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AWARDS DATABASE
All of the winners, all of the nominees, all of the awards shows.
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Original score
FAVORITES
"American Gangster," Marc Streitenfeld "Atonement," Dario Marianelli "Beowulf," Alan Silvestri "The Bucket List," Marc Shaiman "Charlie Wilson's War," James Newton Howard "Eastern Promises," Howard Shore "Enchanted," Alan Menken "The Golden Compass," Alexandre Desplat "Grace Is Gone," Clint Eastwood "The Great Debaters," James Newton Howard, Peter Golub "In the Valley of Elah," Mark Isham "Into the Wild," Michael Brook, Kaki King, Eddie Vedder "The Kite Runner," Alberto Iglesias "The Last Mimzy," Howard Shore "Lust, Caution," Alexandre Desplat "Michael Clayton," James Newton Howard "Ratatouille," Michael Giacchino "There Will Be Blood," Jonny Greenwood "3:10 to Yuma," Marco Beltrami SPOTLIGHT: Clint Eastwood's talent as a music composer is overshadowed by his prominence as a director and actor, but he wrote haunting scores to most of his recent films, earning Grammy and Golden Globe nominations for "Million Dollar Baby." Never before has he written the score to someone else's film, but Eastwood was so moved by an early screening of "Grace Is Gone," a poignant drama about a family coping with a mother's death in Iraq, that he asked producer Harvey Weinstein if he could have this job. How could Weinstein -- who's been eager to get back in the Oscar game since breaking with Miramax -- turn down that Academy Award magnet? POSSIBLE "Across the Universe," Elliot Goldenthal "Alvin and the Chipmunks," Christopher Lennertz "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," Nick Cave, Warren Ellis "August Rush," Mark Mancina "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," Carter Burwell "Bee Movie," Rupert Gregson-Williams "The Bourne Ultimatum," John Powell "The Brave One," Dario Marianelli "Cassandra's Dream," Philip Glass "Dan in Real Life," Sondre Lerche "Evan Almighty," John Debney "Evening," Jan A.P. Kaczmarek "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," Craig Armstrong, A.R. Rahman "Gone Baby Gone," Harry Gregson-Williams "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," Nicholas Hooper "I Am Legend," James Newton Howard "Juno," Matteo Messina "The Kingdom," Danny Elfman "Lars and the Real Girl," David Torn "Lions for Lambs," Mark Isham "Meet the Robinsons," Danny Elfman "A Mighty Heart," Molly Nyman, Harry Escott "The Namesake," Nitin Sawhney "Ocean's Thirteen," David Holmes "Persepolis," Olivier Bernet "Reservation Road," Mark Isham "The Savages," Stephen Trask "Shrek the Third," Harry Gregson-Williams "Sleuth," Patrick Doyle "Things We Lost in the Fire," Gustavo Santaolalla, Johan Soderqvist "Waitress," Andrew Hollander "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," Michael Andrews "Zodiac," David Shire SPOTLIGHT: Bloggers and film and music critics are widely cheering "Zodiac," which marks the triumphant return of 70-year-old David Shire, whose music output has been meager over the last two decades since he scored such classic films as "All the President's Men" and "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." Now there's hope Shire might receive his first music nomination since he won an Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" from "Norma Rae." But the score might be disqualified by the academy due to the film using too much music from the 1960s and 1970s when the Zodiac murders actually took place. According to the academy's Rule 16, "An original score is a substantial body of music in the form of original dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film." LONG SHOTS "Away From Her," Jonathan Goldsmith "The Band's Visit," Habib Shadah "Black Snake Moan," Scott Bomar "Breach," Mychael Danna "Bridge to Terabithia," Aaron Zigman "Disturbia," Geoff Zanelli "The Hunting Party," Rolfe Kent "Jane Austen Book Club," Aaron Zigman "The Mist," Mark Isham "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium," Alexandre Desplat, Aaron Zigman "Music Within," James T. Sale "P.S. I Love You," John Powell "Rendition," Paul Hepker, Mark Kilian "Sea of Dreams," Luis Bacalov "Stardust," Ilan Eshkeri "Talk to Me," Terence Blanchard "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep," James Newton Howard "We Own the Night," Wojciech Kilar "Youth Without Youth," Osvaldo Golijov
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