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In 2003 he composed the score for the final film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The film was the most successful film in the trilogy and the most successful of the year.

Shore won his second Oscar for Best Original Score, as well as a third for Best Original Song for " Into the West ", which he shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox.

The film was nominated for, and won a total of eleven Academy Awards, a record for the number of Oscars won by a single film, and a record that only two other films — Titanic ( 1997 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 )— have matched.

Shore also won his first Golden Globe, his third and fourth Grammy ( the fourth for Best Song ), and was nominated for a third BAFTA.

The scores of The Lord of the Rings became one of the most successful film scores ever written, and the biggest success in Shore's career.