Starting today, we are publishing our predictions for the nominees in the Best Original Score category of next year’s 98th Academy Awards on the left side column of this page. The selection and ranking is based on our own experience of the scores in context of the movies, historical data, reactions of Academy music branch […]
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2026 Oscars Best Original Score Predictions
Posted: December 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Academy Awards
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John Du Prez, W.G. Snuffy Walden, Jay Chattaway, Dara Taylor & William T. Stromberg to Appear at 16th Fans of Film Music Event
Posted: September 30, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Fans of Film Music
A number of major film and TV composers will be participating at the 16th Annual Fans of Film Music event, which will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at Evergreen Studios in Burbank, CA. This year’s panelists include John Du Prez (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, A Fish Called Wanda, The Meaning of Life, Oxford […]
‘Future Ruins’ Music Festival Announced
Posted: May 14, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Challengers) have announced Future Ruins, a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage. The musical festival will be set across three stages at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center this November […]
Atticus Ross to Be Honored as a BMI Icon at 41st Annual BMI Film, TV and Visual Media Awards
Posted: April 10, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Atticus Ross, BMI, BMI Film TV & Visual Media Awards
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) announced today that Atticus Ross will be honored as a BMI Icon at the 41st Annual BMI Film, TV and Visual Media Awards on May 14 in Beverly Hills, CA. The Academy Award- & Grammy Award- winning composer will be receiving this honor for his outstanding body of work across film and […]
Philip Glass to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 25th World Soundtrack Awards
Posted: April 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Philip Glass, World Soundtrack Awards
Philip Glass will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the film music concert Minimalism in Motion: Glass, Nyman and Beyond, which will close Film Fest Gent’s Film Music Days 2025 and the 25th World Soundtrack Awards. During the concert, a selection of the composer’s work will be performed by the Brussels Philharmonic conducted […]
Hollywood Bowl 2025 Summer Season Schedule Announced
Posted: February 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl has announced this summer’s season schedule, which includes a number of film music concerts. On Saturday, July 6, David Newman will conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Jaws in Concert, a live-to-picture performance of John Williams’ Academy Award-winning film score for Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic movie (click here for more details). On […]
John Paesano, Rolfe Kent, David Fleming, John Frizzell & Tom Scott to Appear at 15th Fans of Film Music Event
Posted: September 2, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: David Fleming, Fans of Film Music, John Frizzell, John Paesano, Rolfe Kent, Tom Scott
A number of major film/TV/video game composers will be participating at the 15th Annual Fans of Film Music event, which will take place on Saturday, October 19, 2024 at Silent Zoo Studios in Glendale, CA. This year’s panelists include John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner) who recently scored Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 23, 2024)
Posted: August 23, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: 200% Wolf, Ash Gibson Greig, Blink Twice, Chanda Dancy, Close Your Eyes, Craig DeLeon, Decoded, Federico Jusid, Fritz Myers, Greedy People, Joe Wong, Jordan Lehning, Kevin Riepl, Kung Fu Games, Lady Scorpions, Lorne Balfe, Matt Druery, Strange Darling, The Becomers, The Crow, The Forge, Tommy Simpson, Volker Bertelmann, Z Berg, Zack Leffew
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the psychological thriller Blink Twice co-written and directed by Zoë Kravitz and starring Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Christian Slater, Haley Joel Osment, Simon Rex, Geena Davis and Alia Shawkat. The film’s original music is composed by Chanda Dancy (Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Devotion, I Wanna Dance […]
‘Finestkind’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: June 27, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Brian Helgeland, Carter Burwell, Finestkind, Paramount+, score, Soundtrack
BMG Rights Management will release a soundtrack album for the crime drama Finestkind. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Carter Burwell (Carol, The Banshees of Inisherin, True Grit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Fargo, Twilight). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 28 and will be available to stream/download […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (May 17, 2024)
Posted: May 17, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Babes, Back to Black, IF, James Everingham, Jay Lifton, John Powell, Justin Burnett, Michael Giacchino, Nick Cave, Oscar Senen, Ryan Miller, Stewart Mitchell, The Blue Angels, The Strangers: Chapter 1, Thelma the Unicorn, Warren Ellis
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the family fantasy adventure IF written and directed by John Krasinski and starring Ryan Reynolds, Cailey Fleming, Krasinski himself, Steve Carell, Fiona Shaw, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Louis Gossett Jr. The film’s original music is composed by Michael Giacchino (Lost, Up, Ratatouille, Star Trek, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Jurassic World, Rogue […]
