Steven Price has won his first Academy Award in the Best Original Score category for his music for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity. The composer was also nominated for the first time. The other contenders in the category were John Williams (The Book Thief), Alexandre Desplat (Philomena), William Butler & Owen Pallett (Her) and Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks). All six nominated composers were in attendance at the awards ceremony.
In the Best Original Song category, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez received the award for the song Let It Go from Disney’s Frozen.
A class act. Lovely acceptance speech. Well done!