Academy Award Winners 2004
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the winners of the 77th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2004.
In the Best Original Score category, Polish composer Jan A. P. Kaczmarek won the Academy Award for his score for Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland, which looked at the life of author J. M. Barrie and the creation of his character Peter Pan. In his acceptance speech Kaczmarek said:
I cannot tell you how happy I am, and thank you, Academy. “Finding Neverland” was a great adventure and I’m so proud to be part of it. Marc Forster, he should be here. Marc, thank you for your subtle mind, for your incredible talent. Also Richard is here, Richard Gladstein, a man who truly understands the power of music. I’m very thankful for this as well. And then my wife Elzbieta, who always surprises me with her intellectual passion and incredible taste. She’s responsible for many good notes I’ve written. And to my friend and agent Anita Greenspan, thank you so much.
The other nominees for Best Original Score were John Williams for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Thomas Newman for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, John Debney for The Passion of the Christ, and James Newton Howard for The Village.
In the Best Original Song category, Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler won the Academy Award for “Al Otro Lado del Río” from Walter Salles’s The Motorcycle Diaries. The victory was historic as “Al Otro Lado del Río” became the first song performed entirely in a language other than English to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The other nominees for Best Original Song were Adam Duritz, Charles Gillingham, Jim Bogios, David Immergluck, Matthew Malley, David Bryson and Daniel Vickrey for “Accidentally in Love” from Shrek 2; Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri for “Believe” from The Polar Express; Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart for “Learn to Be Lonely” from The Phantom of the Opera; and Bruno Coulais and Christophe Barratier for “Look to Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)” from The Chorus (Les Choristes).
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