Composer pared down 12 hours of music. 200 musicians and singers will perform Howard Shore’s work at Place des Arts. Composer Howard Shore said that paring down roughly 12 hours of music from the three Lord of the Rings films to a two-hour symphony was a “heartbreaking” task. [More]
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Eglantine writes: It may be worth posting that a Melbourne suburban cinema is screening all three movies in sequence, daily until 3 March. [More]
DALLAS — For Viggo Mortensen, the journey toward stardom has been long, and it’s not over yet. Since the Lord of the Rings trilogy made him world-famous in 2001, he’s completed just one other film — Hidalgo, due March 5 — and now he’s too busy promoting it to do much else. [More]
Director Peter Jackson’s progress to the Oscars ceremony next weekend has been sweetened by an award from British directors. They have named his third and final Lord of the Rings movie as best international film. [More]
DiveTwin writes: The Chicago Tribune’s Michael Wilmington and Mark Caro discuss their picks for the Academy Awards next Sunday. [More]
Jake writes: Unfortunately ROTK lost at the Cinema Audio Society’s awards ceremony Saturday night for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in a Motion Picture. The winner was “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.”
However ROTK has tied with “The Last Samurai” for Excellence in Costume Design for a Period/Fantasy Film, bringing ROTK’s total number of “guild” wins to 8 out of the 11 that have been announced!