The Aviator (soundtrack)

The Aviator: Music from the Motion Picture
The Aviator: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by Howard Shore
Released	2005
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	47:00
Label	Columbia
Howard Shore chronology

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The Aviator: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the 2004 film The Aviator starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Alan Alda. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by Howard Shore and performed by Brussels Philharmonic (former Flemish Radio Orchestra).^{[citation needed]} It was recorded at Studio 4 of the Flagey Building in Brussels, Belgium.^[1]

The album won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.^[2] It was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.^[3]

The soundtrack makes use of orchestral works, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique). It also uses Artie Shaw's composition "Nightmare" when Hughes is dealing with Faith, Ava and Katherine throughout the film. This was a piece personally chosen by Scorsese himself.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

"Icarus" – 3:58
"There Is No Great Genius Without Some Form of Madness" – 2:50
"Muirfield" – 2:22
"H-1 Racer Plane" – 3:20
"Quarantine" – 3:52
"Hollywood 1927" – 2:59
"The Mighty Hercules" – 3:32
"Howard Robard Hughes, Jr." – 3:57
"America's Aviation Hero" – 2:05
"7000 Romaine" – 2:22
"The Germ Free Zone" – 2:49
"Screening Room" – 5:27
"Long Beach Harbour 1947" – 3:49
"The Way of the Future" – 4:01

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for *The Aviator*
Chart (2005)	Peak position
UK Soundtrack Albums (OCC)^[4]	45
US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard)^[5]	11

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for *The Aviator*
Chart (2005)	Position
US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard)^[6]	18

References

^ "Le Flagey - Découvrez Bruxelles en musique". Bruxelles ma Belle (in French). Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ "Winners & Nominees Best Original Score - Motion Picture". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
^ "Complete list of 2006 Grammy winners". The Baltimore Sun. 9 February 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
^ "Official Soundtrack Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
^ "Soundtrack Chart History (Jazz Albums)". Billboard. Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
^ "The 2005 Year in Music and Touring – Top Jazz Albums". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 52. December 24, 2005. p. YE-68. ISSN 0006-2510.

[1] "Le Flagey - Découvrez Bruxelles en musique". Bruxelles ma Belle (in French). Retrieved 9 May 2021.

[2] "Winners & Nominees Best Original Score - Motion Picture". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

[3] "Complete list of 2006 Grammy winners". The Baltimore Sun. 9 February 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2020.

[ac_UKSoundtrack_-4] "Official Soundtrack Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 28, 2023.

[5] "Soundtrack Chart History (Jazz Albums)". Billboard. Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2023.

[6] "The 2005 Year in Music and Touring – Top Jazz Albums". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 52. December 24, 2005. p. YE-68. ISSN 0006-2510.

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1950s	Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman (1950) September Affair – Victor Young (1951) High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin (1952) On the Beach – Ernest Gold (1959)
1960s	The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin (1960) The Guns of Navarone – Dimitri Tiomkin (1961) To Kill a Mockingbird – Elmer Bernstein (1962) (1963) The Fall of the Roman Empire – Dimitri Tiomkin (1964) Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre (1965) Hawaii – Elmer Bernstein (1966) Camelot – Frederick Loewe (1967) The Shoes of the Fisherman – Alex North (1968) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach (1969)
1970s	Love Story – Francis Lai (1970) Shaft – Isaac Hayes (1971) The Godfather – Nino Rota (1972) Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Neil Diamond (1973) The Little Prince – Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (1974) Jaws – John Williams (1975) A Star is Born – Kenneth Ascher and Paul Williams (1976) Star Wars – John Williams (1977) Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder (1978) Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
1980s	The Stunt Man – Dominic Frontiere (1980) No Award (1981) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – John Williams (1982) Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder (1983) A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre (1984) Out of Africa – John Barry (1985) The Mission – Ennio Morricone (1986) The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su (1987) Gorillas in the Mist – Maurice Jarre (1988) The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken (1989)
1990s	The Sheltering Sky – Richard Horowitz and Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990) Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken (1991) Aladdin – Alan Menken (1992) Heaven & Earth – Kitarō (1993) The Lion King – Hans Zimmer (1994) A Walk in the Clouds – Maurice Jarre (1995) The English Patient – Gabriel Yared (1996) Titanic – James Horner (1997) The Truman Show – Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass (1998) The Legend of 1900 – Ennio Morricone (1999)
2000s	Gladiator – Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer (2000) Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong (2001) Frida – Elliot Goldenthal (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore (2003) The Aviator – Howard Shore (2004) Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams (2005) The Painted Veil – Alexandre Desplat (2006) Atonement – Dario Marianelli (2007) Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (2008) Up – Michael Giacchino (2009)
2010s	The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010) The Artist – Ludovic Bource (2011) Life of Pi – Mychael Danna (2012) All Is Lost – Alex Ebert (2013) The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson (2014) The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone (2015) La La Land – Justin Hurwitz (2016) The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat (2017) First Man – Justin Hurwitz (2018) Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)
2020s	Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste (2020) Dune – Hans Zimmer (2021) Babylon – Justin Hurwitz (2022) Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson (2023)