Academy Awards

...minus the haunting avant garde Jerry Goldsmith score. Jake Gittes (LA power broker Noah Cross, deliciously played by the late Oscar-winning director John Huston, who uttered the touchstone line above, carelessly mispronounces the...

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Jerry Goldsmith was a master of almost every Hollywood genre. Nominated for 18 Oscars (he won for "The Omen"), he scored "Alien," "Chinatown" and five "Star Trek" features. One of his standout genres was war ("Patton," the "Rambo"...

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...he gives a sinister smile. The credits begin to play. An original score for the film was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, for which he received the only Oscar of his long career. The score features a strong choral segment, with a foreboding...

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...which he won an Emmy for musical direction. He and Lionel Newman shared Academy Award nominations for their adapted scores for 1964's "The Pleasure Seekers" and 1967's "Doctor Dolittle." A friend and colleague of movie composers John...

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...Jerry Goldsmith and won him an academy award. The Omen won an Oscar for Best Score, with Ave Satani nominated for Best Song, one of the few foreign language (Latin) songs ever to be nominated. The title means "Hail Satan" in Latin, in...

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"Ave Satani", the piece of music used as the basis for the theme song for The Omen (), written by Jerry Goldsmith, which won him an Academy Award, has a title which is intended to mean "Hail Satan" in Latin, in opposition to "Ave Christi".

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Coppola's sister, Talia Shire, and brother-in-law, Jack Schwartzman, also produced the film. The screenplay was written by Menno Meyjes and Richard Outten from a story by Meyjes. Oscar-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith wrote the score.

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L.A. Confidential earned a total of nine Academy Award® nominations and won Oscars® for Actress in a Supporting Role (Kim Basinger) and Writing Screenplay based on material previously produced or published (Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson).

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...McCarthy with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Although it was not a box office success, the film achieved critical acclaim, and was the only film directed by Joe Dante to win an Oscar . It was novelized by Nathan Elliott.

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