The musical score to "12 Years a Slave" was composed by Hans Zimmer, with original on-screen violin music written and arranged by Nicholas Britell and performed by Tim Fain. The film also features a few pieces of western classical and American folk music such as Franz Schubert's "Trio in B-flat, D471" and John and Alan Lomax's arrangement of "Run, Nigger, Run". A soundtrack album, "Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave", was released digitally on November 5 and received a physical format release on November 11, 2013, by Columbia Records. In addition to Zimmer's score, the album features music inspired by the film by artists such as John Legend, Laura Mvula, Alicia Keys, Chris Cornell, and Alabama Shakes.
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where did 12 years a slave take place
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Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana
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what is the film about?
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A story of a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
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mention a few of its marketing scenarios?
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During its marketing campaign, "12 Years a Slave" received unpaid endorsements by celebrities such as Kanye West and P. Diddy. In a video posted by Revolt, Combs urged viewers to see "12 Years a Slave" by stating: "This movie is very painful but very honest, and is a part of the healing process.
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where did the first screening happen?
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Telluride Film Festival
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when did such a festival start?
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The festival was started in 1974
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for the aforementioned film, where did the festival organized?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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in what style is the festival conducted?
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Each year, an artist is selected to produce the poster art for the festival. The sole requirement for the poster is that the word SHOW be featured.
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who composed the score for the aforementioned film?
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12 Years a Slave is the original soundtrack album to the 2013 film "12 Years a Slave" starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, and Lupita Nyong'o. The record contains twenty-one tracks from the original film score written and composed by Hans Zimmer. Despite its limited release, critical acclaim has been given to the score from the film industry. The score was nominated for the 2013 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and won the 2013 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association award for Best Score.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Introduction
The musical score to "12 Years a Slave" was composed by Hans Zimmer, with original on-screen violin music written and arranged by Nicholas Britell and performed by Tim Fain. The film also features a few pieces of western classical and American folk music such as Franz Schubert's "Trio in B-flat, D471" and John and Alan Lomax's arrangement of "Run, Nigger, Run". A soundtrack album, "Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave", was released digitally on November 5 and received a physical format release on November 11, 2013, by Columbia Records. In addition to Zimmer's score, the album features music inspired by the film by artists such as John Legend, Laura Mvula, Alicia Keys, Chris Cornell, and Alabama Shakes.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Music
Christopher Orr of "The Atlantic" praised the score most highly stating, "the score by Hans Zimmer represents his best work in years, an eerie, discomfiting soundscape that buzzes like angry locusts and drums like approaching thunder." Mark Kermode of "The Observer" highlights the significance of music in the piece writing, "More significant still is the role of music (composer Hans Zimmer earned one of the film's 10 Bafta nominations this week), with McQueen building upon the experiments of "Shame" to explore further the dramatic depths of song" Ed Gonzalez of "Slant Magazine" praised the score and said "The film's immaculate score, by Hans Zimmer, and sound design, so thick with thunder, wind, the chirping of crickets, hammers beating nails into wood, whips tearing black bodies to shreds, work in tandem to strongly convey the bucolic, sinister atmosphere of the antebellum South." Gregory Ellwood of "HitFix" called it "one of Hans Zimmer's more moving scores in some time" Brad Brevet of "Rope of Silicon" also praised the score in stating, "The best score in a movie I have heard this year has been Hans Zimmer's for 12 Years a Slave." and further stating "It's lovely and threatening at the same time." A.A.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Critical reception
[...] It took a bit of persuading from [McQueen] to give me the confidence to do it". On April 30, 2013, it was officially announced that Zimmer was scoring the film.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Composition
The score was widely admired and thought of as a contender for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards. Yet, the score failed to receive a nomination for the 86th Academy Awards. However, the film did receive a nomination for the 2013 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, as well as a win for the 2013 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Best Score.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Immediate reception
Glenn Kay of "CinemaStance" wrote positively by stating, "the score by Hans Zimmer is sparse and repetitive, but incredibly effective at invoking an emotional response when it's used." Drew McWeeny of "HitFix" highly praised the score and said, "The score by Hans Zimmer is just as heart-breaking as the script or the performances."
12 Years a Slave (score) | Critical reception
Having been interested in each other's work for some time, director Steve McQueen approached composer Hans Zimmer to write the score to "12 Years a Slave" after filming had completed, explaining, "We had a mysterious conversation a couple of years back where [McQueen] told me he was working on something and asked me if I was even remotely interested in working with him," says Zimmer. Zimmer, however, expressed reluctance to accept the offer feeling he wasn't the right person for the job. Zimmer explained, "I felt I wasn't the guy, in a way. It was such an important, heavy, incredible subject.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Composition
Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave is the soundtrack album to "12 Years a Slave". It contains two tracks from the film score composed by Hans Zimmer, three tracks co-arranged by violinist Tim Fain and Nicholas Britell, and original spiritual songs written and arranged for the film by Nicholas Britell, as well as performances by Alabama Shakes, Cody ChesnuTT, Gary Clark, Jr., Alicia Keys, Tim Fain, Laura Mvula, Chris Cornell, Joy Williams, John Legend, and spiritual song performances from the film. The album was released digitally on November 5 and in physical formats on November 11, 2013 by Columbia Records in the United States.
12 Years a Slave (soundtrack) | Introduction
Having been interested in each other's work for some time, director Steve McQueen approached composer Hans Zimmer to write the score to "12 Years a Slave" after filming had completed. Zimmer was, however, reluctant to accept the offer feeling he wasn't right for the job. Zimmer explained, "I felt I wasn't the guy, in a way. It was such an important, heavy, incredible subject. [...] It took a bit of persuading from [McQueen] to give me the confidence to do it". On April 30, 2013, it was officially announced that Zimmer was scoring the film.
12 Years a Slave (soundtrack) | Development
The focus of the track is about an enslaved person reaching "quittin' time" while also trying to please the overseer to avoid getting beaten. After we watched "12 Years a Slave" in our hometown of Athens, Alabama, we stumbled across this song a week later. It is a very simple song which is why we chose it to contribute to the soundtrack. The two works, for a moment, take the audience into another time and place where you can imagine being denied your freedom: after which, one's own freedom can be better appreciated. "12 Years" is one of the most important films we have ever seen and it is important to us to give back some of what the movie has given to us.
12 Years a Slave (soundtrack) | Commentary
For the score of "12 Years a Slave", Zimmer conceded, "It's basically a cello and violin score. I wanted to be the secret little bridge that would take the story from the past and move it into the present." Cellist Tristan Schulze and violinist Ann Marie Calhoun performed on the score in addition to more strings and occasional percussion involved throughout the process. "It was not just getting inside the characters," Zimmer said, "it was getting outside the characters and finding a bridge to the audience." Much of the 38-minute score "creates a stillness, or a tension through the stillness, using very minimal means," he added, although the riverboat ride offers a briefly avant-garde musical contrast, including woodwinds and an unusual use of piano.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Development
Director Steve McQueen liked the mood of Zimmer's music from "The Thin Red Line", which itself became a starting point for discussion and development regarding the mood for "12 Years a Slave". McQueen explained, "He was my refuge when I was in L.A. The first two meetings were about five hours each. Then I think we had three two-hour conversations on the phone. And not a musical note was played. After that, [Zimmer] said, 'I think I've got something.' Somehow, through the talking, he captured the atmosphere of the film." Much of the movie is scored with the same four-note theme, which Zimmer adapted according to the scene's mood and emotion.
12 Years a Slave (score) | Development
—Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes I was moved by this film and the story in a way that transcends any film experience I have ever had. I was inspired to write a hundred different songs, but finally landed on one based on what I believe is an extremely important message I took from this man's journey. Compassion, basic human rights and love must be our priorities above race, religion or commerce. Every generation needs a reminder of that simple idea. —Chris Cornell
12 Years a Slave (soundtrack) | Commentary
Dowd of "The A.V. Club" wrote of Zimmer's score, "pounds and roars with dread — the appropriate soundtrack for the madness of history." Mark Hughes of "Forbes" hails the piece as "some of [Zimmer's] best work to date, which says quite a lot" and further expands by expressing "I love the way he uses nontraditional effects and sounds, sometimes going bare-bones and simple with a single instrument, so often understated to perfection." Susan Wloszczyna of "RogerEbert.com" stated "Underscoring the cruelty is the aptly unsettling and sometimes discordant soundtrack by Hans Zimmer" but nothing similarities with Zimmer's predescending score for "Inception" whilst acknowledging differentiation in "reminiscent of his own strong work on "Inception" but to much different effect".
12 Years a Slave (score) | Critical reception
"12 Years a Slave" is a stunningly powerful film. I was so moved when I saw it. I felt every minute of it and was so inspired to contribute to the music of the soundtrack. This album brings together some incredible artists from different places and different genres who have all been touched by the film. When artists are inspired by great art, it makes us want to create. This album is the result of that inspiration. —John Legend We chose a song called "Driva Man". It is a sparse, brooding, slow-swinging jazz number. There is no lightness in the music of "Driva' Man" because there is no mention of freedom in this song.
12 Years a Slave (soundtrack) | Commentary
Legend's cover of "Roll, Jordan, Roll" debuted online three weeks prior to the soundtrack's release.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Music
So the slave owners dilute the energy of their slaves by whipping them for sadistic sport and, as Epps does, waking them at night to dance for his wife's cruel pleasure." Gregory Ellwood of HitFix gave the film an "A-" rating, stating, ""12 Years" is a powerful drama driven by McQueen's bold direction and the finest performance of Chiwetel Ejiofor's career." He continued by praising the performances of Fassbender and Nyong'o, citing Nyong'o as "the film's breakthrough performance [that] may find Nyong'o making her way to the Dolby Theater next March". He also admired the film's "gorgeous" cinematography and the musical score, as "one of Hans Zimmer's more moving scores in some time".
12 Years a Slave (film) | Critical response
"12 Years a Slave" – John Ridley
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 | Best Adapted Screenplay
"12 Years a Slave" – John Ridley
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2013 | Best Adapted Screenplay
An additional viewing option for the film in the media format of Video on demand has been made available as well.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Home media
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London Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 | Film of the Year
Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 95% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 365 reviews with an average score of 8.91/10, with the site's consensus stating, "It's far from comfortable viewing, but "12 Years a Slave"s unflinchingly brutal look at American slavery is also brilliant – and quite possibly essential – cinema." Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 96 out of 100 based on 57 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "universal acclaim". It is currently one of the site's highest-rated films, as well as the best-reviewed film of 2013.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Critical response
They collected original items from antique shops, museums, and personal homes, in Mississippi and Louisiana, to decorate the sets. In addition to the Academy Award nomination, Baker and Stockhausen were also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design, a Critics' Choice Movie Award Best Art Direction, and the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film, among other awards.
Alice Baker (set decorator) | "12 Years a Slave"
Following its cinematic release in theaters, the Region 1 Code widescreen edition of the film was released on DVD in the United States on March 4, 2014. Special features for the DVD include; a Closed Caption option, The Team – Meet the Creative Minds Assembled by Director Steve McQueen and Bring Solomon Northup's Journey to Life bonus selection, and The Score – Follow Film Composer Hans Zimmer Creating His Dramatic Score feature. In supplemental fashion, a widescreen hi-definition Blu-ray Disc version of the film was also released on the same day. Special features include; a historical portrait from Director Steve McQueen's documentary feature, cast and crew interviews, The Team special feature, and The Score selection.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Home media
Solomon Northup is a free African-American man in 1841, working as a violinist and living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician if he will travel with them to Washington, D.C.; however, once they have arrived, they drug Northup and deliver him to a slave pen run by a man named Burch. Northup proclaims that he is a free man, only to be savagely beaten with a wooden paddle and then a leather strap. Northup is shipped to New Orleans along with other captive African-Americans.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Plot
"That feeling of dancing with ghosts – it's palpable." Filming also took place at the Columns Hotel and Madame John's Legacy in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt, the film's primary camera operator, shot "12 Years a Slave" on 35 mm film with a 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio using both an Arricam LT and ST. "Particularly for a period piece, film gives the audience a definite sense of period and quality," said Bobbitt. "And because of the story's epic nature, widescreen clearly made the most sense. Widescreen means a big film, an epic tale – in this case an epic tale of human endurance." The filmmakers avoided the desaturated visual style that is typical of a more gritty documentary aesthetic.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Filming
Deliberately drawing visual comparisons in the filming to the works of Spanish painter Francisco Goya, McQueen explained:
12 Years a Slave (film) | Filming
He is told by the others that if he wants to survive in the South, he must adapt to being a slave and not tell anyone he is a free man. A slave trader named Theophilus Freeman gives Northup the identity of "Platt", a runaway slave from Georgia, and sells him to plantation owner William Ford. Ford takes a liking to Northup and gives him a violin. A growing tension between Northup and plantation carpenter John Tibeats finally breaks as Tibeats tries to beat Northup. Northup snaps and beats Tibeats with his hands before beating him with his own whip.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Plot
12 Years a Slave
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 | Best Picture
I beg all of you to take your kids, everybody to see it. ... You have to see this so you can understand, so you can just start to understand."
12 Years a Slave (film) | Marketing
Murrow Award for Best News Documentary and winner of a 2012 CINE Golden Eagle Award and a CINE Special Jury Award for Best Investigative Documentary. Britell's music featured prominently in director Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning film "12 Years a Slave", for which he composed and arranged the on-camera music including the spiritual songs, work songs, featured violin performances, and dances. Billboard Magazine called Britell "...the secret weapon in the music of "12 Years a Slave"". "My Lord Sunshine", composed by Britell for "12 Years a Slave", was eligible for the 2014 Oscar's best song list. The Los Angeles Times said of "My Lord Sunshine", "A work song, a spiritual, a blues lament, a communal statement – 'My Lord Sunshine (Sunrise)’ is all of the above and more…[w]hat Britell accomplished is no easy feat, and it’s a spiritual that feels and sounds of the era and deftly weaves in religious imagery with the daily horror of the slaves’ lives." Britell also notably reinterpreted "Roll Jordan Roll" for the film.
Nicholas Britell | Career
12 Years a Slave
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2013 | Best Picture
Herbert Stothart made arrangements of Frederick Delius's music, particularly "Appalachia: Variations on an Old Slave Song", for the film.
The Yearling (1946 film) | Music
Paul MacInnes of "The Guardian" scored the film five out of five stars, writing, "Stark, visceral and unrelenting, "12 Years a Slave" is not just a great film but a necessary one." Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" praised it as "a new movie landmark of cruelty and transcendence" and as "a movie about a life that gets taken away, and that's why it lets us touch what life is". He also commented very positively about Ejiofor's performance, while further stating, ""12 Years a Slave" lets us stare at the primal sin of America with open eyes, and at moments it is hard to watch, yet it's a movie of such humanity and grace that at every moment, you feel you're seeing something essential.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Critical response
It is used in "12 Years a Slave (film)" in the opening scenes, played by the character Solomon Northup during a small gathering of white individuals dancing. It was played by ""Tim Fain", an accomplished violinist who co-arranged the soundtrack for the movie.
The Devil's Dream | Pop culture
The film's score was composed, arranged, and conducted by English musician Paul Buckmaster. The main theme is based on Argentine tango musician/composer Astor Piazzolla's "Suite Punta del Este".
12 Monkeys | Music
Kalem had about two dozen piano scores published in 1912–1913, to be sold to theaters for 25 cents apiece. The score for this film, composed by Walter Cleveland Simon (1884–1958), is one of the only two in the series for which the film also survives intact.
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However, instead of paying for the distribution rights, Fox Searchlight made a deal in which it would share box-office proceeds with the financiers of the independently financed film. "12 Years a Slave" was commercially released on , 2013 in the United States for a limited release of 19 theaters, with a wide release in subsequent weeks. The film was initially scheduled to be released in late December 2013, but "some exuberant test screenings" led to the decision to move up the release date. The film was distributed by Entertainment One in the United Kingdom.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Initial screenings
"12 Years a Slave" is a 2013 historical drama film directed and produced by Steve McQueen. It is an adaptation of the 1853 autobiographical slave narrative memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the protagonist, Northup. Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt (also a producer of the film), and Alfre Woodard feature in supporting roles. The screenplay based on the aforementioned memoir was written by John Ridley.
List of accolades received by 12 Years a Slave (film) | Introduction
The score for the film consists of two classical pieces: Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" and Richard Wagner's "Prize Song", both adapted and conducted by Alfred Newman.
People Will Talk | Music
"12 Years a Slave" premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2013; it was later screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, the New York Film Festival on October 8, the New Orleans Film Festival on October 10, and the Philadelphia Film Festival on October 19. On November 15, 2011, Summit Entertainment announced it had secured a deal to distribute "12 Years a Slave" to international markets. In April 2012, a few weeks before principal photography, New Regency Productions agreed to co-finance the film. Because of a distribution pact between 20th Century Fox and New Regency, Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the film's United States distribution rights.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Initial screenings
The film earned seven nominations at the 71st Golden Globe Awards, winning for Best Motion Picture – Drama. At the 67th British Academy Film Awards, the film garnered ten nominations and went on to win two awards: Best Film and Best Actor for Ejiofor.
List of accolades received by 12 Years a Slave (film) | Introduction
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 | Actor of the Year
"12 Years a Slave" has received numerous awards and nominations. It earned three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, while Ejiofor received the Best Actor award. In addition, the motion picture has been named as one of the best films of 2013 by various ongoing critics, appearing on 100 critics' top-ten lists in which 25 had the film in their number-one spot. This is both the most of any film released in its production year.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Accolades
To accurately depict the time period of the film, the filmmakers conducted extensive research that included studying artwork from the era. With eight weeks to create the wardrobe, costume designer Patricia Norris collaborated with Western Costume to compile costumes that would illustrate the passage of time while also being historically accurate. Using an earth tone color palette, Norris created nearly 1,000 costumes for the film. "She [Norris] took earth samples from all three of the plantations to match the clothes," McQueen said, "and she had the conversation with Sean [Bobbitt] to deal with the character temperature on each plantation, there was a lot of that minute detail." The filmmakers also used some pieces of clothing discovered on set that were worn by slaves.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Design
In October 2014, James Horner was hired to compose the music for the film. It was the second of two scores he had completed in 2015, before his death on June 22 of that year.
The 33 | Music
I took the option." Ridley's screenplay for "12 Years a Slave" was thus ineligible for a Writers Guild of America Award.
John Ridley | Controversy
Steve McQueen – "12 Years a Slave"
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 | Best Director
The score was composed, conducted, and orchestrated by Leonard Rosenman. The music distinguishes itself by "having the first predominantly twelve-tone score ever written for a motion picture". The first release of portions of the score was on MGM Records on LP in 1957. The complete score in stereo was issued on CD in 2003, on Film Score Monthly records.
The Cobweb (1955 film) | Music
Chiwetel Ejiofor – "12 Years a Slave"
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 | Best Actor
"Solomon Northup's Odyssey" is directed by Gordon Parks, who also composed the film score with Kermit Moore. The television film is based on the autobiography "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup. Lou Potter and Samm-Art Williams wrote the teleplay for the film. The film was produced by The Fremantle Corporation and Past America Inc. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided funding for a series of programs related to American history. Producer Shep Morgan received a planning grant from the NEH in 1976 and sought input from historians including Robert B. Toplin who suggested the topic of American slavery.
Solomon Northup's Odyssey | Production
The score was composed by Thomas Newman.
1917 (2019 film) | Music
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 358 reviews and judged 95% to be positive. "12 Years a Slave" garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its direction, screenplay and the acting of its cast. At the 86th Academy Awards, the film received nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Director for McQueen and went on to win three awards: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley, and Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o. McQueen was the first black director to direct a Best Picture winning film as well as the first black producer to win Best Picture.
List of accolades received by 12 Years a Slave (film) | Introduction
In the middle of the night, a drunken Epps wakes Northup and questions him menacingly about the letter while holding a knife to Northup's stomach. Northup is narrowly able to convince Epps that Armsby is lying and Epps relents. Afterwards, Northup mournfully burns the letter to prevent Epps from finding it. Some time later, Patsey is caught by Epps going to a neighboring plantation in order to acquire soap, as Mrs. Epps won't let her have any. In retaliation, Epps orders Northup to whip Patsey. Patsey is then whipped brutally by Epps, to the point of near death. After the incident, Northup destroys his violin in a rage.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Plot
Shortly after Northup's kidnapping, he is sent on a slave ship. One of the sailors attempts to rape a female slave, but is stopped by a male slave. "The sailor unhesitatingly stabs and kills [the male slave]," he wrote, stating that "this seems unlikely on its face—slaves are valuable, and the sailor is not the owner. And, sure enough, the scene is not in the book."
12 Years a Slave (film) | Historical accuracy
After meeting screenwriter John Ridley at a Creative Artists Agency screening of "Hunger" in 2008, director Steve McQueen got in touch with Ridley about his interest in making a film about "the slave era in America" with "a character that was not obvious in terms of their trade in slavery." Developing the idea back and forth, the two did not strike a chord until McQueen's partner, Bianca Stigter, found Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir "Twelve Years a Slave". McQueen later told an interviewer: After a lengthy development process, during which Brad Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment backed the project, which eventually helped get financing from various other film studios.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Development
Baker served as set decorator on the film "12 Years a Slave", Steve McQueen's 2013 adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir. As the historical drama was shot in New Orleans, but took place in Saratoga Springs, New York and on a ship as well as in Louisiana, Baker and Stockhausen used stereoscopic images and other historical documents to guide their development of sets that resembled the Northeast and steamships in the 1830s, in addition to using Louisiana plantations with some original buildings still in place. Faced with a limited budget as well as recently released films dealing with the same historical era that had just used many of the available sets (for example, "Django Unchained" and ""), Baker and Stockenhausen were challenged to develop an aesthetic authentic to the period, but visually distinct from the other films.
Alice Baker (set decorator) | "12 Years a Slave"
The original score was composed by Hans Erdmann to be performed by an orchestra during screenings. It is also said that the original music was recorded during a screening of the film. However, most of the score has been lost, and what remains is only a reconstitution of the score as it was played in 1922. Thus, throughout the history of "Nosferatu" screenings, many composers and musicians have written or improvised their own soundtrack to accompany the film. For example, James Bernard, composer of the soundtracks of many Hammer horror films in the late 1950s and 1960s, wrote a score for a reissue.
Nosferatu | Music
The film received nine Academy Award nominations, winning three: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o. The Best Picture win made McQueen the first black British producer to ever receive the award and the first black British director of a Best Picture winner. The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognized it with the Best Film and the Best Actor award for Ejiofor. "12 Years a Slave" was later named the 44th greatest film since 2000 in a BBC poll of 177 critics.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Introduction
Chiwetel Ejiofor – "12 Years a Slave"
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2013 | Best Actor
The basic musical theme of the film with the text “Years of Life; all in vain. When will we see each other again? ”, was delivered within the first movement of the 6th Symphony in B minor, op. 74, by Peter Tchaikovsky. In the course of the film, the jazz classic Georgia on My Mind by Hoagy Carmichael is played in several scenes.
Tadellöser &amp; Wolff | Movie Score
The film was directed by Steve McQueen, and the screenplay was written by John Ridley. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup. Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alfre Woodard feature in supporting roles. Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 27 to August 13, 2012. The locations used were four historic antebellum plantations; Felicity, Bocage, Destrehan, and Magnolia. Of the four, Magnolia is nearest to the actual plantation where Northup was held. "12 Years a Slave" was named the best film of 2013 by several media outlets and critics, and it earned over $187 million on a production budget of $22 million.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Introduction
CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film an "A" grade. Richard Corliss of "TIME" wrote: "McQueen's film is closer in its storytelling particulars to such 1970s exploitation-exposés of slavery as "Mandingo" and "Goodbye, Uncle Tom". Except that McQueen is not a schlockmeister sensationalist but a remorseless artist". Corliss draws parallels with Nazi Germany, saying, "McQueen shows that racism, aside from its barbarous inhumanity, is insanely inefficient. It can be argued that Nazi Germany lost the war both because it diverted so much manpower to the killing of Jews and because it did not exploit the brilliance of Jewish scientists in building smarter weapons.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Critical response
The film's release was gradually widened in subsequent weeks, similarly to how the studio had successfully done in years prior with films such as "Black Swan" and "The Descendants". International release dates for "12 Years a Slave" were largely delayed to early 2014 in order to take advantage of the attention created by awards seasons. During its marketing campaign, "12 Years a Slave" received unpaid endorsements by celebrities such as Kanye West and P. Diddy. In a video posted by Revolt, Combs urged viewers to see "12 Years a Slave" by stating: "This movie is very painful but very honest, and is a part of the healing process.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Marketing
In 1995 Buckmaster composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced the original score to Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys". He also composed the score for the 1997 film "Most Wanted".
Paul Buckmaster | Film work
The film's score was composed by longtime Lean collaborator Maurice Jarre. According to Jarre, the director told him, “Maurice, I want you to write music right from your groin for this very long scene in the cave. This isn't a story of India, it's a story of a woman. I want you to write music that evokes awakening sexuality.” Jarre wrote 45 minutes of music in two and a half weeks. He said, "David talks to me in images. A film artist never asks for an oboe to cover up a bad scene; a film artist doesn't think of music as medicine for a sick movie.
A Passage to India (film) | Music
The original music corresponds to Ennio Morricone interpreted at the piano by Arnaldo Graziosi. Other non-original music was Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" in "Veris leta facies" at the nearly end of the film during "Circle of Blood". Other music was several Frédéric Chopin's pieces Preludes Op.28 nº 17 and nº4 and Valses Op. 34 nº 2 in La minor.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Musical score
Owing to the short time available in post-production, the composing duties on the film score were divided between two of 20th Century-Fox's best-known composers: Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann. Newman would later conduct the score in a re-recording for release on Decca Records. Musician John Morgan undertook a "restoration and reconstruction" of the score for a recording conducted by William T. Stromberg in 1998, on Marco Polo Records. The performance of the score recorded for the film was released by "Film Score Monthly" in 2001.
The Egyptian (film) | Music
Thomas Newman composed the largely minimalist film score.
Citizen Cohn | Score
The film's score will be composed by The Newton Brothers.
The Forever Purge | Music
Alice Baker is a set decorator best known for her work on the film "12 Years a Slave". With production designer Adam Stockhausen, Baker was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design for her work on the period drama.
Alice Baker (set decorator) | Introduction
It won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Joining again the team of McQueen, Fassbender and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt, Walker cut "Shame" (2011). This told the story of a successful Manhattanite navigating the terrain of sexual obsession on a path towards self-destruction. Their third collaboration was "12 Years a Slave" (2013), the true story of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery, set in 1840s Louisiana. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Paul Dano, and Paul Giamatti. "12 Years a Slave" (2013) won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o, and Best Adapted Screenplay for John Ridley.
Joe Walker (editor) | Life and career
The film's musical score was composed by Mark Isham. The soundtrack was released on cd from Varese Sarabande that contains eight score selections from various scenes, including Heist, Kidnapped and the horrific events at Subway. 1 Heist 6:02 2 Elisabeth 4:40 3 Kidnapped 4:28 4 A Body 1:37 5 Hart Island 3:38 6 Subway 4:06 7 Mishka 3:13 8 A Family 3:24
Don't Say a Word | Soundtrack
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical period-drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released. The first scholarly edition of Northup's memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate. Other characters in the film were also real people, including Edwin and Mary Epps, and Patsey.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Introduction
Steiner ignored Selznick's wishes and composed an entirely new score. Selznick's opinion about using original scoring may have changed due to the overwhelming reaction to the film, nearly all of which contained Steiner's music. A year later, he even wrote a letter emphasizing the value of original film scores. The most well known of Steiner's themes for the score is the "Tara" theme for the O'Hara family plantation. Steiner explains Scarlett's deep-founded love for her home is why "the 'Tara' theme begins and ends with the picture and permeates the entire score". The film went on to win ten Academy Awards, although not for Best Original Score, which instead went to Herbert Stothart for "The Wizard of Oz".
Max Steiner | Composing for Warner Bros. (1937–1953)
"The Penalty" was shown at the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival in March 2018 accompanied by a newly commissioned score by Scottish composer Graeme Stephen for guitar (Stephen) and cello (Pete Harvey).
The Penalty (1920 film) | Modern score
In the following two years, Dobos composed more original music scores, including those for the movies " Thend " and " Black Strawberries ", a Balkan War-themed radioplay, as well as Musique concrète pieces for exhibitions and movie theaters.
Julius Dobos | Movie scores and other works in Europe
None of the music in 12 was original score, yet the film incorporated over 100 different cues of music. More than 60 of those cues were classical in nature, incorporating Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and the like. Also of note is the fact that 12 is the first film for which the composer John Adams has allowed his music to be used.
12 (2003 film) | Music
Ben Carson composed the film's original score. The CD release of the soundtrack is evenly divided between dialog excerpts and original score (all even-numbered tracks are short dialog excerpts from the film and all odd-numbered tracks are music).
States of Grace | Music
Yet Parks's film is beautiful in its own right, lacking the ferocious immediacy of McQueen's work, but containing a somber lyricism that's hard to shake. The outrage is still there, just more muted and given more historical context." By 2013, when "12 Years a Slave" was released, "Vulture" said of the 1984 film, "Out-of-print videos of it sell for a lot of money nowadays," and that the film was available for streaming online.
Solomon Northup's Odyssey | Legacy
The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in March 2014, becoming the first Best Picture winner to have a black director or producer. The film also won a supporting actress Oscar for Lupita Nyongo. On the process of making "12 Years a Slave", actor and producer Brad Pitt stated:
Steve McQueen (director) | 2009–present: Further success and acclaim
The film's score was written by Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales.
99 Homes | Music
It is Chiwetel Ejiofor's extraordinary performance that holds the movie together, and that allows us to watch it without blinking. He plays Solomon with a powerful inner strength, yet he never soft-pedals the silent nightmare that is Solomon's daily existence." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone", gave the film a four-star rating and said: "you won't be able to tuck this powder keg in the corner of your mind and forget it. What we have here is a blistering, brilliant, straight-up classic." He later named the film the best movie of 2013.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Critical response
The score to "Year One" was composed by Theodore Shapiro, who recorded his score with contemporary band elements, and a 75-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.
Year One (film) | Music
Produced by Margo Mars and Alma Har'el, the film is directed by Lola Young and Matt Shea and supported by the BFI Doc Society and LUSH film fund. The soundtrack was released in May 2020.
Charlotte Hatherley | Film and theatre scoring (2013–present)
The score, according to Goldenthal himself, sums up his film scoring career up to that point; ""This score is a culmination of my style. It sums up the type of work I've been doing for the past ten years."" He explains it saying,
Titus (soundtrack) | The Score
In February 2016, it was announced that John Swihart would score the film.
Table 19 | Music
The film was given a newly composed score by Will Gregory from the band Goldfrapp for use at live concert screenings of the film, initially in the Colston Hall in Bristol, UK on December 1, 2007. The score was later broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 2008 with linking narration by actor Samuel West to relay to listeners the plot of the film. The Alloy Orchestra has also composed a score for the film.
He Who Gets Slapped | Alternate soundtrack
Composer Victor Young wrote the film's score. Ross Bagdasarian Sr. wrote a tie-in song "The Ballad of Colin Black".
The Proud and Profane | Score and original music
McQueen has not commented on the alleged feud.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Development
Terence Blanchard composed the film's musical score. Other songs that appear in the film (and are not included in the original score) include:
25th Hour | Music
Gato Barbieri composed the music for the film.
Seven Servants | Music
Michael Fassbender – "12 Years a Slave"
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2013 | Best Supporting Actor
Alfred Newman's 1937 music score was adapted by Conrad Salinger, since Newman was unavailable to work on the film; and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. The art direction was by Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters and the costume design by Walter Plunkett.
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952 film) | Introduction
In January 2017, it was reported that Andrew Hewitt would compose the film's score.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (film) | Music
Tituz has been signed on to compose the original score and soundtrack for the film. This film has two songs and an entire twenty minutes background music.
Rathnavathi | Music
In March 2018, it was reported that Rob Simonsen would compose the film's score. the soundtrack is now released at Sony Classical, including the full score with original song by Simonsen with Kill the Noise and Mija.
Captive State | Music
Italian composer Dario Marianelli wrote the film score. The soundtrack is performed by the French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet accompanied by the English Chamber Orchestra. The early piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven "became a point of reference" and "starting point" for the original score. Some pieces were inspired by the film's period, with the assumption that they could conceivably have been heard during that time and contained actual dance cues that were fitting for the late eighteenth century. Pieces that actors perform were composed first, before filming began. The soundtrack ultimately contained seventeen instrumental tracks of music organised in a different way from the film.
Pride &amp; Prejudice (2005 film) | Music
Due to both the film's explicit nature and award contender status, "12 Years a Slave"'s financial success was being watched closely. Many analysts compared the film's content to other drama films of a similar vein such as "Schindler's List" (1993) and "The Passion of the Christ" (2004), which became box office successes despite their respective subject matters. "It may be a tough subject matter, but when handled well ... films that are tough to sit through can still be commercially successful," said Phil Contrino of "Boxoffice Magazine". Despite its content, the film's critical success has assisted its domestic distribution by Fox Searchlight that began with a limited release aimed primarily towards art house and African-American patrons.
12 Years a Slave (film) | Marketing
Part of "12 Years a Slave" was also filmed at the house.
Madame John's Legacy | Description and history