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Oscars 2015: Nightcrawler + 10 More Past Academy Award Winning And Nominated Soundtracks Released By Lakeshore Records!

Take A Look Down Memory Lane From Nightcrawler To 10 More Film Scores And Soundtracks Released By Lakeshore Records!

Lakeshore Records congratulates all of the nominees for the 87th Annual Academy Awards!  Over the years, we have released some of the finest movie soundtracks ever to be heard, and we are so proud of every album.  In commemoration of this year’s event, we look back at 11 film scores and soundtracks we’ve released whose films have won Oscars® or received nominations.  Which ones do you remember?  Which ones do you want to own?

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Nightcrawler (Composer: James Newton Howard) – Nomination: Best Original Screenplay, Dan Gilroy

The Grandmaster (Composers: Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Mechaly) – Nomination: Best Achievement in Cinematography, Philippe Le Sourd; Best Achievement in Costume Design, William Chang

The Hurt Locker (Composer: Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders) – Wins: Best Motion Picture of the Year: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro; Best Achievement in Directing: Kathryn Bigelow (Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.); Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Mark Boal; Best Achievement in Film Editing: Bob Murawski, Chris Innis; Best Achievement in Sound Mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett; Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson; Nominated Oscar Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Jeremy Renner; Best Achievement in Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd;

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score: Marco Beltrami,
Buck Sanders

The Kids Are All Right (Various Artists) – Nominated: Best Motion Picture of the Year:  Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Celine Rattray; Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Annette Bening; Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Mark Ruffalo; Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg

A Serious Man (Composer: Carter Burwell) – Nominated: Best Motion Picture of the Year and Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Bright Star (Composer: Mark Bradshaw) – Nominated: Best Achievement in Costume Design: Janet Patterson

Tropic Thunder (Various Artists) – Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Robert Downey Jr.

In Bruges (Composer: Carter Burwell) – Nominated: Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh

Into The Wild (Composer: Michael Brook) – Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Hal Holbrook; Best Achievement in Film Editing: Jay Cassidy

Little Miss Sunshine (Composers: Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa) – Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Alan Arkin; Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt

Wanted (Composer: Danny Elfman) – Nonimated: Best Achievement in Sound Mixing: Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt; Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Wylie Stateman


Watch Trailer On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPDErRzsl-0

 See this year’s complete list of nominees for the 87th Oscars at Oscars.org.

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Zhong Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal — Javier Navarrete Score Available 3/10, Film Makes International Premiere

Javier Navarrete’s Score For Chinese Scifi Fantasy Zhong Kui Will Release 3/10 Via Lakeshore Records

Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to Zhong Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal, featuring the score by acclaimed composer Javier Navarrete (Pan’s Labyrinth) — available digitally on March 10.  Directed by Academy Award winning Cinematographer Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Zhao Tianyu (The Law of Attraction), the Chinese scifi fantasy epic premieres in Asia and Australia on February 19.

 

More about Zhong Kui

Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal

Zhong Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Javier Navarrete

01. In Heaven
02. Underworld
03. Nothing To Fear
04. Endurance
05. The Magic Fan
06. To Use Your Power
07. Little Snow
08. Snow Girl
09. Snow Girl Dance
10. If I Were A Demon
11. To Await Someone
12. Dark Crystal
13. Giant Demon King
14. Lifeless
15. Lost Soul
16. The Power Grows
17. Frozen
18. Snow Girl Vanishes
19. Zhongkui
20. To the Flame Like a Moth (Fen Bu Gu Shen) – Liu Huan, Jike Junyi

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Watch The Movie Trailer On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC3gCQQnswU

Directed by Academy Award winning Cinematographer Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Zhao Tianyu (The Law of Attraction), Zhong Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal makes its international premiere on February 19.  The film stars Chen Kun, Li Bingbing (as a snow demon), Winston Chow, Bao bei-Er and Voice of China contestant Summer Jike.  Stay tuned for more updates on the film and the soundtrack.

Nightcrawler Soundtrack: James Newton Howard Score Now Featured On iTunes Canada!

From February 17 to March 2, Nightcrawler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is featured on iTunes Canada!  The James Newton Howard score album is a soundtrack collector’s must-have, so don’t miss out.  Watch the soundtrack teaser below to see what critics are saying!


Watch The Teaser On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L61bFFM65OM

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Lakeshore Records: Nightcrawler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

 

Nightcrawler Director Dan Gilroy Receives Best Original Screenplay Oscar Nomination

Effie Gray: Score By Acclaimed Composer Paul Cantelon Coming Soon From Lakeshore Records, Film Starring Academy Award Winner Emma Thompson, Dakota Fanning And Robbie Coltrane Opens On April 3

Effie Gray Score By Acclaimed Composer Paul Cantelon To Be Released By Lakeshore Records, Two-Time Academy Award Winner Emma Thompson, Dakota Fanning And Robbie Coltrane Star In Stunning British Period Drama To Be Released On April 3

 

Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to Effie Gray, starring Emma Thompson (Brideshead Revisited, Last Chance Harvey), Dakota Fanning (The Motel Life, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II), Robbie Coltrane (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Ocean’s 12) and Tom Sturridge (On The Road, Pirate Radio).  The soundtrack features the score by Paul Cantelon (The Diving Bell & The Butterfly, Jane Eyre, The Other Boleyn Girl).  Written by two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson (she won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 1995’s Sense And Sensibility and a Best Actress Oscar for Howard’s End in 1992and directed by four-time BAFTA nominee Richard Laxton, Effie Gray opens in theaters on April 3.  Stay tuned for further information on the soundtrack!

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EFFIE GRAY Official Trailer from Adopt Films on Vimeo.

 

Based on a true story: A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

 

Effie Gray Soundtrack coming soon from Lakeshore Records

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Directed by four-time BAFTA nominee Richard Laxton, Effie Gray opens in theaters on April 3.

 

10 Romantic And Fun Soundtracks For Valentine’s Day Weekend, Watch The Films On Demand!

For Valentine’s Day weekend, we take a look at some of our favorite soundtrack and score albums from great movies with love stories.  From incredibly romantic and sweet, to shout-it-from-the-rooftops kind of love, we’ve got something for every taste.  The movies are also available now On Demand, so add them to your play queue or watch them this weekend.  Preview the albums to these 10 soundtrack selections.  Share with us which ones you would love to have in your collection in the comments below!

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Beastly (Songs From The Motion Picture): iTunes | Buy CD
True love.  A modern retelling of Beauty & The Beast, a once charmed man is cursed and must find true love within a year, or he will forever remain cursed.  Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  Check out the score album featuring Composer Marcelo Zarvos.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLs96TyXYw
Preview the full Beastly soundtrack on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgDiX0zvRAk

 

Words and Pictures (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes
Love comes after foreplay.  An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.  Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche stars. Rent the movie on iTunes.  Soundtrack features the score by Composer Paul Grabowsky.


Watch the album preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drIJYUseOs

 

The One I Love (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love is weird.  A married couple find their relationship and very existence put to the test in this wickedly inventive romantic comedy.  Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss and Ted Danson stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.  Soundtrack features the score by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0-GY_10k20

 

Wicker Park (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love makes you do crazy things.  Intricately moving back and forth in time revealing the story from each character’s perspective, Wicker Park is an intense psychological drama about a man in an obsessive search for a woman he fell deeply in love with – a woman who then vanishes without a trace.  Two years after her disappearance, he catches a fleeting glimpse of her in a local bar and begins a twisting search to find her and discover what really happened.  Josh Hartnett, Rose Byrne, Matthew Lillard, Diane Kruger and Christopher Cousins star.  Watch the music video below featuring Ben Gibbard’s (Laggies Soundtrack) The Postal Service band.  Watch the movie on iTunes.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjlivsCBcM

 

The Song (Original Motion Picture Score): iTunes | pre-order CD
Love never fails.  An aspiring singer-songwriter’s life and marriage suffer when the song he writes for his wife propels him to stardom.  Alan Powell (frontman of “Anthem Lights”), Ali Faulkner (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) and Caitlin Nicol-Thomas (Nashville) stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  The album features the score by Composer Vincent Emmett.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBGAzjr3lfA

 

Rob The Mob (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love can be trouble.  A modern day Bonnie and Clyde hatch an idea to rob the mob.  Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Ray Romano and Andy Garcia stars.  Watch the movie on iTunes.  The soundtrack features the score by Composer Stephen Endelman.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwMYx3pBIcU
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TTs6DkZKA

 

G.B.F. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love comes unexpectedly.  When Tanner is outed as a school’s only openly gay student, three popular girls engage in an epic fight to acquire him as their “Gay Best Friend.”  Michael J. WillettPaul IaconoSasha Pieterse and Xosha Roquemore stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHz1iL0Gx4

 

Cavemen (Original Motion Picture Soundrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love isn’t easy to find.  L.A. playboy Dean is fed up with one-night stands and empty relationships – he wants more out of life than just a party.  With a little help from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time – which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.  Camilla Belle, Skylar Austin, Chad Michael Murray, Alexis Knapp, Chasty Ballesteros, Kenny Wormald and Dayo Okeniyi stars.  Rent the movie on iTunes.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9ZUE5ByhA

 

Blue Valentine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love evolves.  The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.  Ryan Gosling (Drive) and Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams star.  Rent the movie on iTunes.  Soundtrack feature the score by Grizzly Bear.


Watch the music video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUm2Gp3_AA
Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmuwCkeeMo

 

Girl On A Bicycle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): iTunes | Buy CD
Love can get complicated.  Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, when the young French beauty, Cécile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle – and, in short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend, Derek, finds himself with a German fiancée, a French “wife”, two Australian children who call him “Papa”, and his life upside-down.  Vincenzo Amato, Paddy Considine, Stephane Debac, Louise Monot and Nora Tschirner stars.  Watch the movie on Netflix.  The soundtrack features the score by Composer Craig Richey.


Watch the album preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbwzELXCBaw

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