American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is the original film score for the 1999 film American Beauty, composed by Thomas Newman. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (lost to the score of The Red Violin) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards. The score album won the Grammy Award for the Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media in 2001 which was awarded to producer Bill Bernstein, engineer Dennis Sands, and Newman. A soundtrack album for the film was also released on October 5, 1999, entitled American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. That album includes songs by various artists and two excerpts from the film's score: "Dead Already" and "Any Other Name." The tracks 'Any Other Name' and 'American Beauty' are widely used in film trailers, and are among the most recognized pieces of film music. American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is the original film score for the 1999 film American Beauty, composed by Thomas Newman. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (lost to the score of The Red Violin) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards. The score album won the Grammy Award for the Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media in 2001 which was awarded to producer Bill Bernstein, engineer Dennis Sands, and Newman. A soundtrack album for the film was also released on October 5, 1999, entitled American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. That album includes songs by various artists and two excerpts from the film's score: "Dead Already" and "Any Other Name." The tracks 'Any Other Name' and 'American Beauty' are widely used in film trailers, and are among the most recognized pieces of film music. false 2023-01-16 10:50:04 American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score 9.3 2000 2000-01-11 2000-01-11 7 Instrumental 113605 2155490 ef6ce4ab-c0ff-4249-9a5b-db616c290a16 348f3a5f-5112-4d72-b33b-11c60b4f9af2 004357e6-d631-37e7-85d7-4d5b0671c6f5 /media/data/media4/Music/Thomas Newman/American Beauty/folder.jpg Thomas Newman Thomas Newman 1 1 Dead Already 03:17 1 18 Any Other Name 04:09 Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including The Player (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998), American Beauty and The Green Mile (both 1999), Pay It Forward (2000), In the Bedroom (2001), Road to Perdition and White Oleander (both 2002), Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), WALL-E (2008), the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015), 1917 (2019), and Elemental (2023). He also composed the music for the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2001) and 2003 miniseries Angels in America. Throughout his career, he has collaborated extensively with directors such as Sam Mendes, Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont, Steven Soderbergh, Jon Avnet, John Madden and John Lee Hancock.