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Eleven scores in three different decades.
Classic arrangement, at the very least, of the theme,
Musically defined a genre.
Depending on your preferences, at least five timeless songs: Goldfinger, Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, You Only Live Twice, We Have All the Time in the World, and Diamonds Are Forever. And a few others of note.
Scored for FOUR different Bonds, adapting to and updating for each while maintaining the style he created.
ZERO nominations.
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We all need to quite caring about the Oscars.
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Yes, all 11 of John Barry's Bond scores were absolutely and unbelievably overlooked for Oscar consideration in their time.
I love them all, but In particular:
GOLDFINGER
THUNDERBALL
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
These are not only great Bond scores, but also some of the greatest film scores (and songs) ever written... period!
John Barry was one of the Top 10 Greatest Film Composers of All Time, and I'm thrilled that he won so many Oscars during his amazing career...
...But no Bond nominations or wins? That is an out-and-out CRIME.
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It's crazy how Barry's Bond music was ignored at the Oscars, but given he won five Oscars in the end I don't think anybody's going to cry for him over that one.
I mean, sure, the songs of Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, We Have All The Time In The World and Diamonds Are Forever at least should have been nominated, and the scores for Goldfinger and OHMSS at least should have been nominated.
You can argue for not nominating the others because you can argue they were more derivative, but those two scores were both ground breakers.
But, you know what — that word should is just the way we argue with reality.
The five he did win will be reward enough.
I was just disappointed they didn't have a card on the end credits of Skyfall for him, since he'd just died at that point and it was the Bond 50th anniversary film.
Cheers
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morricone never got an nomination for any of his "spaghetti" westerns...think about this!
and even here, on this board, he still doesn't get the honor and appreciation he deserves!
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Awards are recognition for the music. Whether or not you get the awards, the music still stands. Still, the recognition is nice.
Putting this in a different light for, say, John Williams fans. What if JW scored the original Star Wars plus several more and never got a nomination, much less an Oscar, for this work and then after he stopped doing them several others stepped in, creating scores of varying quality in the musical framework he created, and got nominations and Oscars.
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I guess in the case of GOLDFINGER - which is the most glaring omission in the first years of the franchise (and to a lesser extent THUNDERBALL's song) - it was probably snobbery. When YOLT, with its also very worthy song was released, it was 1967 and Barry had already won his first two Oscars. In 1969, when OHMSS was released, Barry was winning a third Oscar. Three wins out of three nominations. After that, the music branch of the Academy didn't give JB many opportunities to win another statuette - they nominated him again for MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (the year of DAF, the other glaring omission in the song category) but he had to wait until the mid-'80s to receive another nomination. Barry had a fantastic win to nom. ratio - an, I think, unprecedented 5 out of 7 - which always made me to believe he was more liked by the entire voting body of the Academy than by its music branch... (It's also the circumstances, of course - his other two Oscars came for hit films that swept the awards). His peers could have easily nominated him for WALKABOUT, MIDNIGHT COWBOY or later for FRANCES. But they didn't.
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[quote]I don't think that there has yet been a proper release of the ACTUAL soundtrack for TSWLM. [/quote]
Forgive the ignorance, but there' vinyl version of it available. Is it not the actual soundtrack?
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