Lucio Godoy

Program Director

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Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games

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Lucio Godoy, program director of the Master of Music in scoring for film, television, and video games program, has written and produced music for more than 70 feature films, including Everybody Has a Plan (featuring Viggo Mortensen), Don’t Move (featuring Penélope Cruz), Triage (featuring Colin Farrell), and Blackthorn (featuring Sam Shepard). He has also collaborated as a music producer for other composers' feature films, such as Alejandro Amenábar's scores for The Others and The Sea Inside, and Alberto Iglesias's scores for All About My Mother, Live Flesh, and The Flower of My Secret.

Godoy has also been the music producer for Oscar-winning movies: All About My Mother (2000 winner, Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film), directed by Pedro Almodóvar with music by Alberto Iglesias; and The Sea Inside (2005 winner, Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film), directed and composed by Alejandro Amenábar.

Courses Taught (6)

Advanced Scoring 1: Narrative Analysis

FS-510

Advanced Scoring 2: Genre and Form

FS-520

Directed Study 1

FS-530

Directed Study 2

FS-531

Culminating Experience in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games

FS-695

Master's Advising

GS-500

Career Highlights

Has written and produced music for more than 60 feature films, including:

Everybody Has a Plan (Viggo Mortensen)
Blackthorn (Sam Shepard)
Chinese Take-Out (Ricardo Darín)
Shell Shock (Colin Farrell and Christopher Lee)

Has produced for other composers' feature films, including:

Alejandro Amenábar's scores for The Others (Nicole Kidman) and The Sea Inside (Javier Bardem)
Alberto Iglesias's scores for All About My Mother, Live Flesh, and The Flower of My Secret
Alfonso Vilallonga's scores for A los Que Aman, (Monica Bellucci) and My Life Without Me (Sarah Polley and Mark Ruffalo)

Awards

2002 Toulouse Cinespaña for Best Film Score Intacto
2003 Spanish Music Award–winner for Best Score for Mondays in the Sun
2007 Goya Award–winner for Best Original Song for La Educación de las Hadas
2009 Goya Award–nominee for Best Original Score for Los Girasoles Ciegos
2012 Goya Award–nominee for Best Original Score for Blackthorn

In Their Own Words

"Every time I start a project, I have the same feeling: here is a new puzzle to assemble. I’ve been given a box with all the puzzle pieces and a general framework, although there is no complete image of the final picture. Now, all I have to do is figure out how to put it all together. However, instead of working on it leisurely over the summer, I have a deadline, and a limited amount of time to complete the puzzle. This adds a mixture of euphoria and pressure to the process, generating unexpected results—for better and/or worse.

There is something magical about this process that has always fascinated me and continues to fascinate me. Sometimes I’ll spend one, two, or three days mulling over a cue, only to 'find' the perfect piece in the blink of an eye. Any other piece wouldn’t fit.

Once the movie is finished, somehow the music appears integrated but, in reality, it’s something that, day after day, I worked to put each small piece into place. Sometimes, after trying try to force a piece into place, I’ll realize that it’s not the right one, although it seemed so at first glance.

The more puzzles I accumulate over time, the more I realize there is no secret formula. This is one of the things I like best about my job. Each movie has its music, and all music has its time. For me, it’s all about piecing the two together, and enjoying the process while you’re at it."