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Debney is used to writing movie scores for comedies like ELF, LIAR, LIAR and BRUCE ALMIGHTY, and on Sunday, February 27, and he came close to winning the Oscar at the 77th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood for his most serious work -- composing the original score for Mel Gibson’s powerful movie, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, which he admits was the most difficult assignment of his life. The winner was Jan A.P. Kaczmarek for FINDING NEVERLAND. (Pictured: John Debney talks about his spiritual battle). In an interview last year, Debney told ANS how composing this extraordinary score turned out...

John Debney is a major staple in modern film music about whom you may not know much.In the last 4 years alone, he's contributed to thirty some film and television projects.

John Debney is used to writing movie scores for comedies like "Liar, Liar" and "Bruce Almighty," but he admits that composing the score for Mel Gibson's powerful movie "The Passion of the Christ" was the most difficult assignment of his life. For it turned out to be a battle between good and evil that he had never experienced before in some 20 years in Hollywood. "I don't think I will ever be given the opportunity to write again for a movie as powerful as this one," he said during a recent media interview in Beverly Hills. "I was stretched every...