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Francis Lai

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Francis Lai (born 26 April 1932) is a French accordionist and composer, noted for his film scores. [1]

89 relations: A Man and a Woman, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Awards, Alpes-Maritimes, And Now My Love, Andy Williams, Another Man, Another Chance, Attention bandits!, Édith et Marcel, BBC, Bilitis (film), Billboard (magazine), Body of My Enemy, British Academy Film Awards, Button accordion, Carl Sigman, César Award, Chance or Coincidence, Child Under a Leaf, Claude Lelouch, Composer, Current affairs (news format), Dark Eyes (film), Dog Day (1984 film), Emmanuelle 2, Film score, Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, France, French people, Golden Globe Award, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Great Britain, Hannibal Brooks, Hello-Goodbye (1970 film), Henry Mancini, House of Cards (1968 film), I'll Never Forget What's'isname, International Velvet (film), Itinerary of a Spoiled Child, L'aventure, c'est l'aventure, La Belle Histoire, La bonne année, Le Voyou, Les Uns et les Autres, Life Love Death, Live for Life, Love Is a Funny Thing, Love Story (1970 film), Marie (film), ..., Mayerling (1968 film), Men, Women: A User's Manual, Michael Winner, Mireille Mathieu, Montmartre, Music recording certification, My New Partner, My New Partner II, Nice, Oliver's Story (film), Orchestra, Panorama (TV series), Paris, Passion Flower Hotel (film), René Clément, Rider on the Rain, Robert et Robert, Rod McKuen, Salaud, on t'aime, Shirley Bassey, Single (music), Soundtrack, Television, The Bobo, The Forbidden Room (1977 film), The Games (film), The Good and the Bad, The Legend of Frenchie King, There Were Days... and Moons, Three into Two Won't Go, Traditional pop music, Un homme libre (1973 film), Un plus une, United States, Visit to a Chief's Son, Wanted: Babysitter, World Soundtrack Academy, World Soundtrack Award – Lifetime Achievement, (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story. Expand index (39 more) »

A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) is a 1966 French film written and directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà; literally A Man and a Woman, 20 Years Already) is a 1986 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch and is a sequel to Lelouch's 1966 film Un homme et une femme.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Alpes-Maritimes

Alpes-Maritimes (Aups Maritims; Alpi Marittime) is a department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in the extreme southeast corner of France.

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And Now My Love

And Now My Love (Toute une vie), (Released as 'A Whole Lifetime' in Australia) is a film released in 1974 by French writer/director Claude Lelouch, starring Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner, and Charles Gérard.

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Andy Williams

Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer.

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Another Man, Another Chance

Another Man, Another Chance (Un autre homme, une autre chance, UK title: Another Man, Another Woman) is a 1977 French western film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Attention bandits!

Attention bandits! is a 1986 film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Édith et Marcel

Édith et Marcel is a 1983 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bilitis (film)

Bilitis is a 1977 French romantic and erotic drama film, which was directed by photographer David Hamilton (1933-2016) with a music score by Francis Lai.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Body of My Enemy

Le Corps de mon ennemi (also known as Body of My Enemy) is a 1976 French crime film directed by Henri Verneuil.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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Button accordion

A button accordion is a type of accordion on which the melody-side keyboard consists of a series of buttons rather than piano-style keys of a piano accordion.

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Carl Sigman

Carl Sigman (September 24, 1909 – September 26, 2000) was an American songwriter.

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César Award

The César Award is the national film award of France.

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Chance or Coincidence

Hasards ou coïncidences is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch, released in 1998.

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Child Under a Leaf

Child Under a Leaf (released as Love Child in Britain) is a 1974 drama film directed by George Bloomfield and starring Dyan Cannon.

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Claude Lelouch

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Current affairs (news format)

Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast.

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Dark Eyes (film)

Dark Eyes (Oci ciornie; Очи чёрные óchi chjórnyje) is a 1987 Italian and Russian language film which tells the story of a 19th-century married Italian who falls in love with a married Russian woman.

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Dog Day (1984 film)

Dog Day (French title: "Canicule", which means "heatwave") is a 1984 film by French director Yves Boisset starring Lee Marvin.

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Emmanuelle 2

Emmanuelle 2 (aka Emmanuelle, The Joys of a Woman, original title Emmanuelle: L'antivierge) is a 1975 French softcore erotica film directed by Francis Giacobetti and starring Sylvia Kristel.

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Film score

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Flanders International Film Festival Ghent

Film Fest Gent, previously the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent (Dutch: Internationaal Film Festival van Vlaanderen – Gent) is an annual international film festival in Ghent.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French people

The French (Français) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer or composers for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, video games or other visual media at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Hannibal Brooks

Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film directed by Michael Winner and written by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement based on a story by Winner and Tom Wright.

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Hello-Goodbye (1970 film)

Hello-Goodbye is a 1970 British light comedy film, starring Michael Crawford, and directed by Jean Negulesco, whose final film this was.

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Henry Mancini

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores.

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House of Cards (1968 film)

House of Cards is a 1969 Technicolor crime film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, and Orson Welles.

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I'll Never Forget What's'isname

I'll Never Forget What's'isname (DVD box title: I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname) is a 1967 British film directed and produced by Michael Winner.

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International Velvet (film)

International Velvet is a 1978 American drama film and a sequel to the 1944 classic National Velvet starring Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins and Nanette Newman, and directed by Bryan Forbes.

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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child or Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch in 1988.

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L'aventure, c'est l'aventure

L'aventure, c'est l'aventure is a 1972 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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La Belle Histoire

La Belle Histoire (1992) is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch, featuring Gérard Lanvin and Béatrice Dalle.

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La bonne année

La bonne année (also known in the United States as Happy New Year) is a 1973 film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Le Voyou

Le Voyou, also known as The Crook, is a highly stylized French action film which follows Simon the Swiss during his largest heist.

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Les Uns et les Autres

Les Uns et les Autres is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch.

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Life Love Death

La Vie, l’Amour, la Mort is a film directed by Claude Lelouch in 1968 (released in France in 1969).

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Live for Life

Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre) is a 1967 French film directed by Claude Lelouch starring Yves Montand, Candice Bergen and Annie Girardot.

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Love Is a Funny Thing

Love Is a Funny Thing (Un homme qui me plaît, a.k.a. A Man I Like) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling novel of the same name.

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Marie (film)

Marie (also known as Marie: A True Story) is a 1985 American biographical film starring Sissy Spacek as the real-life Marie Ragghianti, former head of the Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles, who was removed from office in 1977 after refusing to release prisoners on whose behalf, it was discovered, bribes had been paid to aides to then-Governor Ray Blanton.

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Mayerling (1968 film)

Mayerling is a 1968 romantic tragedy film starring Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, Geneviève Page, James Robertson Justice and Andréa Parisy. It was written and directed by Terence Young. The film was made by Les Films Corona and Winchester and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on the novels Mayerling by Claude Anet and L'Archiduc by Michel Arnold and the 1936 film Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak, which dealt with the real-life Mayerling Incident.

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Men, Women: A User's Manual

Men, Women: A User's Manual (Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi) is a 1996 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Michael Winner

Robert Michael Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English film director and producer, and a restaurant critic for The Sunday Times.

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Mireille Mathieu

Mireille Mathieu (born 22 July 1946) is a French singer.

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Montmartre

Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's 18th arrondissement.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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My New Partner

My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte.

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My New Partner II

My New Partner II (Ripoux contre ripoux) is a 1990 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard,; Nizza; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département.

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Oliver's Story (film)

Oliver's Story is a 1978 American romantic drama film and a sequel to Love Story (1970) based on a novel by Erich Segal published a year earlier.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Panorama (TV series)

Panorama is a BBC Television investigative current affairs documentary programme.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Passion Flower Hotel (film)

Passion Flower Hotel (also known as Leidenschaftliche Blümchen, also known as Boarding School) is a 1978 coming of age comedy film directed by André Farwagi.

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René Clément

René Clément (18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter.

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Rider on the Rain

Rider on the Rain (French: Le Passager de la pluie) is a 1970 French mystery thriller film starring Charles Bronson, directed by René Clément, produced by Serge Silberman, with film music composed by Francis Lai.

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Robert et Robert

Robert et Robert is a film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Rod McKuen

Rodney Marvin "Rod" McKuen (April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and actor.

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Salaud, on t'aime

Salaud, on t'aime is a 2014 French drama film directed, produced and co-written by Claude Lelouch.

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Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known both for her powerful voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979).

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Bobo

The Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers and co-starring his then-wife Britt Ekland.

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The Forbidden Room (1977 film)

The Forbidden Room (Anima persa) is a 1977 thriller film directed by Dino Risi.

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The Games (film)

The Games is a 1970 British sports drama film directed by Michael Winner.

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The Good and the Bad

Le Bon et les Méchants is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch and released in 1976.

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The Legend of Frenchie King

The Legend of Frenchie King (Les Pétroleuses) or Petroleum Girls a 1971 French, Spanish, Italian and British international co-production western comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot.

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There Were Days... and Moons

There Were Days...

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Three into Two Won't Go

Three into Two Won't Go is a 1969 British drama film directed by Peter Hall, and starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom and Judy Geeson.

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Traditional pop music

Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.

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Un homme libre (1973 film)

Un homme libre (released in English as A Free Man) is a 1973 feature film written by Roberto Muller and Pierre Uytterhoeven and directed by Roberto Muller himself and starring French singer Gilbert Bécaud and actress Olga Georges-Picot.

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Un plus une

Un plus une is a 2015 French romantic comedy film directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christopher Lambert and Alice Pol.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Visit to a Chief's Son

Visit to a Chief's Son is a 1974 film directed by Lamont Johnson.

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Wanted: Babysitter

Wanted: Babysitter (La Baby-Sitter,Babysitter - Un maledetto pasticcio, Das ganz große Ding, also known as Scar Tissue, The Babysitter and The Raw Edge) is a 1975 Italian-French-German thriller–drama film directed by René Clément as his final film before his retirement in 1975.

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World Soundtrack Academy

The World Soundtrack Academy (WSA, or World Soundtrack Awards), launched in 2001 by the Film Fest Gent, is aimed at organizing and overseeing the educational, cultural and professional aspects of the art of film music, including the preservation of the history of the soundtrack and its worldwide promotion.

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World Soundtrack Award – Lifetime Achievement

The Lifetime Achievement Award is an award given each year at the World Soundtrack Awards.

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(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story

"(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lai

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