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The Guild of Music Supervisors announced the nominations for its 9th annual awards ceremony, which will take place on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. The awards will recognize outstanding Music Supervisors representing Motion Picture, Television, Games, Trailers and Advertising. Below are the nominations for some of the major categories. […]

2019 BAFTA Nominations Announced

Posted: January 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The British Academy of Film and Television has announced the nominations for the 2019 Orange British Academy Film Awards. The winners will be announced at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday, February 10. For a full list of nominations, click here. Here are the nominations in […]

The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 55th 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 John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place (scored by […]

Brad Bird revealed in an interview with Variety on the red carpet at this year’s BAFTA Tea Party this past Saturday that he is collaborating with composer Michael Giacchino on an original musical, which will be the director’s next project and will contain about 20 minutes of animation. No other details have been announced yet. […]

Justin Hurwitz has received his third Golden Globe Award in the Original Score category for Damien Chazelle’s First Man. He previously won two Golden Globes for both score and song for Chazelle’s La La Land. The other composers nominated in the Best Original Score category were Marc Shaiman (Mary Poppins Returns), Ludwig Goransson (Black Panther), Alexandre Desplat (Isle […]

The only new movie opening nationwide this week is the psychological thriller Escape Room directed by Adam Robitel and starring Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani and Yorick van Wageningen. The film’s original music is composed by Brian Tyler (Furious 7, Crazy Rich Asians, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron) and John Carey. […]

Opening in theaters nationwide this week is the political comedy drama Vice written and directed by Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carrell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe and Tyler Perry. The film’s original music is composed by Nicholas Britell (Moonlight, The Big Short, If Beale Street Could Talk, Battle of the Sexes, Succession). Decca […]

Five new movies are opening in theaters nationwide this week: Already playing in theaters nationwide since this past Wednesday is the movie musical Mary Poppins Returns directed by Rob Marshall and starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, Joel Dawson, Angela Lansbury and […]

Academy Announces Shortlists for Best Original Score & Songs

Posted: December 17, 2018 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the shortlists for several categories for the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Original Song. The nominations will be announced on January 22, 2019 and the awards show will be held on February 24. 

Grammy nominee Dua Lipa has recorded an original song for the sci-fi action movie Alita: Battle Angel. She also co-wrote the track, entitled Swan Song, which will be featured in the movie directed by Robert Rodriguez, produced by James Cameron & Jon Landau and starring Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie […]