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Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2 1954 in Brooklyn
Brooklyn

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, New York City
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) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning American
United States

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 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to a period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism . However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to the post-1945 Modernism of post-tonal music from the death of Anton Webern ...
. He was a student of Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
 and John Corigliano
John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways.

as born on May 2, 1954 as the youngest son of a Jewish housepainter father and a Catholic seamstress mother in Brooklyn, New York, where he was influenced from an early age by music from all cultures and genres.






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Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2 1954 in Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to a period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism . However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to the post-1945 Modernism of post-tonal music from the death of Anton Webern ...
. He was a student of Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
 and John Corigliano
John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways.

Biography

He was born on May 2, 1954 as the youngest son of a Jewish housepainter father and a Catholic seamstress mother in Brooklyn, New York, where he was influenced from an early age by music from all cultures and genres. He lived in a multi-cultural part of town, and this is reflected in his works. He was educated at John Dewey High School in Brooklyn where, at the age of 14, he had his very first ballet "Variations on Early Glimpses" performed; he continued to display his eclectic musical range, performing with rock bands in the 70's. He then studied music full time at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a world-renowned music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers Academic degrees on the Bachelors degree, Masters degree, and doctoral levels in the areas of european classical music and jazz performance and composition....
, where he studied with composer John Corigliano
John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
 (whom he greatly admired), to earn his Bachelor of Music degree (1977) and Master of Music (1979) in musical composition.

He lives in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 "happily unmarried", as he once put it, with his partner Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor is an United States stage director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for her work....
, whom he met in 1982 through a mutual acquaintance, who told him "I know a person whose work is just as grotesque as yours"; they have an office/apartment where they both live and work.

Goldenthal has written works for concert hall, theater, dance and film. His work includes music for films such as Alien³
Alien³

Alien 3 is a 1992 science fiction/horror film. As the third installment in the Alien media franchise, it is preceded by Ridley Scott Alien and James Cameron Aliens and is followed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet Alien Resurrection....
, Michael Collins
Michael Collins (film)

Michael Collins is a List of Irish films#1990s List of historical drama films biographical film about Michael Collins , the Ireland patriotism and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War....
, Batman Forever
Batman Forever

Batman Forever is a 1995 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Joel Schumacher directed the film, which stars Val Kilmer as Batman, as well as Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman and Chris O'Donnell....
, Heat and the Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
-winning score for Julie Taymor's "Frida
Frida

Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the passionately professional and private life of the surrealism Mexico Painting Frida Kahlo....
", a movie in which Goldenthal had a small acting part as a "Newsreel Reporter". Incidentally he also had a small part in the stage show "Juan Darièn" as a "Circus Barker / Streetsinger". See below
Elliot Goldenthal

Elliot Goldenthal is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning United States composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways....
 for links to individual score pages; some with audio samples.

The Tony-Award winning carnival mass Juan Darièn (1988/'96) and The Green Bird (1999), based on a story by Carlo Gozzi
Carlo Gozzi

Carlo, Count Gozzi , was an Italy dramatist....
, are some of the composer's theater works.

In 2006, Goldenthal completed his original 3-act opera with Taymor entitled Grendel, an adaptation of the John Gardner novel
Grendel (novel)

Grendel is a 1971 in literature parallel novel by United States author John Gardner . It is a retelling of the Old English language epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel....
 which told the story of Beowulf from the monster's point of view. It had its world premiere in early June 2006 at the Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles Opera

The Los Angeles Opera is an opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center....
 with an audience containing the likes of John Williams and Emmy Rossum
Emmy Rossum

Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She has starred in films such as The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon , The Phantom of the Opera and Dragonball Evolution....
; the opus was added to the Los Angeles Opera's permanent repertoire and earned Goldenthal a nomination in April 2007 for the Pulitzer Prize for Music
Pulitzer Prize for Music

The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year....
.

In April 2008 it was announced that Goldenthal will reunite with Michael Mann to score a 1930s gangster movie called Public Enemies and Goldenthal will also score another Julie Taymor Shakespeare adaptation in The Tempest, scheduled for 2009.

He cites acclaimed Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu
Toru Takemitsu

was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom la...
 as an influence and someone he styles his own career on; Goldenthal has said that the lines between traditional concert music and orchestral film score have become more blurred which is the way he thinks it should be. He has also collaborated four times with Irish director Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
, scoring movies like Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles is a 1994 in film film, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice....
 and In Dreams
In Dreams (film)

In Dreams is a psychological thriller directed by Neil Jordan, released in 1999 in film. The film has a running time of 1 hour and 40 minutes....
.

Style

Elliot Goldenthal has often been called the "thinking mans composer" and a generally more cerebral choice for film makers and fans of film music alike. He is known for his often intense experimentation, intelligent nuances and willingness to try new and unconventional
Musique concrète

Musique concr?te , is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sonorities derived from musical instruments or register s, nor to elements traditionally thought of as 'musical' ....
 techniques
Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in North America, and whose most famous and influential exponent was John Cage ....
 and processes for two good examples of this see Alien 3 (soundtrack)
Alien 3 (soundtrack)

The avante garde Alien 3 score was written for the motion picture of the Alien?, scored by Elliot Goldenthal, it was his first big mainstream score; he described it as an experiment and spent a whole year creating it....
 and Titus (soundtrack)
Titus (soundtrack)

Titus is the original soundtrack to the 1999 in film motion picture Titus . Elliot Goldenthal wrote the score for the film, an adaptation of Shakespeare's first, and bloodiest, tragedy Titus Andronicus; written and directed by Julie Taymor, Goldenthal's long-time friend and partner....
. This experimental approach has lead him to score movies in almost every genre from horror to action to Shakespeare adaptations; the only type of film he has not yet scored is comedy but at the same time he has composed comedic motifs for several films such as Demolition Man and the more colourful Batman sequels
Batman Forever

Batman Forever is a 1995 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Joel Schumacher directed the film, which stars Val Kilmer as Batman, as well as Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman and Chris O'Donnell....
 which are considered tongue-in-cheek types of movies in the first place. And it is this openness to try his hand at anything which has gained him a lot of respect in the music and film communities and with fans. He is not as well known, or popular, as other film composers such as the "household names" John Williams or Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer is a Germany composer and Record producer. He is best known for his Academy Award, Grammy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning film scores....
 but he is widely appreciated among film score fans for his sheer musical abilities and distinctive style; a style, which though artistically appreciated among film music enthusiasts, some have said can be too experimental or inaccessible to the mainstream listener because of Goldenthals passion for defying the norms of contemporary classical music.

Atonal and brutal in his action music, sometimes in underscore and tends to use very fast French horn bending tones/whining; although Goldenthal himself has said that he doesn't "hear" atonal and tonal, rather "...I don't have any differentiation in my head between tonal and atonal, I either hear melody or I hear sonority — I don't hear atonal or tonal so much."

At the website filmscoremonthly.com a former classmate of Goldenthals replied to a piece on the Sphere score from 1998 saying that when he and Elliot were both studying at the Manhattan School of Music in the 70s Elliot was already experimenting with unusual techniques and when studying trumpet
Trumpet

The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
 once, Elliot asked him to "buzz into the wrong end of the mouthpiece and sing into it as well", he thought he was crazy but looking back after a decade or so of Goldenthals film and concert music he said that he "...was just way ahead of the rest of us."

Respected cultural historian and critic Piero Scaruffi
Piero Scaruffi

Piero Scaruffi is an Italian-American cultural historian. He has also written scientific and philosophical essays about cognitive science and published several books of both non-fiction and original poetry, both in Italy and the USA....
 found fit to mention Goldenthal in lists of honour and general overview of film music on his website, placing three of Goldenthal's theatre works in a "Brief history of music through its milestone compositions" and putting his score for "Drugstore Cowboy" at number 27 in a list of "Best musicals of all time".

Lists of works


Film works

  • 1979 - Cocaine Cowboys
  • 1980 - Blank Generation
    Blank Generation (1980 film)

    Blank Generation is a 1980 in film WestGerman and American co-produced musical film. It was directed and co-written by Ulli Lommel, and it stars Carole Bouquet as the French journalist Nada....
  • 1989 - Drugstore Cowboy
    Drugstore Cowboy (soundtrack)

    The score to the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy by Elliot Goldenthal is one of his earliest works, in it he does not use an orchestra but a whole range of different instruments treated in a synthesizer to create an off-beat soundtrack....
     score
  • 1989 - Pet Sematary
    Pet Sematary (soundtrack)

    Elliot Goldenthal's score to the film Pet Sematary was his first mainstream score.It is described as effectively chilling and showcases Goldenthal's unique stylistic elements for the first time....
     score
  • 1991 - Grand Isle
  • 1992 - Fools Fire (TV) - directed by Julie Taymor
  • 1992 - Alien³
    Alien 3 (soundtrack)

    The avante garde Alien 3 score was written for the motion picture of the Alien?, scored by Elliot Goldenthal, it was his first big mainstream score; he described it as an experiment and spent a whole year creating it....
     score
  • 1993 - Demolition Man score
  • 1993 - Golden Gate score
  • 1994 - Interview with the Vampire
    Interview with the Vampire (soundtrack)

    Elliot Goldenthal scored the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, working again with director and frequent collaberator Neil Jordan....
     score
  • 1994 - Roswell (TV)
  • 1994 - Cobb
    Cobb (soundtrack)

    The score to the movie Cobb by Elliot Goldenthal is notable because of the very polar and complex subject matter of the film and Goldenthal's ability to provide a subtle, beautifully sombre yet melodic soundtrack to compliment it....
     score
  • 1995 - Batman Forever score
  • 1995 - Heat score
  • 1996 - Michael Collins
    Michael Collins (soundtrack)

    Elliot Goldenthal's score for Michael Collins , nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Original Dramatic Score", is at once sweeping and epic and, as with previous collaborations with Neil Jordan, fits the film comfortably....
     score
  • 1996 - A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill (soundtrack)

    Elliot Goldenthal scored the movie A Time to Kill in 1996, its emotional, sweeping themes are typical of Goldenthal's other scores with, often, intense and/or stark emotional motifs; something he had by this time become adept at....
     score
  • 1997 - The Butcher Boy
    The Butcher Boy (soundtrack)

    Elliot Goldenthal scored the 1997 movie The Butcher Boy; the soundtrack was released in 1998. It marks another collaboration with director Neil Jordan....
     score
  • 1997 - Batman & Robin (score not commercially released)
  • 1998 - In Dreams
    In Dreams (soundtrack)

    The score to the psychological thriller In Dreams by Elliot Goldenthal is an avante-garde work filled with his trade-mark techniques and dissonance. Composed in 1999 and working again with frequent collaberator Neil Jordan, it also features songs by Roy Orbison and The Andrews Sisters....
     score
  • 1998 - Sphere
    Sphere (film)

    Sphere is a 1998 psychological science fiction thriller film, starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson. Sphere was based on the 1987 novel Sphere by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park....
     score
  • 1999 - Titus score - film directed by Julie Taymor
  • 2001 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

    Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a computer animated science fiction film by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series of console role-playing game....
     score
  • 2002 - Frida
    Frida (soundtrack)

    Frida is the original soundtrack album, on the Universal label, of the 2002 in film Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning film Frida starring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, M?a Maestro and Ashley Judd....
     score     - film directed by Julie Taymor
  • 2002 - The Good Thief score
  • 2003 - S.W.A.T. score
  • 2007 - Across the Universe
    Across the Universe (film)

    Across the Universe is a 2007 musical film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007....
     soundtracks     - film directed by Julie Taymor
  • 2009 - Public Enemies
  • 2009 - The Tempest
    The Tempest (2009 film)

    The Tempest is an upcoming 2009 in film United States film and the 3rd on-screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. It is directed by American Julie Taymor and stars Helen Mirren, David Strathairn, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Ben Whishaw and Felicity Jones....
     - film directed by Julie Taymor


Concert music works

  • 1980 - Brass Quintet No. 1, Brass Quintet No. 2
    Brass Quintet No. 2

    "Brass Quintet No. 2" is a composition, circa 1980, by Elliot Goldenthal for brass ensemble, it comes in three parts and is published as sheet music by G....
     (No. 2 has been recorded recently by Extension Ensemble
    Extension Ensemble

    Extension Ensemble is an United States five piece Brass Quintet, based in New York, comprised of Ralph Alessi , Sycil Mathai , Theo Primis , Mike Boschen and Andrew Bove ....
    , New York)
  • 1988 - Pastime Variations
    Pastime Variations

    "Pastime Variations" was an 1988 orchestral work by Elliot Goldenthal commemorating the 75th anniversary of Ebbets Field, former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team....
  • 1990 - Shadow Play Scherzo
    Shadow Play Scherzo

    "Shadow Play Scherzo" was an orchestral work by Elliot Goldenthal, commissioned in 1988 by ASCAP in honour of Leonard Bernstein's 70th birthday and composed in 1990....
  • 1996 - Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio
    Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio

    Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio is a large scale orchestral oratorio composed by Elliot Goldenthal, commissioned and performed by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in 1993 for the 20th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War....
     (recorded in 1995, featuring Yo Yo Ma)


Theatre works

  • 1984 - Play, "The King Stag" (production of Carlo Gozzi's play by Andrei Serban)
  • 1985 - Musical
    Musical

    Musical is the adjective form of music. It may also refer to:* Musical theatre: musicals produced on Theatre.* Musical film: musicals produced in Film....
    , "Liberty's Taken" (an original musical co-created with David Suehsdorf and Julie Taymor)
  • 1986 - Musical, "The Transposed Heads" (adapted in by Sidney Goldfarb and Julie Taymor from the novel by Thomas Mann
    Thomas Mann

    Paul Thomas Mann was a German literature, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, known for his series of highly symbolic and irony epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual....
    )
  • 1988 - Play (Commedia), "The Serpent Woman" (production of Carlo Gozzi's Commedia)
  • 1988 - Musical, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass
    Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass (score)

    The Obie award winning score for "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" was first composed by Elliot Goldenthal circa 1988 when the musical first opened off-Broadway in a small, former church and was subsequently reworked and refined for the on-Broadway release of the show in 1996....
    "     (off-Broadway, reworked and recorded for Broadway in 1996; Co-bookwriter, lyricist, arranger of the Latin
    Latin

    Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
     text.)
  • 1998 - Ballet
    Ballet

    Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
    , "Othello
    Othello (Ballet Score)

    "Othello" is an orchestral score composed by Elliot Goldenthal for Lar Lubovitch's production of the ballet in 1998 and released commercially on the Varese Sarabande label....
    "     (a ballet with choreography by Lar Lubovitch
    Lar Lubovitch

    Lar Lubovitch is a choreographer and founded his own dance company, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. Based in New York City, he and the company have toured worldwide....
    )
  • 1999 - Musical "The Green Bird
    The Green Bird (score)

    "The Green Bird" score is composed and orchestrated by Elliot Goldenthal for the 1999 Musical theatre of the same name, directed by long-time Goldenthal collaborator Julie Taymor; it is an allegorical fairy tale of a royal family's rite of passage after being separated by a wicked grandmother....
    "     (on Broadway production of production of Carlo Gozzi's work)
    Stage director: Julie Taymor
  • 2006 - Opera
    Opera

    Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
    , "Grendel" (opened June at Los Angeles Opera; not released on CD yet as of July 2008)
    Libretto: Julie Taymor and J D. McClatchy, after the novel Grendel
    Grendel (novel)

    Grendel is a 1971 in literature parallel novel by United States author John Gardner . It is a retelling of the Old English language epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel....
     by John Gardner
    John Gardner

    John Champlin Gardner, Jr. was a well-known and controversial United States novelist and university professor, best known for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth....
    , and the poem Beowulf
    Beowulf

    Beowulf is an Old English language heroic Epic poetry of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th to the early 11th century, and relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden....

    Stage director: Julie Taymor


Awards and nominations

  • (2007) Pulitzer Prize for Music
    Pulitzer Prize for Music

    The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year....
     in Music Nomination for his acclaimed "Grendel" opera
  • (2004) Emmy Awards Nomination, "Great Performances: Dance in America" - Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
  • (2004) ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Win, "S.W.A.T." - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003
    World Soundtrack Awards 2003

    The 3rd World Soundtrack Awards were awarded on 12 October, 2003 in Ghent, Belgium....
     Win, "Frida" - Best Original Soundtrack of the Year
  • (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Win, "Frida" - Soundtrack Composer of the Year
  • (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Nomination, "Burn It Blue" from "Frida" - Best Original Song Written for a Film
  • (2002) Academy Awards
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
         Win, "Frida" - Best Original Score
  • (2002) Academy Awards Nomination, "Frida", "Burn It Blue" - Best Original Song
  • (2002) Golden Globes Win, "Frida" - Best Original Score
  • (2002) World Soundtrack Awards 2002
    World Soundtrack Awards 2002

    The 2nd World Soundtrack Awards were awarded on 19 October, 2002 in Ghent, Belgium....
         Nomination, "The Dream Within" from "Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within" - Best Original Song Written for a Film
  • (1999) CFCA awards Nomination, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
  • (1998) ASCAP awards Win, "Batman & Robin" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1998) Chicago Film Critics Awards Nomination, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
  • (1998) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998
    Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998

    The 24th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1998 in film, were given in December 1998....
         Win, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
  • (1997) Tony Awards Nomination, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (Broadway
    Broadway theatre

    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
     Production) - Best Original Musical Score
  • (1997) ASCAP awards Win, "A Time to Kill" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1997) Grammy Nomination, "Defile and Lament" from "A Time to Kill"
  • (1996) Academy Awards Nomination, "Michael Collins" - Best Original Score
  • (1996) Golden Globe Nomination, "Michael Collins" - Best Original Score
  • (1996) ASCAP awards Win, "Batman Forever" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1995) Grammy Nomination, "Batman Forever" - Best Instrumental Composition
  • (1995) ASCAP awards Win, "Interview with the Vampire" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1995) Golden Globe Nomination, "Interview with the Vampire" - Best Original Score
  • (1994) Academy Awards Nomination, "Interview with the Vampire" - Best Original Score
  • (1994) ASCAP awards Win, "Demolition Man" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1990) Edinburgh Festival Critics Choice Award
    Edinburgh Festival

    Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for several simultaneous Arts festival festivals that take place during August each year in Edinburgh, Scotland....
         Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" - Best Music
  • (1990) American Academy of Arts and Letters
    The American Academy of Arts and Letters

    The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member organization whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in United States literature, music, and art....
     Richard Rodgers Award     Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" - Best Music
  • (1988) Obie Award
    Obie Award

    The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards bestowed by The Village Voice newspaper to theater artists in New York City....
         Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (Original Production) - Best Music


Among others including the Arturo Toscanini Award, the New Music for Young Ensembles composition prize, the Stephen Sondheim Award in Music Theater and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.

Quotes




Trailer music

A number of Goldenthal's cues (as is common with a lot of composers) have been used for trailer music, below is a list of known uses up to 2004.

Interview with the Vampire (1994) was used in:
Copycat (1995) - Theatrical Trailer


Alien III (1992) was used in:
The Animatrix (2003) - Theatrical Trailer
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - TV Trailer
The Matrix (1999) - Theatrical Trailer
The Matrix (1999) - TV Trailer
The Village (2004) - Theatrical Trailer


Batman Forever (1995) was used in:
Batman & Robin (1997) - Theatrical Trailer
Batman Forever (1995) - Theatrical Trailer


Demolition Man (1993) was used in:
Evolution (2001) - Internet Trailer
Men in Black (1997) - Theatrical Trailer
Men in Black II (2002) - Teaser Trailer


Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) was used in:
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) - Teaser Trailer
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - Teaser Trailer


Heat: (1995) was used in:
L.A. Confidential (1997) - TV Trailer


See also

  • Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
  • John Corigliano
    John Corigliano

    John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
  • Toru Takemitsu
    Toru Takemitsu

    was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom la...
  • Julie Taymor
    Julie Taymor

    Julie Taymor is an United States stage director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for her work....
  • Avant-garde
    Avant-garde

    Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
  • Contemporary classical music
    Contemporary classical music

    Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to a period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism . However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to the post-1945 Modernism of post-tonal music from the death of Anton Webern ...
  • Musique concrète
    Musique concrète

    Musique concr?te , is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sonorities derived from musical instruments or register s, nor to elements traditionally thought of as 'musical' ....
  • Modernism (music)
    Modernism (music)

    Modernism in music is characterized by a desire for or belief in progress and science, surrealism, anti-romanticism, political advocacy, general intellectualism, and/or a breaking with the past or common practice period ? Ezra Pound's modernist slogan, "Make it new," as applied to music....


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