Last night Dario Marianelli won his first Academy Award for Atonement, besting Michael Giacchino (Ratatouille), James Newton Howard (Michael Clayton), Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma) and Alberto Iglesias (The Kite Runner). Accepting his award, Marianelli said:

“Well, that was a very long walk, it felt like. I feel like — I’m a very lucky man. […]

Music Composed by Alexandre Desplat
Rating: ****
Alexandre Desplat had a huge breakout year in 2007, with two grandstanding Hollywood fantasy scores sitting alongside his more typical serious arthouse fare. And with all of the buzz surrounding his extravagant work for The Golden Compass and his rhapsodic contributions to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, it seemed that […]

Music Composed by Dario Marianelli
Rating: **** 1/2
Last time I wrote about a Dario Marianelli score, the man was just breaking into Hollywood. His one-two punch of Brother’s Grimm and Pride and Prejudice in 2005 gave the film music community great reason to be excited. A few years later, and a few scores of […]