It was announced today that Danny Elfman (Spider-Man, Batman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Alice in Wonderland) is the recipient of this year’s Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award, which will be presented at the annual Hollywood in Vienna Concert Gala at Vienna Concert Hall on September 29, 2017. The composer will be accepting the award in person and […]
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Danny Elfman to Receive Max Steiner Award
Posted: February 26, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Danny Elfman, Hollywood in Vienna, Max Steiner Award
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Emmy Awards Add Music Supervision Category
Posted: February 24, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards
The Television Academy announced a number of changes to the Emmy Awards structure today, including a new category for Outstanding Music Supervision. The category will be introduced at this year’s 69th Emmy Awards. The other music-related categories at the Emmys are Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or […]
‘La La Land’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
Posted: February 18, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society, Finding Dory, La La Land, Nicholai Baxter, Thomas Vicari
The team behind the sound mixing of Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures– Live Action category at tonight’s 53rd annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Bunker Hill Ballroom of the OMNI Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. Scoring mixer Nicholai Baxter, along with production mixer […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 17, 2017)
Posted: February 17, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A Cure for Wellness, American Fable, Benjamin Wallfisch, David Robbins, Dominic Lewis, Fist Fight, Ghost of New Orleans, Gingger Shankar, Hauschka, In Dubious Battle, Johann Johannsson, Lovesong, Ramin Djawadi, The Great Wall
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the fantasy epic The Great Wall directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Hanyu Zhang, Eddie Peng, Lu Han, Kenny Lin, Junkai Wang and Zheng Kai. The film’s original music is composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Iron Man, Pacific Rim). […]
‘La La Land’, ‘Captain Fantastic’, ‘Stranger Things’ & ‘The Get Down’ Honored at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Posted: February 17, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
The 7th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards were handed out on Thursday night at Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Steven Gizicki received the top honor in the Best Music Supervision in Motion Picture – Motion Picture Over 25M for his work on Damien Chazelle’s La La Land. He also received an award for the song City […]
Harold Wheeler to Return as Oscar Music Director
Posted: February 14, 2017 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 89th Oscars. He returns for his fourth Oscar telecast, his second as music director following last year’s ceremony. Wheeler is best known as an orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger and record producer and has received numerous Emmy […]
John Williams Wins Grammy Award for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
Posted: February 12, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Grammy Awards, John Williams, Justin Timberlake, Miles Ahead, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Trolls
John Williams has won the Grammy Award for his music for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media category. The other nominated composers in the category included Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight), Thomas Newman (Bridge of Spies), Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Revenant) and Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things). In the Best Song Written […]
Justin Hurwitz Wins BAFTA Award for ‘La La Land’
Posted: February 12, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA, Justin Hurwitz, La La Land
Justin Hurwitz has received his first BAFTA Award for his score for Damien Chazelle’s La La Land 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 speech after the […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 10, 2017)
Posted: February 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: A United Kingdom, Danny Elfman, David Brent: Life on the Road, Fifty Shades Darker, Jack Fessenden, Joel J. Richard, John Wick: Chapter 2, Land of Mine, Lorne Balfe, Patrick Doyle, Stray Bullets, Sune Martin, The Lego Batman Movie, Tyler Bates
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Expected to top the weekend box office is the animated feature The LEGO Batman Movie directed by Chris McKay and featuring the voices of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Jenny Slate and Ralph Fiennes. The film’s original music is composed by Lorne Balfe (Terminator Genisys, Home, Penguins of Madagascar, 13 Hours). WaterTower […]
