| Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Steven Price |
| Cover: | Gravity, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.jpg |
| Released: | (download) (physical) |
| Recorded: | 2012 |
| Studio: | Abbey Road Studios and British Grove Studios (London, United Kingdom) |
| Genre: | Soundtrack |
| Length: | 71:44 |
| Label: | WaterTower Music |
Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album of the 3D science fiction thriller film Gravity, written by British film composer Steven Price. The album was released in 2013 via WaterTower Music label.
Price's score was universally applauded by film critics and audiences alike, leading Price to win and receive nominations for several Best Original Score awards at ceremonies, including a BAFTA Award, a Satellite Award and an Academy Award, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Composer Steven Price was originally called in to help out for three weeks on the music design of Gravity.[1] After having a creative discussion with director Alfonso Cuarón, Price began coming up with a template of sounds and noises that eventually led to him being hired as the film's composer.[2] As work began on the film's score, Cuarón and Price set ground rules for distancing the score from conventional Hollywood-style action scores such as omitting the use of percussion.[3] "Ordinarily in an action film you're often competing with explosions and god knows what else, whereas with this [movie] music could do things a different way," said Price. "With everything we did we would try and look beyond the normal way of doing things. [For] some of the action sequences where there are explosions, I knew that [...] those explosions had to be inherent."[4]
The score was recorded in small groups or single instruments as opposed to a collective orchestra in order for each sound to be electronically processed and mixed individually to create a layered and surrounding effect.[5]
Steven Price's score has been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, in particular for its two final tracks, "Shenzou" and "Gravity". It was nominated for and won multiple awards in the Best Original Score category at several ceremonies: it received a nomination for Best Original Score at the 71st Golden Globe Awards and won Best Original Music at the 67th British Academy Film Awards and Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards.[6] James Southall of Movie Wave awarded the album five stars out of a possible five and said that "it feels like the most intelligent and most satisfying score for a science fiction movie since Ennio Morricone's stunning, dishearteningly lambasted Mission to Mars."
| Award | Date | Category | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | March 2, 2014 | Best Original Score | ||
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | December 19, 2013 | Best Music or Score | ||
| Awards Circuit Community Awards | February 28, 2014 | Best Original Score | ||
| British Academy Film Awards | February 16, 2014 | Best Original Music | ||
| Broadcast Film Critics Association | January 16, 2014 | Best Score | ||
| Central Ohio Film Critics Association | January 2, 2014 | Best Score | ||
| Chicago Film Critics Association | December 13, 2013 | Best Original Score | ||
| Denver Film Critics Society | January 13, 2014 | Best Original Score | ||
| Golden Globe Awards | January 12, 2014 | Best Original Score | ||
| Grammy Awards | February 8, 2015 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | ||
| Houston Film Critics Society | December 15, 2013 | Best Original Score | ||
| San Diego Film Critics Society | December 11, 2013 | Best Original Score | ||
| Satellite Awards | February 23, 2014 | Best Original Score | ||
| St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association | December 16, 2013 | Best Musical Score | ||
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | December 9, 2013 | Best Score |
Notes
Credits adapted from AllMusic and from the liner notes of Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.[7]