Life Is Beautiful is the original soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

, on the Virgin Records America label, of the 1997

1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

 Academy Award-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...

(original title: La vita è bella), starring Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...

 (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

 for his role as "Guido Orefice" in this film), Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi is an Italian actress and producer, best known for her work with her husband, actor and director Roberto Benigni....

 and Giustino Durano

Giustino Durano

Giustino Durano was a long lasting movie actor who is best known for his work as the uncle of Guido Orefice in the 1997 film, Life Is Beautiful....

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 was composed by Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani is a light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film La Vita è bella, better known to English-speaking audiences as Life Is Beautiful.After high school, Piovani enrolled at...

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The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

 and was nominated for a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

: "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media", but lost to the score of A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 25, 1998. A Bug's Life was the second Disney·Pixar feature film after Toy Story, and the third American computer-animated film after Toy...

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Track listing

• 1. Buon Giorno Principessa 3:29
• 2. La Vita E Bella 2:46
• 3. Viva Giosue 1:19
• 4. Grand Hotel Valse 1:57
• 5. La Notte Di Favola 2:32
• 6. La Notte Di Fuga 3:49
• 7. Le Uova Nel Capello 1:07
• 8. Grand Hotel Fox 1:55
• 9. Il Treno Nel Buio 2:19
• 10. Arriva Il Carro Armato 1:04
• 11. Valse Larmoyante 2:03
• 12. L'Uovo Di Struzzo-Danza Etiope 1:53
• 13. Krautentang 2:46
• 14. Il Gioco Di Giosue 1:45
• 15. Barcarolle 3:54
• 16. Guido E Ferruccio 2:26
• 17. Abbiamo Vinto 3:03
• Total Time: 40:07

Life Is Beautiful is the original soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

, on the Virgin Records America label, of the 1997

1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

 Academy Award-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...

(original title: La vita è bella), starring Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...

 (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

 for his role as "Guido Orefice" in this film), Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi is an Italian actress and producer, best known for her work with her husband, actor and director Roberto Benigni....

 and Giustino Durano

Giustino Durano

Giustino Durano was a long lasting movie actor who is best known for his work as the uncle of Guido Orefice in the 1997 film, Life Is Beautiful....

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 was composed by Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani is a light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film La Vita è bella, better known to English-speaking audiences as Life Is Beautiful.After high school, Piovani enrolled at...

.

The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

 and was nominated for a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

: "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media", but lost to the score of A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 25, 1998. A Bug's Life was the second Disney·Pixar feature film after Toy Story, and the third American computer-animated film after Toy...

.

Track listing

• 1. Buon Giorno Principessa 3:29
• 2. La Vita E Bella 2:46
• 3. Viva Giosue 1:19
• 4. Grand Hotel Valse 1:57
• 5. La Notte Di Favola 2:32
• 6. La Notte Di Fuga 3:49
• 7. Le Uova Nel Capello 1:07
• 8. Grand Hotel Fox 1:55
• 9. Il Treno Nel Buio 2:19
• 10. Arriva Il Carro Armato 1:04
• 11. Valse Larmoyante 2:03
• 12. L'Uovo Di Struzzo-Danza Etiope 1:53
• 13. Krautentang 2:46
• 14. Il Gioco Di Giosue 1:45
• 15. Barcarolle 3:54
• 16. Guido E Ferruccio 2:26
• 17. Abbiamo Vinto 3:03
• Total Time: 40:07

Life Is Beautiful is the original soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

, on the Virgin Records America label, of the 1997

1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

 Academy Award-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...

(original title: La vita è bella), starring Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...

 (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

 for his role as "Guido Orefice" in this film), Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi is an Italian actress and producer, best known for her work with her husband, actor and director Roberto Benigni....

 and Giustino Durano

Giustino Durano

Giustino Durano was a long lasting movie actor who is best known for his work as the uncle of Guido Orefice in the 1997 film, Life Is Beautiful....

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 was composed by Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani is a light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film La Vita è bella, better known to English-speaking audiences as Life Is Beautiful.After high school, Piovani enrolled at...

.

The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...

 and was nominated for a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

: "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media", but lost to the score of A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 25, 1998. A Bug's Life was the second Disney·Pixar feature film after Toy Story, and the third American computer-animated film after Toy...

.

Track listing

• 1. Buon Giorno Principessa 3:29
• 2. La Vita E Bella 2:46
• 3. Viva Giosue 1:19
• 4. Grand Hotel Valse 1:57
• 5. La Notte Di Favola 2:32
• 6. La Notte Di Fuga 3:49
• 7. Le Uova Nel Capello 1:07
• 8. Grand Hotel Fox 1:55
• 9. Il Treno Nel Buio 2:19
• 10. Arriva Il Carro Armato 1:04
• 11. Valse Larmoyante 2:03
• 12. L'Uovo Di Struzzo-Danza Etiope 1:53
• 13. Krautentang 2:46
• 14. Il Gioco Di Giosue 1:45
• 15. Barcarolle 3:54
• 16. Guido E Ferruccio 2:26
• 17. Abbiamo Vinto 3:03
• Total Time: 40:07