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Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
3 American movies - 5 nominations
Hans Zimmer and all these other composers have like 5 releases a year with all of these movies being big budget movies.
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Originally Posted by baba88
He says ARR has got 5 nominations in just three films where as the other composers have 5 releases each year and all of them are big budget films.
P.S: Avar sonnadhaiye naan thiruppi solli irukken :lol:
Davos Annual Meeting 2011 - Crystal Award Ceremony [A.R.RAHMAN]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ZAZJceRGg
at last speech as usual he say's 'ella pugalum iravanukke' :notworthy:
Fair point. idhuvE Raja solli irundhAl....hey dandanakkA dhAn including people who defend VM nowQuote:
Originally Posted by SMI
BTW, happy to see Rahman's oscar nominations. Though chances are lesser this time(nAn ipdi solRadhum nalladhukku dhAn :) ), the strike rate is amazing.
http://www.wqxr.org/articles/wqxr-features/2011/jan/25/rahman-leads-oscar-nominees-music/
Composer A.R. Rahman Leads Oscar Nominees in Music
Long a megastar composer within India’s Bollywood film industry, A.R. Rahman has cemented his claim as a major Hollywood force, leading the music category nominees, announced on Tuesday.
Rahman’s music for the Danny Boyle film “127 Hours” was nominated in both the Best Score and Best Original Song categories.
Going up against Rahman for Best Score is Hans Zimmer, for “Inception;” Alexandre Desplat, for “The King's Speech;” John Powell, for “How to Train Your Dragon;” and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for “The Social Network.” Reznor and Ross recently took home the Golden Globe for their score to the Facebook drama.
The score category illustrates some of the diversity within Hollywood’s music quarters, both in the aesthetic and the stature of the nominees.
Rahman previously won two Oscars for his music for Slumdog Millionaire. With “127 Hours,” he may have faced the toughest challenge from a scoring standpoint. Not only did he have to set the tone of a film in which the camera is largely static, focused on just one character, but he also had to tackle a grizzly story about a trapped hiker who cuts off his own arm. At least one critic pointed out that Rahman could have made that scenario much worse, but his accompaniment was largely restrained.
A 49-year-old Frenchman, Alexandre Desplat has built a growing international reputation through scores for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Girl With the Pearl Earring,” “Syriana,” and “The Painted Veil,” for which he won a Golden Globe in 2007. “The King’s Speech” features a jaunty and genteel, piano-driven score, which shares the soundtrack with pieces by Beethoven and Mozart.
By contrast, Trent Reznor is a newcomer to Hollywood, having scored his first movie for "The Social Network." Together with composer Atticus Ross, he crafted an atmospheric piano-draped electronic score, much in the same vein as his work with the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. One of the pivotal scenes includes an adaptation of Grieg’s In The Hall of the Mountain King.
Hans Zimmer is the Hollywood stalwart among the five nominees, a four-time Oscar winner and two-time Golden Globe winner who has scored numerous big-budget films over the past two decades. For the surreal thriller “Inception” he crafted a darkly hypnotic and at times clangorous score that garnered some Internet buzz last year after it was discovered that he built a key musical cue around the framework of the Édith Piaf song “Non, je ne regrette rien.”
The surprise nominee in the field is British composer John Powell for his colorful accompaniment to “How to Train Your Dragon,” a Dreamworks Animation film. That score edged out Golden Globe nominee Danny Elfman, who scored the animated feature "Alice in Wonderland."
The Best Song category includes “If I Rise” from “127 Hours,” Rahman’s aforementioned collaboration with Dido and Rollo Armstrong. Joining him in the category is Randy Newman for "We Belong Together" (from the Disney animated film "Tangled"); Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey for "Coming Home" (from "Country Strong"); and Alan Menken and Glenn Slater for "I See the Light" (performed by Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi, from "Tangled").
"The King's Speech" led all films with 12 Oscar nominations, while "True Grit" followed with 10, "The Social Network" and "True Grit" picked up eight each, and "The Fighter" earned seven.
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be broadcast live on ABC on Feb. 27 from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.
ARR receives the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award at Davos, Switzerland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ZAZJceRGg
Rock on, Rahman
It's celebration time for A.R. Rahman who has been nominated for two Oscars for the film ‘127 Hours’. It feels fabulous, says the master composer
When you are Rahman, the bridge between failure and success is rather short. Just a couple of days ago, the master composer was answering questions about missing the Golden Globe award for Best Original Score (Motion Picture) for Danny Boyle's “127 Hours”. With news about his twin nomination to the Oscars (Best Song along with Dido and Rollo Armstrong and Best Original Score for “If I Rise”), it's celebration time again for Rahman.
“Getting nominated for the awards itself is a fabulous feeling. Winning is good too but, in the history of the awards, except possibly once, nobody has won it twice in a row,” says A. R. Rahman.
“I have two Oscars, two Grammys, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. It's not just another award function where they shower their love on you every now and then by giving you an award. I think it is great to be in good company by getting nominated. It is just the five best composers across the world, from the U.S. point of view, pitted against one another. But I don't think the country goes gaga over me winning or not winning an international award. This isn't a cricket match,” he says.
“127 Hours”, which opened in theatres across India yesterday, has been released here by Fox Star Studios India. The trio of British pop star Dido, her brother Rollo and Rahman collaborated on this one quite by chance and hence, the nomination is even more special. “I was working with Dido on another album and that's when ‘127 Hours' came about and we thought we would do it together. It has the guy (Aron Ralston played by James Franco) imagining his future son. Dido's brother Rollo Armstrong had written these lines randomly and we thought it synched beautifully,” says Rahman.
Working with Danny and Christian Colson (producer: “Slumdog Millionaire”, “127 Hours”) was a special pleasure, says the composer-singer. “It is a great team to work with. After ‘Slumdog Millionaire', which was a very Indian film, getting to work with them on ‘127 Hours' was fabulous because you don't get tagged simply as an Indian composer. They understand that you can do a variety of things,” he says.
Rahman has recently released a music video titled “Changing Seasons”, featuring visuals from the movie “Raavan”. Released in Tamil and Hindi, it features the song “Uda Ja Re…”, which played during the roll over credits. The film flopped at the box office and Rahman's score for the film didn't become particularly popular. Why the need then to revive the single?
“In the urgency of life, a lot of good things go past and we don't pay attention to them. I think ‘ Raavan' had the most enchanting visuals by Santosh Sivan (cinematographer) and Aishwarya looked very beautiful. Mani (Ratnam) was kind enough to let me use unused stills from the film. When I was in Cape Town it occurred to me that these two could be gelled and we went ahead with the video,” explains Rahman.
Rahman has bagged the Dreamworks animation film being directed by Gurinder Chadha. “It is a great idea to work on and I am sure going to enjoy it! The title is not yet finalised but I think working on an animation film is creatively fulfilling. There is no limit to the imagination when it comes to animation.”
He has only Imtiaz Ali's “Rockstar” releasing this year and is happy to take a break from film music.
“I am in and out of Los Angeles currently. I have done enough movies last year. There is stuff I need to take care of. So I am taking a break. But there is always going to be music.”
http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/article1126878.ece
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Originally Posted by ajaybaskar