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 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:10 AM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

TARAS BULBA - Franz Waxman

FREUD - Jerry Goldsmith

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - Maurice Jarre

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - Bronislaw Kaper

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Elmer Bernstein



I think people loved "Somewhere My Love" and thus LAWRENCE OF ARABIA won.

I would have given the honor to Elmer Bernstein's Beautiful and Heartbreaking TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. He truly NAILED IT and to this day, I become a pool of tears whenever watching the film and hearing that score. Pure Magic! I think it has to be my favorite Elmer Bernstein score of all time.

Who would you have chosen or who do you think should have won? Thanks.

 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:20 AM   
 By:   Spinmeister   (Member)

Howza about a 5-way tie?

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:25 AM   
 By:   Loverozsa   (Member)

1. To Kill A Mockingbird and Mutiny On The Bounty (tie)

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:38 AM   
 By:   villagardens553   (Member)

"Somewhere My Love" was from Dr. Zhivago, a few years in the future. LOA won because the film was a huge hit AND Jarre's score was epic and evocative.

I'm not familiar with Mutiny on the Bounty, but the other 4 scores were incredible, but To Kill a Mockingbird wins easily for me.

 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:42 AM   
 By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member)

I'm happy with Lawrence. My second pick would be To Kill A Mockingbird.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:54 AM   
 By:   DS   (Member)

Probably "To Kill a Mockingbird," with "Lawerence of Arabia" coming in second. Two of the all-time heavyweights in the history of film music. Two scores that appear on many top ten lists.

But 1962 was, for me, one of the best years in film music history: "Jules and Jim," "The Miracle Worker," "Cape Fear," "Walk on the Wild Side," "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?," "Tender Is the Night," "Hatari," "Days of Wine and Roses," "Lolita," "Two Weeks in Another Town," "Two for the Seesaw," "Too Late Blues," "Rome Adventure," "Vivre sa vie," "Cleo from 5 to 7," "Divorce Italian Style," "Boccaccio '70," "L-Shapred Room," "Knife in the Water," "Lonely Are the Brave," "Light in the Piazza," "Gigot," "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." "Freud," "Five Miles to Midnight," "Dr. No," "The Chapman Report," "Birdman of Alcatraz," and on, and on...

 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:54 AM   
 By:   LeHah   (Member)

I can't decide between Lawrence and Mockingbird. They're all good but I can only say with certainty is that Goldsmith's is the one I like the least of those noms

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 7:56 AM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

"Somewhere My Love" was from Dr. Zhivago, a few years in the future. LOA won because the film was a huge hit AND Jarre's score was epic and evocative.

I'm not familiar with Mutiny on the Bounty, but the other 4 scores were incredible, but To Kill a Mockingbird wins easily for me.


Oh my, you are so right! Thanks! Sorry, I always get Jarre's ZHIVAGO and LAWRENCE mixed up even though they are pretty different. Guess it's that they're both directed by David Lean and have Jarre scores.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 8:09 AM   
 By:   Mark   (Member)

My winner - Sanjuro (Sato)

Nominees-
Jules et Jim (Delerue)
Lawrence of Arabia (Jarre)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Bernstein)
Cape Fear (Herrmann)
Taras Bulba (Waxman)

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 8:20 AM   
 By:   TacktheCobbler   (Member)

Not too familiar with Freud, but the other four nominees were all worthy choices that I have a hard time choosing which one of them is the best.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 8:26 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

They're all great scores, but of that list, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is in a class of its own.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 10:09 AM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

DP

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 10:09 AM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

Two For The Seesaw by Andre Previn was surely worthy of consideration?

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 10:51 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Lawrence is a fine score but not one of my favorites.

I would have picked TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD because I find the WHOLE score perfect and amazing.
Secondly, I would have picked MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY which I find epic.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 11:05 AM   
 By:   Don Norman   (Member)

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, and MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY are all great and are among my favorites but I would have to rate them in that order if I had to. An interesting bit of trivia is that Marlon Brando was offered the role of Lawrence but he turned it down.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 11:12 AM   
 By:   peterproud   (Member)

Two For The Seesaw by Andre Previn was surely worthy of consideration?

I totally agree! I discovered this one after blind buying Kritzerland's release and it has become one of my favourite scores from the 60's. Gorgeous main theme and Previn was a marvel at writing for the orchestra.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 11:16 AM   
 By:   TacktheCobbler   (Member)

Two For The Seesaw by Andre Previn was surely worthy of consideration?

I can’t answer as to whether I think it worthy of consideration as I have never seen the film nor heard the score, but from what I’ve read, Two for the Seesaw was a semi-finalist in the category.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 11:25 AM   
 By:   brofax   (Member)

The list posted by zooba demonstrates perfectly how lucky we were in those days although, imho, Freud does not really belong in among that group.

Difficult choice but, much as I love the other three, "To Kill a Mockingbird" being my favourite of all Elmer's great scores gets the Oscar. It is the very definition of the ultimate and complete score.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 12:04 PM   
 By:   Morricone   (Member)

"Somewhere My Love" was from Dr. Zhivago, a few years in the future. LOA won because the film was a huge hit AND Jarre's score was epic and evocative.

I'm not familiar with Mutiny on the Bounty, but the other 4 scores were incredible, but To Kill a Mockingbird wins easily for me.


TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD for me too but, indeed, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is great too making it a banner year.

 
 Posted:   Apr 9, 2020 - 12:43 PM   
 By:   TominAtl   (Member)

TARAS BULBA - Franz Waxman

FREUD - Jerry Goldsmith

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - Maurice Jarre

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - Bronislaw Kaper

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Elmer Bernstein



I think people loved "Somewhere My Love" and thus LAWRENCE OF ARABIA won.

I would have given the honor to Elmer Bernstein's Beautiful and Heartbreaking TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. He truly NAILED IT and to this day, I become a pool of tears whenever watching the film and hearing that score. Pure Magic! I think it has to be my favorite Elmer Bernstein score of all time.

Who would you have chosen or who do you think should have won? Thanks.


I really think Bernstein's score lovely and delicate, but Lawrence of Arabia is still remembered to this day and rightly so as is the movie. Gorgeous, sweeping and memorable, thus on this occasion the Academy got it right.

 
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