The nominations for the 72nd Emmy Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score): Euphoria – Bonnie and Clyde – Music by Labrinth Ozark -All In – Music by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Succession – This Is Not for Tears – Music by […]
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2020 Emmy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: July 28, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 24, 2020)
Posted: July 24, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alex Heffes, Danny Bensi, Eloi Painchaud, Fisherman's Friends, Ian Hultquist, Most Wanted, Rupert Christie, Saunder Jurriaans, The Big Ugly, The Rental, Yes God Yes
Opening in select theaters and on VOD today is the thriller The Rental directed by Dave Franco and starring Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White and Toby Huss. The film’s original music is composed by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, The Outsider, The Gift, Enemy, Boy Erased, Martha Marcy May Marlene). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack […]
Don Hardy’s ‘Citizen Penn’ to Feature Original Song Written by Linda Perry and Bono
Posted: July 22, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bono, Citizen Penn, Don Hardy, Linda Perry
Linda Perry and Bono have written an original song for the upcoming documentary Citizen Penn. The track, entitled Eden: To Find Love, is performed by Bono and will be featured during the film’s end credits. Perry has also composed the original score for the movie, which is directed by Don Hardy (Pick of the Litter) […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 17, 2020)
Posted: July 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Nice Girl Like You, Aaron Zigman, Craig Armstrong, Dirt Music, Enis Rotthoff, Ghosts of War, Michael Suby, The Sunlit Light
Opening on VOD today is the British/Australian drama Dirt Music directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund and David Wenham. The film’s original score is composed by Craig Armstrong (Moulin Rouge!, The Incredible Hulk, Romeo + Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Love Actually). No word on a soundtrack release. Check out our scoring […]
Hildur Guðnadóttir Wins BAFTA TV Craft Award for ‘Chernobyl’
Posted: July 17, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA TV Craft Awards, Chernobyl, Hildur Guðnadóttir
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene) won her first BAFTA TV Craft Award today for her music for the HBO/Sky limited series Chernobyl written and executive produced by Craig Mazin, directed by Johan Renck and starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson. She previously received an Emmy and a Grammy […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 10, 2020)
Posted: July 10, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Archive, David Bateman, Guest of Honour, Matthew Compton, Matthew Rogers, Money Plane, Mychael Danna, Palm Springs, Steven Price, Volition
Opening in select theaters and on Hulu today is the comedy Palm Springs directed by Max Barbakow and starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, Camila Mendes, Tyler Hoechlin and Peter Gallagher. The film’s original score is composed by Matthew Compton (MacGruber, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Better Start Running). A soundtrack EP featuring […]
Ennio Morricone (1928 – 2020)
Posted: July 6, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone has passed away at age 91 today in Rome, Italy. The composer has written more than 400 scores for film and television over a six decade-spanning career. His best known film scoring credits include Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (July 3, 2020)
Posted: July 3, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexei Aigui, Anne Nikitin, Brian Reitzell, Four Kids and It, John Lewis: Good Trouble, Larry Groupe, Relic, Tamar-Kali, The Outpost, The Truth
Opening in select theaters and on VOD today is the war drama The Outpost directed by Rod Lurie and starring Scott Eastwood, Orlando Bloom, Caleb Landry Jones, Kwame Patterson and Cory Hardrict. The film’s original music is composed by Larry Groupé (The Contender, Commander-in-Chief, Resurrecting the Champ, Nothing But the Truth, Straw Dogs). La-La Land Records […]
Max Richter, Jeff Russo, Blake Neely, Tamar-kali, Michael Nyman & Others Invited to Join Academy
Posted: June 30, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 819 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures to join the organization. Among the invited artists this year are a number of film composers, including Max Richter (Ad Astra, Hostiles), Jeff Russo (Lucy in the Sky, Mile 22), Jung Jae-Il […]
Johnny Mandel (1925 – 2020)
Posted: June 29, 2020 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel has passed away at 94. The Grammy Award-winning composer wrote numerous scores and songs for film and TV between the late 50s and early 90s and was also known for writing and arranging other popular songs. Among his best known film scoring credits are Robert Altman’s 1970 classic MASH (for which he also […]
