The Hollywood Bowl has announced this summer’s season schedule, which includes a number of film music concerts. On September 4/5/6, 2015, the Bowl will host its premiere performance of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial in Concert. The Los Angeles Philharmonic will be performing the film’s entire Academy Award-winning score from Steven Spielberg’s classic film composed by John Williams (Star Wars, Jaws, Jurassic Park) live-to-picture […]
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Hollywood Bowl 2015 Season Schedule Announced
Posted: February 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alan Silvestri, Back to the Future, E.T., Hollywood Bowl, John Williams
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Elliot Goldenthal to Receive ASCAP Founders Award
Posted: February 10, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards, ASCAP Founders Award, ASCAP Shirley Walker Award, Deborah Lurie, Elliot Goldenthal
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has announced that composer Elliot Goldenthal will receive the organization’s Founder Award at the 30th annual Film & Television Music Awards, which will take place on Monday, March 9, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. The invitation-only dinner and awards ceremony will honor the composers and […]
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
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Soundtrack Preview
Posted: February 3, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: John Madden, The Second Best Marigold Hotel, Thomas Newman
Audio clips from the soundtrack for comedy drama sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel have been published online. The album features the film’s original music composed by Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Skyfall) who previously scored John Madden’s original movie. The soundtrack will be released will be released on March […]
John Powell & Jónsi Win Annie Award for ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’
Posted: January 31, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Annie Awards, Christopher Willis, Disney Mickey Mouse, How to Train Your Dragon 2, John Powell, Jónsi
Composer John Powell and singer/ songwriter Jónsi were honored with an Annie Award in the Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production category for the music from DreamWorks Animation’s hit animated film How to Train Your Dragon 2. Producer Bonnie Arnold accepted their award at the ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The other contenders in […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 30, 2015)
Posted: January 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Amine Bouhaf, Black or White, Dario Marianelli, Joel McNeely, John Frizzell, Project Almanac, Terence Blanchard, The Loft, Timbuktu, Tinker Bell and the Neverbeast, Wild Card
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the found footage adventure Project Almanac directed by Dean Israelite, produced by Michael Bay and starring Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Allen Evangelista, Ginny Gardner and Ginny Gardner. The movie doesn’t feature an original score, but several songs by artists […]
Kickstarter Launch for ‘SCORE: A Film Music Documentary’ Announced
Posted: January 30, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Score: A Film Music Documentary
Epicleff Media has announced the Kickstarter launch to raise funds to finish SCORE: A Film Music Documentary, a film that will feature A-list composers such as Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-Man, Alice in Wonderland), Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Departed), John Debney (Passion of the Christ, Elf, Iron Man 2), Marco Beltrami (Scream, World War Z), Christophe […]
