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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] Some pre-existing music is allowed, though, but a contending film must ...
The 12th Academy Awards | 1940 Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel. Thursday, February 29, 1940 ... * Music (Original Score) - Herbert Stothart
14th →. The 13th Academy Awards were held on February 27, 1941, to honor films released in 1940. This was the first year that sealed envelopes were used to keep the names of the winners secret. [1] The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse was hired to count the ballots, after voting results in 1939 were leaked by the Los Angeles Times. [2]
Feb 26, 2023 · Hollywood Flashback: ‘Pinocchio’ Music Carved a Place in Oscar Musical History. The 1940 Disney feature was the first animated feature to win Academy Awards for best original score and song.
Here are the winners of the Academy Award for Best Original Score from the past decade: 2021: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste for “Soul”. 2020: Hildur Guðnadóttir for “Joker”. 2019: Ludwig Göransson for “Black Panther”. 2018: Alexandre Desplat for “The Shape of Water”. 2017: Justin Hurwitz for “La La Land”.
The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2020 and early 2021, was held on April 25, 2021, after it was postponed from its original February 28, 2021, schedule due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema. As with the two previous ceremonies, there was no host.
Cover Girl – Morris Stoloff & Carmen Dragon. Cover Girl (1944) is a classic musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film score was composed by Morris Stoloff, who won the 17th Academy Award for best “Scoring of a Musical Picture”.
