Django Unchained (soundtrack)

Django Unchained (soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by
Various Artists
ReleasedDecember 18, 2012 (2012-12-18)
Genre
Length54:31
Language
  • English
  • Italian
LabelRepublic
Loma Vista
Quentin Tarantino film soundtrack chronology
Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
Django Unchained (soundtrack)
(2012)
The Hateful Eight
(2015)
Singles from Django Unchained (soundtrack)
  1. "100 Black Coffins"
    Released: 2013
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Artistdirect[2]
Digital Spy[3]
Now[4]
Pitchfork Media(5.8/10)[5]
Rolling Stone[6]
The Courier-Journal[7]
The Telegraph[8]

Django Unchained is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture Django Unchained. It was originally released on December 18, 2012. The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, though with an especially heavy influence from Spaghetti Western soundtracks.

Tracks composed for the film are "100 Black Coffins" by Rick Ross and produced by and featuring Jamie Foxx, "Who Did That To You?" by John Legend, "Freedom" by Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton, "Ancora Qui" by Ennio Morricone and Elisa. These four songs were all eligible for an Academy Award nomination in the Best Original Song category, but none of them were nominated.[9]

The soundtrack also includes seven tracks that are dialogue excerpts from the film. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Artistdirect review". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  3. ^ Digital Spy review
  4. ^ NOW review
  5. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  6. ^ Rolling Stone review
  7. ^ Puckett, Jeffrey Lee. "Album Review 'Soundtrack: Django Unchained'". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  8. ^ "Django Unchained – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, review". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on May 30, 2023.
  9. ^ Oscars: 75 Songs vie for Best Original Song led by Les Misérables, Ted & Safety Not Guaranteed, Heyuguys.co.uk, Kenji Lloyd, 13 December 2012