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Hot off the press, The Reeler has word that Jane Fonda and Howard Shore will receive the mysterious National Board of Review's 2005 Career Achievement Awards. I have been wondering all year if Monster in Law was going to be the film that put Fonda over the top for the NBOR honor, and it appears that is indeed the case.

Shore, however, was as much a prize shoo-in as the 1985 Chicago Bears, even if the press release's editor appears to have differed with its author as to why:

Shore began his career as a member of the group Lighthouse, with whom he recorded and toured with from 1969 to 1972. He then went on to serve as the original Musical Director of Saturday Night Live. He single-handedly booked the program’s music talent, as well as fronting the house band conducted the live broadcasts from 1975 to 1980. At the same time, Shore began establishing his reputation in the film music circles, working with David Cronenberg on his groundbreaking movies. In all, Shore has scored 11 of Cronenberg’s films, including The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, and SpiderA History of Violence. ...

It is without question, Shore’s work with Peter Jackson on The Lord Of of The the Rings trilogy that stands as his most towering achievement to date. A partial list of awards for this masterpiece of modern cinema tells the story. Shore has won three Grammy Awards, three Oscars® and two Golden Globes for his work on The Lord Of of The the Rings trilogy. He also received a Grammy for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, for “Into the West.”

Never mind that the Toronto native guy formed The Blues Brothers and has been referred to by James Woods as the "Bernard Herrmann of the synthesizer" won a coveted Gotham Award in 1994. I mean, is this guy the most hyped composer of his generation overdue or what?

Congrats to Jane and Howard, and check back later this week for the NBOR's 2005 winners. They are a joke an uncannily prescient harbinger of the awards season to come!