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Michael Stevens (composer)
Michael Stevens is an American musician and composer. He has collaborated with Kyle Eastwood on numerous projects, including the film scores to Clint Eastwood's films, ''Mystic River'' (2003), ''Million Dollar Baby'' (2004), ''Letters from Iwo Jima'' (2006), ''Gran Torino'' (2008), and ''Invictus'' (2009). He was nominated with Kyle Eastwood for a 2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Original Score for ''Letters from Iwo Jima''. In 2008, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for the song "Gran Torino". Selected works Stevens has worked extensively as a composer and in the music department for various films, television, and video productions. Some of his notable contributions include: As composer * ''Letters from Iwo Jima'' (2006) * ''Gran Torino'' (2008) * ''Invictus'' (2009) * '' Rails & Ties'' (2007) * ''Pieds nus sur les limaces'' (2010) * ''2036 Origin Unknown'' (2018) * ''Back to Berlin'' (2018) * ''Cacciaguida'' (2019, Short) * ''The ...
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Film Score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question. Scores are written by one or more composers under the guidance of or in collaboration with the film's director or producer and are then most often performed by an ensemble of musicians – usually including an orchestra (most likely a symphony orchestra) or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – known as playback singers – and recorded by a sound engineer. The term is less frequently applied to music written for media such as live theatre, television and radio programs, and video games, and said music is typically referred to as either the soundtrack or incidental music. Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of ...
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Rails & Ties
''Rails & Ties'' is a 2007 American drama film directed by Alison Eastwood in her directional debut and written by Micky Levy and starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden. Plot Laura Danner is a mentally ill, single mother who takes illegal drugs and is unable to care for her 10-year-old son Davey. Driven to despair, she decides to die by suicide by driving a car on to a railway track, taking Davey with her. She offers him some tranquillisers beforehand but, unbeknownst to her, he spits them out. His mother drives on to the tracks. As a train approaches, Davey tries in vain to drag her out of the car, himself jumping clear just in time. Two train crewmen, Tom Stark and Otis Higgs, seeing the car on the tracks ahead, argue about whether an emergency stop will derail the train or not. However, the train hits and kills the boy's mother. Subsequently, the railroad company calls for an internal inquiry and suspends the two drivers pending an informal inquiry. Davey has spent the ...
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons a ...
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Living People
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American Male Film Score Composers
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Flags Of Our Fathers (film)
''Flags of Our Fathers'' is a 2006 American war drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the 2000 book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who were involved in raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the after effects of that event on their lives. Taken from the American viewpoint of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the film is a companion piece to Eastwood's '' Letters from Iwo Jima'', which depicts the same battle from the Japanese viewpoint; the two films were shot back to back. The film was released on October 20, 2006. Although it was a box office bomb, only grossing $65.9 million against a $90 million budget, the film received favorable reviews from critics. The companion film ''Letters from Iwo Jima'' was released in Japan on December 9, 2006, and in the United States on December 20, 2006, grossing sli ...
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Changeling (film)
''Changeling'' is a 2008 American mystery film, mystery Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama film directed, produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. The story was based on real-life events, specifically the 1928 Wineville Chicken Coop murders in Mira Loma, California. It stars Angelina Jolie as a woman united with a boy who she realizes is not her missing son. When she tries to demonstrate that to the police and city authorities, she is vilified as delusional, labeled as an unfit mother and confined to a psychiatric ward. The film explores themes of Child abuse, child endangerment, female disempowerment, political corruption, and mistreatment of mental health patients. Working in 1983 as a special correspondent for the now defunct ''TV-Cable Week'' magazine, Straczynski first learned the story of Christine Collins and her son from a Los Angeles City Hall contact. Over the ensuing years he kept researching the story but never felt he was ready ...
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2036 Origin Unknown
''2036 Origin Unknown'' is a 2018 British science fiction adventure film directed by Hasraf Dulull, written by Dulull and Gary Hall, and starring Katee Sackhoff and Steven Cree. The film follows mission controller Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson (Sackhoff) and ARTI, an artificial intelligence system (voiced by Cree), as they discover a mysterious object on Mars and witness it transporting to Earth by faster-than-light travel. The film generally received mixed to negative reviews with many comparing it unfavorably to '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. ''2036 Origin Unknown'' was shot at West London Film Studios. Plot In 2030, a mission to Mars goes awry when a crewed shuttle disappears under mysterious circumstances. Six years later, United Space Planetary Corporation mission controller Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson finds herself subordinate to ARTI, an artificial intelligence system, as she lands a rover (which she nicknames "Little Red") on Mars. While Mack is distrustful of ARTI, her sist ...
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Golden Globe Award For Best Original Song
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song is a Golden Globe Award that was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The award is presented to the songwriters of a song written specifically for a motion picture. The performers of the song are not credited, unless they also have a writing or co-writing credit. Winners and nominees 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple wins 4 wins: * Alan Menken 3 wins: * Tim Rice 2 wins: * Howard Ashman * Carole Bayer Sager * Alan and Marilyn Bergman * Phil Collins * Billie Eilish * Marvin Hamlisch * Will Jennings * Elton John * Johnny Mercer * Giorgio Moroder * Finneas O'Connell * Benj Pasek * Justin Paul * Bruce Springsteen * Bernie Taupin * Dimitri Tiomkin * U2 * Diane Warren * Ned Washington See also *Academy Award for Best Original Song The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given ...
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ...
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IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ...
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