Gabriel Yared

Gabriel Yared is a composer perhaps under-appreciated in his time, at least by the mainstream. He has had a few of his scores rejected, at least one of which is one of the most exciting and bold scores in decades. Yared was born in Lebanon and scored many French films before Hollywood noticed him. Among his early scores are Clean and Sober and Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy and Vincent & Theo. His score for director Anthony Minghella's The English Patient won him critical accolades and an Academy Award for Best Score. Yared would score Minghella's subsequent films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Breaking and Entering, and the TV show The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Other films he has scored include City of Angels, Message in a Bottle, the remake of Shall We Dance, 1408, and Amelia. He had written music for the films The Tourist and Troy, but had them rejected. Troy in particular was an interesting case, as Yared had written an enormous score fit for an epic, only to have it cut after an audience test screening. James Horner quickly wrote an underwhelming replacement score, but the film couldn't be saved. Yared's rejected score stands as an amazing standalone piece regardless of whether or not it would have worked with the disastrous film. Yared's style of writing is perhaps out of date in an era where musically empty and unintelligent droning is favored, and that is indeed unfortunate.

Amelia

The English Patient

Troy (Rejected)**