Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

WALL-E

WALL-E

Thomas Newman
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

Including his nomination this year for Original Song for WALL-E, this is the tenth Academy Award nomination for Thomas Newman. He was previously nominated for:

  • THE GOOD GERMAN (2006) -- Nominee, Music (Original Score)
  • LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (2004) -- Nominee, Music (Original Score)
  • FINDING NEMO (2003) -- Nominee, Music (Original Score)
  • ROAD TO PERDITION (2002) -- Nominee, Music (Original Score)
  • AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999) -- Nominee, Music (Original Score)
  • UNSTRUNG HEROES (1995) -- Nominee, Music (Original Musical or Comedy Score)
  • LITTLE WOMEN (1994) -- Nominee, Music (Original Score)
  • THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) -- Nominee, Music (Original Score)

FILM SYNOPSIS

Several centuries in the future, when human beings have abandoned the earth for a series of orbiting spaceships, the lone remaining being on the planet is a solar-powered robot named WALL-E. As he continues to carry out his trash compacting duties, he gathers up unexpected treasures...including a tiny green plant that has somehow reappeared on the earth's heavily polluted landscape.
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