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  General Discussion: LIBERACE at the ACADEMY AWARDS 54TH Annual   Last Post 
 
 Posted:   Aug 1, 2011 - 11:47 PM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

Here's a dapper Liberace all decked out on the evening of the 54th Annual Academy Awards.







He with the help of "Mr. Conti" and the orchestra, played the nominated scores on his piano.

Here is the Audio of Liberace's Oscar Overture of Nominees from that night and announcement of the Winner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acwh-MLC1DA


Which would you have picked as Best Original Score for that year?



Composers up that year were Vangelis, Dave Grusin, Alex North, Randy Newman & John Williams.

The scores up for Best Original Score were:

CHARIOTS OF FIRE



ON GOLDEN POND




DRAGONSLAYER



RAGTIME





RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2011 - 1:09 AM   
 By:   indy4   (Member)

This was a travesty.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2011 - 1:14 AM   
 By:   manderley   (Member)

.....Here's a dapper Liberace all decked out on the evening of the 54th Annual Academy Awards......


.....sporting one of the earliest of his terrible facelifts.

(Sadly, in his final years he barely looked like himself anymore.)

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2011 - 7:52 AM   
 By:   mrchriswell   (Member)

Liberace couldn't do much with Dragonslayer, heh? Made it sound like Snidely Whiplash music.

I remember rooting for Randy Newman at the time.

Fine with Vangelis win, though.

Although, was he too busy to show up? Every knew he was going to win the damn thing.
 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2011 - 12:13 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

I, too, remember this being a very poor decision on someone's part.

 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2011 - 12:48 PM   
 By:   Erik Woods   (Member)

This was a travesty.

Indeed it was!

-Erik-

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2011 - 1:05 PM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

Are we talking about Liberace's outfit here, or the scores?


For me CHARIOT'S OF FIRE had that hit Main Theme and that's about it.

John Williams really gave us a great score for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

and I liked Dave Grusin's ON GOLDEN POND as well, so if I had to pick for Best Original Score for a motion picture, I'd give it to Johnny and RAIDERS.

What would you have picked as the Best Original Score?

Tnanks,

Zoob

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 2, 2011 - 6:36 PM   
 By:   dan the man   (Member)

They all were good scores, hard to say but i like that line from Liberace, two stars from Body heat who better to give an award for scoring[cute]

 
 Posted:   Aug 3, 2011 - 9:12 AM   
 By:   PhiladelphiaSon   (Member)

RAGTIME is the ONLY good score in that lot.

 
 Posted:   Aug 3, 2011 - 9:18 AM   
 By:   Erik Woods   (Member)

 
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