The team behind the sound mixing of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 54th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Bunker Hill Ballroom of the OMNI Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. Scoring mixer Alan Meyerson, along with production mixer Mark Weingarten, […]
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‘Dunkirk’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 24, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society, Coco, Dunkirk, Jane
Performers of Academy Award-Nominated Songs Announced
Posted: February 23, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Andra Day, Common, Gael Garcia Bernal, Keala Settle, Mary J. Blige, Miguel, Natalie LaFourcade, Sufjan Stevens
The performers of this year’s nominated songs at the 90th Oscars ceremony have been announced today by show producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd. Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalie LaFourcade and Miguel will perform Remember Me from Pixar’s Coco written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez. Bernal provided the voice of the main character in […]
Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ to Feature Original Songs by Sade, Sia, DJ Khaled & Demi Lovato
Posted: February 20, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Wrinkle in Time, Chloe x Halle, Demi Lovato, DJ Khaled, Free Style Fellowship, Kehlani, Sade, Sia
It was announced today that several artists have contributed original songs to Ava DuVernay’s fantasy drama A Wrinkle in Time. Sade has recorded the track Flower of the Universe, which marks the singer/songwriter’s first original song in almost a decade. DJ Khaled & Demi Lovato are performing the song I Believe and Sia is featured […]
Alexandre Desplat Wins BAFTA Award for ‘The Shape of Water’
Posted: February 18, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Alexandre Desplat, BAFTA, The Shape of Water
Alexandre Desplat has received his third BAFTA Award for his score for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water in the Original Music category today at the ceremony at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. The composer accepted his award in person at the event. Check out his acceptance […]
K.Flay’s Original Song ‘Run for Your Life’ from ‘Tomb Raider’ Reboot Released
Posted: February 16, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: K.Flay, Soundtrack, Tomb Raider
Singer/songwriter K.Flay has written an original song for Roar Uthaug’s Tomb Raider reboot. The track, entitled Run for Your Life, has been released today a digital single tomorrow by Interscope Records. Visit Amazon to download the track and listen to the song after the jump. As previously reported, a soundtrack album featuring the movie’s score by […]
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul to Write Original Songs for Blue Sky Studios’ ‘Foster’
Posted: February 12, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Benj Pasek, Foster, Justin Paul
Variety is reporting that Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will write original songs for Fox Animation/Blue Sky Studios’ upcoming animated feature Foster. The film is directed by Karen Disher (Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas) & Steve Martino (The Peanuts Movie, Horton Hears a Who!) and revolves around a young super fan who isn’t satisfied with the ending to […]
Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969-2018)
Posted: February 10, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Johann Johannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson passed away in Berlin this past Friday at age 48. The cause of death is unknown. The composer won the Golden Globe and received Oscar, BAFTA and Grammy nominations for his score for James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything. The following year, he won received an Oscar and BAFTA nomination for his music for Denis […]
Harold Wheeler to Return as Music Director for Oscars
Posted: February 9, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Harold Wheeler
Academy Awards producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd today announced that Harold Wheeler was selected as music director for this year’s 90th Oscars. He returns for his fifth Oscar telecast, his third as music director following the ceremonies in 2016 & 2017. Wheeler is best known as an orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger and record producer and […]