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Golden Globe Nominations 1998
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has announced the nominations for the 56th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 1998.
In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are:
- BURKHARD DALLWITZ and PHILIP GLASS for The Truman Show
- JERRY GOLDSMITH for Mulan
- RANDY NEWMAN for A Bug’s Life
- JOHN WILLIAMS for Saving Private Ryan
- HANS ZIMMER and STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for The Prince of Egypt
These are the first nominations for Dallwitz and Schwartz. This is the second nomination for Glass, the second nomination for Newman, the second nomination for Zimmer, the ninth nomination for Goldsmith, and the seventeenth nomination for Williams. Zimmer previously won for The Lion King in 1994. Williams previously won for Jaws in 1975, Star Wars in 1977, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in 1982
In the Best Original Song category, the nominees are:
- CAROLE BAYER SAGER, DAVID FOSTER, TONY RENIS, and ALBERTO TESTA for “The Prayer” from Quest for Camelot
- CHRIS DIFFORD, MARTI FREDERIKSEN, and MICK JONES for “The Flame Still Burns” from Still Crazy
- ALANIS MORISSETTE for “Uninvited” from City of Angels
- STEPHEN SCHWARTZ and KENNETH EDMONDS (BABYFACE) for “When You Believe” from The Prince of Egypt
- GORDON SUMNER (STING) for “The Mighty” from The Mighty
- MATTHEW WILDER and DAVID ZIPPEL for “Reflection” from Mulan
The winners of the 56th Golden Globe Awards will be announced on January 24, 1999.
John Addison, 1920-1998
Composer John Addison died on December 7, 1998, at his home in Bennington, Vermont, after a short illness. He was 78.
John Mervyn Addison was born in Chobham, Surrey, England, in March 1920, and studied composition at the Royal College of Music. His education was interrupted by service in World War II, where he served with distinction in the British Army, seeing action in Normandy and the Netherlands, and participating in Operation Market Garden. The experience would later inform one of his best-known works: the rousing score to A Bridge Too Far (1977), a film about the Allied operation that Addison survived.
Addison’s breakthrough in film came in 1950 with the British thriller Seven Days to Noon, and over the course of the subsequent decade he wrote scores for popular British films such as The Man Between (1953), The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Reach for the Sky (1956), Three Men in a Boat (1956), Lucky Jim (1957), A Taste of Honey (1961), and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962).
It was Addison’s sparkling, Oscar-winning score for Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones in 1963 that brought him international recognition. The music’s vivacious period stylings, full of energy and wit, became a defining element of the film’s success. Following his Oscar win Addison split his time between the UK and Hollywood, and in the years thereafter he composed scores for films such as Smashing Time (1967), The Honey Pot (1967), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Sleuth (1972, his second Oscar nomination), Swashbuckler (1976), and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), earning both critical acclaim and popular success. Notably, Addison also composed the replacement score for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Torn Curtain in 1966, which is now remembered as the film which ended Hitchcock’s relationship with Bernard Herrmann. Read more…
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