Memoirs of a Geisha is the original soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack 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 or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

, on the Sony Classical label, of the 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...

 starring Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actress. Zhang is coined by the media as one of the Four Young Dan actresses in the Film Industry in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun...

, Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best...

, Kôji Yakusho and Gong Li

Gong Li

Gong Li is a Chinese film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States....

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 and song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

s were composed and conducted by John Williams

John Williams

John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

.

The album won the Golden Globe Award

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 , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

, BAFTA Award

BAFTA Award for Best Film Music

The Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music is an annual award given by British Academy of Film and Television Arts.-1960s:*1968 - The Lion in Winter - John Barry...

 and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for 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.-Superlatives:...

 but lost to the original score of the film Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain (soundtrack)

The Brokeback Mountain soundtrack refers to either or both the two-hour musical soundtrack edited into the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, and the recorded albums of music selected from the film. Some albums have different performers substituted for those heard in the film...

.

Track listing

• 1. Sayuri's Theme 1:31
• 2. The Journey to the Hanamachi 4:06
• 3. Going to School 2:42
• 4. Brush on Silk 2:31
• 5. Chiyo's Prayer 3:36
• 6. Becoming a Geisha 4:52
• 7. Finding Satsu 3:44
• 8. The Chairman's Waltz 2:39
• 9. The Rooftops of the Hanamachi 3:49
• 10. The Garden Meeting 2:44
• 11. Dr. Crab's Prize 2:18
• 12. Destiny's Path 3:20
• 13. A New Name... A New Life 3:33
• 14. The Fire Scene and the Coming of War 6:48
• 15. As the Water... 2:01
• 16. Confluence 3:42
• 17. A Dream Discarded 2:00
• 18. Sayuri's Theme and End Credits 5:06
• Total Time: 61:02

Memoirs of a Geisha is the original soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack 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 or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

, on the Sony Classical label, of the 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...

 starring Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actress. Zhang is coined by the media as one of the Four Young Dan actresses in the Film Industry in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun...

, Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best...

, Kôji Yakusho and Gong Li

Gong Li

Gong Li is a Chinese film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States....

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 and song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

s were composed and conducted by John Williams

John Williams

John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

.

The album won the Golden Globe Award

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 , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

, BAFTA Award

BAFTA Award for Best Film Music

The Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music is an annual award given by British Academy of Film and Television Arts.-1960s:*1968 - The Lion in Winter - John Barry...

 and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for 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.-Superlatives:...

 but lost to the original score of the film Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain (soundtrack)

The Brokeback Mountain soundtrack refers to either or both the two-hour musical soundtrack edited into the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, and the recorded albums of music selected from the film. Some albums have different performers substituted for those heard in the film...

.

Track listing

• 1. Sayuri's Theme 1:31
• 2. The Journey to the Hanamachi 4:06
• 3. Going to School 2:42
• 4. Brush on Silk 2:31
• 5. Chiyo's Prayer 3:36
• 6. Becoming a Geisha 4:52
• 7. Finding Satsu 3:44
• 8. The Chairman's Waltz 2:39
• 9. The Rooftops of the Hanamachi 3:49
• 10. The Garden Meeting 2:44
• 11. Dr. Crab's Prize 2:18
• 12. Destiny's Path 3:20
• 13. A New Name... A New Life 3:33
• 14. The Fire Scene and the Coming of War 6:48
• 15. As the Water... 2:01
• 16. Confluence 3:42
• 17. A Dream Discarded 2:00
• 18. Sayuri's Theme and End Credits 5:06
• Total Time: 61:02

Memoirs of a Geisha is the original soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack 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 or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

, on the Sony Classical label, of the 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...

 starring Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actress. Zhang is coined by the media as one of the Four Young Dan actresses in the Film Industry in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun...

, Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best...

, Kôji Yakusho and Gong Li

Gong Li

Gong Li is a Chinese film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States....

. The original score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 and song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

s were composed and conducted by John Williams

John Williams

John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

.

The album won the Golden Globe Award

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 , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

, BAFTA Award

BAFTA Award for Best Film Music

The Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music is an annual award given by British Academy of Film and Television Arts.-1960s:*1968 - The Lion in Winter - John Barry...

 and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for 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.-Superlatives:...

 but lost to the original score of the film Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain (soundtrack)

The Brokeback Mountain soundtrack refers to either or both the two-hour musical soundtrack edited into the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, and the recorded albums of music selected from the film. Some albums have different performers substituted for those heard in the film...

.

Track listing

• 1. Sayuri's Theme 1:31
• 2. The Journey to the Hanamachi 4:06
• 3. Going to School 2:42
• 4. Brush on Silk 2:31
• 5. Chiyo's Prayer 3:36
• 6. Becoming a Geisha 4:52
• 7. Finding Satsu 3:44
• 8. The Chairman's Waltz 2:39
• 9. The Rooftops of the Hanamachi 3:49
• 10. The Garden Meeting 2:44
• 11. Dr. Crab's Prize 2:18
• 12. Destiny's Path 3:20
• 13. A New Name... A New Life 3:33
• 14. The Fire Scene and the Coming of War 6:48
• 15. As the Water... 2:01
• 16. Confluence 3:42
• 17. A Dream Discarded 2:00
• 18. Sayuri's Theme and End Credits 5:06
• Total Time: 61:02

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Academy Award Academy Award for Best Original Score The Academy Award for 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.-Superlatives:... Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain (soundtrack) The Brokeback Mountain soundtrack refers to either or both the two-hour musical soundtrack edited into the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, and the recorded albums of music selected from the film. Some albums have different performers substituted for those heard in the film...	Golden Globe 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 , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947... Memoirs of a Geisha	BAFTA Award BAFTA Award for Best Film Music The Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music is an annual award given by British Academy of Film and Television Arts.-1960s:*1968 - The Lion in Winter - John Barry... Memoirs of a Geisha