John Barry (1933 – 2011)
The world of cinema just lost one of its most cherished, brilliant, and original motion picture score composers.
Barry was nominated for 7 Academy Awards during his long career and won 5 of them, for Out of Africa, Dances with Wolves, Chaplin, The Lion in Winter, and Born Free (score and song). The first three in that list are among my favorite original scores ever.
Barry is also remembered for writing the soundtracks of countless 007 outings, spanning four performers (Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton): Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, and The Living Daylights.
I personally also love Body Heat.
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