Annal:2001 Academy Award® for Achievement in Music (Original Score)
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Results of the Academy Award® in the year 2001. For a ranked list of albums, try an honor roll:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- 2001 BAFTA-Music winner
- 2001 Oscar-Score winner
- 2001 Golden Globe-Score nominee
- Score: 26.51
The classical works of Tan Dun typically fuse compositional elements from the East and the West, but for his soundtrack to Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, musical cultures aren’t so much blurred as coexistent side-by-side. While the magical martial arts film doesn’t boast music as stunning as its visuals, this soundtrack is still beautiful and elegant, a perfect complement to the movie’s mysticism. Just don’t expect epic, John Williams-inspired bombast here. On “A Wedding Interrupted,” the riveting brass and string section introduction segues…
Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture
- 2001 Golden Globe-Score winner
- 2001 BAFTA-Music nominee
- 2001 Oscar-Score nominee
- Score: 22.51
Most modern Hollywood films have musical “temp tracks” laid in as they’re edited, usually classical standards or music from other soundtracks that helps shape the dramatic and emotional intentions of works in progress. Sometimes these temp tracks become the score (as in “2001”), but more often they serve as a template for the film’s eventual scorer. That said, we’ll boldly climb out on a limb and opine that director Ridley Scott was listening to a whole lot of Holst’s The Planets as he was cobbling together his modern gladiator epic. Credit Hans Zimmer for…
Chocolat: Music From The Motion Picture
- 2001 Golden Globe-Score nominee
- 2001 Oscar-Score nominee
- Score: 12.51
- 2001 Golden Globe-Score nominee
- 2001 Oscar-Score nominee
- Score: 12.51
It’s rare when a composer forges an artistic bond with a director that encompasses several films over the years, and rarer still when a musician has that relationship with two different filmmakers. Ennio Morricone’s collaboration with the late director Sergio Leone on a series of so-called spaghetti Westerns has assumed almost mythic proportions. But, beginning with Cinema Paradiso, the Roman scoring maestro has also fashioned a latter-day bond with director Giuseppe Tornatore that has produced music of a wholly different color, character, and emotional…
The Patriot: Original Motion Picture Score
- 2001 Oscar-Score nominee
- Score: 6.51
Though Hollywood has long had a love affair with historical epics, it has sorely shortchanged America’s own most compelling chapter, the War of Independence. And if this tale of a retiring Colonial hero whose family gets drawn into the war against the British has no shortage of production ironies—being helmed by a German director and starring Australian-raised Mel Gibson—its score is a solid, stirring effort by American John Williams. Largely eschewing typical bombastic epic fodder for a mostly understated score rich in his distinctive writing for brass and…
