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Armstrong and Silvestri win Grammy Awards
9-Feb-2006 - Craig Amstrong’s Ray was awarded the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media when the Recording Academy handed out its 108 (!) awards yesterday. Armstrong’s emotionally charged orchestral score won in competition with Howard Shore’s The Aviator, Michael Giacchino’s The Incredibles, John Williams’ Star Wars Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith and Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby. Ray also won the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media award.

Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard won the Grammy for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for Believe from The Polar Express. The Incredibles won the Best Instrumental Arrangement Grammy which went to Gordon Goodwin. John Du Prez, who has written many film scores including A Fish Called Wanda, won the Best Music Show Album Grammy for Monty Python’s Spamalot together with Eric Idle. Another film composer, Heitor Pereira, won the Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists for Chris Botti’s and Sting’s ”What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life?”, an award shared with Billy Childs and Gil Goldstein.

(Source: Mikael Carlsson, Film Music Radio)



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