Hildur Guðnadóttir was named Film Composer of the Year at the 20th World Soundtrack Awards, tonight’s closing event of the 47th Ghent Film Festival, for her score for Todd Phillips’ Joker, for which she also earned an Academy Award and Golden Globe earlier this year. She previously received the World Soundtrack Award in the TV Composer […]
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Hildur Guðnadóttir Named Film Composer of the Year at 2020 World Soundtrack Awards
Posted: October 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Nicholas Britell, World Soundtrack Awards
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 23, 2020)
Posted: October 23, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: After We Collided, Christopher Young, Friendsgiving, I Am Greta, Jessica Weiss, Jimmy LaValle, Jon Ekstrand, Justin Burnett, Lustmord, Olivier Cussac, Rebekka Karijord, Synchronic, Terra Willy, The Empty Man
The only movie premiering in theaters nationwide this weekend is the supernatural horror thriller The Empty Man written and directed by David Prior and starring James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Stephen Root, Robert Aramayo, Ron Canada, Joel Courtney and Sasha Frolova. The film’s original music is composed by Christopher Young (Spider-Man 3, Hellraiser, Sinister, The Shipping News, The Hurricane, […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 16, 2020)
Posted: October 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 2 Hearts, Alone, Bad Hair, Belly and the Beast, Brian Deming, Chris Back, Clint Mansell, Dave Kushner, Don't Look Back, Frederik Wiedmann, Honest Thief, Jack Kraus, James Jandrisch, Jay McCarrol, Jose Cancela, Kris Bowers, Love and Monsters, Marco Beltrami, Marco Messina, Marcus Trumpp, Mark Isham, Martin Eden, Omar Fadel, Peter Nashel, Rebecca, Sacha Ricci, Shithouse, The Kid Detective, The Opening Act, Totally Under Control, Twiceborn, Yuichi Mizusawa
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the thriller Honest Thief co-written and directed by Mark Williams and starring Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Robert Patrick, Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones. The film’s original music is composed by Mark Isham (Crash, A River Runs Through It, The Accountant, Warrior, Once Upon a Time). Music.Film […]
Mary J. Blige’s Original Song ‘See What You’ve Done’ from ‘Belly of the Beast’ Released
Posted: October 16, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Belly of the Beast, DJ Camper, Erika Cohn, Mary J. Blige, Nova Wav
Def Jam Recordings/Universal Music Group have released the original song See What You’ve Done from the documentary Belly of the Beast. The song is performed by Academy Award nominee Mary J. Blige who also co-wrote the track with record producer songwriting duo Nova Wav and DJ Camper. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music service […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 9, 2020)
Posted: October 9, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Aaron Zigman, Aldo Shllaku, Ben Lovett, Christopher H. Knight, Henchmen, Mighty Ira, Ryan Rapsys, Scott McRae, The Doorman, The War with Grandpa, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Toby Chu, Yellow Rose
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the family comedy The War with Grandpa directed by Tim Hill and starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Oakes Fegley, Christopher Walken, Rob Riggle, Cheech Marin and Jane Seymour. The film’s original score is composed by Aaron Zigman (The Notebook, Bridge to Terabithia, The Proposal, John Q, Sex and the City: […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (October 2, 2020)
Posted: October 2, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 2067, A Call to Spy, Andrew Orkin, Elliot Goldenthal, Jim Williams, Joseph Trapanese, Kenneth Lampl, Kirsten Axelholm, Lillie Rebecca McDonough, On the Rocks, Once Upon a River, Phoenix, Possessor, Save Yourselves!, Spontaneous, The 40-Year Old Version, The Forty-Year Old Version, The Glorias, Zac Rae
Opening in limited release this weekend is the sci-fi thriller Possessor written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg and starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film’s original music is composed by Jim Williams (Raw, Beast, Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 25, 2020)
Posted: September 25, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ava, Bear McCreary, Brian Keane, Daniel Pemberton, Dickon Hinchliffe, Emile Mosseri, Jay Sebring...Cutting to the Truth, Jeff Beal, Kajillionaire, Leap!, Mark Orton, Misbehaviour, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Oliver Sacks: His Own Words, Shigeru Umebayashi, Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, The Last Shift, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Opening nationwide this weekend is the drama The Last Shift written and directed by Andrew Cohn and starring Richard Jenkins, Shane Paul McGhie, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Birgundi Baker, Allison Tolman and Ed O’Neill. The film’s original music is composed by Mark Orton (Nebraska, The Good Girl, My Old Lady). No soundtrack album has been announced. Check out […]
Starrah to Write Original Songs for Animated Musical ‘Century Goddess’
Posted: September 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Century Goddess, Starrah
Singer/songwriter Starrah (aka Brittany Hazzard) is writing original songs for the upcoming animated musical Century Goddess. The film tells the story of a young woman who is revealed to be a once-in-a-century goddess who unleashes her generational power of song and spoken word to ignite a revolution in a dictatorship where artists are suppressed. The […]
Ludwig Göransson Wins Emmy Award for ‘The Mandalorian’ Score
Posted: September 19, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards
Ludwig Göransson has won his first Emmy Award in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) category for his score from the episode Chapter 8: Redemption of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian at today’s fifth and final night of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The Academy Award and Grammy […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (September 18, 2020)
Posted: September 18, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alone, Antebellum, Blackbird, Brandon Roberts, Buck Sanders, Crystal Grooms Mangano, Geoff Zanelli, Hannes De Maeyer, Infidel, John Paesano, Lost Girls and Love Hotels, Marco Beltrami, Natalie Holt, Nate Wonder, Nima Fakhrara, No Escape, Ola Flottum, Peter Gregson, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs, Richard Reed Parry, Roman Gianarthur, The Nest, The Racer, The Secrets We Keep, The Way I See It
The only movie opening in theaters nationwide this week is the political thriller Infidel written and directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and starring Jim Caveziel, Claudia Karvan, Hal Ozsan, Stelio Savante and Aly Kassem. The album features the film’s original music composed by Natalie Holt (The Honourable Woman, Journey’s End, Knightfall, Press, Beecham House, Deadwater Fell). […]
