"Music (lost to the score of ""Cyrano de Bergerac""). Dances with Wolves (soundtrack) Dances with Wolves is the original soundtrack of the 1990 Academy Award and Golden Globe winning film ""Dances with Wolves"" produced, directed, and starring Kevin Costner. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by John Barry. John Barry won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Original Score and the 1992 Grammy Award for ""Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television."" Barry was also nominated for the 1991 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of ""The Sheltering"
"John Barry (composer) John Barry Prendergast, (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for 11 of the ""James Bond"" films between 1963 and 1987, and also arranged and performed the ""James Bond Theme"" to the first film in the series, 1962's ""Dr. No"". He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films ""Dances with Wolves"" and ""Out of Africa"", as well as the theme for the British television cult series ""The Persuaders!"", in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed OBE"
"Dances with Wolves (soundtrack) Dances with Wolves is the original soundtrack of the 1990 Academy Award and Golden Globe winning film ""Dances with Wolves"" produced, directed, and starring Kevin Costner. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by John Barry. John Barry won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Original Score and the 1992 Grammy Award for ""Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television."" Barry was also nominated for the 1991 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of ""The Sheltering Sky"") and the 1992 BAFTA Award for Best Film"
"and killed by a marauding lioness. The music for ""Out of Africa"" was composed and conducted by veteran English composer John Barry. The score included a number of outside pieces such as Mozart's ""Clarinet Concerto"" and African traditional songs. The soundtrack garnered Barry an Oscar for Best Original Score and sits in fifteenth place in the American Film Institute's list of top 25 American film scores. The soundtrack was released through MCA Records and features 12 tracks of score at a running time of just over thirty-three minutes. A rerecording conducted by Joel McNeely and performed by the Royal Scottish"
"innovator, being one of the first to employ synthesizers in a film score (""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", also 1969), and to make wide use of pop artists and songs in ""Midnight Cowboy"". Because Barry provided not just the main title theme but the complete soundtrack score, his music often enhanced the critical reception of a film, notably in ""Midnight Cowboy"", the first remake of ""King Kong"" (1976), ""Out of Africa"" (1985), and ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990). Barry would often watch films and would note down with pen and paper what worked or what did not. Barry composed the theme"
"Out of Africa (film) Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book ""Out of Africa"" written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book ""Shadows on the Grass"" and other sources. The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and directed by the American Sydney Pollack. Streep played Karen Blixen; Redford played Denys Finch Hatton; and Klaus Maria"
"American Film Institute recognition Out of Africa (film) Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book ""Out of Africa"" written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book ""Shadows on the Grass"" and other sources. The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and directed by the American Sydney Pollack. Streep played Karen Blixen; Redford played Denys Finch"
"of hope but still had [black roots]."" To help Abels prepare the score, Peele sent him the script for the film and examples of music he found scary, including blues and Latin chanting. He currently runs the music department at a private school in Santa Monica, California. Composer Additional music Michael Abels Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer and arranger who specializes in concert orchestral music, with elements of blues, jazz, and bluegrass music. He is most popularly known for composing the score for the 2017 horror film ""Get Out"" directed by Jordan Peele; both the"
"Michael Abels Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer and arranger who specializes in concert orchestral music, with elements of blues, jazz, and bluegrass music. He is most popularly known for composing the score for the 2017 horror film ""Get Out"" directed by Jordan Peele; both the film and its score have been critically acclaimed. Other works include the one-act opera ""Homies and Popz"" with a libretto by Bernardo Solano commissioned by the Los Angeles Opera and premiered in 2000. Abels was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He spent his early years on a small farm in South"
"his ashes were scattered along the runway at the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles. Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. His 1985 film ""Out of Africa"" won him Academy Awards for directing and producing. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1969) and ""Tootsie"" (1982) in which he also appeared. Some of his other best known"
"Mark McKenzie Mark McKenzie is an American film composer and orchestrator Born in Lake City, Minnesota, composer Mark McKenzie received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He received his Masters and Doctorate in music composition from the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles where he studied with, among others, Pierre Boulez, Morten Lauridsen and Witold Lutoslawski. McKenzie has composed or orchestrated well over 100 movies. He was an orchestrator for the Academy Award Winning music to ""Dances With Wolves"", the Academy nominated movie scores to ""Good Will Hunting"", ""Men In Black"", and other well-known blockbuster"
"James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. This started a successful association between Barry and Eon Productions that lasted for 25 years. He received many awards for his work, including five Academy Awards; two for ""Born Free"", and one each for ""The Lion in Winter"" (for which he also won the first BAFTA Award for Best Film Music), ""Dances with Wolves"" and ""Out of Africa"" (both of which also won him Grammy Awards). He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for ""Out of Africa"" in 1986. Barry completed his last film score,"
"for ""G.I. Jane"" (1997). Trevor Jones (composer) Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born 23 March 1949) is a South African composer of film and television scores. Having spent much of his career in the United Kingdom, Jones has worked on numerous well-known and acclaimed films including ""Excalibur, Runaway Train, Labyrinth, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans,"" and ""In the Name of the Father""; collaborating with filmmakers like John Boorman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jim Henson, and Michael Mann. Although not especially well known outside the film world, he has composed for numerous films and his music has been critically acclaimed for both"
"Carter Burwell Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores. He has frequently collaborated with the Coen brothers, having scored 15 of their films. Burwell has also scored three of Todd Haynes' films and all the films of director Martin McDonagh. He has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score for Haynes' ""Carol"" (2015) and McDonagh's ""Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"" (2017). Other notable film scores include the Spike Jonze films ""Being John Malkovich"" (1999), ""Adaptation"" (2002), and ""Where the Wild Things Are"" (2009), David O. Russell's ""Three Kings"" (1999), Lisa Cholodenko's ""Olive"
"Paul Hepker Paul Hepker (b. Harare, Zimbabwe; 17 December 1967) - South African composer, musical director, pianist, best known for composing the score (with Mark Kilian) for the film Tsotsi, which won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards in 2005. Hepker and Kilian also wrote the score for Rendition, the Gavin Hood film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep amongst others. Hepker and Kilian also co-composed the score for ""The Bird Can't Fly"" by Dutch director Threes Anna. Hepker wrote the music for the AIDs documentary ""Into the Light"" which featured the"
"with Tracey Jackson. Paul Williams (songwriter) Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's ""An Old Fashioned Love Song"" and ""Out in the Country,"" Helen Reddy's ""You and Me Against the World,"" David Bowie's ""Fill Your Heart"" and the Carpenters' ""We've Only Just Begun"" and ""Rainy Days and Mondays."" Williams is also known for his musical contributions to films, including the Academy Award-nominated song ""Rainbow Connection"" from ""The Muppet Movie"", and penning"
"Lennie Moore Lennie Moore (born December 12, 1961) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator of music for video games, film, TV, and Multi-media. Moore is best known as the composer of the 1999 video game Outcast, and most recently, the Watchmen Motion Comic episodic web series. He has composed music on ten films, orchestrated for other composers on dozens of feature films and television movies, over 125 commercials, in addition to many video games including Outcast (2000 nominee for Best Music by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences), , Dirty Harry (unreleased), Dragonshard, , and additional music for Snoopy"
"1970s railway-based ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974) and ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1979), on both of which radio microphones were extensively used. Later he went into semi-retirement, working as a freelancer for Anglia Television, but was recalled to the film business by Sydney Pollack for the location sound required on ""Out of Africa"" (1985), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing and also a BAFTA. On this film he worked along with Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, and Larry Stensvold. Handford went on to work on ""Dangerous Liaisons"", ""Gorillas in the Mist"" (both 1988) and ""White"
"Trevor Jones (composer) Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born 23 March 1949) is a South African composer of film and television scores. Having spent much of his career in the United Kingdom, Jones has worked on numerous well-known and acclaimed films including ""Excalibur, Runaway Train, Labyrinth, Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans,"" and ""In the Name of the Father""; collaborating with filmmakers like John Boorman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jim Henson, and Michael Mann. Although not especially well known outside the film world, he has composed for numerous films and his music has been critically acclaimed for both its depth and emotion,"
"the music and in the paintings can somehow transcend and invalidate the kind of sickness that led to the article being written as it was and the kind of irresponsibility that allowed it to be published."" John Lurie John Lurie (born December 14, 1952) is an American musician, painter, actor, director, and producer. He co-founded The Lounge Lizards jazz ensemble, acted in 19 films, including ""Stranger than Paradise"" and ""Down by Law"", composed and performed music for 20 television and film works, and produced, directed, and starred in the ""Fishing with John"" television series. In 1996 his soundtrack for ""Get"
"Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. His 1985 film ""Out of Africa"" won him Academy Awards for directing and producing. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1969) and ""Tootsie"" (1982) in which he also appeared. Some of his other best known works include ""Jeremiah Johnson"" (1972), ""The Way We Were"" (1973), ""Three Days of the Condor"""
"Aaron Zigman Aaron Zigman (born January 6, 1963) is a classically-trained American composer, producer, arranger, songwriter, and musician who has scored music for films, including ""The Notebook"", ""The Company Men"", ""Bridge to Terabithia"", ""John Q""., ""The Proposal"", ""Flicka"", ""For Colored Girls"", ""Flash of Genius"", ""Sex & the City, Alpha Dog,"" and ""Escape from Planet Earth"". Zigman has also written, arranged and produced over 50 hit albums and/or co-written songs with legendary and contemporary artists including Quincy Jones, Christina Aguilera, Phil Collins, John Legend, Dione Warwick, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Seal, and many others. Zigman was born"
"John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the ""Star Wars"" series, ""Jaws"", ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Superman"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", the ""Indiana Jones"" series, the first two ""Home Alone"" films, ""Hook"", the first two ""Jurassic Park"" films, ""Schindler's List"", and the first three ""Harry Potter"" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three"
"Out of This World (Johnny Mercer song) ""Out of This World"" is an American popular song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. It was first recorded by Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and his Orchestra in 1944. It was introduced in the film ""Out of This World"" (1945) by Bing Crosby dubbing in for the voice of the main character played by Eddie Bracken. Alec Wilder describes the Arlen melody as creating a modal feeling (E-flat Dorian) that achieves an unearthly effect. It is unlike his other lyric ballads in that it is one of Arlen's"
"with Arnold Schoenberg, who emigrated to the U.S. from Europe in 1934. He received his first Academy Award for ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"" in 1938. In 1939, he wrote the music for Goldwyn's ""Wuthering Heights"", starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. His score was unique in the way it included different musical themes and created different motifs for the key actors, which helped frame the action. The theme for Cathy, for instance, consisted of a glowing pastoral with strings, while Heathcliff's theme, in contrast, produced a darker, more serious image. Also in 1939, he composed the music for ""Gunga Din"", and"
"with different parts of the orchestra being highlighted. Christian Clemmensen, reviewer of Filmtracks.com, later considered it one of the best of Barry's career, stating: ""When the film came out in the theatres, the score was a remarkably fresh and unique experience, and out of the novelty of that style of music arose the popularity of techniques that would inform Barry's Oscar-winning efforts for ""Out of Africa"" and ""Dances With Wolves"". The score was composed during the same creative period in which Barry wrote another of his most influential and well-received scores, for ""Somewhere in Time"", as well as another for"
"feature film ‘Mystery of the Wolf.’ This was followed by the BBC/Harvey Weinstein Production of ‘The Meerkats’ in 2008. This movie won ‘Best Score’ at the 2009 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Her compositions for the BBC Series ‘Madagascar’ also received an Emmy Nomination for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music & Sound’. In 2012 the BBC/Discovery commissioned Class to compose and produce the music for the 6 x 1 hour series titled ‘Africa’ Africa (TV Series) narrated by Sir David Attenborough. This series went to air in the UK in January 2013 and has received massive critical acclaim from both the"
"Paul Freeman, Founding Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta. Freeman made the first recording of Global Warming, and Chicago Sinfonietta recorded Abels' score to the show Fantasea (2010) for Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. Abels is also a frequent collaborator with the Sphinx Organization and Sphinx Virtuosi, which commissioned his works Delights & Dances (2007), and Urban Legends (2011). Abels composed the music for the 2017 film ""Get Out"", written and directed by Jordan Peele, who heard his composition, ""Urban Legends"". Peele said, ""I wanted Michael Abels, who did the score, to create something that felt like it lived in this absence"
"Artie Kane Artie Kane (born Aaron Cohen; April 14, 1929) is an American pianist, film score composer, and conductor with a career spanning over six decades. As a pianist in Hollywood studios, Kane worked with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and Quincy Jones. He composed the music for over 250 television shows. Some of his works for television include ""Wonder Woman"", ""Vegas"", Hotel, ""Dynasty"", ""Matlock"", ""A Question of Guilt"", ""Man Against the Mob"". Kane also composed the film scores for five motion pictures including ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"", ""Eyes of Laura Mars"", ""Night of the Juggler"","
"""The World Is Not Enough"", in collaboration with David Arnold. Black's film work culminated when he collaborated with Barry on the title song of 1966's ""Born Free"", which won the Oscar for Best Song and provided a hit for Matt Monro. Pianist Roger Williams made the US Top 40 with an instrumental version. The song was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1967 Grammy Awards. Black later collaborated with Barry on ""Out of Africa"", ""Dances with Wolves"", and an ill-fated Broadway musical, ""The Little Prince and the Aviator"". In 1967, Lulu took the Black-Mark London title song of"
"Temperton is survived by his wife Kathy. They had homes in Los Angeles, the south of France, Fiji, Switzerland and Kent in south east England. Rod Temperton Rodney Lynn ""Rod"" Temperton (9 October 1949 – September/October 2016) was an English songwriter, record producer and musician. He initially made his mark as the keyboardist and main songwriter for the 1970s R&B, funk and disco band Heatwave, whose hit songs included ""Boogie Nights"" and ""Always and Forever"". After being recruited by producer Quincy Jones, he wrote several internationally known songs performed by Michael Jackson, including ""Thriller"", ""Off the Wall"" and ""Rock with"
"most direct and deliberately unrhythmic melodies—altogether a strong song with splendid support from the Johnny Mercer lyric. Out of This World (Johnny Mercer song) ""Out of This World"" is an American popular song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. It was first recorded by Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and his Orchestra in 1944. It was introduced in the film ""Out of This World"" (1945) by Bing Crosby dubbing in for the voice of the main character played by Eddie Bracken. Alec Wilder describes the Arlen melody as creating a modal feeling (E-flat Dorian) that achieves"
"New Music. Miller has worked with some of the most innovative filmmakers and visual artists internationally and from South Africa. He has composed music for the soundtracks to many local and international film and television productions. Recent film scores include Steven Silver's The Bang Bang Club, which was nominated for a Genie Award in Canada; ""Black Butterflies"", which was awarded best film score at the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA). He was nominated for an Emmy Award for the score of HBO's The Girl directed by Julian Jarrold, Martha and Mary directed by Philip Noyce and BBC's The"