Congratulations are in order today as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princehas been nominated for a Grammy Award. The score composed by Nicholas Hooper for the sixth Harry Potter film is among those nominated s "Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media." Others nominated include scores for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (composed by Alexander Desplat), "Milk"
(Danny Elfman), "Star Trek" (Michael Giacchino) and "Up" (Michael Giacchino). You can read the entire list of nominees here. Music from the soundtrack can be heard here on the official HBP website or here at the WB award site. The 52nd Grammy Awards will be presented on January 31, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA.
Well I liked this soundtrack better than the more recent movie sound tracks. lol I’ll jump in and say that John Williams is my favorite movie sound track composer … not just the HP movies but, in general. But, I did like the HBP soundtrack. However I also love the Milk soundtrack, that is a real awesome movie about the very awesome Harvey Milk, the soundtrack is composed by Danny Elfman who has written a lot of movie scores, too.
OMG! I so hope it wins! Mr. Hooper to me, is the best composer out of all the HP soundtracks…. I wish he was doing the DH ones. I have my fingers crossed for him to win!
EXCELLENT! Hedwig’s theme by Williams is the signature piece by far, but I really started to get bored by the repetitious music for movie soundtracks 2-4; I believe the soundtracks were renewed with Hooper for 5&6 and I only wish he was also creating the music for the last two installments. Congrats.
That’s great news! However the competition will be tough – Alexander Desplat’s soundtrack is very good and I agree with Mooze_Starr: Milk has also a great sound!
I love the soundtracks from both the HP scores that Nicholas Hooper did. They are wonderful, and I especially love some of the things that didn’t make it into the film, in particular the one from the deleted scene that includes Snape looking out the window. It’s just one of the pieces that shows the depth of Hooper’s understanding of the film.
"But now, your beds await, as warm and comfortable as you could possibly wish, and I know that your top priority is to be well-rested for your lessons tomorrow. Let us therefore say goodnight. Pip pip!"
wow that is so awesome!! i love the sound track for this movie it is deffinatley so far my favourite!