The Zurich Movie Competition will hand Canadian composer and three-time Academy Award winner Howard Shore its Profession Achievement Award throughout this 12 months’s version, which runs October 3-13.
The award might be offered to Shore on October 5 in the course of the competition’s Cinema in Live performance. Shore may even preside over the jury of the twelfth Worldwide Movie Music Competitors (IFMC).
Shore is finest identified for his music for the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit movie trilogies, for which he gained a number of Oscars for Greatest Unique Rating. His different credit embody The Departed, Hugo, The Fly, The Aviator, Se7en, The Silence Of The Lambs, Philadelphia, and Gangs Of New York.
“Howard Shore is among the biggest movie composers of our time,” mentioned Christian Jungen, Inventive Director of the Zurich Movie Competition. “He has written iconic scores for milestones in movie historical past similar to Lord Of The Rings or The Silence Of The Lambs. He’s a musician who listens effectively earlier than composing and places his melodies solely on the service of the tales. He’s additionally distinguished by his monumental versatility and may elevate movies in any style together with his music. We owe intense and unforgettable cinematic experiences to Shore’s music.”
Shore added: “I’m honored to have been invited to the twentieth anniversary of the Zurich Movie Competition to obtain the Profession Achievement Award and to be the jury president of the twelfth Worldwide Movie Music Competitors. I’m trying ahead to the ‘Cinema in Live performance’ gala with the nice Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich carried out by Frank Strobel celebrating the artwork of music in movies.”