The Patriot is the soundtrack, on the Hollywood Records

Hollywood Records

Hollywood Records is an American record label owned by Disney Music Group, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company.-History:Hollywood Records was founded in 1989 by then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner with the idea of expanding the music operations of the company and to develop and promote...

 label, of the 2000 film The Patriot

The Patriot (2000 film)

The Patriot is a 2000 historical war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, and Heath Ledger. It was produced by the Mutual Film Company and Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by Columbia Pictures...

starring Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.After appearing in...

, Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger

Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career...

, Joely Richardson

Joely Richardson

Joely Kim Richardson is an English actress, most known recently for her role as Queen Catherine Parr in the Showtime television show The Tudors and Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck...

, Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs is an English actor born in Liverpool, who is best known for his performance as the villain Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, the brutal Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot and as lifelong criminal Michael Caffee in the internationally broadcast American television series...

, and Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper (actor)

Christopher W. "Chris" Cooper is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1990s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including The Bourne Identity, American Beauty, Capote, The Town, The Kingdom, Syriana, October Sky, Seabiscuit, and...

. The original score

Film score

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 was composed 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...

. Williams replaced composer David Arnold

David Arnold

David Arnold is an English film composer best known for scoring five James Bond films, the 1994 film Stargate, the 1996 film Independence Day, and the television series Little Britain.-Film and television career:...

 on the project after Arnold's original sketches were rejected.

The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

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Track listing

1. "The Patriot"
2. "The Family Farm"
3. "To Charlestown"
4. "The Colonial Cause"
5. "Redcoats at the Farm and the Death of Thomas"
6. "Ann recruits the Parishioners"
7. "Preparing For Battle"
8. "Ann and Gabriel"
9. "The First Ambush and Remembering the Wilderness"
10. "Tavington's Trap"
11. "Burning of the Plantation"
12. "Facing the British Lines"
13. "The Parish Church Aflame"
14. "Susan Speaks"
15. "Martin vs. Tavington"
16. "Yorktown and the Return Home"
17. "The Patriot Reprise"

Use in politics

A portion of the music from The Patriot was played after Barack Obama's victory speech

Barack Obama election victory speech, 2008

Following his victory in the United States presidential election, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama gave his victory speech at Grant Park in his home city of Chicago, Illinois, on November 5, 2008, before an estimated crowd of 240,000...

 as President-elect of the United States

President-elect of the United States

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on November 4, 2008.