power of the Dog'' is a 2021 revisionist Western psychological drama film written and directed by Jane Campion. It is based on Thomas Savage's 1967 novel of the same title. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Set in Montana and shot mostly within rural Otago, the film is an international co-production among New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. ''The Power of the Dog'' had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2021, where Campion won the Silver Lion for Best Direction. The film had a limited theatrical release in November 2021, and was released to stream worldwide on Netflix on December 1, 2021. ''The Power of the Dog'' received universal acclaim from critics, who praised Campion's direction and screenplay, cinematography, score, and performances of the four leads. It was highly regarded as one of the best films of 2021 by multiple top-ten lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonny Greenwood
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is an English musician and composer. He is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the alternative rock band Radiohead, and has written numerous film scores. Along with his elder brother, the Radiohead bassist Colin, Greenwood attended Abingdon School in Abingdon near Oxford, England, where he met the future band members. The youngest of the group, Greenwood was the last to join, first playing keyboards and harmonica but soon becoming lead guitarist. He abandoned a degree in music when the band signed to Parlophone; their debut single, "Creep", (1992) was distinguished by Greenwood's aggressive guitar work. Radiohead have since achieved critical acclaim and sold over 30 million albums. Along with the other members of Radiohead, Greenwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Greenwood was named the 48th greatest guitarist of all time by ''Rolling Stone.'' A multi-instrumentalist, he also uses instrume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Martinez
Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for ''Spring Breakers'', '' The Foreigner'', and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'', '' Solaris'', '' Contagion'', and ''Traffic'') and Nicolas Winding Refn (''Drive'', ''Only God Forgives,'' ''The Neon Demon'' and the miniseries '' Too Old to Die Young''). On April 14, 2012, Martinez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Early life Martinez was born in the Bronx, New York. His grandfather migrated from a small village in Spain to the United States. Raised in Columbus, Ohio, his first job composing was for the popular television show '' Pee Wee's Playhouse''. At the time, however, he was more interested in rock bands, and playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films ''Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claudel''. He later worked on English-language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for his work on ''The English Patient'' (1996) and was nominated for both '' The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999) and '' Cold Mountain'' (2003). Life and career When Yared was 7, his father sent him to an accordion teacher. Two years later Yared stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons. Although he was not necessarily a gifted pianist, Yared was interested in reading music. When Yared was 14, his piano teacher died and Yared replaced him as the organist of Université Saint-Joseph. Yared used the university's library to read the works of Johann Seb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeru Umebayashi
(born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer. Once the leader and bass player of Japan's new wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 30 Japanese and Chinese film scores to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for "Yumeji's Theme" (originally from Seijun Suzuki's '' Yumeji''), included in director Wong Kar-wai's ''In the Mood for Love'' (2000). Umebayashi scored most of Wong Kar-wai's follow-up film, ''2046'' (2004), and ''House of Flying Daggers''. He is also the composer for the music of the first Serbian spectacle, '' Charleston & Vendetta''. Umebayashi received the special "Tomislav Pinter Award" aAvvantura Film Festival Zadar(Croatia) in 2013 during his stay as member of the official Jury. Filmography 1980s * ''Itsuka Darekaga Korosareru'' (1984) * ''Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure'' (1985) * ''Sorekara'' (1985) * ''Sorobanzuku'' (1986) * ''Shinshi Domei'' (1986) * ''Kyohu no Yacchan'' (19 ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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