Oscars Deep Dive: Past Nominees

This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with guest host Bill Morelock, showcases scores from movies that were nominated, but never won the Oscar for “Best Original Score” including Citizen Kane, On the Waterfront, Cleopatra and more. Listen now and check out the playlist below!

Playlist

Lost Weekend: Love Theme
Miklos Rozsa (composer)
John Williams (Conductor)
Cinema Serenade 2: The Golden Age (Album)
Boston Pops Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Itzhak Perlman, Violin (Soloist)
Duration: 4:20

Dark Victory: Suite
Max Steiner (Composer)
Charles Gerhardt (Conductor)
Classic Film Scores for Bette Davis (Album)
National Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 6:25

Of Mice and Men: Barley Wagons
Aaron Copland (composer)
Elgar Howarth (Conductor)
Essential Aaron Copland: 12 Greatest Hits (Album)
London Sinfonietta (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 2:14

Our Town: Grover's Corners
Aaron Copland (composer)
Aaron Copland (Conductor)
The Copland Collection 1936-1948 (Album)
New Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 3:10

Citizen Kane: selections
Bernard Herrmann (composer)
Charles Gerhardt (Conductor)
Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann (Album)
National Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Kiri Te Kanawa, Soprano (Soloist)
Duration: 13:40

Casablanca Suite
Max Steiner (composer)
Charles Gerhardt (Conductor)
Casablanca - Classic Film Scores for Humphrey Bogart (Album)
National Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 8:41

Henry V Suite
William Walton (composer)
William Boughton (Conductor)
Orchestral Favourites Vol. 2 (Album)
English Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 5:19

Encanto: Dos Oruguitas
Lin-Manuel Miranda (composer)
Lang Lang: The Disney Book (Album)
Lang Lang, Piano (Soloist)
Duration: 4:48

Quo Vadis: Ave Caesar March
Miklos Rozsa (composer)
Erich Kunzel (Conductor)
Rozsa: Three Choral Suites (Album)
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 4:13

On the Waterfront: Love Theme
Leonard Bernstein (composer)
Leonard Bernstein (Conductor)
Bernstein: Reaching for the Note (Album)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 3:23

All About Eve: Main Title
Alfred Newman (composer)
Charles Gerhardt (Conductor)
Classic Film Scores for Bette Davis (Album)
National Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 1:39

Picnic: Moonglow and Main Theme
George Duning (composer)
Arthur Fiedler (Conductor)
Motion Picture Classics, Volume 1 (Album)
Boston Pops Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 3:23

The Big Country: Main Theme
Jerome Moross (composer)
Tony Bremner (Conductor)
The Big Country: Music by Jerome Moross (Album)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 3:15

Mutiny on the Bounty: Main Title
Bronislaw Kaper (composer)
Erich Kunzel (Conductor)
Hollywood's Greatest Hits Volume II (Album)
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 2:18

An Affair to Remember
Harry Warren (composer)
John Mauceri (Conductor)
Always and Forever - Movies' Greatest Love Songs (Album)
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 2:40

Cleopatra: Main Title
Alex North (composer)
Varese Sarabande - A 25th Anniversary Celebration (Album)
Studio Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 2:54

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
Michel Legrand (composer)
John Williams (Conductor)
Cinema Serenade (Album)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Itzhak Perlman, Violin (Soloist)
Duration: 3:44

Superman: March
John Williams (composer)
John Williams (Conductor)
John Williams: The Berlin Concert (Album)
Berlin Philharmonic (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 4:52

Spartacus: Main Title
Alex North (composer)
Eric Stern (Conductor)
Alex North: The Bad Seed; Spartacus; A Streetcar Named Desire (Album)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 3:24

Unchained Melody
Alex North (composer)
John Mauceri (Conductor)
Always and Forever - Movies' Greatest Love Songs (Album)
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 3:28