45 year-old Italian composer Dario Marianelli is the proud winner of the BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC) category for this year's ACADEMY AWARDS. Atonement is the work that awarded him this honor, coming along as one of 2007 definite best works and I'd like to express my deepest congratulations and gratitude for his win.
ATONEMENT:
His deeply melodic and classically-colored musical work of lush arrangements and beautiful themes was evidently a real gem right from the very beginning, one that elevated the movie it accompanied greatly. Dario cleverly incorporated the sounds of a typewriter into his music, sounds which are integrally connected to the movie's storyline and also attribute his score with a distinct breath of fresh air. Also featuring what's possibly one of the most captivating and sentimental single film music compositions of the last decade, "Elegy For Dunkirk" altogether with the romantic nature and musicality of the themes Dario wrote for the movie make Atonement one of the year's brightest musical highlights and his win a wholly deserved one.
Atonement is also the winner of the International Film Music Critics Association's Award for the Score of the Year, Best Original Score for a Drama Film, and Film Music Composition of the Year categories, the latter for the afore-mentioned "Elegy for Dunkirk". More info about the Awards and Dario can be found here.
DARIO MARIANELLI:
Dario was previously nominated for an another Academy Award back in 2005 under the same category with PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) and is also the composer of V for Vendetta, The Brothers Grimm and Shooting Dogs (Beyond the Gates) which is reviewed in this blog.
Clicking on the following link will get you WATCHING THE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH (VIDEO) for which you can read the transcript below:
DARIO MARIANELLI ACADEMY AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
" Well, that was a very long walk, it felt like. I feel like -- I'm a very lucky man. Thank you very much, Academy. I'm very lucky because I was part of a fantastic group of people that made a fantastic film. It's called "movie" because it's a moving film. I'm really grateful, above all to Joe Wright, the director, to have included me in this fantastic group of gifted people. I'm very grateful to my good friends for supporting me through lots of things, through these years, and my family, who I love very much. My girls, and my father and my mother. Thank you for passing on a very deep and strong love of music. Thank you. "The official Academy Awards' Best Original Score page also contains a Film Synopsis and the Other Nominees for this year's said category.
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