Jerry Goldsmith

...a crescendo when Norman Bates kills Marion (Janet Leigh) to death, which leaves her blood to pour down the plughole. It pipped Jerry Goldsmith''s Ave Satani song, which featured in The Omen, to land the honour. Hans Zimmer''s ''Samara''s...

In this article: Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, The Ring, Norman Bates, Hans Zimmer, Mike Oldfield, Bernard Hermann, Janet Leigh, and Andrew Lloyd Webber

...crescendo as Norman Bates stabs Marion (played by Janet Leigh) to death, leaving her blood to pour down the plughole. It beat Jerry Goldsmith's eerie Ave Satani song, which featured in The Omen, to claim first place. Hans Zimmer's...

In this article: Psycho, Janet Leigh, Alfred Hitchcock, The Ring, Norman Bates, Hans Zimmer, Mike Oldfield, and Bernard Hermann

...bombed. *We were shown the work-reel version of Hogarth's initial search for the Giant in the forest. It was mostly temp-scored to Jerry Goldsmith's "Hyper Sleep" cue from ALIEN. The studio didn't like this sequence. They found it...

In this article: The Iron Giant, Brad Bird, Warner Bros., DVD, The Incredibles, Thomas Hart Benton, Disney, and AICN

...old people stories, but I do love the joy of this segment. It looks like a million bucks, totally Spielberg framing and focus, and Jerry Goldsmith's score (one of the only movies Spielberg ever filmed not scored by John Williams, by the way) is...

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...them are on Cinematical's list. One of the seven is one of my favorite movies of the genre, Poltergeist, music by Jerry Goldsmith. Jerry Goldsmith previously contributed a classic horror theme with his score for Richard Donner's Omen, but...

In this article: Rosemary's Baby and Poltergeist

..."Scene d'amour" from "Vertigo" fared somewhat better. Of the noir threesome - music from Franz Waxman's "Sunset Boulevard," Jerry Goldsmith's "Chinatown" and Miklos Rozsa's "Double Indemnity" - it was Goldsmith's score that held...

In this article: John Williams, Gustavo Dudamel, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Vertigo, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Times

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" pictures).

In this article: In Harm's Way, Otto Preminger, Pearl Harbor attack, Oscars, San Francisco Chronicle, Saul Bass, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and Star Trek

...how it was ever going to work. And very late in the game, Roman rejected the truly awful score by the original composer and gave Jerry Goldsmith 10 days to write and record a new one.” </p><p>Even after seeing the film for the first...

In this article: Robert Towne, Chinatown, Roman Polanski, DVD, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Los Angeles

...movie began, the biggest round of applause wasn't for the stars, or even the art director, for that matter. It was for composer Jerry Goldsmith's dead-on score, which opens with the French-horn driven Klingon's theme. Reminiscent of a...

In this article: Star Trek, William Shatner, Gene Roddenberry, Persis Khambatta, and Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

...Vangelis'' haunting electro soundtrack for Blade Runner at the third place. The track from Star Trek the Motion Picture created by Jerry Goldsmith and Flash Gordan by Queen wrapped up the top five. "With his score for Star Wars, John...

In this article: Star Wars, John Williams, Star Wars movies, Academy Award, Grammy Award, Richard Strauss, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vangelis, and Star Trek