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Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, one for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He consistently collaborates with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films. Shore has also composed concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot of Cronenberg's 1986 film, which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008; a short piece named Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. Shore has also composed for television, including serving as the original musical director for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980. In addition to his three Oscars, Shore has won three Golden Globe Awards, four Grammy Awards, three Genie Awards, and nine Canadian Screen Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Shore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Black Knight is an 2007 Superhero historical film that was directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Kevin Feige, and was written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. The film tells the story of Dane Whitman, The Black Knight during the third crusade in the Holy land. The film stars Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Michelle Fairley, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Iain Glen, Aidan Gillen, Harry Lloyd, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Richard Madden, Maisie Williams, Alfie Allen, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Jack Gleeson, Rory McCann, Peter Dinklage, Jason Momoa, Khalid Al Dallab, Marion Cotillard, Lewis Alsamari, Jamie Harding, Omar Berdouni, Anna Paquin, Kenneth Brannagh, Lynn Collins and Johnny Depp. The Black Knight was released on the 16th of December in the United States. The film received critical acclaim for its direction, score, writing, cinematography, The Performances of Madden, Bean, Harington, Turner Dallab and Dinkalage, action scenes and it's themes. The Black Knight has been regarded as one of the best films of 2007, The MCU and of all time. Madden, Turner, Clarke and Bean would reprise their roles in the 2011 film, Captain Britain Revelations.
