Movie Music U.K. Music Awards 1984



SCORE OF THE YEAR



COMPOSER OF THE YEAR



NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR



BEST SCORE - DRAMA OR ROMANTIC DRAMA

Special mentions should also go to JOHN BARRY for The Cotton Club and Until September, BILL CONTI for The Karate Kid, RY COODER for Paris Texas, DAVE GRUSIN for Racing With the Moon and The Pope of Greenwich Village, JAMES HORNER for The Stone Boy, MARK ISHAM for Mrs. Soffel, MAURICE JARRE for A Passage to India, JOHN KANDER for Places in the Heart, JACK NITZSCHE for The Razor’s Edge, ALEX NORTH for Under the Volcano, MIKE OLDFIELD for The Killing Fields, PHILIPPE SARDE for Fort Saganne, JOHN SCOTT for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, and RICHARD ROBBINS for The Bostonians.



BEST SCORE – COMEDY OR ROMANTIC COMEDY

Special mentions should also go to RALPH BURNS for The Muppets Take Manhattan, ROBERT FOLK for Bachelor Party, MILES GOODMAN for Footloose, LEE HOLDRIDGE for Micki + Maude, MAURICE JARRE for Top Secret!, MARK KNOPFLER for Cal, JOHN MORRIS for The Woman in Red, IRA NEWBORN for Sixteen Candles, THOMAS NEWMAN for Revenge of the Nerds, BASIL POLEDOURIS for Protocol, and PATRICK WILLIAMS for Best Defense and Swing Shift.



BEST SCORE - THRILLER, ACTION OR ADVENTURE

Special mentions should also go to BRUCE BROUGHTON for The Ice Pirates, JAY CHATTAWAY for Missing in Action, PINO DONAGGIO for Body Double, JERRY GOLDSMITH for Runaway, RICHARD HARTLEY for Sheena, ENNIO MORRICONE for Sahara, LENNIE NIEHAUS for Tightrope, and VANGELIS for The Bounty.



BEST SCORE - FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION OR HORROR

Special mentions should also go to CHARLES BERNSTEIN for A Nightmare on Elm Street, KLAUS DOLDINGER and GIORGIO MORODER for The Neverending Story, JONATHAN ELIAS for Children of the Corn, BRAD FIEDEL for The Terminator, DOMINIC MULDOWNEY for 1984, BASIL POLEDOURIS for Conan the Destroyer, CRAIG SAFAN for The Last Starfighter, TOTO for Dune, and KEN WANNBERG for The Philadelphia Experiment.



BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Special mentions should also go to PHIL COLLINS for “Take A Look At Me Now” from Against All Odds, HAROLD FALTERMEYER for “Axel F” from Beverly Hills Cop, MICHEL LEGRAND, ALAN BERGMAN and MARILYN BERGMAN for “Something New in My Life” from Micki + Maude, GIORGIO MORODER and PHIL OAKEY for “Together in Electric Dreams” from Electric Dreams, PRINCE for "When Doves Cry" from Purple Rain, SCOTT RICHARDSON for “Flashpoint” from Flashpoint, and TOM SNOW and DEAN PITCHFORD for “Let’s Hear it For The Boy” from Footloose.



COMPLETE LIST OF ELIGIBLE SCORES (AND THEIR COMPOSER)



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