The nominations for the 65th Grammy Awards have been announced. The 2023 Grammys will take place on Sunday, February 5, from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and broadcast live on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Here are the nominations in the film music-related categories:
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
The Batman – Michael Giacchino
Encanto – Germaine Franco
No Time to Die – Hans Zimmer Read the rest of this entry »
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the Netflix original film The Wonder. The album features the movie’s original music composed by Matthew Herbert (Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman, The Beast Must Die, Gloria Bell, The Cave, The Responder, Temple). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 16 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The Wonder is directed by Sebastián Lelio and stars Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Elaine Cassidy, Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, David Wilmot, Ruth Bradley, Caolán Byrne and Josie Walker. The period drama based on Emma Donoghue’s novel follows a nurse who travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl’s supposedly miraculous fast. Read the rest of this entry »
Anne Nikitin (American Animals, The Dropout, Fate: The Winx Saga, Lost Girls, Mrs. Wilson) & Jessica Jones (The Tinder Swindler) have composed the original music for the new Netflix documentary series Our Universe. The show is narrated by Morgan Freeman and explores the connections that drive our natural world. The 6-parter uses groundbreaking animation to dramatize the celestial forces that generated our solar system, while modern camera and CGI technology bring the audience up close and personal with some of the most iconic animals on Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
Maqueta Records has released a soundtrack album for the Italian horror fantasy movie Dampyr. The album features the film’s original music composed by Lorenzo Tomio (Feather, Succede, Everything Calls for Salvation). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Dampyr is directed by Riccardo Chemello and stars Wade Briggs, Stuart Martin, Frida Gustavsson, David Morrissey, Sebastian Croft and Luke Roberts. The Eagle Pictures production based on the comic book series created by Mauro Boselli & Maurizio Colombo is set during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s and follows the title character who is haunted by nightmares as he wanders the countryside making money pretending to be a Dampyr – half human, half vampire. Read the rest of this entry »
Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Only Murders in the Building, Runaways, Queenpins, Looking for Alaska) has composed the original score for the new Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales. The show is created by Robert Siegel (Pam & Tommy, The Wrestler) and stars Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis, Annaleigh Ashford, as well as Quentin Plair, Robin de Jesús, Spencer Boldman, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Andrew Rannells and Dan Stevens. The 8-part drama tells the story of Somen “Steve” Banerjee, an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of the world’s greatest male-stripping empire—and let nothing stand in his way in the process. Read the rest of this entry »
Gardener Recordings will release a soundtrack album for the animated movie Tom and Jerry: Snowman’s Land. The album features the film’s original music composed by Vivek Maddala (The Tom and Jerry Show, Mid-Century, Asian Americans, White Sun). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 15 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Tom and Jerry: Snowman’s Land is directed by Darrell Van Citters and features the voices of Kevin Michael Richardson, Kath Soucie, Laraine Newman, Rick Zieff, Stephen Stanton, Carlos Alazraqui, Joey D’Auria, Kimberly Brooks and Regi Davis. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Johnson (Nightmare Alley, Don Jon, Kill the Messenger, Mr. Corman) is currently scoring the upcoming Peacock original series Poker Face. The show is created and directed by Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and stars Natasha Lyonne as a woman with an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying who hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve. Guest stars include Adrien Brody, Benjamin Bratt, Charles Melton, Cherry Jones, Chloë Sevigny, Clea DuVall, Danielle MacDonald, Ellen Barkin, Hong Chau, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judith Light, Lil Rel Howery, Luis Guzmán, Nick Nolte, Rhea Perlman, Ron Perlman, Simon Helberg, Stephanie Hsu, Tim Blake Nelson and Tim Meadows. Read the rest of this entry »
Lakeshore Records will release the official soundtrack album for the war drama Devotion. The album features the film’s original score composed by Chanda Dancy (I Wanna Dance with Somebody, The Defeated, Aftershock, Dramarama). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, November 18 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. As previously reported, Joe Jonas’ & Khalid’s original song Not Alone from the movie was released as a digital single last Friday. Devotion is directed by J.D. Dillard and stars Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Thomas Sadoski, Christina Jackson and Joe Jonas. The movie is set during the Korean War and tells the story of the US Navy’s first Black aviator and his dedicated wingman, pilots who both confront geopolitical uncertainty and racist hostility with uncommon valour. Read the rest of this entry »
WaterTower Music has released the original song This Is Christmas from the HBO Max original movie Holiday Harmony. The track written by Mary Steenburgen, Caitlyn Smith & Troy Verges and performed by lead actress Annelise Cepero is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the full song after the jump. Holiday Harmony is directed by Shaun Paul Piccinino and stars Annelise Cepero, Jeremy Sumpter, Sisanie, Amy Brown, Carla Jimenez, Michael Wiseman, Seth Colton and Brooke Shields. Read the rest of this entry »
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Emma, The Phantom of the Open, Vita & Virginia, Roar, Munich: The Edge of War) has recently been scoring the upcoming thriller The Tutor. The film is directed by Alice Troughton (The Midwich Cuckoos) and stars Daryl McCormack, Julie Delpy and Richard E. Grant. The movie follows an aspiring and ambitious young author who takes a tutoring position at a legendary writer’s estate, when he realizes that he is engulfed in his hero’s complicated family legacy, which holds a deadly past and threatens his own future. Read the rest of this entry »
