Amelia (soundtrack)

Gabriel Yared composed the film score. The album was recorded at the Abbey Road Studios in London and took him around five months to complete the score.^[1] The soundtrack was released through Varèse Sarabande record label on October 20, 2009.^[2]

Jonathan Broxton of Movie Music UK wrote "[Amelia's score] has a similar tone to earlier Yared scores such as Message in a Bottle (1999) and Possession (2002), and fans of those works, or of John Barry's sweeping romance work, will find their tastes catered to here."^[3] Michael Koresky of IndieWire wrote "every time a plane soars, the traditional score by Gabriel Yared will swell".^[4] Ray Bennett of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "composer Gabriel Yared's orchestral score — muscular in the aerial scenes, jovial where it needs to be and foreboding in its evocation of Earhart's fate — ranks with his Academy Award-winning music for The English Patient (1996)."^[5][6]

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly wrote "composer Gabriel Yared lays on blasts of musical exclamations that are as distracting as sirens".^[7] Brent Simon of Screen International wrote "composer Gabriel Yared's score trades in conventional melodramatic cues."^[8] Justin Chang of Variety called it a "hyperactive score".^[9] Chris Bumbray of JoBlo.com wrote "a fantastic musical score by Gabriel Yared, which calls to mind the work of composer John Barry."^[10] Nick Schager of Slant Magazine wrote "Gabriel Yared's persistently swooning orchestral score does the heavy lifting when it comes to conveying the thrill of flight."^[11]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called it a "sudsy score".^[12] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote "[the score] works hard to inject some emotional coloring into the proceedings [and] screams 1940s big-screen melodramatic excess and beautiful suffering."^[13] Ray Pride of Newcity wrote "Gabriel Yared's emphatic, old-fashioned yet slightly desperate score hails in from distant Minghella-ville."^[14]

Credits adapted from liner notes:^[15]