Frida is the original soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

, on the Universal label, of the 2002

2002 in film

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 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award

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-winning film

Film

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 Frida

Frida

Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera....

starring Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek

Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...

, Alfred Molina

Alfred Molina

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, Mía Maestro

Mía Maestro

Mía Maestro is an Argentine actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Nadia Santos in the television drama Alias, and as Christina Kahlo in Frida.-Life and acting career:...

 and Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd

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. The original score

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 was composed by Elliot Goldenthal

Elliot Goldenthal

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. The soundtrack features song

Song

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s by various artists.

The score

The album won both the Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Original Score

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 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

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. At the World Soundtrack Awards

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 it won two awards: "Best Original Soundtrack of the Year" and "Soundtrack Composer of the Year".

Track listing

1. Benediction and Dream - Performed by Lila Downs
   Lila Downs
   Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music...
   
   (2:31)
2. The Floating Bed (1:29)
3. El Conejo - Performed by Cojolites (2:29)
4. Paloma Negra - Performed by Chavela Vargas
   Chavela Vargas
   Isabel Vargas Lizano is a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer. She is especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras genre - a folkloric musical genre widely popular in Mexico - but she is also recognized for her contribution to other popular Latin American song genres...
   
   (3:17)
5. Self-Portrait With Hair Down (1:09)
6. Alcoba Azul - Performed by Lila Downs
   Lila Downs
   Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music...
   
   (1:36)
7. Carabina 30/30 - Performed by El Poder Del Norte (2:43)
8. Sólo Tú (1:22)
9. El Gusto (2:18)
10. The Journey (2:56)
11. El Antifaz - Performed by Liberacion (2:28)
12. The Suicide of Dorothy Hale (0:48)
13. La Cavalera (1:40)
14. La Bruja - Performed by Salma Hayek
    Salma Hayek
    Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...
    
     and Los Vega (1:57)
15. Portrait of Lupe (2:13)
16. La Llorona - Performed by Chavela Vargas (2:22)
17. Estrella Oscura - Performed by Lila Downs
    Lila Downs
    Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music...
    
    (1:48)
18. Still Life (1:31)
19. Viva la Vida - Performed by Trio / Marimberos (2:16)
20. The Departure (2:13)
21. Coyoacán and Variations (2:34)
22. La Llorona - Lila Downs
    Lila Downs
    Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music...
    
     & Mariachi Juvenil de Tecalitián (2:20)
23. Burning Bed (1:08)
24. Burn It Blue - Performed by Caetano Veloso
    Caetano Veloso
    Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
    
     and Lila Downs
    Lila Downs
    Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music...
    
    (7:58)

Crew/Credit

• Music Composed by Elliot Goldenthal
  Elliot Goldenthal
  Elliot Goldenthal is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways...
  
  
• Music Produced by Teese Gohl and Elliot Goldenthal
• Orchestrated by Elliot Goldenthal and Robert Elhai
• Orchestra Conducted by Stephen Mercurio
• Recorded and Mixed by Joel Iwataki
• Electronic Music Produced by Richard Martinez
• Music Editor: Curtis Roush

External links

• Page for the album at Goldenthal's website
• Review of the album at 'filmtracks.com'

Big Three Film Music Awards 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...  (2002 2002 in film The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of... )
Academy Award Frida	Golden Globe Frida	BAFTA Award The Hours The Hours (soundtrack) The Hours is the original soundtrack album, on the Elektra/Nonesuch label, of the 2002 film The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The original score was composed by Philip Glass....