John Williams was honored with the Critics’ Choice Movie Award in the Best Score category for his music for Steven Spielberg’s historical drama Lincoln at tonight’s 18th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The other composers nominated in the Best Score category were Alexandre Desplat (Argo, Moonrise Kingdom), Mychael Danna (Life of […]
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John Williams Wins Critics’ Choice Movie Award for ‘Lincoln’
Posted: January 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Adele, Critics Choice Award, John Williams, Lincoln, Skyfall
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Academy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: January 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Nominations
This morning, the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced. Here are the music-related nominations: Best Original Score Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli Argo – Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi – Mychael Danna Lincoln – John Williams Skyfall – Thomas Newman
2013 BAFTA Nominations Announced
Posted: January 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA, Nominations
The British Academy of Film and Television has announced the nominations for the 2013 Orange British Academy Film Awards. Here are the nominations in the ‘Original Music’ category: Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli Argo – Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi – Mychael Danna Lincoln – John Williams Skyfall – Thomas Newman
CAS Nominations Announced
Posted: January 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 49th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. Since last year, scoring mixers are included in the awards. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Jonathan Allen for the movie musical Les Miserables, Shawn Murphy for Steven […]
Cutting Edge Group Acquires Varèse Sarabande Record Label
Posted: January 7, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Cutting Edge Group, Side Effects, Thomas Newman, Varese Sarabande
The New York Times and Variety are reporting that the Cutting Edge Group and its partner Wood Creek Capital Management have acquired the soundtrack record label Varèse Sarabande. With the purchase of the label, Cutting Edge will extend its portfolio that includes the management of music rights, the representation of composers and upfront investment in […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 4, 2013)
Posted: January 4, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Dark Truth, John Frizzell, Jonathan Goldsmith, Texas Chainsaw 3D
Only one movie is opening in wide release this weekend: Opening in over 2600 theaters is the horror sequel Texas Chainsaw 3D directed by John Luessenhop (Takers, Lockdown) and starring Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Thom Barry, Dan Yaeger and Trey Songz. The film’s music is composed by John Frizzell (Alien: Resurrection, Legion, The Roommate). No […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 28, 2012)
Posted: December 28, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Anne Dudley, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Danny Elfman, Herbert Kretzmer, Les Miserables, Marc Shaiman, Nick Cave, Parental Guidance, Promised Land, Warren Ellis, West of Memphis
Three new movies have opened nationwide earlier this week on Christmas Day: Topping the box office on Christmas Day was the movie musical Les Miserables directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Samantha Barks, Eddie Redmayne, Colm Wilkinson, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. Universal Republic has […]
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)
Posted: December 25, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Richard Rodney Bennett
Richard Rodney Bennett has passed at age 76 on Christmas Eve in New York. The composer was born in 1936 and raised in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Throughout his career, he has received three Academy Award nominations for his scores for John Schlesinger’s 1967 drama Far from the Madding Crowd starring Julie Christie & Terence Stamp, […]
Palm Springs Festival to Honor Mychael Danna
Posted: December 18, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Frederick Loewe Music Award, Life of Pi, Mychael Danna, Palm Springs Film Festival
Mychael Danna will be honored with the Frederick Loewe Music Award at the 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. The composer will be receiving the award for his work on Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, for which he already received a Golden Globe, as well as a Broadcast Film Critics Association Movie Award nomination. […]
