Movie Music U.K. Music Awards 1993

SCORE OF THE YEAR


COMPOSER OF THE YEAR


NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR


BEST SCORE - DRAMA OR ROMANTIC DRAMA

Yet again, 1993 was a stellar year for original dramatic scores. In addition to the above, JOHN BARRY’s My Life, PATRICK DOYLE’s Much Ado About Nothing, GEORGE FENTON’s Shadowlands, JAMES HORNER’s The Man Without A Face, MICHAEL NYMAN’s The Piano, RACHEL PORTMAN’s The Joy Luck Club and HOWARD SHORE’s Philadelphia could easily have made the best of the year list had they been released in another year.

In addition to these, special mentions should also go to BUTCH BARBELLA for A Bronx Tale, JOHN BARRY for Indecent Proposal, ELMER BERNSTEIN for The Age of Innocence, GEORGES DELERUE for Rich in Love, RANDY EDELMAN for Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and Gettysburg, JERRY GOLDSMITH for Love Field, JAMES HORNER for Swing Kids, ZHAO JIPING for Farewell My Concubine, ALEX NORTH for The Last Butterfly, ZBIGNIEW PREISNER for The Secret Garden, ZBIGNIEW PREISNER for Three Colours: Blue, RICHARD ROBBINS for The Remains of the Day, and HOWARD SHORE for M. Butterfly.


BEST SCORE – COMEDY OR ROMANTIC COMEDY

Special mentions should also go to ELMER BERNSTEIN for The Cemetery Club, BRUCE BROUGHTON for So I Married An Axe Murderer, CLIFF EIDELMAN for The Meteor Man, GEORGE FENTON for Groundhog Day, RICHARD GIBBS for Fatal Instinct, JERRY GOLDSMITH for Dennis the Menace, DAVID HIRSCHFELDER for Strictly Ballroom, DAVID NEWMAN for Coneheads, BASIL POLEDOURIS for Hot Shots! Part Deux, RACHEL PORTMAN for Benny & Joon, LALO SCHIFRIN for The Beverly Hillbillies, MARC SHAIMAN for Addams Family Values and Sleepless in Seattle, ALAN SILVESTRI for Grumpy Old Men, and HANS ZIMMER for Cool Runnings.


BEST SCORE - THRILLER, ACTION OR ADVENTURE

Special mentions should also go to JOHN BARRY for Ruby Cairo, ELMER BERNSTEIN for The Good Son, BILL CONTI for The Adventures of Huck Finn, JERRY GOLDSMITH for Malice and The Vanishing, DAVE GRUSIN for The Firm, JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for Falling Down and The Fugitive, MICHAEL KAMEN for Last Action Hero and The Three Musketeers, BASIL POLEDOURIS for Free Willy, GRAEME REVELL for Body of Evidence and Hard Target, ALAN SILVESTRI for Super Mario Bros., TORU TAKEMITSU for Rising Sun, and SHIRLEY WALKER for Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.


BEST SCORE - FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION OR HORROR

Special mentions should also go to MARK ISHAM for Fire in the Sky, MARK McKENZIE for Warlock: The Armageddon, BASIL POLEDOURIS for Robocop 3, and FREDERIC TALGORN for Fortress.


BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Special mentions should also go to JOHN BARRY, CYNTHIA HAAGENS and GRAEME CLIFFORD for “Secrets of My Heart” from from Ruby Cairo, BONO, GAVIN FRIDAY and MAURICE SEEZER for "Thief of Your Heart" from In The Name of the Father, BONO, THE EDGE, LARRY MULLEN and ADAM CLAYTON for "Stay" from Faraway, So Close!, CAROL BAYER SAGER, JAMES INGRAM and CLIFF MAGNESS for "The Day I Fall In Love" from Beethoven's 2nd, DANNY ELFMAN for “Kidnap the Sandy Claws” from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, DANNY ELFMAN for “Making Christmas” from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, DANNY ELFMAN for “Poor Jack” from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, GEORGE FENTON and HAROLD RAMIS for “Weatherman” from Groundhog Day, JAMES HORNER and BROCK WALSH for “Sarah” from Hocus Pocus, JANET JACKSON, JAMES HARRIS III and TERRY LEWIS for "Again" from Poetic Justice, MICHAEL KAMEN, BRYAN ADAMS and ROBER JOHN “MUTT” LANGE for “All For One” from The Three Musketeers, ALAN MENKEN and STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for “Cold Enough for Snow” from Life With Mikey, CRAIG REID and CHARLIE REID for “I’m Gonna Be” from Benny & Joon, MARC SHAIMAN and RAMSEY McLEAN for "A Wink and a Smile" from Sleepless in Seattle, and NEIL YOUNG for "Philadelphia" from Philadelphia.


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