Archive for the ‘Film Music Events’ Category

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 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 Events
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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Film Fest Gent today announced the James Horner Tribute Concert, which will take place on October 17, 2024 in Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, where a selection of the legendary composer’s scores will be performed. Dirk Brossé will lead the Brussels Philharmonic in this musical celebration. Long time colleague and friend of Horner, Simon Franglen, is involved in […]

Music Highlights from 96th Academy Awards

Posted: March 11, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Events
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The 96th Academy Awards ceremony was held last night. All five nominees in the Original Song category were performed live. Check out the performances of the Oscar-winning What Was I Made For from Barbie by Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell, as well as the Oscar-nominated I’m Just Ken from Barbie by Ryan Gosling, The Fire Inside from Flamin’ Hot by […]

The Hollywood Bowl has announced an addition to its 2024 summer schedule. Barbie The Movie: In Concert will feature the Academy Award-nominated movie directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling accompanied live by The Barbie Land Sinfonietta, an all-women, majority women-of-color orchestra conducted by Tony Award-winner Macy Schmidt. The event will […]