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Things Are Looking 'Up' for Emmy, Grammy, Globe Winner Michael Giacchino
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Michael Ricci
Disney/Pixar's “Up" is a major player in this year's Oscars race, with nominations in five races, including one for best picture (the second 'toon ever to receive such a nomination). Its other nods are for original screenplay, sound editing, original music score and animated feature.
It's considered a lock to win for animated feature and has emerged as a front-runner in the music category where composer Michael Giacchino has received his second Oscar nomination. (His first was for Disney/Pixar's “Ratatouille" ...
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Michael Giacchino on the 'Emotional Time Bomb' Of 'Up'
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Michael Ricci
The score from animated film “Up" won the Music Bafta last night (February 21) at the British Academy Film Awards. Composer Michael Giacchino was awarded the prize for his work on the film at the ceremony held at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.
In approximately four minutes, composer Michael Giacchino had to reflect a lifetime. Early in Disney-Pixar's computer-animated “Up," the film's main character, Carl, experiences marriage, loss and all the highs and lows of the decades ...
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Michael Giacchino Was a Crazed 9-Year-Old 'Star Wars' Geek
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Michael Ricci
When Michael Giacchino was in elementary school, all his friends were following the rock bands of the moment, notably Led Zeppelin, the Who and the Beatles.
But Giacchino admits that he was “pretty adverse" to rock 'n' roll. “I hate to admit it," he told me the other day, “but I was listening to a lot of stuff that my parents had. I loved Benny Goodman, Louie Prima, 'West Side Story' and 'The Jungle Book.' To me, Benny Goodman is ...
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