Nominations for 48th Annie Awards Announced

Posted: March 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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annie-awardsThe International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for the 48th Annual Annie Awards this morning. The winners of the awards will be announced at the virtual 48th Annual Annie Awards ceremony on Friday, April 16. Here are the music-related nominees:

Music in an Animated Feature Production

  • Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna – Onward – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Steven Price, Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield  & Helen Park – Over the Moon 
 – Netflix Presents a Netflix/Pearl Studio Production / a Glen Keane Productions Presentation
  • Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste– Soul – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Mark Mothersbaugh, Alessia Cara, Jon Levine, Colton Fisher – The Willoughbys – Netflix Presents A BRON Animation Production in association with Creative Wealth Media
  • Bruno Coulais – Wolfwalkers– Cartoon Saloon / Melusine

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Clément Ducol Scoring Jacques Audiard’s ‘Paris, 13th District’ (‘Les Olympiades’)

Posted: March 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Clément Ducol (Little Tickles, Maestro, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere) is scoring the upcoming French drama Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades). The film is directed by Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, The Sisters Brothers, Rust and Bone) and stars Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Jehnny Beth and Noémie Merlan. The movie is based on cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s collection of graphic short stories Killing and Dying and revolves around four young adults who are friends, sometimes lovers, and often both. Audiard co-wrote the screenplay with Léa Mysius (Ismael’s Ghosts, Ava) and Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire). Read the rest of this entry »

‘Music Got Me Here’ Soundtrack Album Released

Posted: March 3, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Music Got Me Here. The album features the film’s original music composed by Stephen Endelman (Flirting with Disaster, Home of the Brave, Jawbreaker, De-Lovely, Evelyn). Visit Amazon or any other digital music store to check out audio samples and to stream/download the soundtrack. Music Got Me Here is directed by Susan Koch and chronicles the true-life journey of Forrest Allen who after a snowboard accident at age 18 was unable to speak or walk for almost two years and Tom Sweitzer, an eccentric music therapist with a troubled childhood who credits music with saving his own life and is determined to help Forrest find his voice. Read the rest of this entry »

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste Win SCL Award for ‘Soul’ Score

Posted: March 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste have received their first SCL Award in the Outstanding Original Score in a Studio Film category for their music for Pixar’s Soul at tonight’s 2nd Annual Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards. The other composers nominated in the category were James Newton Howard (News of the World), Ludwig Göransson (Tenet), Terence Blanchard (Da 5 Bloods) and Reznor & Ross were also nominated for their score for Mank. In the Outstanding Original Song for Visual Media category, Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus & Rickard Goransson were honored for their song Husavik from the Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Carlos Rafael Rivera won the prize in the Outstanding Original Score for a Television Production category his score for the Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit. Read the rest of this entry »

Max Aruj Scoring Eytan Rockaway’s ‘Lansky’

Posted: March 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Composer Max Aruj (Crawl, iBoy, Warning Shot) is reteaming with director Eytan Rockaway on the upcoming biographical crime drama Lansky. The film is written and directed by Rockaway and stars Harvey Keitel, Sam Worthington, AnnaSophia Robb, Jackie Cruz, Minka Kelly, John Magaro, David Cade, David James Elliot and Alon Aboutboul. The movie centers on infamous gangster Meyer Lansky, a contemporary of Bugsy Siegel, who enlists a young journalist to tell his story and is being investigated by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century. Read the rest of this entry »

HBO Documentary ‘Tina’ to Feature Original Score by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans

Posted: March 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring Assignments
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Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Boy Erased, The Gift, Enemy, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The White Tiger, The Devil All the Time) have composed the original score for the new HBO original documentary Tina. The film is directed by Dan Lindsay & T.J. Martin (Undefeated) and centers on the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner. The movie, which features interviews with the singer herself, Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, journalist Kurt Loder, playwright Katori Hall, hr husband and former record executive Erwin Bach, among others, a charts her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life and her even more improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s. Read the rest of this entry »

Steven Price Scoring Brian Andrew Mendoza’s Netflix Film ‘Sweet Girl’

Posted: March 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Suicide Squad, Over the Moon, Baby Driver, Fury, The World’s End) has recently been scoring the upcoming Netflix original film Sweet Girl. The movie marks the feature directorial debut of producer/cinematographer Brian Andrew Mendoza (Frontier, Braven) and stars Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced, Marisa Tomei, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Raza Jaffrey,  Justin Bartha, Adria Arjona, Lex Scott Davis, Dominic Fumusa, Brian Howe, Michael Raymond-James, Nelson Franklin and Reggie Lee. The action thriller follows a devastated husband who vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife’s death while protecting the only family he has left – his daughter. Read the rest of this entry »

57th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards Nominations Announced

Posted: March 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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cinemaaudiosocietyThe Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 57th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past couple of 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 Greg Hayes for Aaron Schneider’s Greyhound (scored by Blake Neely), Alan Meyerson for David Fincher’s Mank (music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross), Shawn Murphy for Paul Greengrass’ News of the World (scored by James Newton Howard) and composer Daniel Pemberton for Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Lévy to Score Kristina Buozyte’s & Bruno Samper’s ‘Vesper Seeds’

Posted: March 2, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Dan Lévy (I Lost My Body, Empire of the Wolves) is set to score the upcoming sci-fi drama Vesper Seeds. The film is written and directed by Kristina Buozyte & Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves) and stars Eddie Marsan, Raffiella Chapman, Rosy McEwen, Richard Brake and Melanie Gaydos. The movie is set in a dystopian future after the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem and follows a strong-willed 13-year-old girl who uses her survival skills to subsist in the decaying remnants of the collapsed world with her ailing father. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Trail of Ashes’ Soundtrack Released

Posted: March 1, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
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Polymorph has released a soundtrack album for the period thriller Trail of Ashes. The album features the film’s original music composed by Manuel Vázquez Rivera ( Andrea y Lorenzo). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music stores. Trail of Ashes is co-written and directed by Arturo Lizardi and stars Héctor Escudero, Cecilia Arguelles, Arturo Lizardi, Jasmin Sanabria, Migdalia Rosario,and Carlos Miranda. The movie tells the story of two long lost brothers who grew up on opposite sides of a war and now must choose between family bonds and political alliances. Read the rest of this entry »

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