1917 (soundtrack): History and Key Facts

1917 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the album to the Sam Mendes-directed war film 1917 featuring original score composed by Thomas Newman. The film marked Thomas' seventh collaboration with Mendes after American Beauty (1999), Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015).

The film's score was recorded before and during the film's production. Initially three musicians recorded the score at Los Angeles, before recruiting an 87-piece orchestra which performed the score at the Abbey Road Studios in London. Orchestrated by J. A. C. Redford and conducted by Thomas Newman, the sessions held for nine weeks. Thomas considered it as his most challenging score, in terms of vocabulary, execution, and production.

The soundtrack was released by Sony Classical Records on 20 December 2019. It received mixed reviews from music critics, but was also nominated for Best Original Score in several ceremonies, especially at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Satellite Awards and Grammy Awards, losing all to Hildur Guðnadóttir for Joker (2019).

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