A couple of major local critics associations have been announced their winners for this year’s movies. The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis was honored by three organizations for its soundtrack produced by T Bone Burnett. As a side note, the film doesn’t feature an actual score and only one original song, which is why the LA Film Critics’ choice in the Best Music Score category is somewhat misleading. For a full list of winners, click on each group’s name below.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association:
Best Music Score: Inside Llewyn Davis – T Bone Burnett
Runner-Up: Her – Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett
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Premiering tonight on the History, Lifetime and A&E networks is the mini-series Bonnie & Clyde directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) and starring Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Sarah Hyland, Elizabeth Reaser, Lane Garrison, Austin Hebert and Dale Dickey. The music of the two-parter is composed by John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Elf, Hatfield & McCoys). La-La Land Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s music on December 10. Check out
Virgin Records will release the official soundtrack album for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. The album features the songs from the film by artists including Billy Joel, Bo Diddley, Elmore James, Eartha Kitt, Howlin’ Wolf, The Lemonheads, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Cuba, Ahmad Jamal, Romeo Void and more. The soundtrack will be released digitally on December 17, 2013 and is now available for pre-order on
David Hirschfelder has composed the music for the upcoming Australian drama Healing. The film is directed by Craig Monahan and stars Hugo Weaving, Xavier Samuel, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Jane Menelaus, Anthony Hayes, Mark Leonard Winter, Robert Taylor and Justine Clarke. The movie tells the story of a real-life prison inmate’s last 18 months before release after serving a 16-year term as he is sent to a low-security, pre-release prison farm, where a senior officer has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men. Monahan has co-written the screenplay with Alison Niselle and is also co-producing the project with Tait Brady (The 25th Reich). Hirschfelder has previously scored Monahan’s two last features The Interview and Peaches, both of which also starred Weaving in the leading role.
The only movie to open wide this weekend is the drama Out of the Furnace co-written and directed by Scott Cooper and starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana and Sam Shepard. The film’s original score is composed by Dickon Hinchliffe (Winter’s Tale, Last Chance Harvey). Relativity Music Group has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score earlier this week. Check out
Opening in limited release is the drama Inside Llewyn Davis directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund and Justin Timberlake. Nonesuch Records has released a soundtrack album produced by T Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers, which features 12 new recordings made for the film performed by the movie’s cast, an existing recording by Dave Van Ronk, as well as a previously unreleased version of the song Farewell by Bob Dylan. Check out
The nominations for the 56th Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations in the film music-related categories:
Martin Léon is reuniting with director Philippe Falardeau on the upcoming indie drama The Good Lie. The movie marks the filmmaker’s first English language project and stars Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Sarah Baker and Brit Arnold Oceng. The film follows a young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys and develops an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them. Margaret Nagle (Warm Springs, Boardwalk Empire) has written the screenplay. Molly Smith (Beautiful Creatures, P.S. I Love You), Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill are producing the project for Black Label Media, alongside Brian Grazer & Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, 24) and Karen Kehela Sherwood (Blue Crush) for Imagine Entertainment.
WY Productions will release a soundtrack album for the biographical drama Yves Saint Laurent. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ibrahim Maalouf. Also included are the songs featured in the film by artists such as Brisa Roché, Chromatics, The Emotions, The Chamber Brothers, We the People, The Bossmen and Patrick Watson. The soundtrack will be released digitally on January 6, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on
Mark Kilian is composing the music for the upcoming ABC drama Killer Women. The show is created by Hannah Shakespeare (The Raven, Loverboy) and stars Tricia Helfer, Marc Blucas, Marta Milans, Michael Trucco and Alex Fernandez. The series centers on the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers – committed to finding the truth and seeing justice served. Shakespeare is also executive producing the ABC Studios production with Sofía Vergara (Modern Family), Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro), Ed Zuckerman (Blue Bloods, Law & Order),, Ben Silverman (The Office, The Tudors), and Luis Balaguer. Killer Woman is set to premiere on January 7, 2014 and will air every Tuesday night on ABC.
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