World Soundtrack Awards with Desplat and Hamlisch
Have you voted for your favorite film score over at World Soundtrack Academy.com? The composer with the most votes will receive the Public Choice Award at the 9th World Soundtrack Awards on October 17th, closing the 36th Ghent Film Festival. The voting period runs until September 15th, and apparently you can win a chance to stay at the Marriott Hotel Ghent and get two VIP tickets the World Soundtrack Awards ceremony. Have fun trying to pick just one favorite film score from the past year.
I would love to attend the World Soundtrack Awards. Screw the Teen Choice Awards! Anyway, the highlight to this year’s program will feature music by composers Alexandre Desplat and Marvin Hamlisch. The Brussels Philharmonic led by Desplat will perform music from his works including The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Queen, The Painted Veil, Birth, The Golden Compass, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Lust, Caution.
The Brussels Philharmonic will also perform music by Academy Award winning composer, Marvin Hamlisch. Hamlisch, who won three Oscars in 1973 for the films The Way We Were and The Sting, will receive the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award. Hamlisch’s other notable works include the tenth James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me and the hit musical A Chorus Line. It’s sure to be a great night of film music.
