Archive for the ‘Film Music News’ Category

The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 56th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past few years, scoring mixers have been recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Tyson Lozensky for James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari […]

Variety is reporting that several original scores submitted for Academy Awards consideration have been disqualified. Among the titles ruled ineligible are Knives Out (by Nathan Johnson), which was disqualified due to an “administrative mixup”, as well as The Irishman (by Robbie Robertson) and The Two Popes (by Bryce Dessner), both of which were expected to […]

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominations for the 25th Critics’ Choice Movie 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 12, 2020 at the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony at the […]

The only movie opening nationwide this week is the live-action/animated feature Playmobil: The Movie directed by Lino DiSalvo and starring Anya- Taylor Joy, Jim Gaffigan, Gabriel Bateman, Kenan Thompson and Daniel Radcliffe. The film’s original music is composed by Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me, Minions, The Angry Birds Movie). Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s […]

SCL Awards Nominations Announced

Posted: December 3, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominations for the inaugural SCL Awards. Here are the nominees: Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film: Michael Abels – Us Michael Giacchino – Jojo Rabbit Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker John Powell – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Alan Silvestri – Avengers: […]

2020 ‘Best Original Score’ Oscar Predictions

Posted: December 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Starting today, we are publishing our predictions in the Best Original Score category for the 92nd 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 […]

Nominations for 47th Annie Awards Announced

Posted: December 2, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for the 47th Annual Annie Awards this morning. Here are the music-related nominees: Music in an Animated Feature Production Gints Zilbalodis– AWAY – Dream Well Studios Christophe Beck, Frode Fjellheim, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez – Frozen 2 
 – Walt Disney Animation Studios Dan Levy – […]

Two new movies are opening in theaters nationwide this week: Opening in most theaters is the murder mystery Knives Out written and directed by Rian Johnson and starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Katherine Langford and Christopher Plummer. The film’s original music is composed […]

Sire Records has released the original end credits song One Little Soldier from the drama Bombshell. The track, which is written and performed by Regina Spektor, is now available to stream/download here. Check out the official lyric video after the jump. Bombshell is directed by Jay Roach and stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, […]

Three new movies are opening in theaters nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the animated sequel Frozen II directed by Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee and starring Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad. Christophe Beck (Ant-Man, The Muppets, Edge of Tomorrow) has composed the film’s original score and Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez have composed […]