The Zurich Movie Competition (ZFF) will honor legendary movie composer Howard Shore with its profession achievement award. The triple-Oscar winner, finest identified for his iconic scores for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movie trilogies, will obtain the award on the twentieth ZFF in October.
As well as, Shore will head up the ZFF’s worldwide movie music competitors for its twentieth version. As jury president, the Canadian composer will choose younger abilities every tasked with creating an authentic rating to the identical 8-minute quick movie. The three compositions can be carried out reside by the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich beneath the path of Frank Strobel on Oct. 5 throughout Zurich’s Cinema in Live performance gala within the presence of the three nominees. The successful composition will obtain a CHF 10,000 ($11,500) money prize.
“I’m honored to come back to Zurich for the pageant’s twentieth anniversary, to obtain this profession achievement recognition and lead the movie music competitors jury,” mentioned Shore. “I stay up for the ‘Cinema in Live performance’ gala celebrating the artwork of music in movies.”
Shore’s prolific profession spans greater than 80 movies, together with greater than a dozen with long-time collaborator David Cronenberg, from Scanners and The Fly to current Cannes competitors entry The Shrouds, in addition to work for the likes of Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), Tom McCarthy (Highlight), and Martin Scorsese (Hugo) alongside numerous operas, concertos and different classical works.
The pageant known as Shore “one of the famend composers of our time” whose music has “captivated folks of all generations.”
The ZFF profession achievement award can be introduced to Shore on the “Cinema in Live performance” gala on the Tonhalle Zürich on Oct. 5. The twentieth Zurich Movie Competition runs Oct. 3-13.