"art of Film Editors. Pianist David Helfgott, whom Best Actor winner Geoffrey Rush portrayed in the film ""Shine"", played a rendition of ""Flight of the Bumblebee"" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov during the telecast. Natalie Cole was initially scheduled to sing the nominated song ""I Finally Found Someone"" from ""The Mirror Has Two Faces"" on the show after its songwriter and original performer Barbra Streisand declined to do so. However, after Cole contracted the flu, she withdrew for her performance duties and was eventually replaced by Celine Dion who also sang ""Because You Loved Me"" later in the broadcast. At the time"
"current building was designed by Alfred Wells and constructed in 1883; it included civic offices and a banqueting hall to service the growing town. The Town Hall Clock is a local landmark. The Town Hall's concert hall featured in the film ""Shine"" with Geoffrey Rush playing the role of the pianist David Helfgott; who is seen in the movie playing Franz Liszt. The Bösendorfer grand piano loaned by the Australian Society of Keyboard Music had to be winched up to the first floor hall. The piano is now stored in the Pilgrim Church, Flinders Street in Adelaide, where it is"
"he began showing more definite manifestations of schizoaffective disorder. He returned to Perth in 1970. The following year he married Clare Papp, who had four children. He worked as a rehearsal pianist for the Western Australian Opera Company. In 1983, his brother Les Helfgott found him working at a Perth wine bar called Riccardo's. Helfgott was the subject of the 1996 film ""Shine"", which dealt with the pianist's formative years and struggle with mental illness. Helfgott was portrayed by actors Geoffrey Rush (adult), Noah Taylor (teenager) and Alex Rafalowicz (child). His brother Les has described the portrayal of their father"
"promoting humanitarianism, the study of Katharine Susannah Prichard, and encouraging writing in Western Australia, where Prichard spent the majority of her life. The Shire of Mundaring public library branch in Greenmount is named after her as well. The 1996 Australian film ""Shine"" depicts the close correspondence between Prichard and Australian pianist David Helfgott. She was played by Googie Withers. Prichard helped raise money for Helfgott, to enable him to go to London to study music. A house at Abbotsleigh (a private school on Sydney's North Shore) has been named after her. Novels Katharine Susannah Prichard Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December"
"Geoffrey Rush Geoffrey Roy Rush, (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Rush is amongst 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting: an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting (of four nominations), three British Academy Film Awards (of five nominations), two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Rush is the founding President of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and was named the 2012 Australian of the Year. He is also the first actor to win the Academy Award,"
"of the world of politics, such as Vladimir Putin and George W Bush. He also played for the Dalai Lama at a fundraising concert. He appeared regularly on the TV show Spicks and Specks on ABC TV, and he participated in the Oscar-winning movie ""Shine"", where he played the hands of David Helfgott. He played the role of Mozart in Sydney Opera House’s ""Babies Proms"", and performed a show based on his childhood, ""Simon Tedeschi: Pianist and Prankster"" at the Monkey Baa Theatre Company. Tedeschi was awarded the ABC Young Performer of the Year in 1998, performing the Ginastera Piano"
"""Titanic"", ""A Beautiful Mind"", and the first three films of the Harry Potter franchise. The piano in the opening and closing scenes of ""Forrest Gump"", which features a feather floating in the wind, was played by Randy Kerber. He has been an orchestrator on over 50 films, including work with Academy Award winner James Horner. He worked with Eric Clapton as keyboardist, orchestrator, and conductor on the film ""Rush"" - playing on the Grammy Award-winning song ""Tears in Heaven"". During his career, Randy Kerber has worked with a wide range of artists such as Michael Jackson, Paul Anka, Leonard Cohen,"
"Awards. Hicks has had his portrait painted by David Bromley several times. The 1999 portrait was a finalist for the Archibald Prize. Director: Writer: Producer: Cinematographer: Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Miscellaneous Crew: Scott Hicks Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He is best known as the screenwriter and director of ""Shine"", the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Hicks's work has been nominated for an Academy Award as well as winning an Emmy Award. Other movies he directed include the film adaptations of Stephen King's ""Hearts in Atlantis"" and Nicholas"
"Award for Film Music<br> 1994: ""Backbeat"" – Don Was 1995: ""Braveheart"" – James Horner ‡ 1996: ""The English Patient"" – Gabriel Yared † 1997: ""Romeo + Juliet"" – Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong, and Marius de Vries 1998: ""Elizabeth"" – David Hirschfelder ‡ 1999: ""American Beauty"" – Thomas Newman ‡ 2000: ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"" – Tan Dun † 2001: ""Moulin Rouge!"" – Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries 2002: ""The Hours"" – Philip Glass ‡ 2003: ""Cold Mountain"" – T Bone Burnett and Gabriel Yared ‡ 2004: ""The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)"" – Gustavo Santaolalla"
"editing for the film, ""Shine"", which Hicks was directing and had co-written. ""Shine"" (1996) has become Hicks' most recognized film; it is based on the early life of David Helfgott, who became a concert pianist following several years of institutionalization for mental illness. In his ""Variety"" review, David Stratton wrote, ""Securing the musician's cooperation was obviously crucial to Jane Scott's accomplished production, which is also distinguished by Geoffrey Simpson's fine camerawork and Pip Karmel's editing, the latter skillfully shaping a wealth of material into a fast-paced, compelling narrative."" Karmel has now edited several additional films with Hicks. Karmel worked throughout"
"and Brahms simultaneously, and many others. In January 2003, to celebrate Miriam Hyde's ninetieth birthday, the ABC broadcast Tozer performing her music live, from the Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney. This included her Piano Sonata in G minor. He played one of her two piano concertos at the Australian Institute of Music in 2005, to an audience of only 15 people. Miriam Hyde said the concerto needed someone of Geoffrey Tozer's power to play it. In an obituary after Tozer's death, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating lashed the ""indifference"" and ""malevolence"" toward Tozer from the arts establishment in Australia. He"
"award returned in 1997, the same year in which the present-day channel MTV Australia began broadcasting, and was given out every year (except for 2000) until 2003. The category's biggest nominees are Silverchair, who received a total of four nominations throughout the award's history. Out of their four nominations from 1997 to 2002, Silverchair won the award twice, thus also becoming the award's biggest (and only multiple) winner. Closely following are Kylie Minogue and Powderfinger with three nominations each, and Boom Crash Opera, Spiderbait, and Neil Finn with two (Finn received one nomination with Crowded House and one as a"
"Helfgott is now one of the world's great pianists (a claim that has never been made), but that the love of his wife enabled him to sufficiently recover from a long and bitter struggle with mental illness to play again for audiences. Roadshow Entertainment released the film on VHS on 4 July 1996, and now it's on DVD in 18 November 1997. ""Shine"" received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 91% rating, with an average score of 8.1/10, based on 42 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a 87 (out of 100), based on 25 critics, indicating"
"drama ""Shine"" achieved an Academy Award for Best Actor award for Geoffrey Rush and Gregor Jordan's 1999 film ""Two Hands"" gave Heath Ledger his first leading role. After Ledger's successful transition to Hollywood, Jordan and Ledger collaborated again in 2003 with Ledger playing the iconic bushranger title role in the film ""Ned Kelly"", which co-starred British actress Naomi Watts. The canon of films related to Indigenous Australians also increased over the period of the 1990s and early 21st Century, with Nick Parsons' 1996 film ""Dead Heart"" featuring Ernie Dingo and Bryan Brown; Rolf de Heer's ""The Tracker"", starring Gary Sweet"
"a Madman"" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Rush won for this role Helpmann Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award. From November 2011, Rush played the role of Lady Bracknell in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". Other actors from the 1988 production include Jane Menelaus, this time as Miss Prism, and Bob Hornery, who had played Canon Chasuble, as the two butlers. Rush made his film debut in the Australian film ""Hoodwink"" in 1981. His next film was Gillian Armstrong's ""Starstruck"", the following year. In the coming years he appeared in"
"and is voted for by a judging academy, which consists of 1000 members from different areas of the music industry. Artists which have won the award twice are Silverchair (""Tomorrow"" in 1995, ""Straight Lines"" in 2007), Kylie Minogue (""Where the Wild Roses Grow"" in 1996, ""Can't Get You Out of My Head"" in 2002), and Powderfinger (""The Day You Come"" in 1999, ""My Happiness"" in 2001). From 2012, onwards the winner has instead been determined by the general public. The nominees are chosen based on the top ten highest selling Australian single releases, based on ARIA chart sales statistics, during"
"by Australian-born composer Arthur Benjamin written for the earlier Hitchcock film of the same name). However, this film did give Herrmann the opportunity for an on-screen appearance: he is the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in the Albert Hall scene. Herrmann's most recognizable music is from another Hitchcock film, ""Psycho"". Unusual for a thriller at the time, the score uses only the string section of the orchestra. The screeching violin music heard during the famous shower scene (which Hitchcock originally suggested have no music at all) is one of the most famous moments in film score history. Hitchcock admitted"
"Associate Producer on ""Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own"". Over more than thirty years in the film industry Scott has worked on a large number of feature films, television productions and television commercials throughout the world. Titles of some of the films she has been involved with include ""My Brilliant Career"", ""Crocodile Dundee"", ""Crocodile Dundee II"", and ""Strictly Ballroom"". ""Shine"", which Scott produced in 1996, received worldwide acclaim and a large number of local and international awards and nominations including nine AFI Awards and seven nominations at the 1996 Academy Awards with Geoffrey Rush winning the Best Actor Oscar. As well"
"the 1996 Atlanta Olympics closing ceremony. Since 2000, Vine has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia, the world's largest chamber music presenter. In 2005, he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award, the highest accolade the Australia Council for the Arts can confer on a musician. Since 2006, he has also been the Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival. In 2012, his second piano concerto was premiered by Piers Lane and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra with soprano Danielle de Niese premiered his solo cantata, ""The Tree of Man"", after the 1955"
"Kernis: ""Goblin Market"" 1995: Judith Weir: ""Musicians Wrestle Everywhere"" 1996: Sally Beamish: ""A Book of Seasons"" 1996: Osvaldo Golijov: ""Last Round"" 1996: Howard Skempton: ""Delicate"" 1997: Thomas Adès: ""Concerto Conciso"" 1997: Peter-Paul Nash: ""Symphony No. 2"" 1997: Gerard McBurney: ""Desire"" 1998: Simon Bainbridge: ""Guitar Concerto"" 1998: David Lang: ""The Passing Measures"" 1999: Alastair Greig: ""Play"" 1999: Bent Sørensen: ""Sinful Songs"" 1999: Stuart MacRae: ""Portrait"" 1999: Kenneth Hesketh: ""The Circling Canopy of Night"" 2000: Gerald Barry: ""Wiener Blut"" 2000: Colin Matthews: ""Continuum"" 2000: Thea Musgrave: ""Lamenting with Ariadne"" 2000: John Woolrich: ""Bitter Fruit"" 2001: Poul Ruders: ""ABYSM"" 2001: Edward Rushton: ""Palace"""
"the Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush, with character voices by Kamahl, John Flaus and Julie Forsythe. In 2004 the film won an Academy Award for Best Short Animation. ""Harvie Krumpet"" has played at over 100 film festivals and won over forty major awards. In 2005 it was named as one of the top 100 animated films of all time by the board of the world's largest animation festival in Annecy, France. Elliot's first feature film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009 and was the first animated film and first Australian film in the festival's"
"saving the world; it's about teamwork among people of different religions and nationalities to defeat a common enemy."" The film had both its twentieth anniversary and premiere at a special live-orchestral screening performance at the Royal Albert Hall on September 22, 2016. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the original orchestrator Nicholas Dodd, performed the score live during the film, and the film's composer, David Arnold, was a presenter at the event. ""Independence Day"" was the highest-grossing film of 1996, beating ""Twister"", """" and ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". In the United States, it earned $104.3 million in its opening"
"Scott Hicks Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He is best known as the screenwriter and director of ""Shine"", the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Hicks's work has been nominated for an Academy Award as well as winning an Emmy Award. Other movies he directed include the film adaptations of Stephen King's ""Hearts in Atlantis"" and Nicholas Sparks's ""The Lucky One"". Hicks was born in Uganda, the son of a housewife and a civil engineer. He lived in Kenya, just outside Nairobi, until the age of ten. His family then moved,"
"would compliment Gwyneth Paltrow's youth, swan neck, and incredible beauty. I was also hoping to evoke happiness and the English countryside; the sun did shine on the day we shot the scene!"" The musical score of the film was written by British composer Rachel Portman. It was released on July 29, 1996. Portman told Rebecca Jones from the BBC that her score was ""purely classical"". She continued ""It is an orchestral piece, by which I mean that there is nothing in it that you wouldn't find in a symphony orchestra. It was influenced by my roots and my classical background."""
"Australia there are also many wonderful musicians who play the theatre organ, with Margaret Hall, Wendy Hambly, Peter (Carroll-) Held, David Johnston, Neil Jensen, Bill Schumacher, Tony Fenelon, Simon Ellis, John Giacchi, Paul Fitzgerald, John Atwell, Robert Wetherall and Chris McPhee being among the most prolific. In France Jean-Philippe Le Trévou, Titular Organist at Sainte-Claire Church in Paris and one of the rare theatre organists in France, continues the tradition by accompanying silent films at the Kinopanorama in Paris, at the Vidéothèque de Paris for the Ciné-Mémoire Festival, as well as at the Cinema Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, during the"
"2004 when he graduated with Honours. Between 2003 and 2005 he attended the Australian National Academy of Music, where he worked with Geoffrey Tozer, Rita Reichman and Timothy Young. In 2006 he won the first prize of the Australian National Piano Award. In 2007 he was given the Encouragement Award at the 2007 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. In the same year he won the Geoffrey Parsons Award, the only competition in Australia that focuses entirely on the art of piano accompaniment. He is married to the oboist Annabelle Farid. Amir Farid Amir Farid () is an American-born Iranian-Australian classical pianist"
"The Piano (soundtrack) The Piano is the original soundtrack, on the Virgin Records label, of the 1993 Academy Award-winning film ""The Piano"". The original score was composed by Michael Nyman and is his twentieth album release. Despite being called a ""soundtrack"", this is a partial score re-recording, as Nyman himself also performs the piano on the album (whereas the film version is performed by lead actress Holly Hunter). The music is performed by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nyman with Michael Nyman Band members John Harle, David Roach and Andrew Findon performing the prominent saxophone work. The album was"
"see Carol, who is hesitant, but agrees to try and establish a relationship with him. The film ends with Melvin and Carol walking together. As he opens the door at an early morning pastry shop for Carol, he realizes that he has stepped on a crack in the pavement, but doesn't seem to mind. In 1996, James L. Brooks flew Geoffrey Rush from Sydney to Los Angeles to audition for the part of Simon Bishop, and offered him the role, but Rush declined it. The soundtrack features instrumental pieces composed by Hans Zimmer and songs by various artists. Zimmer's work"
"The main theme in The Piano is based entirely on a traditional Scottish melody titled ""Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa"". The Piano (soundtrack) The Piano is the original soundtrack, on the Virgin Records label, of the 1993 Academy Award-winning film ""The Piano"". The original score was composed by Michael Nyman and is his twentieth album release. Despite being called a ""soundtrack"", this is a partial score re-recording, as Nyman himself also performs the piano on the album (whereas the film version is performed by lead actress Holly Hunter). The music is performed by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nyman with"
"following year the published script and score won the Special Award in the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. A documentary ""Bran Nue Dae"" tells the story of the creation of the musical. The musical has been turned into a feature film directed by Rachel Perkins starring Ernie Dingo, Geoffrey Rush, Jessica Mauboy, Missy Higgins, Deborah Mailman, Magda Szubanski and Dan Sultan. The film premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Best Film. It was theatrically released in Australia on 14 January 2010. It debuted with $2.5 million in its first week, solidifying it as"
"– Carl Davis 1982: ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" – John Williams † 1983: ""Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"" – Ryuichi Sakamoto 1984: ""Once Upon a Time in America"" – Ennio Morricone 1985: ""Witness"" – Maurice Jarre ‡ 1986: ""The Mission"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1987: ""The Untouchables"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1988: ""Empire of the Sun"" – John Williams ‡ 1989: ""Dead Poets Society"" – Maurice Jarre 1990: ""Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)"" – Andrea and Ennio Morricone 1991: ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" – Jean-Claude Petit 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – David Hirschfelder Best Score<br> 1993: ""Schindler's List"" – John Williams † Anthony Asquith"
"voice in the film, which has a mute lead character. The film was released on DVD in 1997 by LIVE Entertainment and on Blu-ray on 31 January 2012 by Lionsgate, but already released in 2010 in Australia. The Piano The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute piano player and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of New Zealand. It revolves around the musician's passion for playing the piano and her efforts to regain her piano after it is sold. ""The Piano"" was written"
"father's death and to stage a well-received comeback concert, presaging his return to professional music. Geoffrey Rush resumed piano lessons—suspended when he was 14—in order not to require a hand double. Critics allege that certain events and relationships in David's life are portrayed with wild inaccuracy, sometimes even fabricated, resulting in damage to the reputations of real people. Helfgott's sister Margaret Helfgott, in her book ""Out of Tune"", stresses in particular the case of Helfgott's father Peter Helfgott, who was, according to her, a loving husband, over-lenient parent and very far from the abusive tyrant portrayed in ""Shine"". Peter Helfgott's"