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| Star Wars named UK's top movie theme in Radio 3 vote | Star Wars named UK's top movie theme in Radio 3 vote |
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| John Williams' Star Wars theme has been voted as the UK's favourite film soundtrack by BBC Radio 3 listeners. | John Williams' Star Wars theme has been voted as the UK's favourite film soundtrack by BBC Radio 3 listeners. |
| Star Wars took almost a quarter of the vote, with Ennio Morricone's The Good, The Bad and the Ugly coming in second. | Star Wars took almost a quarter of the vote, with Ennio Morricone's The Good, The Bad and the Ugly coming in second. |
| Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story was third in the Sound of Cinema vote. | Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story was third in the Sound of Cinema vote. |
| Voters chose from a shortlist of 20 compiled by film fans and experts from across the BBC. Later, the BBC Concert Orchestra will play the 20 soundtracks live on BBC Radio 3. | Voters chose from a shortlist of 20 compiled by film fans and experts from across the BBC. Later, the BBC Concert Orchestra will play the 20 soundtracks live on BBC Radio 3. |
| It will be conducted by Robert Ziegler at the Air Studios in London. | |
| Those who compiled the top 20 included Radio 2's Simon Mayo, Radio 3's Matthew Sweet and Tommy Sandhu from Asian Network. Ziegler also contributed. | |
| Star Wars return | Star Wars return |
| Williams will talk about writing the theme from the 1977 film on Composer of the Week next week. | Williams will talk about writing the theme from the 1977 film on Composer of the Week next week. |
| The Star Wars theme won him the most awards of his career, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Bafta. | The Star Wars theme won him the most awards of his career, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Bafta. |
| The theme was also named best instrumental composition, best original score and best pop instrumental performance at the Grammys. | The theme was also named best instrumental composition, best original score and best pop instrumental performance at the Grammys. |
| In July, it was announced that Williams would return to score the new Star Wars film, Episode VII. | In July, it was announced that Williams would return to score the new Star Wars film, Episode VII. |
| He said he was "happy to be continuing to be part of the whole fun" of the franchise. | He said he was "happy to be continuing to be part of the whole fun" of the franchise. |
| The theme of David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia crept into the top four with Bernard Hermann's music for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo rounding off the top five. | The theme of David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia crept into the top four with Bernard Hermann's music for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo rounding off the top five. |
| Hans Zimmer's music for the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises made it into the top 10 ahead of the hit musical Grease. | Hans Zimmer's music for the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises made it into the top 10 ahead of the hit musical Grease. |
| But another of Hermann's Hitchcock collaborations, for the movie Psycho missed out, coming in at number 11. | But another of Hermann's Hitchcock collaborations, for the movie Psycho missed out, coming in at number 11. |
| The music to Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning Django Unchained finished a place behind at number 12. | The music to Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning Django Unchained finished a place behind at number 12. |
| The full list can be seen at the BBC's Sound of Cinema website. | The full list can be seen at the BBC's Sound of Cinema website. |