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Academy Award For Best Original Score
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. Some pre-existing music is allowed, though, but a contending film must include a minimum of original music. This minimum since 2021 is established as 35% of the music, which is raised to 80% for sequels and franchise films. Fifteen scores are shortlisted before nominations are announced. History The Academy began awarding movies for their scores in 1935. The category was originally called Best Scoring. At the time, winners and nominees were a mix of original scores and adaptations of pre-existing material. Following the controversial win of Charles Previn for '' One Hundred Men and a Girl'' in 1938, a film without a credited composer that featured pre-existing classical music, the Academy added a Best Original S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Blumberg
Daniel Blumberg (born 1990) is an English artist, musician, songwriter and composer. He is known for his score for the 2024 film ''The Brutalist'', for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2025. Music career Blumberg was brought up in a Jewish family. In 2005, when he was only 15 years old, Blumberg co-founded and sang vocals for the band Cajun Dance Party, releasing their only album, '' The Colourful Life'', in 2008. From 2009 to 2013, Blumberg was frontman and guitarist for the indie rock band Yuck, whose self-titled 2011 debut was released to positive reviews. During his time in Yuck, Blumberg also performed as Oupa, releasing the album, ''Forget'', in 2011. He left Yuck in 2013 to focus on other projects, the first of which was ''Unreal'' by Hebronix, a solo project by Blumberg produced by Neil Michael Hagerty, which was released by ATP Recordings in 2013. This was followed by a split single with Neil Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
57th Academy Awards
The 57th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1984 and took place on March 25, 1985, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gregory Peck, Robert Wise, Larry Gelbart, and Gene Allen, and was directed by Marty Pasetta. Actor Jack Lemmon hosted the show for the fourth time. He first co-hosted the 30th ceremony held in 1958, and had last co-hosted the 44th ceremony in 1972. '' Amadeus'' won eight awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included '' The Killing Fields'' with three awards, '' A Passage to India'' and '' Places in the Heart'' with two, and '' Charade'', '' Dangerous Moves'', ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'', '' Purple Rain'', '' The Stone Carvers'', '' The Times of Harvey Milk'', '' Up' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
48th Academy Awards
The 48th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 29, 1976, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw (actor), Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly. Miloš Forman, Miloš Forman's ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' made a "List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees, clean sweep" of the five major categories: Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Screenplay (Adapted). It was the second of three films to date to do so, following ''It Happened One Night'' in 7th Academy Awards, 1934 and preceding ''The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Silence of the Lambs'' in 64th Academy Awards, 1991. 20-year-old French actress Isabelle Adjani received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
43rd Academy Awards
The 43rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was held on April 15, 1971, and took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to honor the best films of 1970. The Awards, without a host for the third consecutive year, were broadcast by NBC for the first time in 11 years. George C. Scott, winner of Best Actor for '' Patton'', became the first actor to decline an Oscar, having previously protested his nomination for Best Supporting Actor for '' The Hustler'' ( 1961) and quoted as saying that the Academy Awards were "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." He also maintained that it was "degrading for actors to compete against one another." Co-star Karl Malden agreed, but felt that Scott could have made his denunciation more subtly. With her Best Supporting Actress win for ''Airport'', Helen Hayes became the first performer to win Oscars in both lead and supporting categories (having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
42nd Academy Awards
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, although Brazil was the only country outside North America to air the event live. One year after '' Oliver!'' became the only G-rated film to win Best Picture, ''Midnight Cowboy'' became the first and only X-rated film to win, though its rating was changed in 1971 to R after the MPAA revised its ratings criteria. Only one other X-rated film has been nominated for Best Picture since, Stanley Kubrick's '' A Clockwork Orange'' (1971), which was also subsequently downgraded to an R rating (though this was a result of cuts to the original film). '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' set an Oscar record by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture. This was the last time until the 68th Academy A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
41st Academy Awards
The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969, to honor the films of 1968. They were the first Oscars to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, and the first with no host since the 20th Academy Awards. '' Oliver!'' became the only Best Picture winner to have received a G-rating prior to winning, the ratings system having replaced the old Hays Code on November 1, 1968 (though a number of Best Picture winners have received the rating retroactively). It was the last British film to win Best Picture until ''Chariots of Fire'' in 1981, and the last musical to win until ''Chicago'' in 2002. The year was notable for the first—and so far, only—tie for Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand shared the award, for their performances in '' The Lion in Winter'' and '' Funny Girl'', respectively, marking the third occurrence of a tie in Oscar history. Hepburn became the second actress and third performer to win an acting Oscar two yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40th Academy Awards
The 40th Academy Awards were held on April 10, 1968, to honor film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for April 8, the awards were postponed to two days later due to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony. This year, due to the waning popularity of black-and-white films, Best Cinematography, Art Direction, and Costume Design, previously divided into separate awards for color and monochrome films, were merged into single categories. This was the first Oscars since 1948 to feature clips from the Best Picture nominees. This year marked the first of two times that three different films were nominated for the '' "Big Five"'' Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay): '' Bonnie and Clyde'', ''The Graduate'' and ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner''. While all three won major Oscars, Best Picture was awarded to Norman Jewison's thriller/mystery film, '' In the Heat of the Night''. The same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
39th Academy Awards
The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. The Academy Awards broadcast faced the threat of cancellation due to a strike involving the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Fortunately, the dispute was resolved just three hours before the ceremony was set to begin. Bob Hope, during his opening monologue, alluded to this uncertainty, noting that even as late as 30 minutes before the event, it was still unclear whether the telecast would proceed. In a rare occurrence during the period with five Best Picture nominees, only two were nominated for Best Director this year: Fred Zinnemann for '' A Man for All Seasons'' (the winner) and Mike Nichols for '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''. The latter was the second film in Oscars history to be nominated in every eligible category (after '' Cimarron'' ( 1931)), as well as the first of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
38th Academy Awards
The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope, and were the first Oscars to be broadcast live in color. Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, attended the ceremony, escorted by actor George Hamilton. The most successful films of the year were '' The Sound of Music'' and '' Doctor Zhivago'', each with ten nominations and five wins, with the former winning Best Picture. Both films are in the top 10 inflation-adjusted commercially successful films ever made, and both would go on to appear on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the twentieth century. ''The Sound of Music'' was the first Best Picture winner without a screenwriting nomination since ''Hamlet'', and would be the last until '' Titanic'' at the 70th Academy Awards. '' Othello'' became the third film (of four to date) t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
35th Academy Awards
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. The year's most successful film was David Lean's '' Lawrence of Arabia'', with 10 nominations and 7 wins, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director. For his role as T. E. Lawrence, Peter O'Toole received his first of eight career nominations for Best Actor, all unsuccessful; as of the 94th Academy Awards, O'Toole and Glenn Close share the record for the most acting nominations with no wins. To date, ''Lawrence of Arabia'' is the only Best Picture winner with no female speaking roles. Although there were bets made on Omar Sharif, and Angela Lansbury receiving awards in the supporting categories, their wins failed to materialize. Arthur Penn's '' The Miracle Worker'' earned the rare distinction of winning two acting Oscars ( Best Actress for Anne Bancroft and Best Suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
34th Academy Awards
The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins became the first Best Director co-winners for ''West Side Story''. The film won 10 of its 11 nominations, including Best Picture and both supporting acting Oscars, becoming the most successful musical in Oscars history. Legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini received his first Best Director nomination for ''La Dolce Vita'', while fellow Italian Sophia Loren became the second performer to win an Oscar for a non-English-language role, after Jane Wyman's American Sign Language performance in '' Johnny Belinda'' (1948), and the first to win a regular Oscar for a film made entirely in a language other than English. Directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins became the first pair to share an Oscar for the same film. George C. Scott became the first actor to refuse an award in adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
15th Academy Awards
The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on March 4, 1943, honoring the films of 1942. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by Greer Garson. Accepting the award for Best Actress, Garson spoke for approximately 5 minutes and 30 seconds, which was the longest acceptance speech in Oscars history until Adrien Brody won for Best Actor in 2025. A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio. ''Mrs. Miniver'' was the second film (after '' My Man Godfrey'' in 1936) to receive nominations in all four acting categories, as well as the first film to receive five acting nominations; it won six of its twelve nominations, including Best Picture and William Wyler's first of three Best Director awards. Irving Berlin presented the Academy Award for Best Original Song, which he ended up winning himself for " White Christmas". There was also a four-way tie for Best Documentary Feature, a unique occurrence. Winners and no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |