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Academy Award Nominations 2003
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the nominations for the 76th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2003.
In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are:
- DANNY ELFMAN for Big Fish
- JAMES HORNER for House of Sand and Fog
- THOMAS NEWMAN for Finding Nemo
- HOWARD SHORE The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- GABRIEL YARED for Cold Mountain
This is the 3rd Oscar nomination for Elfman, the 7th nomination for Horner, the 7th nomination for Newman, the 2nd nomination for Shore, and the 3rd nomination for Yared. Horner previously won for Titanic in 1997. Shore previously won for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001.
In the Best Original Song category, the nominees are:
- T-BONE BURNETT and ELVIS COSTELLO for “Scarlet Tide” from Cold Mountain
- BENOÎT CHAREST and SYLVAIN CHOMET for “Belleville Rendezvous” from The Triplets of Belleville
- MICHAEL McKEAN and ANNETTE O’TOOLE for “A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow” from A Mighty Wind
- ANNIE LENNOX, HOWARD SHORE, and FRAN WALSH for “Into the West” from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- GORDON SUMNER (STING) for “You Will Be My Ain True Love” from Cold Mountain
The winners of the 76th Academy Awards will be announced on February 29, 2004.
BAFTA Nominations 2003
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the nominations for the 57th British Academy Film Awards, honoring the best in film in 2003.
In the Best Original Music category, which is named in memory of the film director Anthony Asquith, the nominees are:
- ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for Girl with a Pearl Earring
- ROBERT DIGGS (RZA) for Kill Bill, Volume 1
- BRIAN REITZELL and KEVIN SHIELDS for Lost in Translation
- HOWARD SHORE for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- GABRIEL YARED and T-BONE BURNETT for Cold Mountain
These are the first nominations for Desplat, Diggs, Reitzell, and Shields. It is the second nomination for Burnett, the third nomination for Yared, and is the fourth nomination for Shore. Yared previously won for The English Patient in 1996.
The winners of the 57th BAFTA Awards will be announced on February 15, 2004.
Remembering Jay Blackton, 1909-1994
Composer, arranger, orchestrator and conductor Jay Blackton died at Granada Hills Community Hospital in Los Angeles ten years ago today, on January 8, 1994, at the age of 84, from heart failure.
One of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the American musical theatre, Blackton served as musical director, conductor or arranger on more than 25 Broadway productions, including Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, Guys and Dolls and Hello, Dolly!. His comparatively small film career nevertheless brought him an Academy Award for the screen version of Oklahoma!.
Blackton was born Jacob Schwartzdorf in New York City on March 25, 1909. He studied piano and conducting at the Juilliard School and initially intended to pursue a career in opera. In 1927 he became assistant conductor of the New York Opera Comique, and from 1937 until 1942 served as conductor at the St. Louis Municipal Opera, one of America’s most important summer musical-theatre companies.
It was in St. Louis that Blackton attracted the attention of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who brought him back to New York for their revolutionary first collaboration, Oklahoma! in 1943. Blackton conducted the original Broadway production and served as its musical director, helping shape the orchestral and vocal sound of a show that transformed American musical theatre by integrating songs, dance and drama more completely than had previously been customary. Read more…
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