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Feb 24, 2012 · Though technology for synchronized sound—a “sound track” is a physical, audio-coded region on the film’s border—had been around since the turn of the century, Hollywood didn’t come aboard until 1923.
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- Elmer Bernstein
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Hans Zimmer
- John Barry
- Bernard Herrmann
- Ennio Morricone
- Max Steiner
- Henry Mancini
- John Williams
Four women in cinematic history have won Academy Awards for Best Original Score: Marilyn Bergman forYentl, Rachel Portman for Emma, Ann Dudley for The Full Monty, and Hildur Guonadottir for Joker. Of the four, Portman's filmography slightly trumps the others in terms of quantity and quality. Portman has scored films for Mike Leigh, Wayne Wang, John...
With due deference to Howard Shore, Phillip Glass, Alexandre Desplat, and other worthy contenders, Elmer Bernstein has over 250 credits as a film composer. With a legendary career spanning from 1951 to 2004, Bernstein earned 11 Oscar nominations and one win for Thoroughly Modern Millie in 1967. RELATED: To Kill A Mockingbird & 9 Other Best Hollywoo...
With over 250 credits amassed from 1953 until his death in 2004, Jerry Goldsmith is responsible for some of the most memorable film music of all time. Goldsmith was nominated for 17 Academy Awards, including his sole victory for The Omenin 1976. Goldsmith composed the scores to such landmark movies as Planet of the Apes, Chinatown, Alien, L.A. Conf...
German composer Hans Zimmer earned his first Oscar nomination for Rain Man in 1989. Five years later, he won the Academy Award for scoring The Lion King. In the intervening 27 years, Zimmer has added another eight nominations. RELATED: 5 Best Disney Siblings (& 5 Worst) Zimmer has worked with the best directors in Hollywood, including frequent coll...
Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry is one of the most esteemed musicians in Hollywood history. In addition to working with the most talented filmmakers in the industry, Barry earned a reputation for scoring such cinematic epics as The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa, Dances With Wolves, Chaplin, and others. Barry also became famous for condu...
While he won his lone Oscar for scoring All That Money Can Buy, in 1964, Bernard Herrmann is responsible for such all-time great movie music as heard in Citizen Kane (his first film), Psycho, Taxi Driver, and many more. RELATED: Martin Scorsese's 10 Favorite Films Of All Time As Alfred Hitchcock's most frequent musical collaborator, Herrmann also c...
With due respect to fellow Italian composers Nino Rota, Pino Donaggio, and others, none can eclipse the influence of monumental composer, Ennio Morricone. With over 500 credits dating back to 1960, Morricone finally won an Oscar in 2016 for his original score for The Hateful Eight. Morricone's score for Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugl...
With 20 Oscar nominations logged from 1935 to 1956, three-time winner Max Steiner scored some of the most famous movies in cinematic history. Steiner wrote music for Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and many more. RELATED: Casablanca & 9 Other Great Hollywood Movies From The 1940s As one of the earliest composers to...
Legendary film composer Henry Mancini was just as adept at writing original songs as he was original movie scores. He won four Oscars, including Best Original Score for Breakfast at Tiffany's and Victor Victoria. With over 350 musical credits, Mancini's iconic works include the scores for The Pink Panther, Charade, Touch of Evil, Days of Wine and R...
John Williams is the man behind the music to Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, and several of the most popular movies ever made. With a staggering 38 Academy Award nominations to date, Williams won the golden statuette five times so far. Williams has become synonymous with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, two of the most successful filmmakers of all tim...
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Dec 9, 2021 · The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of the Past 50 Years. From the iconic closing notes of ‘The Breakfast Club’ to the era-encapsulating mix of ‘Dazed and Confused’ to the work of the Purple One ...
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- Frozen – Christophe Beck. In Frozen, Disney animation moves back to its best form. Christophe Beck, composer for the Muppets’ recent big screen outings, wrote touching music that perfectly complemented the songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.
- Interstellar – Hans Zimmer. Zimmer delivered magnificently for Interstellar, receiving an Oscar nod for his soundtrack. Painstakingly composed over two years, Zimmer visited London’s Temple Church to record its historic organ.
- Casablanca – Max Steiner. The peak of Max Steiner’s noir years, he apparently begged to drop ‘As Time Goes By’ from featuring in the film’s score, but was overruled.
- James Bond Theme – Monty Norman. The most famous guitar riff in cinema has featured in every official Bond film since Dr. No (1962), when it accompanied the opening title.
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- All Saints - 'Pure Shores' (The Beach) All Saints - Pure Shores (Official Music Video) A huge UK number one single in 2000, All Saints recorded the main theme tune to this Leonardo DiCaprio film.
- Wilson Phillips - 'Hold On' (Bridesmaids) Wilson Phillips Wedding Performance | Bridesmaids | Screen Bites. In one of cinema's most rousing endings, the 2011 comedy Bridesmaids gave a new lease of life to 1990's biggest hit from American trio Wilson Phillips.
- Tom Petty - 'Free Fallin'' (Jerry Maguire) Tom Cruise singing (Jerry Maguire, 1996) We love this moment where Tom Cruise's titular character in Jerry Maguire finally has a bit of good news, and sings out his feelings while listening to this Tom Petty classic on the radio.
- Sixpence None the Richer - 'Kiss Me' (She's All That) She's All That • Kiss Me • Sixpence None the Richer. While not written specifically for the teen romcom, 'Kiss Me' was used as the film's main theme, and gave it a brand new lease of life.
In 1977, John Williams re-popularized the epic cinema sound of Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Franz Waxman and other composers from the Hollywood Golden Age: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) became the best selling score-only soundtrack of all time, and spawned countless musical imitators.
Dive into the history of film scoring and see how orchestras and pianos became laptops and synthesizers. From the first "talkie" movies of the late twenties, to the Hollywood blockbusters of today, the field of movie music has been transformed many times over.
