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FMS FEATURE...
February 14, 2005
Film Music Scores at Grammys, BAFTAs
Multiple honors for Howard Shore; highest award to John Barry
Howard Shore and John Barry received major kudos over the weekend –
one in Los Angeles, the other in London.
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Shore received two Grammy Awards on Sunday at the Staples Center in
Los Angeles, for his soundtrack album for The Lord of the
Rings: The Return of the King and for best movie song "Into
the West" from the same film.
These two wins mean that Shore has made a clean sweep of the Grammys
for his Lord of the Rings music, having won in the
score categories in 2002 and 2003 for his two previous
LOTR soundtracks, The Fellowship of the
Ring and The Two Towers. Shore shared his
song Grammy with his co-writers on "Into the West," singer Annie
Lennox and screenwriter Fran Walsh.
Shore won three Oscars – for the scores of Fellowship
and Return, and the song "Into the West."
Other film-music-related wins at Sunday's Grammy Awards were:
actor-director Zach Braff, as producer of the Garden
State soundtrack, in the "compilation soundtrack album"
category; and James Jensen, as producer of the Henry Mancini:
Pink Guitar album, in the "pop instrumental album"
category.
Film Music Society Board member Lance Bowling's Cambria Master
Recordings label won for the second consecutive year in one of the
classical music categories, "best small ensemble performance," for
Carlos Chavez: Complete Chamber Music, Volume 2, by
the Southwest Chamber Music ensemble.
In London, meanwhile, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
handed out its annual awards Saturday at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester
Square. The Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music went
to Gustavo Santaolalla, for his score for The Motorcycle
Diaries.
Santaolalla's win leaves the Oscar race for Original Score as
wide-open as ever. Among his fellow BAFTA nominees, Howard Shore's
The Aviator and Craig Armstrong's
Ray were both disqualified from Oscar consideration;
Bruno Coulais' Les Choristes is nominated not for
score, but for Best Song; only Jan A.P. Kaczmarek's music for
Finding Neverland is also Oscar-nominated.
More significantly, BAFTA honored one of the great film composers of
all time with its highest accolade, the Academy Fellowship. John
Barry, 71, received a standing ovation from the crowd as he strode to
the podium to accept the award from his longtime friend, Richard Lord
Attenborough.
Attenborough, who directed Chaplin (for which Barry
received his most recent Oscar nomination), was making his first major
public appearance since the loss of his granddaughter in the Asian
tsunami disaster. The citation was read by actress Virginia McKenna,
who starred in Born Free, for which Barry won his
first two Academy Awards.
Barry was clearly moved by the award and the outpouring of affection
by the audience. The composer said he had "had the best fortune in the
world to have worked with the finest directors and producers on the
finest productions. I owe them a huge debt of gratitude."
Barry, who won the Anthony Asquith honor for The Lion in
Winter, also has Oscars for Out of Africa
and Dances With Wolves, and is world-renowned for his
many musical contributions to the James Bond series, including the
arrangement of the original James Bond theme and such seminal scores
as Goldfinger, Thunderball and
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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