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Deadline is reporting that Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams have been set to supervise the music for the 84th Academy Awards ceremony next February. They will be serving as music consultants, which will be the first time both of them are involved in the production of the awards show. Brian Grazer and Don Mischer are […]

Annie Award Nominations Announced

Posted: December 5, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 39th Annual Annie Awards. Here are the music-related nominees: Music in a Feature Production Henry Jackman – Puss In Boots – DreamWorks Animation John Williams – Tintin – Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and Kennedy/Marshall Mikael Mutti, Siedah Garrett, Carlinhos Brown, Sergio Mendes, John Powell  […]

Ludovic Bource has won the European Film Award for his score for Michel Hazanavicius‘ black-and-white romance The Artist in the European Composer cateogory at tonight’s EFA Night 2011. The composer accepted his first European Film Award in person at the EFA ceremony in Berlin. The other composers nominated in the music category were Alexandre Desplat […]

While there are no movies opening wide this weekend, a number of films are receiving a limited release: The most talked about movie opening this week is the drama Shame directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie and Hannah Ware. The film’s score is composed by Harry […]

The nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations in the film music related categories: Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Black Swan (Clint Mansell) – Sony Classical/Fox Music Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow – Part 2 (Alexandre Desplat) – WaterTower Music The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat) – Decca […]

Three new movies opened in wide release this past Wednesday: The film released in most theaters this Thanksgiving weekend is the new movie adaptation of The Muppets directed by James Bobin and starring Amy Adams, Jason Segel and Chris Cooper. The film’s score is written by Christophe Beck and Bret McKenzie serves as the project’s […]

Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the fourth part of the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 directed by Bill Condon and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen, Anna Kendrick and Ashley Greene. The film’s score is […]

Three new movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the 3D action adventure Immortals directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, Isabel Lucas, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Kellan Lutz and John Hurt. The film’s music is composed by Trevor Morris. Relativity […]

Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the caper comedy Tower Heist directed by Brett Ratner and starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Tea Leoni, Michael Pena, Alan Alda, Gabourey Sidibe, Judd Hirsch and Nina Arianda. The film’s score is composed […]

Three movies are opening in wide release this weekend: Opening in most theaters this week is Dreamworks Animation’s Puss in Boots directed by Chris Miller and featuring the voice talent of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis and Billy Bob Thornton. The film’s music is composed by Henry Jackman. Sony Classical has released a soundtrack […]