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Series will be released over a 10-year period

Series will be released over a 10-year period

It was also a record year for film music.

LOS ANGELES — One hundred and thirty. That's the minimum number of references to the various "Mario"-branded video games that "Super Mario Bros. Movie" composer Brian Tyler estimates he included in his score for the film.

John Williams was only going to compose a few themes for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Then he saw the movie.

Richard Donner’s 1978 event movie brought Hollywood grandeur, a great John Williams score and a gentlemanly hero quite unlike any other

This year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of…

The Academy Awards in 2023 were a less scandalous affair than last year – although host Jimmy Kimmel never let us forget “the slap”, with so many jokes it was verging on a dead-horse-beating situation.

Before the winners are announced, see how much you know about the movies, directors and actors up for Academy Awards past and present.