The team behind the sound mixing of Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2012 Motion Pictures – Live Action at tonight’s 49th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Scoring mixer Jonathan Allen, along with production mixer Simon Hayes, re-recording mixers […]
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‘Les Miserables’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 16, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Andrew Dudman, Brave, CAS Awards, Hatfields & McCoys, Jeffrey A. Vaughn, Jonathan Allen, Les Miserables
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 15, 2013)
Posted: February 15, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Good Day to Die Hard, Aaron Zigman, Beautiful Creatures, Christopher Carmichael, Deborah Lurie, Escape from Planet Earth, Klaus Badelt, Marco Beltrami, Safe Haven, Shanghai Calling, thenewno2
Four new movies are opening nationwide this holiday weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the action thriller sequel A Good Day to Die Hard directed by John Moore and starring Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney. The film’s music is composed by Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma, Scream) who previously scored the last […]
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Win Grammy Award for ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’
Posted: February 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Atticus Ross, Grammy Awards, Midnight in Paris, T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Hunger Games, Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have won the Grammy Award in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category for their music for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo starring Rooney Mara. The other nominated composers in the category included John Williams (The Adventures of Tintin), Ludovic Bource (The Artist), Howard Shore (Hugo), Hans […]
Thomas Newman Wins BAFTA for ‘Skyfall’
Posted: February 10, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA Awards, Skyfall, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman has received his second BAFTA for his score for the latest James Bond film Skyfall directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig in the Original Music category. Newman accepted the award in person at the awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. He was nominated alongside Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina), […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 8, 2013)
Posted: February 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bruce Richardson, Christopher Lennertz, Identity Thief, Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Joseph Conlan, Liam Hayes, Lore, Max Richter, Side Effects, Spiders, The Playroom, Thomas Newman
Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the crime comedy Identity Thief directed by Seth Gordon and starring Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Genesis Rodriguez, Morris Chestnut, John Cho, Robert Patrick and Eric Stonestreet. The film’s music is […]
William Ross to Conduct Orchestra at 85th Academy Awards
Posted: February 8, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, William Ross
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced today that William Ross will conduct the Oscar orchestra for the 85th Academy Awards later this month. The composer and arranger has previously conducted for the 79th and 83rd Academy Awards in 2007 and 2011. Ross has composed the music for such films as The […]
Mariah Carey Performs ‘Almost Home’ for ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
Posted: February 6, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Mariah Carey, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Sam Raimi
Disney announced today that Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Mariah Carey has recorded the original song Almost Home for Sam Raimi’s upcoming fantasy adventure Oz the Great and Powerful. The track will be released as a single by Carey’s label, Island Def Jam, on February 19, 2013. David LaChapelle will direct Carey in the music video for […]
‘Wreck-It-Ralph’ Wins Annie Award for Best Music
Posted: February 2, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Annie Awards, Dragons: Riders of Berk, Henry Jackman, John Paesano, Skrillex, Wreck-It-Ralph
Composer Henry Jackman, Skrillex, Adam Young, Matthew Thiessen, Jamie Houston and Yasushi Akimoto have received the Annie Award in the Music in an Animated Feature Production category for their music for Disney’s animated movie Wreck-It-Ralph. The other contenders in the category were Alexandre Desplat for Rise of the Guardians, Bruce Retief for Adventures in Zambezia, Joel McNeely, […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 1, 2013)
Posted: February 1, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bullet to the Head, Girls Against Boys, Lyle Workman, Marco Beltrami, Michael Wandmacher, Nathan Larson, Sound City, Stand Up Guys, Steve Mazzaro, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, Warm Bodies
Two new movies are opening wide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the zombie romance Warm Bodies directed by Jonathan Levine and starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Analeigh Tipton and John Malkovich. The film’s music is composed by Marco Beltrami (Scream, 3:10 to Yuma) and Buck Sanders […]
Normand Corbeil (1956 – 2013)
Posted: January 28, 2013 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Normand Corbeil
Normand Corbeil has passed away at age 56 this past Friday following a battle with pancreatic cancer. The Canadian composer’s best known feature film credits include the 1999 hit thriller Double Jeopardy starring Ashley Judd & Tommy Lee Jones, the Wesley Snipes-starring action thriller The Art of War and the 1995 horror movie Screamers. The composer also […]
