Best Score

The dawn of a new millennium and the music awards keep changing. In past years, award-winning songs from movies invariably topped the charts: “The Theme from Exodus", “A Summer Place", “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing", “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", “(Everything I do) I Do It for You", “The Eye of the Tiger"," “Flashdance, What a Feeling, “The Way We Were", and of course “My Heart Will Go On".

The dawn of a new millennium and the music awards keep changing. In past years, award-winning songs from movies invariably topped the charts: “The Theme from Exodus", “A Summer Place", “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing", “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", “(Everything I do) I Do It for You", “The Eye of the Tiger"," “Flashdance, What a Feeling, “The Way We Were", and of course “My Heart Will Go On".

Fin de siècle. Beginning with 1988 the Golden Globes and the Academy choices were mostly in sync.

After dithering around with their music awards for so many years — nominations one year, no awards another -- the Hollywood Foreign Press Association finally decided to take the category seriously. Even though the 1970 Golden Globe for best song went to “Jean” from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, sidestepping the Academy’s choice, “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” the HFPA made amends by agreeing on Burt Bacharach’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as best score.

Can anyone deny the role that music plays in molding a blockbuster?  Without that component would the public be inclined to see movies over and over again, which is how one defines a blockbuster? What would the best-loved movies be without music? Can you imagine Gone With The Wind without "Tara's Theme,” The Godfather without Nino Rota’s score, Casablanca without "As Time Goes By?"Isn’t it time we recognize the film composer as an optimum contributor in the making of either a classic or a blockbuster, or better yet, both?Which brings us to the Golden Globe music awards.  Even though the awards themselves were established in 1944, the first music award for Best Original Score was not given until 1948, and then inauspiciously to the great Max Steiner for Life with Father.