Filmtracks announces its 2011 award nominees and winners

Situs Filmtracks mengumumkan penghargaannya dan Danny Elfman mendapat beberapa nominasi dan menang untuk kategori Top Film Cues. Berikut kutipannya:

Top Film Scores:
• La Ligne Droite (The Straight Line) (Patrick Doyle)
• The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (John Williams)
• The Greatest Miracle (Mark McKenzie)
• Priest (Christopher Young)
• Real Steel (Danny Elfman) 
• Soul Surfer (Marco Beltrami)

The nominees this year were relatively easy to determine, the strength of the field demanding the sixth nomination slot that Filmtracks reserves for abnormally solid years. Selecting the winner was extremely challenging, however, only The Greatest Miracle not competing with its peers. To break the tie, all of these films were viewed carefully to account for the impact of the music in context. After this process was completed, it became clear that Doyle's La Ligne Droite and Elfman's Real Steel had the most substantial impact on their films, the former slightly edging the latter because of its remarkable efficiency given such a small ensemble.

Top Film Cues:
• Real Steel (Danny Elfman) "Final Round"

• The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (John Williams) "Sir Francis and the Unicorn"
• Black Gold (James Horner) "Phantom Army"
• Dream House (John Debney) "Dream House End Credits"
• The Greatest Miracle (Mark McKenzie) "Ascension/Gloria Patri"
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (Alexandre Desplat) "Statues"
• Hugo (Howard Shore) "Winding It Up"
• La Ligne Droite (The Straight Line) (Patrick Doyle) "Stadium Memories"
• Mars Needs Moms (John Powell) "Gribble's Loss"
• Peak: The Rescuers (Naoki Sato) "Kyuushutsu"
• Priest (Christopher Young) "Fanfare for a Resurrected Priestess"
• Real Steel (Danny Elfman) "Safe With Me"
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Patrick Doyle) "Off You Go"
• Soul Surfer (Marco Beltrami) "Back in the Water"
• Soul Surfer (Marco Beltrami) "Half Pint Boards"
• Super 8 (Michael Giacchino) "Letting Go"
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (Carter Burwell) "A Wolf Stands Up"
• War Horse (John Williams) "Dartmoor, 1912"
• Water for Elephants (James Newton Howard) "The Circus Sets Up"
• W.E. (Abel Korzeniowski) "Dance for Me Wallis"

This category was extremely difficult to resolve for 2011, the generally high quality of the year as a whole for film music forcing a plethora of difficult choices. After viewing most of the films represented by these contenders, this award came down to three cues that had a tremendous impact upon their scenes: "Stadium Memories" from Doyle's La Ligne Droite, "Final Round" from Elfman's Real Steel, and "Kyuushutsu" ("Rescue") from Sato's Peak: The Rescuers. All three are represented by altered edits on their album releases, though "Final Round" from Real Steel is arguably superior in its film arrangement, giving it the slight advantage over the other two. Any one of these three cues could have won this award, and if a three-way tie were possible, that may have been the best choice.

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The Artist and The Muppets Score Oscar Music Gold

Old news yeah.. Situs The Film Music Society melaporkan segala hal yang terkait dengan musik film dari acara pengumuman pemenang Oscar yang lalu. Berikut kutipannya:

Composer Marc Shaiman, host Billy Crystal's longtime musical collaborator, penned the music and lyrics for Crystal's funny opening Oscar medley. Danny Elfman was announced as having composed the music for the Cirque du Soleil segment. And David Newman's music for Hoffa was heard during the segment recapping the Governors' Awards to James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey and makeup artist Dick Smith.

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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PRESENTS EXCLUSIVE ONE-TIME-ONLY PERFORMANCE AT THE 84TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Kemarin telah diadakan pengumuman para pemenang Academy Awards ke-84. Dalam acara tersebut Cirque du Soleil menampilkan atraksi khusus dengan musik orisinal dari Danny Elfman. Atraksi tersebut diintroduksi oleh Kermit dan Miss Piggy, berikut kutipannya:


Tonight, Cirque du Soleil with music by Danny Elfman from ... (?) have added their special magic to the mix with their interpretation of what is like to go the the movies. So, let's go to the movies!


I can't help but clapped my hands after watching the video. The audience did a standing ovation after the performance. Bagaimana atraksinya dan musiknya Danny Elfman seperti apa, bisa dilihat di situs Autumns Eyes di sini. Lihat di sini juga untuk video resminya.

Cirque du Soleil plans one-time-only Oscar piece

Pada tanggal 17 Februari yang lalu, Associated Press mengabarkan bahwa Cirque du Soleil akan mengisi salah satu acara Oscar tanggal 26 Februari 2012 yang akan datang. Acara tersebut belum pernah ditampilkan Cirque du Soleil dan tidak akan ditampilkan lagi ya ya tapi yang lebih penting adalah.. Musiknya akan dibuat oleh Danny Elfman! Kalau menurut artikelnya, musiknya bukan akan dibuat tapi sudah dibuat, berikut kutipannya:

The three-minute performance at the Oscars on Feb. 26 will be among the international troupe's biggest yet, said Cirque du Soleil special events director Yasmine Khalil, featuring more than 50 artists.

Cirque du Soleil has a Hollywood-themed show now at the Kodak Theatre, where the Oscars will be presented, but the performance for the awards telecast is "unique for this one evening" and not taken from any of the troupe's 22 productions playing around the world. After the Oscar show, the performance won't be presented anywhere again.

"The theme is very much in line with paying tribute to the movie-theater experience," Khalil said, adding it was different from "Iris," Cirque's show at the Kodak Theater, which is billed as "a journey into the world of cinema."

Like "Iris," the music for the troupe's Oscar performance was composed by Danny Elfman.

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