Birdman
2014 film by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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| June 12 2015 | Birdman won Best Foreign Film at the David di Donatello Awards. |
| April 7 2015 | The Birdman soundtrack was released as an LP, featuring 69 minutes of music from the film. |
| February 22 2015 | At the Academy Awards, Birdman won Best Picture, Best Director for Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. |
| January 27 2015 | Michael Keaton was honored with the Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. |
| January 25 2015 | The film's ensemble cast won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. |
| January 3 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu received the Director of the Year Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. |
| 2014 | The soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, recognizing Antonio Sánchez's musical composition for the Birdman film. |
| December 19 2014 | Charles Fox of the Academy's music branch rejected Sánchez's appeal to include the Birdman soundtrack in the Best Original Score category, despite acknowledging the score's quality. |
| December 1 2014 | Birdman won Best Feature and Michael Keaton won Best Actor at the Gotham Awards. |
| October 17 2014 | Michael Keaton received the Founder's Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. |
| October 17 2014 | Birdman was released in the United States, a black comedy-drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. |
| October 14 2014 | The Birdman soundtrack was released as a CD, featuring 77 minutes of solo jazz percussion, classical music segments, and compositions by Antonio Sánchez, Victor Hernández Stumpfhauser, and Joan Valent. |
| September 2014 | Sánchez traveled to Los Angeles to re-record the soundtrack, watching scenes and adapting his improvisational drumming to match the film's visual and narrative rhythm. |
| September 7 2014 | Birdman was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and won multiple awards including the Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award, Nazareno Taddei Award, Future Film Festival Digital Award, and Best Soundtrack Award. |
| January 2013 | Iñárritu contacted jazz drummer Antonio Sánchez and invited him to compose the film's unique drum-only score for Birdman, marking Sánchez's first film soundtrack work. |
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