Day Seven: Music, 1969

Music time, folks - a ten-deep one, as we look at the nominees for both Best Score and Best Musical Score.

Naturally, John Williams shows up in both categories, the first of many times he would be double-nominated. He had recently broken-through with his nomination in Best Adaptation and/or Treatment Score (as Best Musical Score was then known) for Valley of the Dolls in 1967. Thus was launched one of the most successful careers in all of show business, the rare composer that's also a household name: 24 Grammys, seven BAFTA Awards, five Oscars, four Golden Globes. His movie themes can be heard in theme parks across the world, and his theme for the NBC Nightly News can be heard, er, nightly.

Let's hear the competition after the jump.


The nominees for Best Score (Not a Musical):

Anne of the Thousand Days

Georges Delerue

***

first of five nominations; Golden Globe nominee for Best Original Score

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Burt Bacharach

****

first and only nomination in this category; BAFTA Award winner for Outstanding Film Music, Golden Globe winner for Best Original Score

The Reivers

John Williams

***

first of forty-one nominations in this category

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Ernest Gold
ABSTAIN - DID NOT SEE

fourth and final nomination in this category; Golden Globe nominee for Best Original Score

The Wild Bunch

Jerry Fielding

****

first of three nominations

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Oscar went for Burt Bacharach:

In this (rare) case, I prefer the score that doesn't announce itself bleatingly, but is of a piece with its film somber men-on-a-mission tone. My vote to:

JERRY FIELDING

for

THE WILD BUNCH

Now the nominees for Best Musical Score:

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

original music by Leslie Bricusse

orchestrations and score by John Williams

****

first of four nominations in this category for Bricusse; second of five nominations in this category for Williams

Hello, Dolly!

Lennie Hayton / Lionel Newman

adapting the music of Jerry Herman

***

sixth and final nomination for Hayton; ninth and final nomination in this category for Newman

Paint Your Wagon

Nelson Riddle

adapting the music of Frederick Loewe

*****

fourth of five nominations

Sweet Charity

Cy Coleman

adapting his Broadway score

****

first and only nomination

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Johnny Green / Albert Woodbury

adapting popular music of the 1930s

***

eleventh and final nomination in this category for Green; first and only nomination for Woodbury

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Naturally, Best Picture nominee Hello, Dolly! went home the winner - holy crap, you got to see the presentation, where Oliver!'s Shani Wallis explains the rules in song before singing the nominees and WOW wait 'til you hear the Hello, Dolly! contributors sung to a calypso beat:

But I was surprised to find myself most bowled-over by.....

NELSON RIDDLE

for

PAINT YOUR WAGON

(Actually, I quite like that movie overall, but I can't defend the choice of singers, except to say that it works for me...)

Tomorrow, the nominees for Best Original Screenplay: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Damned, Easy Rider and The Wild Bunch.

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