Alexandre Desplat has won the Grammy Award for his music for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category. He previously won a Grammy for his score for Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech. The other nominated composers in the category included Christophe Beck (Frozen), Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Gone Girl), Steven Price (Gravity) […]
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Alexandre Desplat Wins Grammy Award for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Posted: February 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, Frozen, Grammy Awards, The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Alexandre Desplat Wins BAFTA Award for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Posted: February 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, BAFTA Awards, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat has received his second BAFTA Award for his score for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel in the Original Music category. The composer accepted the award in person at the British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. Desplat previously won the BAFTA Award in 2011 for The King’s […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (February 8, 2014)
Posted: February 8, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, AMC, Better Call Saul, Bosch, Dave Porter, Disney XD, Jesse Voccia, Jon Ehrlich, Maribeth Solomon, NBC, Penn Zero: Part Time Hero, Pop TV, Ryan Shore, Schitt's Creek, The Slap
Premiering tonight is the AMC original series Better Call Saul created by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould and starring Bob Odenkirk. The show is a spin-off of AMC’s Breaking Bad and features original music composed by Dave Porter (The Blacklist). Better Call Saul focuses on the character of attorney Saul Goodman from the Emmy-winning hit […]
Rupert Gregson-Williams & Chris Willis to Score HBO’s ‘Virtuoso’
Posted: February 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Ball, Chris Willis, HBO, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Virtuoso
Rupert Gregson-Williams revealed on Twitter that he will be co-scoring the upcoming HBO drama pilot Virtuoso with Chris Willis. The show is created by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty, True Blood) and stars Peter Macdissi, Alex Lawther, Francois Civil, Nico Mirallegro, Lindsay Farris and Iva Babic. The period drama is set in 18th […]
‘Black November’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Black November, Joel Christian Goffin, score, Soundtrack
Bluestone Symphonics will release a soundtrack album for the drama Black November. The album features the film’s original music composed by Joel Christian Goffin. The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 25, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Black November is written and directed […]
Tegan and Sara & The Lonely Island to Perform ‘Everything Is Awesome’ at the Oscars
Posted: February 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Tegan and Sara, The Lego Movie, The Lonely Island
Academy Awards show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that pop duo Tegan and Sara and comedy-music trio The Lonely Island will perform the Oscar-nominated song Everything Is Awesome from the animated feature The Lego Movie at the 87th Oscars ceremony, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, on Sunday, February 22. The song written by Shawn Patterson is one […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 6, 2015)
Posted: February 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Enter the Dangerous Mind, Guillaume Roussel, John Debney, Jupiter Ascending, Love Rosie, Marco Beltrami, Michael Giacchino, Olivier Bernet, Outcast, Ralf Wengenmayr, Reza Safinia, Seventh Son, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, The Voices
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the animated feature The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water directed by Paul Tibbitt and featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence and Douglas Lawrence. Columbia Records has released a soundtrack featuring five songs from the […]
‘Frozen Fever’ to Feature Music by Christophe Beck
Posted: February 6, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christophe Beck, Frozen, Frozen Fever
Christophe Beck is currently recording the score for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming short Frozen Fever. The film is directed by Jennifer Lee (Wreck-It-Ralph) & Chris Buck (Tarzan) who previously collaborated with Beck on 2013’s hit feature. The movie features the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad and takes place […]
Jon Ehrlich Scoring NBC’s ‘The Slap’
Posted: February 5, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jon Ehrlich, NBC, The Slap
Jon Ehrlich is composing the music for the upcoming NBC mini-series The Slap. The 8-parter is directed by Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right, Olive Kitteridge) and stars Peter Saarsgard, Thandie Newton, Uma Thurman, Zachary Quinto, Melissa George, Thomas Sadoski and Brian Cox. The drama is based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas and […]
‘While We’re Young’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 5, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: James Murphy, Noah Baumbach, Soundtrack, While We're Young
Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for Noah Baumbach’s comedy drama While We’re Young. The album features three tracks from the film’s original score composed by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy. Also included are songs by Lionel Richie, Paul McCartney & Wings, David Bowie, Survivor, The Psychodelic Furs and Haim. The soundtrack will be released […]
