Love Actually: Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the 2003 movie Love Actually was composed, orchestrated, and conducted by Craig Armstrong. The soundtrack album reached the Top 40 of the US Billboard 200 in 2004, and it
achieved gold-record status in Australia and Mexico.
Portuguese Love Theme is a piece included in the United Kingdom release of the soundtrack.
As of 2003, Love Actually was the highest-grossing British movie ever, and it received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The title, "Love Actually", was intended as an abbreviated version of the statement "Love actually is all around", a reference to the hit pop song Love Is All Around, performed by Wet Wet Wet in the 1994 movie Four Weddings and a Funeral. Love Is All Around is also parodied as Christmas Is All Around throughout the Love Actually movie. Richard Curtis was the screenwriter for the movies Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Craig Armstrong (born in 1959) is a Scottish composer of orchestral music, electronic music, and movie scores. His score for the movie Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello Award. His composition for the movie Moulin Rouge! yielded the 2001 American Film Institute’s composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and a BAFTA. Armstrong was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the movie Ray. He also wrote music for the movies Love Actually, World Trade Center, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Incredible Hulk. Armstrong was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010.
