"the studio benefited from extensive free promotion, and thus established the new medium as an important marketing tool for movies. In the mid-1980s, it became almost obligatory to release a music video to promote a major motion picture—even if the film were not especially suited for one. An example from the era is the song and music video ""Take My Breath Away"" from ""Top Gun"" (1986), also from ""Flashdance"" producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Giorgio Moroder composed ""Take My Breath Away"" and several of the songs for ""Flashdance"". Singers Jennifer Lopez and Geri Halliwell paid homage to ""Flashdance"" in"
"hits ""still define the bombastic, melodramatic sound that dominated the pop charts of the era."" The song ""Take My Breath Away"" by Berlin went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The original version released in 1986 included 10 tracks. Tracks 11 to 15 are available on a Special Expanded Edition released in 1999. Tracks 16 to 20 are available on a Deluxe Edition released in 2006. Tracks 16-20 do not appear in the film, nor are they related to it in any way. The song ""Through the"
"You Take My Breath Away (Rex Smith song) ""You Take My Breath Away"" is the 1979 debut single by singer-actor Rex Smith and the first release from his third studio album ""Sooner or Later"" which is also featured in the 1979 made-for-television film of the same title starring Smith and Denise Miller. It was produced by Charles Calello and Stephen Lawrence, and written by Lawrence and Bruce Hart. The song reached number ten on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1979 for two weeks (dated on June 23) and spent two weeks at number seven on the ""Cash Box"" Top"
"Catch My Breath ""Catch My Breath"" is a song by American pop artist Kelly Clarkson, from her first greatest hits album, ""Greatest Hits – Chapter One"". One of the three newly recorded songs for ""Chapter One"", it was released as the album's lead single through RCA Records on October 10, 2012. It was written by Clarkson, and co-written and produced by her musical director Jason Halbert, along with producer Eric Olson. ""Catch My Breath"" is an electropop dance song with pop rock arrangements. Its lyrical content represents Clarkson's journey from winning the inaugural season of ""American Idol"" in 2002 to"
"italiana"", the official theme song of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He has created a score of songs for many performers including David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Irene Cara, Janet Jackson, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Blondie, Japan and France Joli. Moroder has stated that the work of which he is most proud is Berlin's ""Take My Breath Away"", which earned him two Golden Globes (for Best Original Score and Best Original Song) and the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1986; he had earned the same awards in 1983 for ""Flashdance... What a Feeling"". In addition to the three Academy"
"Take My Breath Away (Margo Smith song) ""Take My Breath Away"" is a song co-written and recorded by American country artist Margo Smith. The song was released as a single in 1976 and became her third top-ten hit single. ""Take My Breath Away"" was recorded in March 1976 at the Columbia Studio, located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It was Smith's fourth studio session after being signed with Warner Bros. Records the same year. The session was produced by Norro Wilson, whom was also the song's co-writer. The session was cut earlier in the year with the intention it would"
"2005"". ""Take My Breath Away"" became a number-twenty hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, as well as a top ten hit on the Top 40 Tracks and the Top 40 Mainstream charts. The song also became another number-one hit for Simpson on the Hot 100 Singles Sales. Although the song did not break records of any sorts, it performed decently on the other tracks it charted on: the Adult Top 40, the Adult Contemporary, the Hot 100 Airplay, the Hot Dance Club Play, and the Hot Digital Tracks. In late 2005 it received a gold certification by the RIAA. Take"
"performance, Mann has referred to ""Save Me"" as ""the song that lost an Oscar to Phil Collins and his cartoon monkey love song."" Furthermore, Mann has occasionally dedicated her song to Collins in several different venues, albeit in jest. It is Mann's best-known song as a solo artist, having also been nominated for a 2001 Grammy award as Best Pop Female Vocal (she lost to Macy Gray's ""I Try""). The music video, shot during the filming of ""Magnolia"", was directed by the film's director, Paul Thomas Anderson, and uses many of the film's actors, including Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman,"
"ceremony, which they did with ""Hustle & Flow"" actress Taraji P. Henson reprising her chorus. It was the second hip-hop song (and the first crunk/Dirty South song) to win an Oscar, after Eminem's ""Lose Yourself"" in 2002 from his film ""8 Mile"", and only one other hip-hop song since then has won an Oscar – Common and John Legend's ""Glory"" (from ""Selma"") in 2015. Right before presenter Queen Latifah announced that they had won, she chuckled and sang the refrain from the song. The energy from Houston, Carlton, Coleman, and Beauregard's presence and acceptance speech was infectious, causing that year's"
"to maintain artistic integrity and the industry’s desire to sell records, Crawford found the ever-elusive hit single hard to come by. Instead, the commercial centerpiece of ""Count Three and Pray"" turned out to be ""Take My Breath Away"", the chart climbing single written by Giorgio Moroder featured in the film Top Gun. ""Count Three and Pray"" was produced by Bob Ezrin (producer of many rock superstars including Kiss, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed and Alice Cooper) and features guest appearances by a host of others including Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Ted Nugent, and Elliott Easton of The Cars."
"asked in a Reddit AMA what he would tell himself to do if he could go back to when he shot the movie, his response was ""Chill The Fuck Out and Cut Twenty Minutes."" ""Magnolia"" was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards in 2000, Cruise for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture and Mann for Best Original Song for ""Save Me"". Cruise won the Golden Globe. The film was also nominated for three Academy Awards, including Cruise for Best Supporting Actor, Anderson for Best Original Screenplay, and Aimee Mann's ""Save Me"" for Best Original Song. ""Magnolia"" did not win"
"The Breath You Take ""The Breath You Take"" is a Grammy nominated song recorded by American country music artist George Strait, and the fourth single from his album ""Twang"". It was released on July 12, 2010 as the 91st single of his career. It was written by veteran songwriter Dean Dillon, Jessie Jo Dillon, and Casey Beathard. It became his 83rd Top 10 hit on the Country charts. On November 10, 2010, Strait performed the song live on the CMA Awards. It received a 2011 Grammy Awards nomination in the ""Best Country Song"" category on December 1, 2010. The song"
"Korea's DMC Festival 2016, with Moroder being present in the audience. The music video for the song was released on November 22, alongside the official digital release of the track. Moroder has won three Academy Awards: Best Original Score for ""Midnight Express"" (1978); Best Song for ""Flashdance...What a Feeling"", from the film ""Flashdance"" (1983); and Best Song for ""Take My Breath Away"", from ""Top Gun"" (1986). Moroder also won two of his four Grammy Awards for ""Flashdance"": Best Album or Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special and Best Instrumental Composition for the track ""Love Theme"
"dedicated to Scholl's memory. The ""Top Gun"" soundtrack is one of the most popular soundtracks to date, reaching 9× Platinum certification and #1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 200 albums chart for five nonconsecutive weeks in the summer and fall of 1986. Harold Faltermeyer, who previously worked with both Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson on the films ""Flashdance"" and ""Beverly Hills Cop"", was sent the script of ""Top Gun"" by Bruckheimer before filming began. Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock worked on numerous songs including the Oscar-winning ""Take My Breath Away"". Kenny Loggins performed two songs on the soundtrack, ""Playing with the"
"Take Away (song) ""Take Away"" is a song by American rapper Missy ""Misdemeanor"" Elliott. It was written by Elliott and Timbaland for Elliott's third studio album ""Miss E... So Addictive"" (2001) and features production by Elliott, Timbaland and Craig Brockman along with guest vocals from R&B singer, Ginuwine. While the album version credits background vocals by 702 member, Kameelah Williams, the single version replaces Williams's vocals with then-newcomer Tweet. The song and its accompanying music video is dedicated to Elliott's close friend Aaliyah, who was killed in a plane crash on August 25, 2001. The remainder of the music video"
"Geek deemed it ""one of Disney's great anthems/motivational mantras for all aspiring athletes and deities."" MoviePilot suggests that the shooting star during ""Go the Distance"" is actually Aladdin and Jasmine's magic carpet ride. The Globe and Mail likened it to Duddy's Leaving St. Urbain Street, while BoingBoing compared it to ""Pocahontas""'s ""Just Around the Riverbend"". Vulture deemed it ""inspiring"". The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Both awards, however, went to ""My Heart Will Go On"", a song from ""Titanic"", a film directed by James Cameron."
"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""."
"the early 1970s, Smith was the lead singer for a band from Athens, Georgia named Phaedra. Smith next sang vocals in a hard rock band called Rex. In 1979, he had a hit single from the television movie ""Sooner or Later"", entitled ""You Take My Breath Away"", which reached No. 10 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It is on the platinum-selling album ""Sooner or Later"", which is also named for the movie. The music for this song was written by Stephen J. Lawrence and the lyrics were written by Bruce Hart. For many years, it was a staple on the"
"The Academy Award-Winning ""Call Me Irresponsible"" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies The Academy Award-Winning ""Call Me Irresponsible"" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies is the fourteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the spring of 1964 by Columbia Records. Williams had already had great success with his albums named after Henry Mancini's Oscar winners from 1961 and 1962, ""Moon River"" and ""Days of Wine and Roses"", and was asked to sing Mancini and Johnny Mercer's title song collaboration from the 1963 film ""Charade"" at the Academy Awards on April 13, 1964,"
"100. It also peaked at number 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song was certified Gold. In Canada, ""You Take My Breath Away"" reached as high as number three. The song is featured on Disney Channel, an American basic cable and satellite television network that serves as the flagship property of owner Disney Channels Television Group, itself a unit of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. You Take My Breath Away (Rex Smith song) ""You Take My Breath Away"" is the 1979 debut single by singer-actor Rex Smith and the first release from his third"
"to win an Academy Award, surpassing the 431-minute long ""War and Peace,"" which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. Following the five-part documentary's win, new Academy rules barred any ""multi-part or limited series"" from being eligible for documentary categories. With Casey Affleck winning the Oscar for Best Actor, him and his older brother, Ben Affleck, became the 16th pair of siblings to win Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Viola Davis became the first black person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting with her Oscar, Emmy, and"
"million against a production budget of only US$15 million. The film maintained its popularity over the years and earned an IMAX 3D re-release in 2013. Additionally, the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for ""Take My Breath Away"" performed by Berlin. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". A sequel, titled """", began filming on May 31, 2018 in San Diego, California. The second film is scheduled for release on June 26, 2020. United States Naval Aviator LT Pete"
"if she is still going to attend the Oscars. Rachel tells Frank about her and her sister's dream of winning an Oscar and decides to do it for her sister. At the Oscars, Rachel performs ""One Moment in Time"" from the Oscar nominated film ""Queen of the Night"" that she co-wrote with Nicki. As she performs the stalker prepares to shoot her. Frank notices just in time and jumps in front of Rachel. He gets shot, and Rachel holds him in her arms, uttering the famous line, ""Let him go, he's my bodyguard!"". Frank returns to the mansion sometime later,"
"Reeves, given the studio was busy with films such as ""Scarface"", ""Flashdance"" and ""Beverly Hills Cop"", and wrote his own songs. Prior to the production of the ""Top Gun"" soundtrack, Moroder found his songwriting partners Keith Forsey and Pete Bellotte unavailable, and knowing Whitlock was a lyricist invited him for the project. Whitlock and Moroder co-wrote five songs for ""Top Gun"" including ""Take My Breath Away"" and the Kenny Loggins hit ""Danger Zone"". ASCAP shows 113 songs registered, performed by artists such as Berlin, Bonnie Tyler, Jennifer Rush, Michael McDonald, Ray Charles, Graham Nash, Diana Ross, Teddy Pendergrass, Roger Daltrey"
"Awards and won four, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It is ranked 19th in the British Film Institute's list of Top 100 British films. The film is also notable for its memorable electronic theme tune by Vangelis, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The film's title was inspired by the line, ""Bring me my chariot of fire,"" from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn ""Jerusalem""; the hymn is heard at the end of the film. The original phrase ""chariot(s) of fire"" is from 2 Kings and in the Bible. In 1919,"
"and exit music, ""Gone with the Wind"" lasts for 234 minutes (although some sources put its full length at 238 minutes) while ""Lawrence of Arabia"" comes in slightly shorter at 232 minutes with its additional components. Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award—beating out her co-star Olivia de Havilland who was also nominated in the same category—but was racially segregated from her co-stars at the awards ceremony at the Coconut Grove; she and her escort were made to sit at a separate table at the back of the room. Meanwhile, screenwriter Sidney Howard became the first"
"which also took home Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly), Best Director (Ron Howard), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Akiva Goldsman). In 2002, Grazer's ""8 Mile"" was released. It proved not only to be a huge box office hit, but also the first film with a rap song to win a Best Original Song Oscar, for Eminem's ""Lose Yourself"". Grazer also produced the film adaptation of Peter Morgan's play ""Frost/Nixon"" (2008). ""Frost/Nixon"" was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Grazer's productions span over a quarter-of-a-century, and almost the full spectrum of movie genres. His comedies include ""Boomerang"" (1992),"
"love for one another, as do Phil and Judy. The background of the set is removed to show the snow falling, everyone raises a glass, and toasts, ""May your days be merry and bright; and may all your Christmases be white."" All songs were written by Irving Berlin. The centerpiece of the film is the title song, first used in ""Holiday Inn"", which won that film an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1942. In addition, ""Count Your Blessings"" earned the picture its own Oscar nomination in the same category. The song ""Snow"" was originally written for ""Call Me Madam"""
"one on the U.S. box office for two weeks and Madonna received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress. To accompany the film, she released the soundtrack album, ""I'm Breathless"", which included songs inspired by the film's 1930s setting. It also featured the U.S. number-one song ""Vogue"" and ""Sooner or Later"". While shooting the film, Madonna began a relationship with Beatty, which dissolved by the end of 1990. In April 1990, Madonna began her Blond Ambition World Tour, which was held until August. ""Rolling Stone"" called it an ""elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza"" and proclaimed it ""the best tour of"
"34 seconds of the song ""Thanks for the Memory"" then fades into the next song (""The Continental,"" the oldest movie theme on this album). ""Thanks for the Memory"" is also the last track on the album and continues where it left off but fades immediately after the next verse. There were two singles to come from this album: ""We May Never Love Like This Again"" (from ""The Towering Inferno"", which was a minor hit for McGovern one year before) and ""The Continental"" (from the 1934 film ""The Gay Divorcee"", which was the very first song to ever win an Oscar)."
"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"
"and became the second highest-grossing film of the year in the United States. The film won ten Academy Awards in its eleven nominated categories, including Best Picture. It received the most Academy Awards (10 wins) of any musical film, including Best Picture. Rita Moreno (Anita) was the first Latina actress ever to win an Oscar. The soundtrack album won a Grammy Award and was ranked No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" chart for a record 54 weeks. Differences in the film from the stage version include that ""Tonight"" is moved to follow ""America"", and Bernardo sings a line in ""America"" instead"
"Boys"", and ""Danger Zone"". Berlin recorded the song ""Take My Breath Away"", which would later win numerous awards, sending the band to international acclaim. After the release of Loggins's single ""Danger Zone"", sales of the album exploded, selling 7 million in the United States alone. On the re-release of the soundtrack in 2000, two songs that had been omitted from the original album (and had been released many years before the film was made), ""Great Balls of Fire"" by Jerry Lee Lewis and ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"" by The Righteous Brothers, were added. The soundtrack also includes """"Top Gun"""