The Cider House Rules: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture. Audio CD. Rachel Portman. The Legend of Bagger Vance: Music from the Motion Picture (2000 Film). Compilation CD featuring excerpts from the film scores of the Oscar-winning composer.
The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström with a screenplay by John Irving based on his novel of the same name. The film had its world premiere at the 56th Venice Film Festival. The film tells of the coming-of-age of Homer Wells, who lives in a World War II–era Maine orphanage run by a doctor who performs illegal abortions.
Rachel Portman – The Cider House Rules (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture), 1999. Portman é uma compositora inglesa nascida em 1960. Portman é uma das raras mulheres compositoras de trilhas sonoras para o cinema. Na imagem consta edição lançada nos Estados Unidos. Em 2019 este belo trabalho completa 20 anos do seu lançamento. .
Born Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman in Haslemere in 1960, Portman showed strong musical inclinations from a young age, and learned to play piano, violin, and organ before beginning to compose music in her early teens. She went on to study music at Oxford University, with no thought given to film-related work until she was invited to score a student film. The BBC picked up the film, 1982's Privileged, which also featured an acting appearance by fellow Oxford student Hugh Grant. She enjoyed the work, and it led to further projects with BBC films. She was nominated again for 1999's The Cider House Rules and 2000's Chocolat. Both of those scores also earned her Grammy nominations for Best Score Soundtrack. The Duchess Music from the Motion Picture. The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2 (Original Motion Picture Score).
The Cider House Rules is the soundtrack of the 1999 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated film The Cider House Rules starring Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Dr. Wilbur Larch in this film) and Delroy Lindo. The original score was composed by Rachel Portman. The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of Le violon rouge) and the Grammy Award for "Best Score Soundtrack Album" (lost to the score of American Beauty). Such beautiful music. Rachel Portman, who composed this extraordinary score, became the first woman to win an Oscar for best original score (tho for Emma). She should have several Oscars for her fine work.