<P> American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1999 film starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening . </P> <P> The soundtrack album was produced by Chris Douridas, Sam Mendes, and Michael Ostin, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media in the year 2000, the first year to offer this award . </P> <P> The soundtrack features two excerpts from the film's score, composed by Thomas Newman, which won several awards . Elliott Smith's cover of the Beatles song "Because" was the end credit for the film . The track "Dead Already" was later featured in the 2005 film Madagascar (which was also a film from DreamWorks Pictures). </P> <P> Newman's "Any Other Name" and "Dead Already" were sampled by Jakatta for his house track "American Dream" in 2000 . </P>

Thomas newman – any other name (american beauty soundtrack)