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There Will Be Blood earned the best actor honour for Daniel and Jonny Greenwood won best composer for his haunting score of the film.

(And hell yes, Mica Levi won Best Composer for «Under The Skin.»)

Not exact matches

Peter Buffett Co-Chair and Co-President, NoVo Foundation; Director, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation; Emmy Award Winning Musician and Composer; New York Times Best Selling Author, Life is What You Make It, Barron's Most Effective Philanthropist

FISHING — DOROTHEA L. DEAN, pianist, composer and one of the country's best anglers, reeled in eight sailfish to win the weather - shortened Stuart (Fla.) Light Tackle Sailfish Tournament.

It is our hope that through these relationships students will get a better understanding of what it means to them to be the musician of the future, to transform lives through music,» said Danilo Pérez, the Institute's artistic director and a Grammy Award - winning pianist and composer.

August 5, 2015 • The best - selling novel and star - studded movie gets the operatic treatment from Pulitzer - winning composer Jennifer Higdon with a world premiere in Santa Fe.

Directed by Oscar ® winner Bill Condon based on the 1991 animated film, «Beauty and the Beast» is produced by Mandeville Films» David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman with eight - time Oscar - winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards ® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar winner Tim Rice.

French composer Alexandre Desplat smiles after he won the Oscar for Best Original Score for «The Shape of Water» during the 90th Annual Academy Awards show on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California.

Not only do they think they can get this thing looking as good as at least Toy Story 2 (a movie that still holds up), but they also brought in Oscar - winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast) to write original music for the film.

Eight - time Academy Award ® - winning composer Alan Menken («Beauty and the Beast,» «The Little Mermaid») provides the score, which includes new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Oscar ® - winning lyricists Howard Ashman («Little Shop of Horrors») and Tim Rice («The Lion King») as well as two new songs written by Menken and Oscar ® and Tony Award ® - winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul («La La Land,» «Dear Evan Hansen»).

Steven Price is the very talented composer behind the film «Gravity», which ended up winning him last year's Oscar for Best Score (along with numerous other awards).

Directed by Oscar ® winner Bill Condon from a screenplay by TBD based on the 1991 animated film, the film is produced by Mandeville Films» David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman with eight - time Oscar - winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards ® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar winner Tim Rice.

Oscar - winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (left) and Best Foreign Language Film («Wild Tales») nominee Damian Szifron (right).

Science - fiction hit Arrival, which earned 9 nominations, scored three wins, including Best Original Score for composer Jóhann Jóhannsson's powerful work — deemed ineligible by the Academy — Best Cinematography and shared a win for Best Visual Effects with Disney / Marvel's Doctor Strange.

The 2017 International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards were held yesterday, and the big winners were Phantom Thread, which won both Score of the Year and Best Original Score for a Drama Film, and Alexandre Desplat, who won Composer of the Year.

Composer Michael Giacchino wins two awards — Film Music Composition of the Year and Best Original Score for a Fantasy / Science Fiction / Horror Film — both for his work on the third film in the blockbuster Planet of the Apes trilogy, «War for the Planet of the Apes».

The other big awards contender, The Shape of Water, won the second highest number of awards, with Guillermo del Toro bagging Best Director, composer Alexandre Desplat collecting Original Music and the Production Design team also honoured.

Only composer Thomas Newman (Side Effects) comes up short, his music never achieving liftoff, the music instead sounding as if he's attempting his best John Williams imitation instead of allowing his own Oscar - winning instincts to lead him in a personal, and likely more effective, direction.

Returning to write the score as well as two original songs for TOY STORY 2 is Academy Award ® - winning songwriter / composer Randy Newman (2002 Monsters, Inc., Original Song winner).

«Slumdog Millionaire», the feel good film about a Mumbai tea - boy, swept the BAFTA awards when it won seven prizes including the Best Music Score for Indian composer A R Rahman and the Best Film at the prestigious award function in London.

Additional celebrities at SIFF this year included Academy Award - winning director Morgan Neville with his documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo - Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; award - winning writer and director James Schamus of Indignation; award - winning cinematographer Kirsten Johnson with her directorial debut Cameraperson; acclaimed actor Clea DuVall with her directorial debut The Intervention; directors Miles B. Miller and Joshua H. Miller, producer Kathryn Tucker, and actor Paul Sparks of All the Birds Have Flown South; actor Craig Robinson in Morris From America; director Jonathan Parker, producers Catherine di Napoli and Deborah Parker, and actor Eric McCormack with The Architect; Mike Birbiglia, director of Don't Think Twice; YouTube sensation and documentary subject of Presenting Princess Shaw Samantha Montgomery, who performed at the Opening Night Gala; Irish drag queen and marriage equality advocate Panti Bliss, subject of the documentary The Queen of Ireland, as well as director Conor Horgan; director Martin Spirit and subject Spencer Haywood of Full Court: The Spencer Haywood Story; irector Ned Crowley and actor Jim O'Heir of Middle Man; director James Redford with his new documentary Resilience; Pearl Jam founding member and Gleason composer Mike McCready; actor Laura Carmichael and director Chanya Button with the US premiere of Burn Burn Burn; director Iwai Shunji of A Bride for Rip Van Winkle; Joshua Marston, director of Complete Unknown; actor Corentin Fila of Being 17; Andreas Öhman, director of Eternal Summer; Ti West, director of In A Valley of Violence; director Roger Ross Williams and subject Ron Suskind of Life, Animated; director Nathan Adloff, actor Tim Boardman and producers Stephen Israel and Ash Christian of Miles; director Linas Phillips and producer Ian Bugno of Rainbow Time; Richard Tanne, director of Southside With You; Jocelyn Moorhouse, director of The Dressmaker; Brent Hodge, director of The Pistol Shrimps.

Peter Buffett Co-Chair and Co-President, NoVo Foundation; Director, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation; Emmy Award Winning Musician and Composer; New York Times Best Selling Author, Life is What You Make It, Barron's Most Effective Philanthropist

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

- the eight protagonists won't have similar stories to each other because the team wants players to enjoy different experiences - the other six protagonists will have jobs different from Orberic (Swordsman) and Primrose (Dancer)- Orberic and Primrose were chosen for the demo because their starting points are closer to other party members - each protagonist will have different starting points, so there may be a gap in the progress difficulty - the team is trying to even things out, but they don't want every character to have the same difficulty, as that would be boring - the demo has surpassed 1 million downloads worldwide - a demo was released because they thought simply publishing screenshots and trailers wouldn't convey this game's fun factor - more than 80 % of the overseas player base found the game interesting - there was one player who won against a high - leveled NPC in a Duel, and another who defeated all bar customers - the team had expected the former, they didn't expect the latter - the music was received very well, which comes from composer Yasunori Nishiki - overseas players complained of hard - to - read text, because the UI was based on the Japanese version, which will be adjusted - the biggest complaints were about slow map movement, and the lack of fast - travel - both of these features have been implemented, with faster movement and fast - travel between cities - players also found the screen too dark, so devs are adding waypoints for paths and also bigger roads - there will be an Event Skip feature, as well as the ability to freely watch events that have been already seen.

Players will enjoy a beautiful and haunting original score by Grammy nominated, two - time BAFTA winning composer Austin Wintory conducting The Dallas Winds orchestra, as well as a powerhouse trio of acclaimed YouTube sensations: Peter Hollens, Malukah and Taylor Davis.

Jack Wall is best known as a composer for his rich, cinematic scores found within popular franchises such as Call of Duty: Black Ops II & III, Mass Effect, Myst, Splinter Cell and Jade Empire winning multiple awards for his work.

Gordy Haab is a multi award - winning film, video game and television composer who has written music for many well - known titles, including most recently: Star Wars: Battlefront, Activision / AMC's «The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct», based on the # 1 hit TV series, Microsoft's «Kinect: Star Wars», which won «Best Music» at the 2012 Hollywood Music In Media Awards, and EA / Bioware / LucasArts» highly popular «Star Wars: The Old Republic,» for which he was awarded «Best Original Soundtrack» and «Best Instrumental Music» at the 10th Annual G.A.N.G. Awards, presented at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

The game and soundtrack were released in early 2014 to critical and commercial success; the score earned Austin over a dozen awards and nominations, including his 4th and 5th British Academy Award nominations, and won the first - ever peer - voted ASCAP Composer's Choice Award for «Best Video Game Score of the Year.»

Tencent has aligned Arena of Valor with best - in - class partners for the western version of the hit game, including Academy Award - winning music composer Hans Zimmer who has written an unforgettable soundtrack for Arena of Valor.

The game is being developed by Hail Studios, a company based in Ireland consisting of award winning designers, composer and artists as well as industry veterans including a game designed from BioWare Austin that worked on Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Gaming music has a bigger factor in games these days, with bigger budgets and talented composers writing or producing award winning, Hollywood movie scale soundtracks, with massive orchestras or collaborating with well known acts / bands.

To get a better understanding of where the idea for the title's music came from, and learn more about the person behind it all, we decided to sit down and chat with Until Dawn's two - time BAFTA Award - winning composer, Jason Graves.»

That leads into the additions of the Hamlet Idyll game mode as well as the Construct the Luminith Tower alternate win condition, and there are also new map and land tile types, new music from our composer Pablo Vega, and more.

Sam Hulick is a Los Angeles based, BAFTA nominated and NBC News award winning composer for film, television and interactive media, best known for creating the signature music for BioWare's blockbuster sci - fi franchise MASS EFFECT as well as original music for the fantasy role playing games BALDUR»S GATE and BALDUR»S GATE II Enhanced Editions.

From composers Nobuo Uematsu, Garry Schyman, Mike Morasky, John Debney, Jessica Curry, Inon Zur, Austin Wintory and more, everything starts with the music, and our award - winning lineup brings you some of the best music that games have to offer.

The inaugural season of the MET Breuer will feature a rich program of exhibitions and events, including the thematic exhibition Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible focused on unfinished works of art, from the Renaissance to the present day; two exhibitions featuring the Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi and the American photographer Diane Arbus, a retrospective of the contemporary painter Kerry James Marshall, as well as a site - specific installations by Vijay Iyer and a newly commissioned work by Pulitzer Prize - winning composer John Luther Adams.

Composer Jennifer Higdon's (1999) opera Cold Mountain won an International Opera Award for «Best World Premiere,» and poet J.C. Todd (2014) received the Rita Dove Poetry Prize in the International Literary Awards Competition.

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will open four new shows on July 5 in Saratoga Springs, including a multi-layered exhibition interweaving the music of Pulitzer Prize - winning composer David Lang with the works of some 25 contemporary artists, as well as three solo shows featuring the works of Jeff Sonhouse, Beverly Semmes and Erika Verzutti.

Herman, 80, won Tony Awards for best composer and lyricist for «Hello, Dolly!»