Following yesterday’s announcement of the shortlist of twenty titles and today’s SCL (Society of Composers & Lyricists) Awards nominations, we have updated our predictions in the Best Original Score category for next year’s 98th Academy Awards on the left side column of this page. Nomination voting will begin on January 12, 2026 and will end […]
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2026 Oscars Best Original Score (Updated) Predictions
Posted: December 17, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
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Original Score & Song Shortlists for 98th Academy Awards Announced
Posted: December 16, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the shortlists for several categories for the 98th Academy Awards, including Original Score and Original Song. The shortlisted scores and songs are listed in alphabetical order below. The nominations for the 98th Academy Awards will be announced on January 22, 2026 and the awards show […]
135 Original Scores Advance in Oscar Race
Posted: December 5, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The list of original scores (and songs) in contention for next year’s Academy Awards has been revealed. Unlike in previous year, all of the expected major contenders have qualified in the Original Score category, including Avatar: Fire and Ash, Hamnet, The Testament of Ann Lee and Wicked: For Good, which have been expected by some […]
2026 Oscars Best Original Score Predictions
Posted: December 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Academy Awards
Starting today, we are publishing our predictions for the nominees in the Best Original Score category of next year’s 98th Academy Awards on the left side column of this page. The selection and ranking is based on our own experience of the scores in context of the movies, historical data, reactions of Academy music branch […]
Daniel Blumberg, Chris Bacon, Siddhartha Khosla, Isobel Waller-Bridge, Anthony Willis, Carlos Rafael Rivera & Others Invited to Join Academy
Posted: June 26, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 534 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to motion pictures to join the organization. Among the invited artists this year are a number of film composers, including Daniel Blumberg who received his first Academy Award (and nomination) this year for Brady […]
Carter Burwell Elected to Academy Board of Governors
Posted: June 18, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Carter Burwell
Composer Carter Burwell (Fargo, Carol, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, True Grit, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Blind Side, Twilight, Being John Malkovich) has been elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2025-2026 Board of Governors. He joins Lesley Barber and Richard Gibbs who will be the other two governors of the music branch […]
Music Highlights from the 97th Academy Awards
Posted: March 3, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony was held last night. While none of the Oscar-nominated original songs were performed live, the show featured several other musical performance. Highlights include Cynthia Erivo’s & Ariana Grande’s performance of Defying Gravity from the Academy Award-nominated Wicked (as well as their rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow & Home), a […]
Daniel Blumberg Wins Academy Award for ‘The Brutalist’ Score
Posted: March 2, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Daniel Blumberg was honored with his first Academy Award for his score for Brady Corbet’s epic period drama The Brutalist at tonight’s 97th Oscar ceremony. Check out his acceptance speech after the jump. The other nominated composers in the Original Score category were Volker Bertelmann (Conclave), Clément Ducol & Camille (Emilia Pérez), John Powell & Stephen […]
97th Academy Awards Nominations Announced
Posted: January 23, 2025 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards
This morning, the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of the last year will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center and will be televised live in the U.S. on the ABC Television Network and in […]
Robbie Williams’ Original Song ‘Forbidden Road’ from ‘Bettter Man’ Disqualified from Oscar Consideration
Posted: December 20, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Academy Awards, Better Man, Michael Gracey, Robbie Williams
The Academy has notified members of the music branch that the Oscar-shortlisted original song Forbidden Road from the biographical musical drama Better Man has been disqualified. The track co-written (with Freddy Wexler & Sacha Skarbek and produced by Dan Romer & Wexler) and performed by Robbie Williams was found to feature “material from an existing […]
