Academy Award Winner James Horner Scores and Conducts Original Music for This Year's Most Anticipated Drama A Beautiful Mind.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2001 Film Stars Russell Crowe, Directed By Ron Howard Soundtrack Released December 11, 2001 From Decca/UMG Soundtracks The highly anticipated film, A Beautiful Mind is a compelling human drama inspired by events in the life of Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. winner John Forbes Nash John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13 1928) is an American mathematician who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University. , Jr. Based in part on the biography A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar Sylvia Nasar (born 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany, she is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University, and best known as the author of A Beautiful Mind. Early life and history Nasar was born to a German mother and Uzbek father. , the gripping film is directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer. Starring Academy Award winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator gladiator (Latin; swordsman) Professional combatant in ancient Rome who engaged in fights to the death as sport. Gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, the intent being to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world. ), Academy Award nominee Ed Harris (Pollock, Apollo 13), and Jennifer Connelly (Requiem For A Dream This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. ), the movie is already generating major Oscar buzz among critics nationwide. Released December 11, 2001 from Decca/UMG Soundtracks, the album features music composed and conducted by Academy Award winner James Horner, with vocals performed by 15 year old singing sensation Charlotte Church. James Horner, whose acclaimed soundtracks to Braveheart and Titanic have sold millions of copies worldwide, has composed the music to several Ron Howard films, including Apollo 13, Willow and Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Horner's emotional score for A Beautiful Mind features the angelic vocals of Charlotte Church, the platinum-selling Welsh soprano, who is the youngest artist ever to reach No. 1 on the Billboard's Classical Chart. Church also adds her soaring vocals to "All Love Can Be," a new song played over the film's end credits. This beautiful new ballad was composed by Horner with lyrics by Will Jennings, who wrote "My Heart Will Go On" for Titanic. In addition, the soundtrack album is an enhanced CD See CD Extra. containing exclusive bonus materials including notes from the composer and director, the movie trailer and exclusive photos. From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over this tragedy, and finally -- late in life -- received the Nobel Prize. Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present A Beautiful Mind, opening December 21 in select cities and January 4 in theaters everywhere. |
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