Oscar-nominated film composer and multiple Grammy-winning jazz musician Terence Blanchard will be honored at this year's Venice International Film Festival with the Campari Passion for Film award.
Blanchard frequently collaborates with Spike Lee and wrote the scores to such features as Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992) and Inside Man (2006).
He began working with Lee on 1990's Mo' Better Blues, where he ghosted the trumpet playing for star Denzel Washington. Blanchard's score for 2018's BlacKkKlansman earned him his first Oscar nominations and he won a Grammy for a track from the film.
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