Marco Beltrami
Composer Marco Beltrami, 46, created the score for The Sessions. A two-time Oscar nominee, Beltrami recently won best original feature score from the Hollywood Music and Media awards.
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Mychael Danna
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Art Streiber Mychael Danna's score for Ang Lee's blockbuster The Life of Pi is up for a Golden Globe. "I have, I don't know, a hundred films on my IMDB page, but at the beginning of every project I truly can't remember how to do the job," Danna says. "It's like: I know I did one minute ago, but I really can't remember."
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Alexandre Desplat
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Art Streiber Alexandre Desplat, 51, has composed a slew of scores for films this year that have Oscar potential, such as Argo, Moonrise Kingdom, Rise of the Guardians and Zero Dark Thirty.
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Patrick Doyle
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Art Streiber Patrick Doyle was not only the composer for Pixar's first female heroine film Brave, but he also provided one of the voices in the film.
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Danny Elfman
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Art Streiber After scoring six features, (among them were Frankenweenie, Hitchcock and Silver Linings Playbook) Danny Elfman recently finished the score for Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful.
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Fernando Velazquez
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Art Streiber Composer Fernando Velazquez created the score for Spanish auteur Juan Antonio Bayona's film The Impossible. This is the second film Velazquez and Bayona have worked together on after 2007's The Orphanage.
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The Composers
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Art Streiber The composers – Fernando Velazquez, Alexandre Desplat, Marco Beltrami, Patrick Doyle, Mychael Danna and Danny Elman – gather at the Eastwood Scoring Stage in Burbank.
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Mychael Danna
Image Credit: Photo Credit: John Francis Peters "You have to be true to the film. You can't do something that's not there," Mychael Danna says. "So if part of the film is the [limited] budget, you can do a fantastic score with a small group of instruments, with six instruments, with 12 instruments or 126."
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Patrick Doyle
Image Credit: Photo Credit: John Francis Peters Patrick Doyle working with directors: "Often you say, 'I'm only trying to help here and there's no other reason I'm here. It's because I love music, I love drama and I'm here to help.'"
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The Roundtable
Image Credit: Photo Credit: John Francis Peters The gathering of the six scoring heavy hitters and potential Academy Award nominees took place at none other than the Eastwood Scoring Stage in Burbank. The setting was sans musicians, but with all the familiar trappings of a workspace they know very well.
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The Composers Chat
Image Credit: Photo Credit: John Francis Peters "We're addicted to it because there are moments that are actually quite sublime and beautiful. All the pain that it takes to get there somehow becomes worth it, in the best of circumstances," composer Marco Beltrami observes.
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Fernando Velazquez
Image Credit: Photo Credit: John Francis Peters "I've been playing in orchestras for my whole life," Fernando Velazquez notes. "I vividly remember the first time I worked with Juan Antonio Bayona, the director of The Impossible. We did the music for his short film. It was the very first time I was conducting an orchestra. I just did it, and it was amazing. this really made [me] an addict to this forever."
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Danny Elfman
Image Credit: Photo Credit: John Francis Peters "It never occurred to me to do scoring as a job," explains Danny Elfman, recalling the first time he "noticed film music" was when he was 12 watching The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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Alexandre Desplat
Image Credit: Photo Credit: John Francis Peters "I've always wanted to be a film composer since I was 16 or 17. It was really a passion I had for cinema and music that were emerging," Alexandre Desplat recalls.