French composer Francis Lai is all set to receive the world Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding work at the 14th World Soundtrack Awards’s focus on France.
The 14th World Soundtrack Awards and Concert will take place on October 25 at Kuipke in Ghent on the concluding day of the 41st Film Fest Gent which will run from October 14 until 25 October.
Francis Lai (born in 1932 in Nice) became world famous with A man and a woman (1966) which is his first score for a film by Claude Lelouch, for whom he went on to compose over 30 scores during the next four decades.
Confirmed central guests and performers at the World Soundtrack Awards are American composer Cliff Martinez (Drive, Only God Forgives, Contagion and Spring Breakers) and 2013 WSA Discovery Award winner Dan Romer (Beasts of the Southern Wild).
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/international-news/item/5581-cq-francis-lai-to-be-honoured-at-world-soundtrack-lifetime-award.html
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