While John Barry got into scoring films through the composition arrangment of "The James Bond Theme" and his subsequent scoring of the bulk of that Eon film series, over the course of the 60s he broke away from being typecast as a composer of jazzy adventure scores with such works as Zulu (1964) and King Rat (1965), but it was The Lion In Winter , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score of 1968 (his second after Born Free , 1966) that truly opened the door for the latter... read more
