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Golden Globe Winners 2006
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) have announced the winners of the 64th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2006.
In the Best Original Score category composer Alexandre Desplat won the award for his score for The Painted Veil, the epic drama based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
The other nominees were Clint Mansell for The Fountain, Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel, Carlo Siliotto for Nomad, and Hans Zimmer for The Da Vinci Code.
In the Best Original Song category, the winner was Prince Rogers Nelson for “The Song of the Heart” from the penguin-heavy animated musical film Happy Feet.
The other nominees were Bryan Adams, Eliot Kennedy, and Andrea Remanda for “Never Gonna Break My Faith” from Bobby; Sheryl Crow for “Try Not To Remember” from Home of the Brave; Beyoncé Knowles, Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, and Anne Preven for “Listen” from Dreamgirls; and Henry Samuel (Seal) and Christopher Bruce for “A Father’s Way” from The Pursuit of Happyness.
THE PAINTED VEIL – Alexandre Desplat
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
The winner of the Golden Globe for Best Score of 2006, The Painted Veil caps off a truly remarkable year for 45 year old French composer Alexandre Desplat. His other two major 2006 scores – Firewall and The Queen – were both met with general critical acclaim, and further cemented his position as one of the most exciting composers to emerge in Hollywood in recent years. It’s easy to forget that just three years ago he was a virtual unknown outside of his native country, and that his international stature has been built up over the course of just four or five scores. Read more…
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