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Some Famous Film Composers
(with emphasis on the period since 1950)
Louis & Bebe Barron
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
John Barry
• Goldfinger (1964) (and many other Bond films)
• Out of Africa (1985)
Elmer Bernstein
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• The Grifters (1990)
Carter Burwell
• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• Fargo (1996)
John Corigliano
• Altered States (1980)
Don Davis
• The Matrix (1999)
Tan Dun
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Danny Elfman
• Batman (1989)
• Men in Black (1997)
Philip Glass
• Kundun (1997)
Jerry Goldsmith
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• The Omen (1976)
• Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979)
• Alien (1979)
Bernard Herrmann
• Psycho (1960)
• Taxi Driver (1975)
James Horner
• Braveheart (1995)
• Titanic (1997)
James Newton Howard
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
Michael Kamen
• Lethal Weapon (1987)
• Die Hard (1988)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• King's Row (1942)
Anu Malik
• Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega (2000)
Henry Mancini
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (including the song Moon River)
• The Pink Panther (1963)
Alan Menken
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• Beauty and the Beast (1991) (and several other recent Disney musicals)
Ennio Morricone
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1967)
• The Untouchables (1987)
Alfred Newman
• The Robe (1950)
Thomas Newman
• American Beauty (1998)
Alex North
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Spartacus (1960)
Michael Nyman
• The Piano (1993)
David Raksin
• Laura (1946)
Leonard Rosenman
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Miklos Rozsa
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
Howard Shore
• Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Alan Silvestri
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• The Mummy Returns (2001)
Max Steiner
• Casablanca (1942)
John Williams
• Star Wars (1977)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Amistad (1997)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Ennio presented his cantata Voci dal silenzio to welcome the new Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moo at the United Nations . The world knows that the music of this Maestro gives a beautiful feeling ,may be metaphorically speaking Ennio plays for a better world to come . Ennio Morricone , a man of Rome born in Italy , is known of his scores to Western Spaghetti 's films such as The Good, the Bad ,and the Ugly ( 1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) made by the legendary filmmakers Sergio Leone . Ennio Morricone worked with many directors namely Brian DePalma,1987 The Untouchables including scores for The Mission ( Rolland Joffé;1986) Cinema paradiso ( Giuseppe Tornatore,1988) Lolitta ( Adrian Lyne,1997).
Morricone received an honorary Academy Award on February 2007 from Clint Eastwood for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music.
At the last edition of FIFM in Marrakech, i praised the movie of Kamal Kamal , Morroccan Nostalghiya just because this filmmaker understands the value of film music . Kamal Kamal worked with the Moroccan Royal Orchestra conducted by Jean Charles Biondi and Mustapha Bukhari . The music of the film was so good hopefully other Moroccan filmmakers would follow the same path just in considering film Music . ( Allal El Alaoui 2007)
