Film Music Reporter

Daily Film Music News

Category: Film Music News

28th Critics Choice Film Awards Nominations Announced

by in Film Music News 1 comment
Tags:

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the film category nominations for the 28th Critics Choice Awards this morning. The film music-related categories are listed below. For a full list of nominations, click here. The awards will be given out on January 15, 2023 at the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles and will broadcast in the U.S. live on The CW.

The Best Score nominees are:

Alexandre Desplat – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Michael Giacchino – The Batman
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Women Talking

> Read the full story ...

2023 Oscars Best Original Song Predictions

by in Film Music News 1 comment
Tags:

Starting today, we are publishing our predictions for the Best Original Song category of next year’s 95th Academy Awards on the left side column of this page. The selection and ranking is based on our own experience of the songs in context of the movies, reactions of Academy music branch members and others in the film music community, the level of awards campaigning and awareness of the competing titles, historical data and the response to the movies in other categories.

> Read the full story ...

Angelo Badalamenti (1937-2022)

by in Film Music News 0 comments
Tags:

Angelo Badalamenti has passed away yesterday at age 85 at his home in New Jersey. The composer was best known for his scores for the films of director David Lynch, including Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, The Straight Story & Mulholland Drive, as well as the filmmaker’s TV series Twin Peaks, for which he received three Emmy Award nominations and a Grammy Award. His other scoring credits include Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The City of Lost Children & A Very Long Engagement, Danny Boyle’s The Beach, Walter Salles’ Dark Water and Neil LaBute’s The Wicker Man.

> Read the full story ...

80th Golden Globe Nominations Announced

by in Film Music News 0 comments
Tags:

golden-globesThe nominations for the 80th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories and nominations:

Best Original Score:

  • The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell
  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat
  • Women Talking – Hildur Guðnadóttir
  • Babylon– Justin Hurwitz
  • The Fabelmans –John Williams

> Read the full story ...

Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 9, 2022)

by in Film Music News 0 comments
Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Opening in select theaters this weekend is the romantic drama Empire of Light written and directed by Sam Mendes and starring Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones, Tanya Moodie, Tom Brooke, Crystal Clarke and Colin Firth. The film’s original music is composed by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Soul, Gone Girl, Mank, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). The Null Corporation has released a soundtrack album featuring the composers’ score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Searchlight Pictures release.

Opening in New York and Los Angeles this weekend before expanding to more markets in the coming weeks is the psychological drama The Whale directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins and Samantha Morton. Rob Simonsen (Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Foxcatcher, Nerve, The Way Back, The Adam Project) has composed the film’s original music. A24 Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details.

> Read the full story ...

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ to Feature End Credits Song ‘Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)’ by The Weeknd

by in Film Music News 0 comments
Tags: , , , ,

The Weeknd has recorded an original end titles song for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water. The track, entitled Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength), features lyrics & melody by the singer/songwriter himself and is produced by the film’s composer Simon Franglen and Swedish House Mafia. Listen to a first excerpt from the song after the jump. The song is set to be released  on December 15 by Hollywood Records and a full soundtrack album featuring Franglen’s score will be coming out on December 16.

> Read the full story ...

2023 Oscars Best Original Score Predictions

by in Film Music News 6 comments
Tags:

Starting today, we are publishing our predictions for the Best Original Score category of next year’s 95th Academy Awards on the left side column of this page. The selection and ranking is based on our own experience of the scores in context of the movies, reactions of Academy music branch members and others in the film music community, the level of awards campaigning and awareness of the competing titles, historical data and the response to the movies in other categories.

> Read the full story ...

Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 2, 2022)

by in Film Music News 0 comments
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the action comedy Violent Night directed by Tommy Wirkola and starring David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Alex Hassell, Beverly D’Angelo, Alexis Louder, Cam Gigandet and Edi Patterson. The film’s original music is composed by Dominic Lewis (Bullet Train, Peter Rabbit, The Man in the High Castle, Money Monster, The King’s Man). Back Lot Music has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the Universal Pictures release.

Opening in select theaters today before expanding nationwide next Friday, December 9, is the drama Spoiler Alert directed by Michael Showalter and starring Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, Bill Irwin, Jeffery Self and Sally Field. Brian H. Kim (Hello My Name Is Doris, Search Party, BH90210, Panic, Star vs. the Forces of Evil) has composed the film’s original music. A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be released next Friday. Check out our previous article for more information about the Focus Features release.

> Read the full story ...

Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 25, 2022)

by in Film Music News 0 comments
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Opening in theaters nationwide this week is the animated feature Strange World directed by Don Hall, co-directed by Qui Nguyen and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Jaboukie Young-White and Gabrielle Union. The film’s original music composed by Henry Jackman (Wreck-It-Ralph, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Big Hero 6, X-Men: First Class, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle). Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as an original song written by Jackman & Kevin Del Aguila earlier this week. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Walt Disney Animation Studios production.

Also opening nationwide this week is the war drama Devotion directed by J.D. Dillard and starring Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Thomas Sadoski and Joe Jonas. Chanda Dancy (The Defeated, I Wanna Dance with Somebody,  Aftershock) has composed the film’s original score. Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music last Friday (click here for the full album details). Available separately from Republic Records is Joe Jonas’ & Khalid’s original song Not Alone from the movie (click here to listen to the track).

> Read the full story ...

DreamWorks Animation Premieres New Logo Sequence Featuring Music by Harry Gregson-Williams

by in Film Music News 0 comments
Tags: ,

DreamWorks Animation has premiered the studios’ new animated logo sequence, which will be first seen in front of its latest animated feature Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which is receiving sneak preview showings in select theaters this Saturday, November 26 and is set to be released in theaters on December 21. Harry Gregson-Williams (The Martian, The Chronicles of Narnia, Kingdom of Heaven, Man on Fire) has composed the sequence’s music, which features his (and John Powell’s) theme from the original 2001 Shrek movie and was also used in the studios’ previous logo sequence. Check out the Moonchild theatrical opener after the jump.

> Read the full story ...