The 2022 edition of the Zurich International Film Festival will present English composer Rachel Portman with the Career Achievement Award.
Portman will receive the award in Zurich on September 29, during the festival’s 10th International Film Music Competition, where he will preside over the competition’s jury.
Portman made history in 1996 when she became the first songwriter to receive an Academy Award for Best Original Party, receiving an Oscar for her music before Douglas McGrath’s period drama. Emma With Gwyneth Paltrow and Evan McGregor. He also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for his work on the film Lasse Hallström. cider house rules s chocolate. His music for the DiRiss HBO biography HoneyQuinn Latifah, played by legendary blues singer Bessie Smith, is the Portman Emmy’s Outstanding Original Drama Party for a Limited Edition, Movie or Special. He was also nominated twice for a BAFTA for his work. The orange is not the only fruit s woman in black.
During his career, Portman worked with Mike Lee (Life is Beautiful), Jonathan Demi (Manchurian candidate, Honey), Lynn Ramsey (Ratmcheri), Mike Newell (Mona Lisa’s smile), Robert Redford (The legend of Vance beer), lone sheriff (Your best), Wayne Wang (lucky cluband Jeremiah Chechik (benny and june).
Portman’s first original batch was for Michael Hoffman’s debut. Privileged in 1982 His Hollywood success came in the 1992 drama Biban Kidron. used people.
Christian Jungen, artistic director of the Zurich Film Festival, called Portman “a truly extraordinary and inspiring composer”.
Portman said he was “very honored to have been selected for such a prestigious award”, adding that “Privilege” was the president of the International Film Jury.
In addition to his film work, Portman wrote the opera Saint Exupery little Prince For the Houston Grand Opera, Oratory The Story of the Water Reader For BBC Proms and Slice The first morning of the world. To Joyce DiDonato Eden Project.
At the Zurich International Film Music Competition, young composers will create original music for the same short film. The 2022 title is short for Barney Kokelis the foundling. Three of the scores presented will be nominated and performed by the Zurich conductor Frank Stroebel and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra for a competition jury.
The Zurich International Film Festival runs from September 22 to October 2.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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