The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for the 45th Annual Annie Awards this morning. Here are the music-related nominees: Music in an Animated Feature Production Theodore Shapiro – Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie – DreamWorks Animation Michael Giacchino, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez & Germaine Franco – Coco –Pixar Animation Studios Clint Mansell – Loving Vincent –BreakThru Films, Production Company […]
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Nominations for 45th Annie Awards Announced
Posted: December 4, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Annie Awards
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (December 1, 2017)
Posted: December 1, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: 24 Hours to Live, Alexandre Desplat, Dave Porter, The Disaster Artist, The Shape of Water, Tyler Bates, Wonder Wheel
No movies are opening nationwide this week. Opening in New York before being released in Los Angeles next week and in other markets later this month is the fantasy drama The Shape of Water co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones and Octavia Spencer. […]
60th Grammy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: November 28, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Grammy Awards
The nominations for the 60th Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations in the film music-related categories: Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Arrival (Jóhann Jóhannsson) Dunkirk (Hans Zimmer) Game Of Thrones: Season 7 (Ramin Djawadi) Hidden Figures (Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams & Hans Zimmer) La La Land (Justin Hurwitz)
Scott Cooper’s ‘Hostiles’ to Feature Original Song by Ryan Bingham
Posted: November 21, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Hostiles, Ryan Bingham, Scott Cooper
Ryan Bingham has recorded the original song How Shall a Sparrow Fly for Scott Cooper’s western Hostiles. The singer/songwriter, who also appears in the movie, previously co-wrote the song The Weary Kind for Cooper’s 2009 feature Crazy Heart with T Bone Burnett, for which he received an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award. Check back […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 17, 2017)
Posted: November 17, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Bear McCreary, Brooke Blair, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, Jeff Danna, John Paesano, Justice League, Marcelo Zarvos, Mudbound, Mychael Danna, Revolt, Roman J. Israel Esq., Sweet Virginia, Tamar-Kali, The Breadwinner, The Star, Will Blair, Wonder
Three new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the comic book movie Justice League directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ezra Miller, Jason Monoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons and Ciarán Hinds. The film’s original music is composed […]
‘Plus One’ to Feature Original Songs by Real Estate
Posted: November 16, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Plus One, Real Estate
The indie rock band Real Estate will be contributing original songs to the upcoming romantic comedy Plus One. The film is written and directed by Andrew Rhymer & Jeff Chan and stars Jack Quaid, Maya Erskine, Ed Begley Jr, Perrey Reeves, Finn Wittrock, Rosalind Chao, Jon Bass and Beck Bennett. The movie centers on a […]
Luis Bacalov (1933 – 2017)
Posted: November 15, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Luis Bacalov
Luis Bacalov has passed away today at age 84 in Rome. The composer is best known for his score for the Italian drama Il Postino, for which he received the Academy Award in the Best Original Score category in 1996. He was also Oscar-nominated in 1967 for his work on Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. His […]
Weekly Film Music Roundup (November 10, 2017)
Posted: November 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Carter Burwell, Daddy's Home 2, Mayhem, Michael Andrews, Murder on the Orient Express, Ola Flottum, Patrick Doyle, Steve Moore, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend: Opening in most theaters is the family comedy directed by Sean Anders and starring Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, John Lithgow, Mel Gibson, Linda Cardellini, Alessandra Ambrosio, John Cena, Scarlett Estevez and Owen Vaccaro. Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko, Bridesmaids, Bad Teacher, Freaks & Geeks, Funny People, The Big Sick) who previously scored the 2005 […]
