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3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film.
3 days ago · The film took home five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, and the songs are among some of the most famous musical tunes of all time. Julie Andrews’ angelic voice on ‘My Favorite Things,’ ‘Do Re Mi’ and ‘The Hills are Alive’ cemented her as a movie musical legend that continues to impress with her skills.
2 days ago · Pieces of the film’s music were written by fellow director Robert Rodriguez, of Spy Kids, Desperado, and Sin City fame. As the film’s narrative took a slower approach than the first installment of the saga, Tarantino felt the music should match the mood and asked his buddy to write additional music for Vol. 2.
4 days ago · Best Original Score. Roger Edens won three consecutive awards for composing the scores for Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), and Annie Get Your Gun (1950) Alfred Newman won two consecutive awards in Best Scoring of a Musical Picture for With a Song in My Heart (1952), and Call Me Madam (1953).
1 day ago · The score was successful among critics and garnered Goldsmith his only Academy Award for Best Original Score and a nomination for Best Original Song for "Ave Satani". His wife, Carol Heather Goldsmith, also wrote lyrics and performed a vocal track titled "The Piper Dreams" released solely on the soundtrack album. [21]
5 days ago · Amadeus for a time increased the popularity of Mozart’s music, and the soundtrack album won the Grammy Award for best classical album in 1985. The movie was adapted by British playwright Peter Shaffer from his own play of the same title, which opened in London in 1979 and won a Tony Award in 1981.
2 days ago · Year won: 1932/1933 (For a few years in the late '20s and '30s, Oscars ceremonies celebrated films released in two separate years.) Box-office earnings: $2,594,000
