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A memorable lamenting saxophone score by Bernard Herrmann (his last) accompanies the film.[Note: He provided some of cinema""s best-known musical accompaniments, for such films as Alfred Hitchcock""s well-knownVertigo (1958),North by Northwest (1959),andPsycho (1960), and for Orson Welles""Citizen Kane (1941)andThe Magnificent Ambersons (1942)...Something worth fighting for."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This film was based upon the longest book in the series, necessitating many cuts and variations from the original story (scenes involving Dobby, reporter Rita Skeeter, and Ron""s Quidditch triumph) - and ironically, it turned out to be the shortest of the first five films.He knew that Freddy attacked people""s minds, capitalizing on their fears.Distraught in her own office, Maggie remembered that "John" had told her: "It""s not a boy." She raced to her mother""s home to search for her own Adoption Decree, realizing that she was a young adoptee named "Jane Doe," but her mother (Marilyn Rockafellow) had no knowledge of the identity of her parents.It was a phenomenal hit - the third-highest grossing film of the summer of 1999.The film received one Academy Award Oscar nomination: Best Makeup.Also the recipient of an MTV Award for Best On-Screen Duo (Myers and Troyer) and Best Villain (Myers).