"score ""Live and Let Die"". Producers Saltzman and Albert Broccoli approached Paul McCartney to write the theme song and McCartney in turn asked Martin to record it for him. Impressed with the orchestration for the finished track, Saltzman and Broccoli considered Martin for the film’s score. Martin worked closely with director Guy Hamilton who described what the music should convey in each scene as it unfolds. Only very minor changes to the finished score were asked for. Martin felt that this was as much for Hamilton's accurate briefing. The orchestra was conducted by Martin and recorded at AIR Studios. The"
"Live and Let Die (song) ""Live and Let Die"" is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings. It was the most successful Bond theme to that point, charting at No. 2 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. Commissioned specifically for the movie, it reunited the former Beatle with the band's producer, George Martin, who produced the song and arranged the orchestra. It has been covered by several bands, with the Guns N' Roses version being"
"It was also the first James Bond film featuring an African American Bond girl romantically involved with 007, Rosie Carver, who was played by Gloria Hendry. The film was a box office success and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by their band Wings. Three MI6 agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New Orleans and the Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring"
"contributor to film soundtracks as composer and performer. DiCola counts Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer among his biggest influences in progressive rock music. He also admires film-music composers Thomas Newman, John Powell and Jerry Goldsmith. In 1983, DiCola was a co-nominee for the Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Grammy for co-writing the soundtrack of the movie ""Staying Alive"", in spite of the poor critical reception of the film. He also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song – Motion Picture for the song ""Far from Over"", which he co-wrote"
"and decided to keep the song as part of the film and soundtrack. To Live and Die in L.A. (Wang Chung song) ""To Live and Die in L.A."" is a single from the soundtrack of the same name by Wang Chung. Released in September 1985, the song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #41. On the ""To Live and Die in L.A."" DVD audio commentary, director William Friedkin stated to Wang Chung that he “didn’t want a theme song for ""To Live and Die in L.A.""” One day, though, Jack Hues and Nick Feldman gave Friedkin a copy of"
"tells Si she hates the act because she is not funny, all she wants to do is sing and that Columbia Records is interested in her. She gives Si a cassette tape of her songs and tells him he has to let go of her, because she needs to depend on herself; she is going to New York City alone. They hug and kiss goodbye, and Laurie drives away. Sometime later, Laurie's song ""You Light Up My Life"" climbs the music charts and reaches number one. The film received the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award"
"News"" said ""Evermore"" was a strong contender for an Academy Award for Best Original Song nomination. ""The Hollywood Reporter""'s Scott Feinberg said that ""Evermore"" is the ""strongest"" prospective Best Original Song nominee from the film, while Paul Sheehan of Golderby said that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would most likely favor ""Evermore"" over ""How Does a Moment Last Forever"" and ""Days in the Sun"". In December 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed that ""Evermore"" was one among 70 songs that the organization shortlisted for Best Original Song consideration. Ultimately, ""Evermore"" did not earn"
"Until the Daniel Craig era, only Nobody Does It Better and All Time High served as an opening theme without sharing a title with the movie. John Barry provided the title song music on ten of the eleven films for which he composed the musical score. Several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song and become pop hits, including Paul McCartney's ""Live and Let Die"", Carly Simon's ""Nobody Does It Better"" (for the film ""The Spy Who Loved Me""), and Sheena Easton's ""For Your Eyes Only"" with Adele's ""Skyfall"" and Sam"
"Live"" theme for ABC News. He composed the score to the studio altered American version of Luc Besson's ""The Big Blue"". Two of Conti's previously-composed works were reused for the show ""Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"". These were the love theme ""Come with Me Now"" from the soundtrack for ""Five Days from Home"" (used for the show's main theme), and ""Runaway"", from ""For Your Eyes Only"" (used for in-show content). Conti has been nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one in the Best Original Score category for ""The Right Stuff."" He also received nominations in the Best Original Song"
"and nominations in a variety of categories, with particular praise for its title song performed by Irene Cara. It received four Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Cara), and Best Original Score (Michael Gore). At the 38th Golden Globe Awards, the film only won one award for Best Original Song (""Fame""). At the 53rd Academy Awards, the film received a total of six Oscar nominations, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Sound. The songs ""Fame"" and ""Out Here on My Own"" both received"
"of having a ""special sibling."" ""Let It Go"" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards, where a shortened rendition of the show-tune version was performed live by Menzel; with the award, Robert Lopez became the 12th person, and by far the quickest (10 years), to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. The decision to release a single for ""Let It Go"" was made after the song was written and was presented to Disney. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez selected American singer and former Disney Channel star Demi Lovato, who also appears on Disney's"
"was nominated for both an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song, as was the Trisha Yearwood song ""How Do I Live"" from the 1997 film ""Con Air"" and the Tony Bennett song ""Life in a Looking Glass"" from the 1986 film ""That's Life!"". In 1981, Stanley Kubrick was nominated both for a Razzie Award as Worst Director at the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards as well as for a Saturn Award for Best Director at the 8th Saturn Awards for the same film: """"The Shining"". In 2017, Darren Aronofsky was nominated for"
"song received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song in 1986 and a 1986 Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. The second Tina Turner track on the album, ""One of the Living"" (U.S. #15), was the film's opening titles song, produced by Mike Chapman and composed by Holly Knight - the team behind ""Better Be Good To Me"" - and also credited to Knight's band Device on both the film's end titles and the original vinyl album. Released as the follow-up single to ""We Don't Need Another Hero"", ""One of the Living"" was also remixed for both"
"stage and showing old pictures. The video also was made shortly before Izzy Stradlin's departure, and it is the last video where he appears. It charted at No. 20 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The song was nominated for ""Best Hard Rock Performance"" during the 1993 Grammy Awards. Guns N' Roses Additional musicians General Live and Let Die (song) ""Live and Let Die"" is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings. It was the most successful Bond theme to that point, charting at"
"songs to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The other four were ""Live and Let Die"" in 1973, ""For Your Eyes Only"" in 1981, ""Skyfall"", and ""Writing on the Wall"". ""Skyfall"" went on to win the award in 2013 and ""Writing on the Wall"" won in 2016. It was the first theme song with a title different from the film's, although the phrase ""the spy who loved me"" is in the lyrics. Hamlisch states in the documentary on the film's DVD that the song's opening bars were influenced by a riff in a Mozart tune. The"
"Best Original Song, (Streisand and Williams for ""Evergreen""). The film's music score and theme song also won ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for Most Performed Feature Film Standards and nominated BAFTA Awards for Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music and Best Sound Track, Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special In the two previous versions, Gaynor and Garland were each depicted on screen as winning an Oscar, yet neither won for their film in real life (though Gaynor and Streisand had won Oscars before, and Garland had won a Juvenile"
"Academy Awards, ""Manta Ray"" by J. Ralph & Anohni was nominated for Best Original Song. Other nominees competing in this category were ""Earned It"" from ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", ""Til It Happens to You"" from ""The Hunting Ground,"" ""Simple Song #3"" from ""Youth"", and ""Writing's on the Wall"" from ""Spectre"". ""Writing's On the Wall"", by Sam Smith, was the winner. Racing Extinction Racing Extinction is a 2015 documentary about the ongoing Anthropogenic mass extinction of species and the efforts from scientists, activists and journalists to document it by Oscar-winning director Louie Psihoyos, who directed the documentary ""The Cove"" (2009). The"
"Original Song category at the 69th Golden Globe Awards. Its nomination sparked rivalrous comments on the red carpet from fellow singer Elton John, whose song—""Hello, Hello"" from ""Gnomeo & Juliet""—was also nominated in the category. John told host Carson Daly that Madonna ""hasn't got a fucking chance"" of winning the award. When Madonna later had her red carpet interview with Daly, she took swipes at John's masculinity first, asking about his wardrobe: ""Was he wearing a dress?"" and after being informed of his comments stating, ""May the best man win"". Subsequent to the announcement, John's husband, David Furnish, opined on"
"""Dr. No"" with his arrangement of the Bond Theme. A Bond film staple are the theme songs heard during their title sequences sung by well-known popular singers. Several of the songs produced for the films have been nominated for Academy Awards for Original Song, including Paul McCartney's ""Live and Let Die"", Carly Simon's ""Nobody Does It Better"", Sheena Easton's ""For Your Eyes Only"", Adele's ""Skyfall"", and Sam Smith's ""Writing's on the Wall"". Adele won the award at the 85th Academy Awards, and Smith won at the 88th Academy Awards. For the non-Eon produced ""Casino Royale"", Burt Bacharach's score included ""The"
"a Television Special. The title song ""You Light Up My Life"", performed by Kvitka Cisyk for the film's soundtrack and later recorded by Debby Boone, received the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song as well as the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. In the film, the song was lip synched by actress Didi Conn. Cisyk's original soundtrack recording of ""You Light Up My Life"" was included on the soundtrack album which was rush-released by Arista Records after Boone included her version on her first solo album (also entitled ""You"
"the theme from ""Skyfall"", being the only one performed separately on its own as opposed to being part of a musical montage sequence. The 88th Academy Awards also had three of the five nominees performed. Anohni, performer and writer of ""Manta Ray"", one of the two nominated songs cut from the ceremony, boycotted the ceremony for this reason. Academy Award for Best Original Song 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"
"to win Best Actor. With her 13th nomination, Meryl Streep became the most nominated actor in Oscar history. Meanwhile, Best Actor nominee Jack Nicholson earned his 12th nomination, extending his record as the most nominated male performer. Julianne Moore was the ninth performer to earn two acting nominations in the same year. ""Lose Yourself"" from ""8 Mile"" became the first rap song to win the Best Original Song award. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 13 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received multiple awards: The following individuals"
"the winner and signaled that all was well, before Olivier then presented the award to producer Saul Zaentz. Olivier (in his 78th year) had been ill for many years, and it was because of mild dementia that he forgot to read the nominees. Zaentz then thanked Olivier, saying it was an honour to receive the award from him, before mentioning the other nominees in his acceptance speech: ""The Killing Fields"", ""A Passage to India"", ""Places in the Heart"" and ""A Soldier's Story"". Maurice Jarre won the Oscar for Best Original Music Score for his scoring of ""A Passage to India""."
"To Live and Die in L.A. (Wang Chung song) ""To Live and Die in L.A."" is a single from the soundtrack of the same name by Wang Chung. Released in September 1985, the song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #41. On the ""To Live and Die in L.A."" DVD audio commentary, director William Friedkin stated to Wang Chung that he “didn’t want a theme song for ""To Live and Die in L.A.""” One day, though, Jack Hues and Nick Feldman gave Friedkin a copy of ""To Live and Die in L.A."" (to his dismay). Surprisingly, Friedkin was impressed"
"his career achievements in the field of music. Danna's wife Aparna is of Indian origin; the couple have two sons. He is the older brother of composer Jeff Danna. Recent projects include Deepa Mehta's ""Water"", Atom Egoyan's ""Where the Truth Lies"", Terry Gilliam's ""Tideland"", Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' ""Little Miss Sunshine"", Bennett Miller's ""Capote"", ""Moneyball"" and Marc Webb's ""(500) Days of Summer"". Mychael Danna Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian film composer. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for ""Life of Pi"". He has also won an Emmy Award for"
"Best Original Song. They also won the BAFTA film award for Best Original Song in 1984. On the Songs of the Century list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2001 the song was listed at number 323. In 2004 it finished at number 75 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, and in 2016 one of the duo's live renditions of the song was listed at number 18 on ""Rolling Stone""'s list of the 20 Greatest Best Song Oscar Performances. Warnes and Cocker kept to an agreement that they would never lip-sync"
"and won the Golden Globe Award for ""Best Original Song in a Motion Picture"" of 1967, beating the other nominated compositions ""Un homme et une femme"" by French orchestra leader Francis Lai, ""Born Free"" by John Barry, which won the 1966 Academy Award for Best Original Song, ""Alfie"" by Burt Bacharach, and ""Georgy Girl"" by Tom Springfield from the eponymous movies, the latter two also having been Oscar nominees of 1966. The overall score to the movie, often resorting to Latin and even seemingly Greek influenced imagery, found a more mixed reception. The soundtrack LP - in fact a rerecording"
"UK (where it reached number nine in the charts) and the US (where it reached number 2, for three weeks). It was nominated for an Academy Award but lost to ""The Way We Were"". Producers hired B. J. Arnau to record and perform the title song, not realising McCartney intended to perform it himself. Arnau's version was featured in the film itself, when the singer performed it in a night club which Bond attends. The Olympia Brass Band has a notable part in ""Live and Let Die"", where they lead a funeral march for a (soon to be) assassination victim."
"this during the Oscar ceremony, host Whoopi Goldberg remarked, ""I guess ""Moulin Rouge!"" just directed itself."" The film won the awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction. ""Come What May"" (the only original song in the film) was disqualified from nomination for an Oscar because it was originally written (but unused) for Luhrmann's previous film ""Romeo + Juliet"" and not written expressly for ""Moulin Rouge!"". ""Entertainment Weekly"" put it on its end-of-the-decade, ""best-of"" list, saying, ""Baz Luhrmann's trippy pop culture pastiche from 2001 was an aesthetically arresting ode to poetry, passion, and Elton John. It was so good,"
"Song and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (it lost to ""The Morning After"" from ""The Poseidon Adventure""). The song is calm and mellow, which contrasts with the horror content of the film. A live recorded version was released on the album ""The Jacksons Live!"" (1981) and eventually appeared on Michael's ""Number Ones"" album (2003). Crispin Glover re-recorded a version of the song for the soundtrack of the 2003 remake of ""Willard"". A music video for this version was also produced, which also featured Glover. Chris Colfer, Cory Monteith and Lea Michele perform a cover of"
"Live and Let Die (film) Live and Let Die is a 1973 British spy film, the eighth in the ""James Bond"" series to be produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, it was the third of four Bond films to be directed by Guy Hamilton. Although the producers had wanted Sean Connery to return after his role in the previous Bond film ""Diamonds Are Forever"", he declined, sparking a search for a new actor to play James Bond. Moore was signed"
"nomination for Best Original Song: ""Learn to Be Lonely"" from the 2004 motion picture ""The Phantom of the Opera"" . Plus one nomination for Best Original Song: ""Learn to Be Lonely"" from the 2004 motion picture ""The Phantom of the Opera"". ""Note: Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber unless otherwise noted. There have been a number of film adaptations of the Lloyd Webber musicals. ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" (1973) was directed by Norman Jewison; ""Evita"" (1996) was directed by Alan Parker; and ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (2004) was directed by Joel Schumacher and co-produced by Lloyd Webber. ""Cats"", ""Joseph and"
"Kristen Anderson-Lopez Kristen Anderson-Lopez (born March 21, 1972) is an American songwriter. She is best known for co-writing the songs for the 2013 animated film ""Frozen"" with her husband Robert Lopez. Anderson-Lopez won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ""Let It Go"" from ""Frozen"" and ""Remember Me"" from ""Coco"" (2017) at the 86th Academy Awards and 90th Academy Awards. She also won two Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. Anderson-Lopez was raised in Croton-on-Hudson, New York (a suburb of New York City), until 1986; the Myers Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1986 to 1990;"