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Jan 20, 2017 · The 1950s were ushered in by Franz Waxman's colorful Sunset Boulevard score, contrasting elements of tango and bebop. It bested Alfred Newman's score for All About Eve , which took Best Picture. Over on the Musical side, Alolph Deutsch and Roger Edens landed the Annie Oakley movie its only Oscar.
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3. A Place in the Sun. 1951 2h 2m Approved. 7.7 (25K) Rate. 76 Metascore. A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. Director George Stevens Stars Montgomery Clift Elizabeth Taylor Shelley Winters. Award: Best Music Score of a Dramatic Picture or Comedy Picture.
- Frozen – Christophe Beck. In Frozen, Disney animation moves back to its best form. Christophe Beck, composer for the Muppets’ recent big screen outings, wrote touching music that perfectly complemented the songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.
- Interstellar – Hans Zimmer. Zimmer delivered magnificently for Interstellar, receiving an Oscar nod for his soundtrack. Painstakingly composed over two years, Zimmer visited London’s Temple Church to record its historic organ.
- Casablanca – Max Steiner. The peak of Max Steiner’s noir years, he apparently begged to drop ‘As Time Goes By’ from featuring in the film’s score, but was overruled.
- James Bond Theme – Monty Norman. The most famous guitar riff in cinema has featured in every official Bond film since Dr. No (1962), when it accompanied the opening title.
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- 'The Seventh Seal' (1957) The Seventh Seal could well be the most famous film directed by the legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, and it's arguably one of his best, too.
- 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955) Charles Laughton was a well-known actor, appearing in both U.K. and U.S. films throughout his impressive career, but he only ever directed a single film.
- 'The 400 Blows' (1959) The 400 Blows is undeniably one of the greatest coming-of-age movies of all time, and an instrumental French New Wave film, too.
- 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) Few movies drive home the futility of war quite as well as David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai does. This World War II epic was a critical hit, and also proved to be hugely successful at the Academy Awards, being nominated for eight Oscars and winning a total of seven, including Best Picture.
May 28, 2017 · The 1950s and 60s were arguably the high watermark of the orchestral film score, with the epic films of David Lean accompanied by similarly epic scores by Maurice Jarre. Jarre’s scores to Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia were epic in scale – and the score itself took on a life of its own, outside the picture itself.
Mar 12, 2022 · On this episode of ‘Saturday Cinema,’ guest host Scott Blankenship celebrates August birthdays in the world of film, including Jerome Moross, Peter O’Toole, Billie Burke, Alfred Hitchcock, Maureen O’Hara, Gene Kelly and more. Saturday Cinema presents highlights from some of the best Oscar score winners from films in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Sep 2, 2024 · Roman Holiday is another good Oscar-nominated movie from the 1950s. Best Picture winner All About Eve gave audiences an inside look at the competitive world of contemporary Hollywood. Other great films featured on this list include A Place in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Quiet Man.
