Curated playlist

Films that won the Best Original Score Academy Award

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingMany stars turned down Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring. Sean Connery said he did not understand the plot.
Star Wars (film)George Lucas forgot Star Wars was opening the day it came out. That night, he saw crowds lined up outside a theater.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingThe Return of the King won all eleven Oscars it was nominated for. No fantasy film had won Best Picture before it.
Jaws (film)The broken shark in Jaws made the film scarier. Spielberg had to suggest it with barrels and a fin.
Ben-Hur (1959 film)MGM bet its future on Ben-Hur, a 1959 epic whose budget more than doubled to $15.175 million.
Mary Poppins (film)At the 1964 Mary Poppins premiere, the author demanded a cut and Walt Disney said the ship had sailed.
Oppenheimer (film)The teaser for the film Oppenheimer, released on the 28th of July 2022, carried a live countdown to 5:29 a.m. Mountain time on the 16th of July 2023. That hour marked the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of an atomic weapon.…
Let It Be (1970 film)George Harrison told the Beatles he was leaving, but the film Let It Be leaves that out.
Dune (2021 film)Dune, the 2021 film directed by Denis Villeneuve, began with a filmmaker who doubted he would ever get to make it. In September 2016 the Canadian director said, "a longstanding dream of mine is to adapt Dune, but it's a long process to get…
Titanic (1997 film)Rather than cut Titanic, James Cameron gave up his $8 million director's salary.
Sinners (2025 film)Sinners is a 2025 horror film from the writer, director and producer Ryan Coogler. It opens with someone describing a kind of music 'so pure it can pierce the veil between life and death, past and future.' The film then spends the rest of…
High NoonIn High Noon, a marshal asks every friend in town for help and is refused. A killer arrives on the noon train.