97 Original Scores in 2011 Oscar® Race

Congrats Howard Shore and Alexandre Desplat, plus all of the movies with the cast.

Beverly Hills, CA (December 22, 2011) – Ninety-seven scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 84th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.

The eligible scores along with the composer are listed below in alphabetical order by film title:

"Anonymous," Thomas Wander and Harald Kloser, composers
"Battle: Los Angeles," Brian Tyler, composer
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," Alexandre Desplat, composer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," Alexandre Desplat, composer
"The Help," Thomas Newman, composer
"Hugo," Howard Shore, composer
"Immortals," Trevor Morris, composer
"Like Crazy," Dustin O’Halloran, composer
"Red Riding Hood," Alex Heffes and Brian Reitzell, composers
"Water for Elephants," James Newton Howard, composer
"X-Men: First Class," Henry Jackman, composer
"Young Adult," Rolfe Kent, composer

A Reminder List of works submitted in the Original Score category shall be sent with a nominations ballot to all members of the Music Branch who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements. The five achievements receiving the highest number of votes will become the nominations for final voting for the award.

To be eligible, the original score must be a substantial body of music that serves as original dramatic underscoring, and must be written specifically for the motion picture by the submitting composer. Scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other preexisting music, diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs, or assembled from the music of more than one composer shall not be eligible.

The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

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Carrie

Alexandre Desplat Wins Film Composer of the Year at World Soundtrack Awards

The French composer wrote the scores for "The King’s Speech," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and "The Tree of Life."

 

COLOGNE, Germany – Prolific French composer Alexandre Desplat has won the World Soundtrack Academy’s film composer of the year honor from the third straight year. Desplat’s output this included the scores for Oscar-winner The King’s Speech, box office juggernaut Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Parts 1 & 2 and Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Tree of Life. More recently, the four-time Oscar-nominee penned the music to Roman Polanski’s Carnage and George Clooney-starrer The Ides of March.
Oscar-winning German composer Hans Zimmer beat out Desplat for the Best Original Film Score honor, taking the prize for his work on Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Veteran songsmith Randy Newman nabbed the Academy’s Best Original Song prize for his tune We Belong Together, written for Toy Story 3.
Other winners at the 2011 World Soundtrack Awards, which closed the Ghent International Film Festival this weekend, included Alex Heffes, who won Discovery of the Year for his scores to The First Grader and The Rite; the Public Choice Award for A.R. Rahman’s score to 127 Hours and the Best Young European Composer honor, which went to Gabriel Heinrich.
This year’s lifetime achievement award was presented to three-time Oscar winning Italian composer Giorgio Moroder, whose credits include songs for Scarface, Flashdance and Top Gun.

--hollywoodreporter.com

~Robstenfan

BAFTA Winners

Congrats to Alexandre Desplat, Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland.

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA

THE HARRY POTTER FILMS

ORIGINAL MUSIC

THE KING’S SPEECH - Alexandre Desplat

COSTUME DESIGN

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Colleen Atwood

MAKE UP & HAIR

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Valli O'Reilly, Paul Gooch

BAFTA for the full list
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Carrie

2011 Golden Globe Nominees

See the complete list of nominees for TV and film when you read more.

MOVIES

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMABlack Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDYAlice in Wonderland
Burlesque
The Kids Are All Right
Red
The Tourist

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan, Inception
David O. Russell, The Fighter

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Halle Berry, Frankie & Alice
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Johnny Depp, Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp, The Tourist
Paul Giamatti, Barney's Version
Jake Gyllenhaal, Love & Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey, Casino Jack

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway, Love & Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie, The Tourist
Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone, Easy A

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Michael Douglas, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Mila Kunis, Black Swan
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

BEST ANIMATED FILMDespicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTUREBiutiful
The Concert
The Edge
I Am Love
In a Better World

BEST SCREENPLAY127 Hours
The Kids Are All Right
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexander Desplot, The King's Speech
Danny Elfman, Alice in Wonderland
A.R. Robin, 127 Hours
Trent Reznor, The Social Network
Hans Zimmer, Inception

BEST SONG
"Bound to You," Burlesque
"Coming Home," Country Strong
"I See the Light," Tangled
"There's a Place For Us," The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me," Burlesque

TELEVISION

BEST TV SERIES, DRAMABoardwalk Empire
Dexter
The Good Wife
Mad Men
The Walking Dead

TV SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY30 Rock
The Big Bang Theory
The Big C
Glee
Modern Family
Nurse Jackie

BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA
Julianna Margulies The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Piper Perabo, Covert Affairs
Katey Sagal, Sons of Anarchy
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

BEST ACTOR, TV DRAMA
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House

BEST ACTOR, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matthew Morrison, Glee

BEST ACTRESS, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Laura Linney, The Big C
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Lea Michele, Glee
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie

BEST MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONCarlos
The Pacific
Pillars of the Earth
Temple Grandin
You Don't Know Jack

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Hayley Atwell, Pillars of Earth
Claire Danes, Temple Grandin
Judi Dench, Return to Cranford
Romola Garai, Emma
Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Client List

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Idris Elba, Luther
Ian McShane, The Pillars of the Earth
Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack
Dennis Quaid, The Special Relationship
Edgar Ramirez, Carlos

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Hope Davis, The Special Relationship
Jane Lynch, Glee
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Julia Stiles, Dexter
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Scott Caan, Hawaii Five-0
Chris Colfer, Glee
Chris Noth, The Good Wife
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
David Strathaim, Temple Grandin

CECIL B. DEMILLE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Robert De Niro

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Carrie

Desplat named composer of the year

Brussels-- Alexandre Desplat has taken top honors at the World Soundtrack Awards for the second year running.
He was named film composer of the year on Saturday evening for his work on "Fantastic Mr. Fox," "New Moon," "Julie & Julia" and "The Ghost Writer."
"Mr Fox" also got the nod for best original film score, repeating Desplat's double last year with "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
Kudos for best original song went to "The Weary Kind" from "Crazy Heart," with music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.
Polish composer Abel Korzeniowski was named discovery of the year for his work on "A Single Man," which also picked up the public choice award.
John Barry received the World Soundtrack lifetime achievement award.
Now in their tenth edition, the award ceremony closed the Ghent Film Festival in Belgium.


variety.com

~Robstenfan

New Moon music

Chris Weitz and the composer Alexandre Desplat took the time to talk to about the music in New Moon. The official Twilight facebook page was at the event and were nice enough to write this article about it.  Its very interesting to hear the behind the scenes information about making a soundtrack and score for a major motion picture.
'New Moon' director Chris Weitz and score composer Alexandre Desplat share musical secrets for upcoming movie.
October 30th, 2009
Los Angeles, CA

Some of music's top film and television producers, supervisors and editors were out in full force for Billboard's Film and TV Music Festival on Thursday, October 29th at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA. People from all corners of the industry were in attendance to cultivate and learn new information to apply to their careers, or even just to see what made these music supervisors so successful. Companies such as ABC/Disney showed off their impressive musical choices that have garnered them so much attention such as working with The Fray in Grey's Anatomy and the ever popular show, Hannah Montana. However, the big buzz that surrounded this conference wasn't because of a 16 year old girl with split personalities. That honor bestows upon this year's hottest soundtrack and highly anticipated theatrical score for The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

The Official Twilight Facebook page and Twilight Source were on hand to experience two panels devoted to a behind the scenes look into the making and popularity of the series' soundtrack and instrumental score. The first discussion involved Alexandra Patsavas (Chop Shop Music), Livia Tortella ( Marketing, Atlantic Records) and Paul Katz ( Music Consultant, Summit Entertainment, LLC.) These "masterminds" behind the multi-million selling soundtrack to "Twilight" discussed how exactly they put together the newest ensemble of songs for the film's sequel, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Production of the soundtrack started back in December of '08, which gave the team roughly 8 months to put together another best-selling product. The main priority for this soundtrack was that the group wanted to find artists who would embody the "Twilight" culture, work with the franchise and bring everything they have back to the fans. Paramore did it with "Twilight" and the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, Thom Yorke, Lykke Li complete that notion with "New Moon." Patsavas and Tortella also commented that with "Twilight" they did the artist and band searching, but this time around there were so many offers from mainstream bands to "Twilight-inspired" artists. Twenty CD's worth of material were submitted by artists for consideration to be a part of the project. The producers worked with Chris Weitz, the film's director and the bands/artists up for feature on the soundtrack with showing them certain scenes and then asked them to write a specific song to coincide with that emotion. With this, the music producers felt it would bring more of a personal aspect to the song because the song was truly designed to encompass the range of action and emotion in a scene. According to Patsavas, "the reason why the music on this (soundtrack) fits so well is because Chris Weitz sat down with the artists telling them how he would like the scenes to feel."

Many fans were disappointed to find out that Robert Pattinson ( who plays Edward Cullen in the series) would not be contributing to this soundtrack, as previously on "Twilight". While the producers enjoyed working with Pattinson on the first film and debuting his musical talents via mainstream, the "Twilight Saga" actor opted out of this soundtrack to focus on his acting career and the success of the movie series. This won't stop our trio of the films' movie producers, as they intend to kindly ask Pattinson to contribute to the next two movies in the series ( fingers crossed!). Over the past weekend, the third movie in the series "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" directed by David Slade finished filming, with a release date of June 30th, 2010. However, the music production team stated that they have not started work on putting together this soundtrack, but will in the coming weeks.

After a panel completely devoted to the conglomerate that is ABC/Disney, Chris Weitz and Alexandre Desplat ( composer for the movie) graced the stage to an enthusiastic applause. For those of you who have not been fully introduced to Desplat, he is a multi- Oscar nominated composer of such films as "Julie/Julia", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and many highly acclaimed French films. Weitz said that he was "drawn to New Moon by the desire to do a faithful rendition of the book, and bring to life all the dark/emotional tones." Weitz and Desplat had previously worked with each other on "The Golden Compass" and Weitz felt that no other composer could quite encompass the tone of this movie into the instrumental score as Desplat. At first, the movie's production company, Summit Entertainment, LLC was concerned for the continuity between the scores for Twilight and New Moon. However, the feeling dissipated when they heard early cuts of Desplat's score. The great relationship between Chris Weitz and Alexandre Desplat was clearly evident on stage, as the two playfully bantered about trips to France and their family. Something to look for in the movie: Desplat mixed "Edward's Theme" and "Jacob's Theme" ( and vice versa) to illustrate Bella's internal conflict between her two loves.

Selected artists from the New Moon soundtrack will be heading out on tour starting November 6th in Los Angeles, CA and touring various Hot Topic location across the U.S. Here the fans can see the artists up close, divulge in some new merchandise and even meet a "New Moon" cast member or two ( subject to availability.) On November 24th, just 4 days after the U.S. debut of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" fans can expect the release of Alexandre Desplat's theatrical score.

** Thanks to Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter for allowing us to attend the event. Thanks also to Matt and Andrew from Twilight Source ( www.twilightsource.com) for contributing to this article.**


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