American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score
American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is the recording of the original score for the 1999 film, composed by Thomas Newman. The original music accompanied 11 pre-existing songs by other artists.
| American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score | |
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| Released | January 11, 2000 |
| Genre | Film score Instrumental Ambient music |
| Length | 37:24 |
| Label | DreamWorks Records |
| Producer | Bill Bernstein |
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
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Description
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (but lost to the score of The Red Violin) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (but lost to the score of The Legend of 1900), and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards.
The score album won the Grammy Award for the Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media in 2001 which was awarded to producer Bill Bernstein, engineer Dennis Sands, and Newman.
A soundtrack album for the film was also released, on October 5, 1999, entitled American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. That album includes songs by ten of the eleven artists (Annie Lennox's rendition of "Don't Let It Bring You Down" being absent) and two excerpts from the film's score: "Dead Already" and "Any Other Name".
The tracks "Any Other Name", "Dead Already", and "American Beauty" are widely used in film trailers, and are among the most recognized pieces of film music. Some YouTubers who make flight reports used the track "Dead Already", which they claimed "was a music fit for aviation and commercial flight travel".
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Dead Already" | Thomas Newman | 3:17 |
| 2. | "Arose" | Thomas Newman | 1:05 |
| 3. | "Power of Denial" | Thomas Newman | 1:43 |
| 4. | "Lunch with the King" | Thomas Newman | 2:26 |
| 5. | "Mental Boy" | Thomas Newman | 1:43 |
| 6. | "Mr. Smarty Man" | Thomas Newman | 1:10 |
| 7. | "Root Beer" | Thomas Newman | 1:07 |
| 8. | "American Beauty" | Thomas Newman | 3:06 |
| 9. | "Bloodless Freak" | Thomas Newman | 1:38 |
| 10. | "Choking the Bishop" | Thomas Newman | 1:53 |
| 11. | "Weirdest Home Videos" | Thomas Newman | 2:03 |
| 12. | "Structure and Discipline" | Thomas Newman | 3:06 |
| 13. | "Spartanette" | Thomas Newman | 0:59 |
| 14. | "Angela Undress" | Thomas Newman | 1:43 |
| 15. | "Marine" | Thomas Newman | 1:34 |
| 16. | "Walk Home" | Thomas Newman | 1:19 |
| 17. | "Blood Red" | Thomas Newman | 0:37 |
| 18. | "Any Other Name" | Thomas Newman | 4:09 |
| 19. | "Still Dead" | Thomas Newman | 2:46 |
