The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and ABC have published some of the music-related highlights of the 86th Academy Awards ceremony online. Check out the acceptance speeches of Steven Price who won the Oscar for his music for Gravity and Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Bobby Lopez who won the award for the song Let It Go from Frozen after the jump. Also embedded are the live performances of the songs Let It Go by Idina Menzel, Ordinary Love by U2, Happy by Pharrell Williams and The Moon Song by Karen O. The ceremony also featured a performance of Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Pink as a tribute to The Wizard of Oz, as well as the song The Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler for the In Memoriam tribute. Read the rest of this entry »
Video Highlights from the 86th Academy Awards
Posted: March 3, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Karen O, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Pharrell Williams, Robert Lopez, Steven Price, U2
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Steven Price Wins Oscar for ‘Gravity’
Posted: March 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Gravity, Steven Price
Steven Price has won his first Academy Award in the Best Original Score category for his music for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity. The composer was also nominated for the first time. The other contenders in the category were John Williams (The Book Thief), Alexandre Desplat (Philomena), William Butler & Owen Pallett (Her) and Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks). All six nominated composers were in attendance at the awards ceremony.
In the Best Original Song category, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez received the award for the song Let It Go from Disney’s Frozen.
SCL Hosts Reception for Oscar-Nominated Composers & Songwriters
Posted: March 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Academy Awards, Alexandre Desplat, John Williams, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Oscar Nominees Reception, Owen Pallett, Robert Lopez, SCL, Steven Price, Thomas Newman, William Butler
Yesterday afternoon, the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) hosted its annual reception honoring the Academy Award-nominated composers and songwriters in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song category in Beverly Hills. SCL president Ashley Irwin introduced the nominees who briefly spoke to the audience. All six nominated composers in the score category were in attendance, including Alexandre Desplat, nominated for the sixth time for his score for Stephen Frears’ Philomena, who talked about the first Oscar concert this past week and thanked Academy governors Charles Fox and Arthur Hamilton for putting together the event. William Butler and Owen Pallett, nominated for the first time for their music from Her, were joined at the reception by Arcade Fire members Win Butler and Régine Chassagne and the film’s director Spike Jonze. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 2, 2014)
Posted: March 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: A&E, ABC, Adam Gibbons, Johnny Jewel, Mikael Sandgren, Mixology, Sirens, Those Who Kill, Tree Adams, USA
Premiering on Tuesday, March 4, is the new A&E drama Those Who Kill developed by Glen Morgan based on the Danish television series Den som dræber and starring Chloe Sevigny, James D’Arcy, James Morrison and Omid Abtahi. Chromatic’s and Glass Candy’s Johnny Jewel (Bronson) is composing the show’s original score. Those Who Kill follows a newly promoted homicide detective who tracks down a serial killer while coming to terms with her past. The drama will air every Tuesday night on A&E. To learn more about the series, visit the official show website. Read the rest of this entry »
John Paesano Scoring ‘When the Game Stands Tall’
Posted: March 1, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: John Paesano, Thomas Carter, When the Game Stands Tall
John Paesano is composing the music for the upcoming sports drama When the Game Stands Tall. The film is directed by Thomas Carter and stars Jim Caviezel, Laura Dern, Michael Chiklis and Alexander Ludwig. The movie follows the high school team of De La Salle and its young coach Bob Ladouceur who turned the perennial loser into a legend by launching a streak of 138 straight victories. Scott Marshall Smith (The Score, Men of Honor) has written the screenplay based on the book of the same title by Neil Hayes. David Zelon (Soul Surfer, Into the Blue) is producing the Mandalay Pictures production. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Need for Speed’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 28, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Need for Speed, Soundtrack
Interscope Records will release a soundtrack album for the action movie Need for Speed. The album features the original song Hero by Kid Cudi feat. Skylar Grey, as well as two new songs by Aloe Blacc and a new remix of All Along the Watchtower by Jamie N Commons. The soundtrack will be released on March 11, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Need for Speed is directed by Scott Waugh and stars Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Scott Mescudi, Ramon Rodriguez, Michael Keaton, Rami Malek, Dakota Johnson and Harrison Gilbertson. The movie based on the video game follows a muscle car mechanic and street racer who gets out of prison determined to settle the score with the man responsible for his false conviction. The DreamWorks Pictures production will be released nationwide on March 14. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (February 28, 2014)
Posted: February 28, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Angelo Badalamenti, Bottled Up, Edward Rogers, Ernest & Celestine, HairBrained, Hans Zimmer, Joe Hisaishi, John Ottman, John Swihart, Lorne Balfe, Mark Kilian, Max Richter, Non-Stop, Odd Thomas, Repentance, Sam Retzer, Son of God, Stalingrad, The Bag Man, The Lunchbox, The Newton Brothers, The Wind RIses, Tim Boland, Tony Morales, Vincent Courtois
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Expected to top the weekend box office is the thriller Non-Stop directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Anson Mount, Michellle Dockery, Scott McNairy, Lupita Nyong’o and Corey Stoll. The film’s original music is composed by John Ottman (X2, The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) who previously scored the director’s features Unknown, Orphan and House of Wax. Varese Sarabande has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score digitally earlier this week and a CD version will be coming out on March 4. Check out our previous news article for the full album details.
Also opening wide is the biblical drama Son of God produced by Mark Burnett & Roma Downey and starring Diogo Morgado, Greg Hicks, Adrian Schiller, Darwin Shaw, Sebastian Knapp, Joe Wredden, Simon Kunz and Paul Marc Davis. Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe who also scored the mini-series The Bible, which the film is based on, have composed the movie’s original music. Republic Records has released a soundtrack featuring the composer’s score, as well as songs by Cee Lo Green, OneRepublic, Steven Stern & George Krikes and Hillsong United. Click here for the full details. Word Entertainment has released a separate soundtrack featuring songs from and inspired by the film. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Tom at the Farm’ Soundtrack Details
Posted: February 28, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Gabriel Yared, score, Soundtrack, Tom à la ferme, Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan
A soundtrack album will be released for Xavier Dolan’s drama Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme). The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Gabriel Yared (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1408). The soundtrack will be released on March 24, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Audio clips are embedded after the jump. Tom at the Farm is co-written and directed by Dolan who also stars in the film alongside Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu, Manuel Tadros, Jacques Lavallee, Anne Caron and Olivier Morin. The French drama about a a gay man who attends his lover’s funeral only to learn that none of his friends and family knew of the deceased’s sexuality nor their relationship premiered at last year’s Venice and Toronto Film Festival and will be released in France next month. Read the rest of this entry »
Ennio Morricone in Conversation with Quentin Tarantino
Posted: February 28, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Ennio Morricone, Quentin Tarantino
On March 18, legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone will appear at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater for a discussion of his far-ranging career. Academy Award-winning writer/director Quentin Tarantino will be moderating the conversation. Morricone whose credits include such classic as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and The Mission, as well as numerous films directed by Brian De Palma, Warren Beatty and Giuseppe Tornatore will make a rare visit to Los Angeles, where he will also be conducting his first-ever L.A. live performance with a 200-member orchestra and choir performing a selection of his works at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on March 20. Read the rest of this entry »
Academy Celebrates Nominated Song & Scores at Oscar Concert
Posted: February 28, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Academy Awards, Oscar Concert
Last night, the Academy of the Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) presented its first-ever official Oscar concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall celebrating the nominated scores and songs of the 86th Academy Awards. The event was hosted by rapper Common and produced by Academy governors Charles Fox and Arthur Hamilton. To start off the show, Fox conducted an 80-piece orchestra consisting of studio musicians with a performance of Jerry Goldsmith’s Fanfare for Oscar. Film critic Elvis Mitchell moderated a Q&A with each of the nominated composers in the Best Original Score category before each performance. Read the rest of this entry »
