Saving Private Ryan is the original soundtrack

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, on the DreamWorks Records

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 label, of the 1998

1998 in film

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 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film

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 Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....

starring Tom Hanks

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, Matt Damon

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, Giovanni Ribisi

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 and Tom Sizemore

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. The original score

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 was composed by John Williams

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 and performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra

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 and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus

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.

The album won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television

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 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music - Original Dramatic Score

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 (lost to the score of La vita è bella

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), the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

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 (lost to the score of The Truman Show) and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music

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 (lost to the music of Elizabeth

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).

Track listing

There are 10 music tracks on the album (but track 10 is a variation of 1):

1. Hymn To The Fallen 6:10
2. Revisiting Normandy 4:06
3. Omaha Beach 9:15
4. Finding Private Ryan 4:37
5. Approaching The Enemy 4:31
6. Defense Preparations 5:54
7. Wades Death 4:30
8. High School Teacher 11:03
9. The Last Battle 7:57
10. Hymn To The Fallen (Reprise) 6:10