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"The Statue of Liberty is kaput . . . that's disconcerning."
. . . . . Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks)
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Saving Private Ryan: Soundtrack
Original score composed and conducted by John Williams. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or For Television. Williams naturally evokes the horror that was WWII in his music.
Through the use of ominous, minor key themes, moody orchestral textures, and some military percussion touches, William's score puts the listener in mind of the battlefield and the soldiers who fought and died there.
Boston Symphony Orchestra includes: Tim Morrison, Thomas Rolfs (trumpet); Gus Sebring (horns). Additional personnel: Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.
Saving Private Ryan:
The Men, the Mission, the Movie
Over 50,000 sold -- the only illustrated companion book to the extraodinary film. Includes excerpts from Stephen Ambrose's books, screenplay extracts, and commentary by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Janusz Kaminski and others.
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Saving Private Ryan: D-Day
60th Anniversary Edition (2-Discs)
Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable film achievement that has profound and lasting impact throughout the world. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director, the film also captured Oscars for Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound and Sound Effects Editing.
More than 70 critics (including those at Time magazine, USA Today, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics' groups in New York, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture of the Year, while the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics honored it with both Best Picture and Best Director awards.
In addition, Spielberg received his third Directors Guild of America Award, the American Legion The Spirit of Normandy Award, a USO Merit Award from the USO of Metropolitan Washington, as well as the highest civilian public service award from the Department of the Army.
Selected for more than 160 Top Ten lists, Saving Private Ryan's other honors include Golden Globes for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director, the Producers Guild of America Award and ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards.
Saving Private Ryan was the top-grossing motion picture of 1998. Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the story begins with World War II's historic D-day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission.
Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one?
Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer--and strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency, and courage. Includes a second tape with a special message by Steven Spielberg about D-Day and the National D-Day Museum, the behind the scenes featurette Into The Beach , and interviews with the cast and crew.
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