The team behind the sound mixing of Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 50th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Scoring mixer Gareth Cousins, along with production mixer Chris Munro, re-recording mixers Skip Lievsay, Niv […]
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‘Gravity’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 22, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
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Steven Price Wins BAFTA Award for ‘Gravity’
Posted: February 16, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA
Steven Price has received his first BAFTA Award for his score for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity starring Sandra Bullock & George Clooney in the Original Music category. Price accepted the award in person at the British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. He was nominated alongside Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave), John […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 14, 2014)
Posted: February 14, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: About Last Night, Adult World, BC Smith, Christophe Beck, Craig Richey, Date and Switch, Easy Money: Hard to Kill, Endless Love, Eric D. Johnson, Girl on a Bicycle, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, Jimmy P., Jon Ekstrand, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marcus Miller, Pedro Bromfman, RoboCop, Rupert Gregson-Williams, The Returned, Winter's Tale
Four new movies are opening nationwide this week: Already in theaters since Wednesday is the sci-fi action movie RoboCop directed by José Padilha and starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jennifer Ehle, Jay Baruchel, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams and Samuel L. Jackson. Pedro Bromfman who previously scored Padilha’s Elite Squad movies has composed the […]
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: February 13, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
The Guild of Music Supervisors announced the nominations for its 4th Annual awards ceremony, which will take place on Wednesday, February 26, at Mack Sennett Studios in Hollywood. The awards will recognize outstanding Music Supervisors in 14 categories representing Motion Picture, Television, Games, Trailers and Advertising. Below are the nominations for some of the major […]
Karen O to Perform ‘The Moon Song’ from ‘Her’ on the Oscars
Posted: February 13, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Her, Karen O, The Moon Song
Oscars show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that singer-songwriter Karen O will, for the first time, perform the Academy Award-nominated original song The Moon Song for a global television audience on the Oscars on March 2, 2014. The song from Spike Jonze’s romantic drama Her starring Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams and Rooney Mara is one […]
U2 to Perform ‘Ordinary Love’ from ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’ on the Oscars
Posted: February 12, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Ordinary Love, U2
Oscars show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that U2 will perform the original song Ordinary Love from Justin Chadwick’s biographical drama Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, 2014. The performance will be the first time the band will perform the song […]
Idina Menzel to Perform ‘Let It Go’ from ‘Frozen’ on the Oscars
Posted: February 11, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Frozen, Idina Menzel
Oscars show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that Idina Menzel will, for the first time, perform the Academy Award-nominated song Let it Go from Disney’s animated feature Frozen at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, 2014. The song written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez is one of the four songs up for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category. […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 7, 2014)
Posted: February 7, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Fantastic Fear of Everything, After the Dark, Alexandre Desplat, Anton Sanko, Cavemen, Jonathan Davis, Julian Wass, Karl Preusser, Mark Mothersbaugh, Nicholas O'Toole, Nurse 3D, Rolfe Kent, Ronen Landa, The Lego Movie, The Monuments Men, The Pretty One, Vampire Academy, Welcome to the Jungle
Three new movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the animated feature The Lego Movie directed by Phil Lord & Chris Miller and featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day and Morgan Freeman. Mark Mothersbaugh who previously scored Cloudy […]
Pharrell Williams to Perform ‘Despicable Me 2’ Song on the Oscars
Posted: February 4, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Despicable Me 2, Pharrell Williams
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced today that Pharrell Williams will be performing his original song Happy from the animated hit film Despicable Me 2 at this year’s Oscars show, which will air on March 2. Williams is nominated for the first time in the Best Original Song category. The other nominated songs include Ordinary Love from […]
