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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. [1]
Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute in 2005. John Williams has the most scores in the top 25, with three: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, and the top choice, Star Wars.
The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer (or composers) for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, or other visual media [1] at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
Academy Award for Best Original Score BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (shared with The Towering Inferno) Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special: 1976 Family Plot: Alfred Hitchcock: Universal Pictures — The Missouri Breaks: Arthur Penn: United ...
The BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, formerly known as the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, is a film award that is presented to film composers by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. It has been presented annually at the British Academy Film Awards since 1968.
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score [1] is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.
[1] [2] Morricone was considered one of the most influential and best-selling film composers since the late 1940s. [ 3 ] He has sold well over 70 million records worldwide, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] including 6.5 million albums and singles in France, [ 6 ] over three million in the United States and more than two million albums in Korea .
Ironically, the best film score ever written is probably the worst soundtrack ever recorded. The intonation of the instruments and of the chorus is sad, and the frequency range is limited to 5,000 Herz (as opposed to an industry standard of 20,000 Hz). This in the period when Hollywood was turning out Gone with the Wind and Disney's Fantasia ...