The nominations for the 77th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories and nominations:
Best Original Score:
Haut et Court has released a soundtrack album for the French thriller Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes). The album features the film’s original music is composed by Benedikt Schiefer (Invisible Life, Unter dir die Stadt, I Am Guilty). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Only the Animals is directed by Dominik Moll and stars Laure Calamy, Denis Ménochet, Damien Bonnard, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Guy Roger “Bibisse” N’drin. The movie follows a group of five strangers in a remote mountain town who are caught up in a mystery following the disappearance of a woman during a snowstorm. Read the rest of this entry »
Premiering tonight is the Showtime original series The L Word: Generation Q created by Ilene Chaiken & Marja-Lewis Ryan and starring Jennifer Beals, Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Arienne Mandi, Leo Sheng, Jacqueline Toboni, Rosanny Zayas and Sepideh Moafi. The show’s original score is composed by Heather McIntosh (Compliance, Z for Zachariah) & Allyson Newman (Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, Kusama: Infinity). Click here to learn more about the drama.
Also premiering tonight is the Showtime original series Work in Progress created by Abby McEnany & Tim Mason and starring McEnany herself, alongside Theo Germaine, Karin Anglin, Celeste Pechous, Julia Sweeney and Alison Gates. Ethan Stoller is composing the show’s original music. The comedy centers on a middle-aged lesbian who gives herself 180 days to fix her life. Visit the official show website for more information about the series, which will air Sunday nights on Showtime. Read the rest of this entry »
The Null Corporation has released a soundtrack album for the drama Waves. The album features the film’s original score composed by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Watchmen, Patriots Day). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music, where you can also check out audio samples. Waves is written and directed by Trey Edward Shults and stars Kelvin Harrison, Jr, Lucas Hedges, Taylor Russell, Alexa Demie, Neal Huff, Clifton Collins, Jr, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Sterling K. Brown. Read the rest of this entry »
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominations for the 25th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards this morning. The film music-related categories are listed below. For a full list of nominations, click here. The awards will be given out on January 12, 2020 at the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California and will broadcast in the U.S. on The CW.
The Best Score nominees are:
Us – Michael Abels
Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Marriage Story – Randy Newman
1917 – Thomas Newman
The Irishman – Robbie Robertson Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Belcher (21 Bridges, IO, ) is scoring upcoming British/Italian comedy Made in Italy. The film marks the feature directorial debut of actor James D’Arcy and stars Liam Neeson, Micheál Richardson, Valeria Billello and Lindsay Duncan. The movie is set in Tuscany and centers on a bohemian London artist who returns to Italy with his estranged son to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. D’Arcy also wrote the screenplay. Pippa Cross (The Hole, Desert Dancer) and Sam Tipper-Hale are producing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series Truth Be Told. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by John Paesano (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, The Defenders, The Star, Almost Christmas). The soundtrack is now available to stream on Apple Music and is expected to be available in other digital music stores next year. Truth Be Told is created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman and stars Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul, Lizzy Caplan, Elizabeth Perkins, Michael Beach, Mekhi Phifer, Tracie Thoms, Haneefah Wood and Ron Cephas Jones. The drama follows a podcaster as she comes face to face with the man she may have mistakenly helped to put behind bars. Read the rest of this entry »
The only movie opening nationwide this week is the live-action/animated feature Playmobil: The Movie directed by Lino DiSalvo and starring Anya- Taylor Joy, Jim Gaffigan, Gabriel Bateman, Kenan Thompson and Daniel Radcliffe. The film’s original music is composed by Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me, Minions, The Angry Birds Movie). Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by Meghan Trainor, Adam Lambert & others. Click here for the full album details.
Opening in select theaters before premiering on Amazon Prime on December 20 is the adventure drama The Aeronauts directed by Tom Harper and starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Courtenay and Himesh Patel. Steven Price (Gravity, Our Planet, Suicide Squad, Baby Driver, Fury) has composed the film’s original score. Decca Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score and the end titles song Home to You performed by Sigrid. Check out our previous article for the full album details. Read the rest of this entry »
Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) (Midsommar, Triple 9, Seven Seconds, Shooter) is the composer of the new Hulu original series Reprisal. The show is created by Josh Corbin and stars Abigail Spencer, Rodrigo Santoro, Mena Massoud, Rhys Wakefield, Madison Davenport, Gilbert Owuor, David Dastmalchian and W. Earl Brown. The neo-noir drama follows a relentless femme fatale who, after being left for dead, sets out to take revenge against her brother and his bombastic gang of gear-heads. Read the rest of this entry »
Back Lot Music will release the official soundtrack album for the horror thriller Black Christmas. The album features the film’s original music composed by Will Blair & Brooke Blair (Green Room, Hold the Dark, The Informer, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Blue Ruin). The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 13 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Black Christmas is co-written and directed by Sophia Takal and stars Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O’Grady, Caleb Eberhardt, Simon Mead and Carl Elwes. The movie is based on the 1974 cult horror classic of the same title and follows a campus killer who comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood. Read the rest of this entry »
