Archive for the ‘Film Music News’ Category

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominations for the 18th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards this morning. The nominations in the Best Score category are: Argo – Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi – Mychael Danna Lincoln – John Williams The Master – Jonny Greenwood Moonrise Kingdom – Alexandre Desplat

The Academy of Motion Pictures Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the eligible movies in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 85th Academy Awards. Notable omissions include such titles as Moonrise Kingdom (Alexandre Desplat) and Silver Linings Playbook (Danny Elfman). The 104 eligible scores along with the composer are listed below in alphabetical […]

A couple of major local critics associations have been announced their winners for this year’s movies. Unlike in previous years, each organization picked a different winner. Check out the film music-related picks after the jump. For a full list of winners, click on each group’s name below. Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Film Score: […]

Only one new movie is opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in almost 3000 theaters is the romantic comedy Playing for Keeps directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Judy Greer, Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The film’s music is written by Italian composer Andrea Guerra (Letters to Juliet, Hotel Rwanda) […]

Grammy Nominations Announced

Posted: December 5, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The nominations for the 55th Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations in the film/TV music related categories, which also include the first nominated video game score in the history of the awards: Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media The Adventures of Tintin (John Williams) – Sony Classical The Artist (Ludovic Bource) – Sony […]

Satellite Awards Nominations Announced

Posted: December 3, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The International Press Academy has announced the nominees for its 17th annual Satellite Awards today. The nominees in the music-related categories are: Original Score Argo – Alexandre Desplat Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli Skyfall – Thomas Newman The Master – Jonny Greenwood Lincoln – John Williams Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin

Annie Awards Nominations Announced

Posted: December 3, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 40th Annual Annie Awards. Here are the music-related nominees: Music in a Feature Production Alexandre Desplat – Rise of the Guardians – DreamWorks Animation Bruce Retief – Adventures in Zambezia – Saltzman Communications Henry Jackman – Wreck-It-Ralph – Walt Disney Animation Studios Joel McNeely, […]

Alberto Iglesias has won the European Film Award for his score for Tomas Alfredson’s thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy and Mark Strong in the European Composer category at tonight’s EFA Night 2012 in Malta. The other composers nominated in the music category were Gabriel Yared & Cyrille Aufort for […]

Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the thriller Killing Them Softly directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Scott McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Vincent Curatola, Max Casella and Sam Shepard. While the film doesn’t feature a full score, Marc Streitenfeld (Prometheus, American […]

Cutting Edge Launches Film Score Website

Posted: November 29, 2012 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Cutting Edge Group has launched the new Cutting Edge Film Scores website, which will give media organisations the ability to use and license professional, high-quality film music for secondary usage. According to Variety, the site allows subscribers to upload a piece of music and have it automatically matched to similar music in the database, helping […]