The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 56th 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 James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari (scored by Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders) and Daniel Kresco for Todd Phillips’ Joker (music by Hildur Gudnadottir). Read the rest of this entry »
56th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: December 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: CAS Awards, Cinema Audio Society
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‘Hala’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 10, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Apple TV +, Hala, Mandy Hoffman, Minhal Baig, score, Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the coming-of-age drama Hala. The album features the film’s original music composed by Mandy Hoffman (The Lovers, Terri, I Love Dick). The soundtrack is now available to stream on Apple Music. A release in other digital music stores is expected in 2020. Hala is written and directed by Minhal Baig and stars Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Gabriel Luna, Purbi Joshi, Azad Khan and Anna Chlumsky. The movie follows a 17-year-old girl who is navigating the conflicting worlds of her traditional Muslim household and her modern high school. Read the rest of this entry »
Scores for ‘Knives Out’, ‘The Irishman’ & ‘The Two Popes’ Ruled Ineligible for Academy Awards Consideration
Posted: December 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
Variety is reporting that several original scores submitted for Academy Awards consideration have been disqualified. Among the titles ruled ineligible are Knives Out (by Nathan Johnson), which was disqualified due to an “administrative mixup”, as well as The Irishman (by Robbie Robertson) and The Two Popes (by Bryce Dessner), both of which were expected to be ineligible because of the limited amount of original score and predominating use of pre-existing songs in the films. As anticipated, A Hidden Life (by James Newton Howard) will also not be eligible. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Newman to Score John Lee Hancock’s ‘The Little Things’ & Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Let Them All Talk’
Posted: December 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO Max, John Lee Hancock, Let Them All Talk, Steven Soderbergh, The Little Things, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman (American Beauty, Finding Nemo, The Shawshank Redemption, Skyfall) has revealed in a recent interview with Deadline that he will be reteaming with John Lee Hancock on the upcoming crime thriller The Little Things. The film starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Natalie Morales, Sofia Vassilieva and John Harlan Kim follows a Kern County, CA deputy sheriff namedwho teams with a crack LASD detective to reel in a wily serial killer. Lee Hancok (The Blind Side, The Rookie) also wrote the screenplay and is producing the project with Mark Johnson (Rain Men, The Chronicles of Narnia). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Seberg’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: December 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Benedict Andrews, Jed Kurzel, score, Seberg, Soundtrack
Music.Film Recordings has announced the official soundtrack album for the dramatic thriller Seberg. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jed Kurzel (Alien: Covenant, Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed, The Babadook, The Mustang, The Snowtown Murders). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 13 and will be available to stream/download here. Seberg is directed by Benedict Andrews and stars Kristen Stewart, Jack O’Connell, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn and Anthony Mackie. The movie tells the true story of French New Wave darling and Breathless star, Jean Seberg, who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI because of her support of the civil rights movement and romantic involvement with Hakim Jamal, among others. Read the rest of this entry »
Expanded ‘Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: December 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Monte Carlo or Bust!, Ron Goodwin, score, Soundtrack, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1969 comedy Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (aka Monte Carlo or Bust!) directed by Ken Annakin and starring Tony Curtis, Terry-Thomas, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Bourvil, Mireille Darc, Marie Dubois, Lando Buzzanca, Gert Fröbe and Jack Hawkins. The 2-CD set features the complete original score from the Paramount Pictures production composed and conducted by Ron Goodwin (Where Eagles Dare, Squadron 633, Frenzy), including over 45 minutes of previously unreleased music. Also included are several versions of the title song by Jimmy Durante. The 50th Anniversary Special Edition soundtrack is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Read the rest of this entry »
77th Golden Globe Nominations Announced
Posted: December 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Golden Globes
The nominations for the 77th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning. Here are the music-related categories and nominations:
Best Original Score:
- Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
- Joker – Hildur Gudnadottir
- Marriage Story – Randy Newman
- 1917 – Thomas Newman
- Motherless Brooklyn – Daniel Pemberton Read the rest of this entry »
‘Only the Animals’ (‘Seules les bêtes’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 9, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benedikt Schiefer, Dominik Moll, Only the Animals, score, Soundtrack
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 »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (December 8, 2019)
Posted: December 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Allyson Newman, Bobby Krlic, Ethan Stoller, Heather McIntosh, Hulu, Reprisal, Showtime, The L Word: Generation Q, Work in Progress
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 »
‘Waves’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 8, 2019 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Atticus Ross, score, Soundtrack, Trent Reznor, Trey Edward Shults, Waves
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 »
