Lion (soundtrack)

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All tracks are written by Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka, except where noted

Lion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Film score by
Released25 November 2016 (2016-11-25)
Recorded2016
Genre Film score
Length48:40
Label Sony Classical
Producer
Dustin O'Halloran chronology
Equals
(2016)
Lion
(2016)
Queimafobia
(2017)
No.TitleLength
1."Never Give Up (by Sia)"3:42
2."Lion Theme"1:58
3."Train"1:38
4."Lost (Part One)"3:06
5."River"1:27
6."Escape The Station"2:25
7."Orphans"1:37
8."A New Home"1:54
9."Family"1:04
10."School"0:38
11."Memories"1:52
12."Lost (Part Two)"2:31
13."Falling Downward"3:05
14."Searching For Home"2:16
15."Memory / Connection / Time"1:40
16."Layers Expanding Time"5:31
17."Home Is With Me"3:15
18."Arrival"4:26
19."Mother"4:28

Critical reception

Lion's original score received critical acclaim, praising O'Halloran and Hauschka's musical approach. Jonathan Broxton felt that " There’s nothing wrong with it, compositionally speaking, and it’s pleasant enough to listen to as a standalone piece of music, but its so understated and careful, so safe and restrained, and takes so many pains to avoid being manipulative, that it renders itself redundant." [17] James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "The score is generally quietly dignified, at its best in its delicate main theme, an emotional piece for piano and strings, heard fully in the opening score track “Lion Theme” and in an exquisite variation later in “Orphans”.  There’s deliberately no ethnic tint to the music – the composers viewed this as a human story and his Indian origin was irrelevant. Whether that would have given it a bit of flavour that it generally lacks – it’s all very pleasant, the album is perfectly nice to listen to, but it doesn’t leave much of a lasting impression." [18] Marcy Donelson of Allmusic opined "though, it stays within a low dynamic range, all to serve the quiet sorrow of an emotional story that comes to terms with different forms of loss." [19]

Bryan Durham of Daily News and Analysis called the music as "soul-stirring", [20] while A. O. Scott of The New York Times opined that the music, "floods the viewer with big feelings". [21] Edward Douglas of Den of Geek wrote "the perfectly-crafted score by musicians Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran that effectively builds on the emotions without feeling manipulative". [22] Several websites such as Collider , Paste Magazine , IndieWire and Nylon, listed it as "one of the best film scores of 2016", [2] while Collider, IndieWire, Consequence, Film School Rejects and RogerEbert.com , called it as "one of the best scores of the decade". [3]

Chart performance

Chart (2016–17)Peak

position

Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [23] 181
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [24] 127
French Albums (SNEP) [25] 171
UK Soundtrack Albums (OCC) [26] 13
US Billboard 200 [27] 95
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard) [28] 17

Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s) and nominee(s)ResultRef.
AACTA Awards 6 December 2017 Best Original Music Score Volker Bertelmann, Dustin O’Halloran Won [29]
[30]
Academy Awards 26 February 2017 Best Original Score Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka Nominated [31]
[32]
British Academy Film Awards 12 February 2017 Best Original Music Dustin O'Halloran and HauschkaNominated [33]
Critics' Choice Awards 11 December 2016 Best Score Dustin O'Halloran and HauschkaNominated [34]
Golden Globe Awards 8 January 2017 Best Original Score Dustin O'Halloran and HauschkaNominated [35]
Grammy Awards 28 January 2018 Best Song Written for Visual Media "Never Give Up" – Sia Furler (performer, songwriter) and Greg Kurstin (producer)Won [36]
[37]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards 17 November 2016Best Original Score – Feature FilmDustin O'Halloran and HauschkaNominated [38]
[39]

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