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Music (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation -or- Adaptation Score) - Song Score by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher; Adaptation Score by Paul Williams Music (Original Song) - The Rainbow Connection in "The Muppet Movie" Music and Lyric by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher
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- Michael Gore, Fame
- Vangelis, Chariots of Fire
- John Williams, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Bill Conti, The Right Stuff
- Maurice Jarre, A Passage to India
- John Barry, Out of Africa
- Herbie Hancock, Round Midnight
- David Byrne, Cong Su, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Last Emperor
- Dave Grusin, The Milagro Beanfield War
- Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid
The best-score award — long split into different categories by various criteria — was re-consolidated into a single Oscar this year, though it would split again later in the decade. The first winning score of the '80s was Michael Gore's work for the artsy-kid drama Fame, with the title track also winning for Best Original Song. Academy members made...
A movie about British Olympic athletes in the 1920s who overcome discrimination and form an unlikely friendship? Sounds like Oscar bait, and it was, winning Best Picture and Best Screenplay. (The onscreen couple Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn won both lead acting prizes for On Golden Pond.) The score, though, became an unlikely pop-culture break...
A movie about about a little boy and a cute alien was going to have trouble competing with a historical epic about Gandhi, even if it was arguably Steven Spielberg's greatest masterpiece. The score was also one of John Williams's greatest, and the Best Original Score Oscar very justifiably went to the shimmering music for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...
Terms of Endearment rolled over the major categories this year, but Bill Conti prevailed over its composer Michael Gore (Fame) with his frankly cartoonish Right Stuff score. Yentl, a dark Barbra Streisand musical, won for its song score — but its two nominees for Best Original Song both lost out to "Flashdance...What a Feeling," because, leg warmer...
Prince gets an Oscar! Oddly, though, not a single song from Purple Rain was nominated in the Best Original Song category, which went to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (from The Woman in Red). (The competition was stiff there even without Prince: both "Ghostbusters" and "Footloose" were in the mix.) Maurice Jarre took the Best Ori...
John Barry's sweeping score for Out of Africais easily the most acclaimed film score of the '80s not written by John Williams. It represents a peak of the decade's neo-Romanticism, with an indelible Big Theme. While the film incorporated source music including actual African music alongside Mozart's clarinet concerto — prominently heard on a phonog...
Herbie Hancock won an Oscar for his score to Round Midnight, a drama set in the Paris jazz scene of the 1950s. That score is less well-remembered, though, than Ennio Morricone's haunting score for The Mission — an otherwise disappointing Roland Joffé flick. Georges Delerue wasn't nominated for scoring Best Picture winner Platoon, which turned out t...
Bernardo Bertolucci's sumptuous and poignant Last Emperorbecame yet another of those historical dramas that the Academy loved to shower with Oscars, but its score was a departure from the norm. Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto wrote most of the music, with several additional pieces by David Byrne and one by Chinese composer Cong Su.
The Academy continued its tradition of honoring jazz musicians by giving Dave Grusin an Oscar for Robert Redford's Milagro Beanfield War. One of the losing nominees — excuse me, one of the nominees the Oscar did not go to — was the score for Best Picture winner Rain Man, the first nomination for a young composer named Hans Zimmer.
Alan Menken beat both previous-year winner Dave Grusin (The Fabulous Baker Boys) and not one but two John Williams scores (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Best Director winner Born on the Fourth of July) to take the best-score Oscar for The Little Mermaid, the first movie in what would become a huge comeback for Disney feature animation. Men...
Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score: Victor/Victoria: Henry Mancini (song & adaptation score) & Leslie Bricusse (song score) Annie: Ralph Burns (adaptation score) One from the Heart: Tom Waits (song score) 1983: Original Score: The Right Stuff: Bill Conti: Cross Creek: Leonard Rosenman: Return of the Jedi: John Williams ...
Presenters of the awards for Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score and Best Original Score: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Robert Benjamin: Robert Hays Kristy McNichol: Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design: Farrah Fawcett Harold Russell
