![]() ![]() This particular song Smith wrote especially for the movie he was nominated for the Best Original Song Oscar, but lost out to My Heart Will Go On from that year’s Best Picture winner Titanic. Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting will pop up a couple more times on this list, as the fellow Portland resident and filmmaker used several of Smith’s tracks in his Best Original Screenplay Oscar-winning film. ![]() ![]() In celebration of Smith’s birthday, life and legacy, here are 10 times – both during his life and posthumously – that his beautiful music elevated iconic film scenes. Smith’s haunting, candid, low-fi songs made him not only a (reluctant) dean of the ’90s indie crowd, but a repository of perfectly-spun gems for filmmakers to mine and use with their most emotive scenes. August 6 of this year would have been the 53rd birthday of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, had he not tragically taken his own life in 2003, at the age of 34. ![]()
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