Day Eight: Score, 1956

Music break, featuring the nominees for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedic Picture:

Anastasia

Alfred Newman
*****

past seven-time winner, 35th of 42 nominations for score

The best thing about the movie is this lush score - regal, romantic, epic. The movie does not work, full stop, without this score.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Victor Young
****

19th and final nomination for score

One of those scores you can hum along with, even when it's your first time hearing it! A jaunt!

Between Heaven and Hell

Hugo Friedhofer
***

past winner, sixth of nine nominations

I love Friedhofer, a composer who knows from effective underscoring, always appropriately tailored for the movie at hand.

Giant

Dimitri Tiomkin
*****

past winner, eighth of 14 nominations for score

I mean, right? You hear this music, you see that title, and you think hell yeah, Giant is the word! Stirring, grand - Texas in music!

The Rainmaker

Alex North
****

fifth of 14 nominations in this category

Mischievous and playful and romantic in all the right places, much like the rainmaker of the title.

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Victor Young won his first Academy Award...four months after he died:

My vote goes to:

GIANT

composed by

DIMITRI TIOMKIN

Tomorrow, the nominees for Best Supporting Actress: Mildred Dunnock (Baby Doll), Eileen Heckart (The Bad Seed), Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind), Mercedes McCambridge (Giant) and Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed).

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