American Beauty (score)

American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score is the recording of the original score for the 1999 film, composed and arranged by Thomas Newman. The original music accompanied 11 songs by other artists.

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The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards.
The score album won the Grammy Award for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a [Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media|Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media] in 2001 which was awarded to producer Bill Bernstein, engineer Dennis Sands, and Newman.
A soundtrack album for the film was also released, on October 5, 1999, entitled American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. That album includes songs by ten of the eleven artists and two excerpts from the film's score: "Dead Already" and "Any Other Name".