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Phantom of the Paradise

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Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 American musical rock opera horror comedy film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and scored by and starring Paul Williams. [1]

73 relations: Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Awards, Archie Hahn (actor), Audition, Box office bomb, Boxing Day, Bret Easton Ellis, Brian De Palma, British Board of Film Classification, Carrie (1976 film), Christopher Marlowe, Comedy horror, Composer, Cult film, Daft Punk, Daft Punk's Electroma, Deal with the Devil, East River, Edward R. Pressman, Faust, Gaston Leroux, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham, Glam rock, Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, IMAX, Jack Fisk, Jessica Harper, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Alvin, Led Zeppelin, Life imprisonment, List of American films of 1974, Majestic Theatre (Dallas), Manitoba, Mary Philbin, Music recording certification, Musical film, Nostalgia, Oscar Wilde, Paul Hirsch (film editor), Paul Williams (songwriter), Prima donna, Production designer, Psycho (1960 film), Raymond Louis Kennedy, Record Plant, Record producer, ..., Rock opera, Rod Serling, Rolling Stone, Satan, Sébastien Tellier, Sexuality (album), Sing Sing, Sissy Spacek, Soundtrack album, Staging (theatre, film, television), Swan Song Records, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Guardian, The Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Times Square Two, Thomas Bangalter, Twitter, Vocal folds, Wheel chock, William Finley (actor), Winnipeg, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (23 more) »

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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Archie Hahn (actor)

Archie Hahn (sometimes credited as Archie Hahn III, born November 1, 1941) is an American character actor and improviser best known for his appearances on the British version of Whose Line is it Anyway? and the 1988 movie Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach.

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Audition

An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performer.

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Box office bomb

In the motion picture industry, a "box office bomb" or "box office flop" is a film that is considered highly unsuccessful or unprofitable during its theatrical run, often following significant hype regarding its cost, production, or marketing efforts.

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Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated on the day after Christmas Day.

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Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer.

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Brian De Palma

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Carrie (1976 film)

Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film based on Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name.

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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.

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Comedy horror

Comedy horror is a literary and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction.

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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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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Daft Punk

Daft Punk are a French electronic music duo from Paris formed in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.

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Daft Punk's Electroma

Daft Punk's Electroma (also known as Electroma) is a 2006 science fiction film directed by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk.

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Deal with the Devil

A deal with the devil (also known as compact or pact with the devil) is a cultural motif, best exemplified by the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, but elemental to many Christian traditions.

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East River

The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City.

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Edward R. Pressman

Edward R. Pressman (born April 11, 1943) is an American film producer and founder of the production company Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation.

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Faust

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540).

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Gaston Leroux

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

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George Memmoli

George Memmoli (August 3, 1938 – May 20, 1985) was an American actor.

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Gerrit Graham

Gerrit Graham (born November 27, 1949) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a scriptwriter and songwriter.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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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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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is one of several categories presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.

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Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Guillaume Emmanuel de Homem-Christo (born 8 February 1974).

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IMAX

IMAX is a system of high-resolution cameras, film formats and film projectors.

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Jack Fisk

Jack Fisk (born December 19, 1946) is an American film production designer, art director and film director.

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Jessica Harper

Jessica Harper (born October 10, 1949) is an American actress, producer, and singer.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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John Alvin

John Henry Alvin (November 24, 1948 – February 6, 2008) was an American cinematic artist and painter who illustrated many movie posters.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment (also known as imprisonment for life, life in prison, a life sentence, a life term, lifelong incarceration, life incarceration or simply life) is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison either for the rest of their natural life or until paroled.

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List of American films of 1974

A list of American films released in 1974.

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Majestic Theatre (Dallas)

The Majestic Theatre is a performing arts theater in the City Center District of Downtown Dallas.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.

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Mary Philbin

Mary Loretta Philbin (July 16, 1902 – May 7, 1993) was an American film actress of the silent film era, who is best known for playing the roles of Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite Lon Chaney, and as Dea in The Man Who Laughs.

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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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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Paul Hirsch (film editor)

Paul Hirsch (born November 14, 1945) is an American film editor.

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Paul Williams (songwriter)

Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor.

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Prima donna

In opera or commedia dell'arte, a prima donna (plural: prime donne; Italian for "first lady") is the leading female singer in the company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given.

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Production designer

In film and television, a production designer (or P. D.) is the person responsible for the overall visual look of the production.

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Psycho (1960 film)

Psycho is a 1960 American NR psychological-horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano.

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Raymond Louis Kennedy

Raymond Louis "Ray" Kennedy (November 26, 1946 – February 16, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, based in Los Angeles.

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Record Plant

The Record Plant was a series of three famous recording studios which were founded by Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone, beginning in New York City in 1968.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Rock opera

A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story.

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Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science-fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Satan

Satan is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin.

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Sébastien Tellier

Sébastien Tellier (born 22 February 1975) is a French singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Sexuality (album)

Sexuality is the third studio album by French singer Sébastien Tellier, released on 25 February 2008 by Record Makers and Lucky Number Music.

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Sing Sing

Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer.

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Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show.

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Staging (theatre, film, television)

Staging is the process of selecting, designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for a play or film.

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Swan Song Records

Swan Song Records was a record label launched by the English rock band Led Zeppelin on 10 May 1974.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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The Times Square Two

The Times Square Two was an extremely eccentric 2-man act of music, comedy, acting and juggling.

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Thomas Bangalter

Thomas Bangalter (born 3 January 1975) is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ, composer and film director, best known for being one half of the French house music duo Daft Punk, alongside Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Vocal folds

The vocal folds, also known commonly as vocal cords or voice reeds, are composed of twin infoldings of mucous membrane stretched horizontally, from back to front, across the larynx.

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Wheel chock

Wheel chocks (or chocks) are wedges of sturdy material placed closely against a vehicle's wheels to prevent accidental movement.

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William Finley (actor)

William Finley (September 20, 1940 – April 14, 2012) was an American actor who has appeared in the films Simon, Silent Rage, Phantom of the Paradise, Sisters, and The Wedding Party.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

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

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