Day Three: The Scores

A music break, and a large one at that. If you've been here before, you may recall that the category for Music Score used to be split into two categories: Original and Adapted. The names sometimes changed - this year, they were called Scoring of a Dramatic/Comedy Picture and Scoring of a Musical Picture - but the kinds of films nominated in each category remained the same. The one exception would probably be On the Beach, whose "original score" gets quite a boost from its use of "Waltzing Matilda."

Let's have a listening party, shall we? Starting, after the jump, with.....

Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture

The Five Pennies
Leith Stevens
adapting the music of James Milton Black, Sylvia Fine, William Steffe, et. al.

****

Li'l Abner
Joseph J. Lilley / Nelson Riddle
adapting the music of Gene de Paul

****

Porgy and Bess

André Previn

adapting the music of George Gershwin

*****

Say One for Me
Lionel Newman
adapting the music of Jimmy Van Heusen

**

Sleeping Beauty

George Bruns

adapting the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky

*****

Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Film

Ben-Hur

Miklós Rózsa

****

The Diary of Anne Frank

Alfred Newman

*****

The Nun's Story

Franz Waxman

*****

On the Beach

Ernest Gold

***

Pillow Talk

Frank De Vol

***

Also in the conversation...

• Anatomy of a Murder, composed by Duke Ellington (Grammy Award Winner for Musical Composition, Sound Track Album, and Performance by a Dance Band) - you're reading that right: Duke Ellington won thrice at the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards, the first time a film score would pull of such a win without being nominated at the Academy Awards. *****
• A Summer Place, composed by Max Steiner (Grammy Award Winner for Record of the Year) - the love theme (not the main title theme) was released as a single in late 1959; when it finally charted in 1960, it spent nine weeks at the top before winning at the 3rd Annual Grammy Awards *****

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The winners that night were Porgy and Bess and, of course, Ben-Hur, which won just about every category it was up for that night.

My votes? For Best Musical Score, I vote for....

ANDRÉ PREVIN

for

PORGY AND BESS

But for Best Dramatic/Comedy Score, I vote for...

FRANZ WAXMAN

for

THE NUN'S STORY

Tomorrow, the nominees for Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur, Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder, George C. Scott in Anatomy of Murder, Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians, and Keenan Wynn in The Diary of Anne Frank.


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