Ludwig Göransson was honored with his second Golden Globe in the Best Original Score category for his music from Ryan Coogler’s Sinners at tonight’s 31st Critics Choice Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. He previously received the award for his music from Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in 2024. Check out his acceptance speech after the jump. The other composers nominated in the category were Hans Zimmer (F1), Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein), Max Richter (Hamnet), Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another) and Kangding Ray (Sirat). Read the rest of this entry »
Ludwig Göransson Wins Golden Globe for ‘Sinners’ Score
Posted: January 11, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Golden Globes, Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 11, 2025)
Posted: January 11, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Amazon, Anne Nikitin, Ben Foster, Benjamin Wallfisch, Bookish, BritBox, Chris Egan, Clinton Shorter, Federico Jusid, Jeff Russo, Jung Jaeil, National Geographic, Netflix, Paramount+, PBS, Peacock, Pole to Pole, Ponies, Riot Women, Sarah Warne, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, The Night Manager, The Rip
Premiering today is the second season of the British TV series The Night Manager created by David Farr based on the characters created by John le Carré and starring Tom Hiddleston, Diego Calva, Camila Morrone, Olivia Colman, Alistair Petrie, Michael Nardone, Douglas Hodge, Hayley Squires, Indira Varma, Paul Chahid and Noah Jupe. The new season’s original music is composed by Federico Jusid (The Secret in Their Eyes, A Gentleman in Moscow, A Thousand Blows, The English, The Penguin Lessons, Watership Down, The Eternaut, The Head, Misconduct). Check out our previous article to learn more about the spy thriller, which currently airs in the UK Sunday nights on BBC One and is making its U.S. debut on Prime Video.
Also premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British TV series Bookish created by Mark Gatiss and starring Gatiss himself, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey, Blake Harrison and Buket Kömür. Sarah Warne (Des, Time, The Long Shadow, Humans, Dark Money, Hollington Drive, Steeltown Murders, The Drowning) has composed the show’s original music. Silva Screen Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last July when the crime drama premiered in the UK on U&alibi. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the series, which is making its domestic debut on PBS. Read the rest of this entry »
Guy Moon (1962-2026)
Posted: January 10, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Guy Moon
Guy Moon died this past Thursday at age 63 due to injuries sustained from a traffic collision in Los Angeles. The composer wrote dozens of scores and songs for film and television over the last four decades. His best known credits include Nickelodeon’s animated series The Fairly OddParents, for which he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the Music & Lyrics category, as well as the 1995 hit feature The Brady Bunch Movie and its 1996 sequel A Very Brady Sequel, Nickelodeon’s Danny Phantom & Back at the Barnyard, DreamWorks Animation’s Prime Video animated show The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Michael Miner’s 1989 thriller Deadly Weapon, Strathford Hamilton’s 1990 feature Diving In, Aram Rappaport’s 2017 movie The Crash, the Netflix animated series Johnny Test and the 2024 Network original series The Green Veil. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Holding Liat’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: January 10, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brandon Kramer, Holding Liat, Jordan Dykstra, score, Soundtrack
Editions Verde has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Holding Liat. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jordan Dykstra (20 Days in Mariupol, Blow the Man Down, Restless). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Also listen to the composer’s final track (A Sense of Symmetry) after the jump. Holding Liat is directed by Brandon Kramer and examines the Gaza war through the lens of an Israeli family whose daughter was kidnapped on October 7. The movie produced by Darren Aronofsky (for Protozoa Pictures) has recently been shortlisted in the Documentary Feature category for this year’s Academy Awards. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly Film Music Roundup (January 9, 2026)
Posted: January 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Adrian Johnston, Danny Elfman, Dead Man's Wire, Greenland 2: Migration, I Was a Stranger, Lukasz Targosz, My Neighbor Adolf, Nick Chuba, Paris Hurley, Primate, The Chronology of Water
Opening in theaters nationwide this weekend is the horror feature Primate co-written and directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Gia Hunter, Charlie Mann, Victoria Wyant, Benjamin Cheng and Tienne Simon. The film’s original music is composed by Adrian Johnston ( The Strangers: Prey at Night, Becoming Jane, Brideshead Revisited, Kinky Boots, Lassie, A Very Royal Scandal, Dancing on the Edge, The Child in Time, The Tunnel). Lakeshore Records & Paramount Music have released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our previous article for the full album details and to learn more about the Paramount Pictures release.
Also opening nationwide is the post-apocalyptic survival thriller Greenland 2: Migration directed by Ric Roman Waugh and starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis, William Abadie, Amber Rose Revah, Sophie Thompson and Trond Fausa Aurvåg. David Buckley (The Sandman, The Good Wife,The Nice Guys, The Lincoln Lawyer, Papillon, Jason Bourne, Nobody, Evil, The Forbidden Kingdom). Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score today. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the movie, which is being released by Lionsgate. Read the rest of this entry »
Jaeil Jung Scoring Peacock’s ‘Ponies’
Posted: January 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Jaeil Jung, Peacock, Ponies
Jaeil Jung (Parasite, Squid Game, Mickey 17, Okja, Twinless, Broker, Tempest) is making his American television scoring debut on the new Peacock original series Ponies. The show is created by David Iserson (The Spy Who Dumped Me) & Susanna Fogel (Cat Person, Winner) and stars Emilia Clarke, Haley Lu Richardson, Adrian Lester, Nicholas Podany, Artjom Gilz, Petro Ninovskyi and Vic Michaelis. The espionage thriller follows two “PONIES” (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) who become CIA operatives after their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR as they uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Bone Lake’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: January 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Ben Cherney, Bone Lake, Mercedes Byrce Morgan, Roque Banos, score, Soundtrack
MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the thriller Bone Lake. The album features the film’s original music composed by Roque Banos (Don’t Breathe, Evil Dead, In the Heart of the Sea, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Machinist, The Killer’s Game, Come Play, Sexy Beast) & Ben Cherney (The Kids Are Alright 2) . Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen to the composer’s title and end credits tracks after the jump. Bone Lake is directed by Mercedes Byrce Morgan and stars Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita and Marco Pigossi. The movie follows a couple whose romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. Read the rest of this entry »
Daniel Pemberton Scoring Kristoffer Borgli’s ‘The Drama’
Posted: January 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Daniel Pemberton, Kristoffer Borgli, The Drama
This week, Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into/Across the Spider-Verse, Enola Holmes, Steve Jobs, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Bad Guys, Materialists, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Birds of Prey) has been recording his score for the upcoming romantic dramedy The Drama. The film is written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario, Sick of Myself) and stars Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Hailey Benton Gates and Mamoudou Athie. The movie revolves around a happily engaged couple who is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails. Read the rest of this entry »
Television Academy Announces Rule Change in Two Music Categories
Posted: January 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Emmy Awards
The Television Academy has announced a number of rules changes for the 78th Emmy Awards competition in 2026, including two updates in the music categories. In the Outstanding Main Title Theme Music category, eligibility has been expanded to “include main-on-end themes. Both a Main Title Theme (appearing at the beginning of the program) and a Main-on-End Title Theme (appearing after the final act, before the end credits/crawl) are eligible.” In addition, the Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary/Nonfiction or Reality Program (Original Dramatic Score) category will now allow eligibility for reality programs that contain an original dramatic score. Read the rest of this entry »
2026 BAFTA Awards Original Score Longlist Announced
Posted: January 9, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: BAFTA
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) today announced the longlists for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2026. 112 films were submitted for consideration in the Original Score category and 10 titles are advancing. Members of the Music chapter vote to determine the llonglist and the nominations. Round Two voting, to determine the nominations, is opening today to BAFTA’s voting members and will close on January 20. The nominations for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 will be announced on January 27 and the ceremony will take place on February 22. Read the rest of this entry »
