How Oscar’s Music Branch Is Plagued by Voting Issues
Everyone thinks of themselves as an expert in music, so every year complaints are voiced about the Oscar nominees for song and score. This year, more than most, insiders are venting (privately, for...
View ArticleAmerican Federation of Musicians, AMPTP Resume Contract Talks Amid Fight Over...
As the American Federation of Musicians and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed contract negotiations Wednesday, the AFM has released statistics that shed light on the...
View ArticleOscar Score Race Pits Veterans Against Rookies
Heading into the Academy Awards on March 10, with Golden Globe, BAFTA and Grammy wins behind him, “Oppenheimer” composer Ludwig Göransson would seem to have the original score Oscar sewn up. The...
View Article10 Famous Movie Scores Snubbed by the Oscars, From ‘Jurassic Park’ to ‘Psycho’
In an ideal world, the Academy’s music branch would watch all the movies and decide which five have met the criteria for excellence in musical scoring. But we all know that many other factors come into...
View ArticleLudwig Göransson Wins His Second Oscar for ‘Oppenheimer’ Score
Ludwig Göransson made good on an awards-season sweep by winning an Academy Award Sunday night for the music of “Oppenheimer,” his second career win for best original score. The Oscar completes a run...
View ArticleBillie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell Become Oscars’ Youngest Two-Time Winners...
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell made Oscar history by becoming the two youngest two-time winners in Academy Awards history, as they picked up the best song trophy for a second time Sunday night for...
View Article‘Shogun’ Composers Spent More Than Two Years Composing Four Hours of Music
FX’s acclaimed miniseries “Shōgun,” now nearing its halfway point, sports a score quite unlike Maurice Jarre’s music for the 1980 original adaptation. While utilizing authentic Japanese instruments,...
View Article‘Law & Order’ Composer Mike Post Creates New Bluegrass and Blues Album...
Mike Post has written the music for more classic TV series than anyone else: “The Rockford Files,” “Hill Street Blues,” “The Greatest American Hero,” “Magnum, P.I.,” “The A-Team,” “L.A. Law,” “NYPD...
View ArticleWalk of Fame Honoree Lang Lang Seeks to Inspire Kids by Linking Classical...
Hailed by no less than the New York Times as “the hottest artist on the classical music planet,” Chinese pianist Lang Lang has expanded traditional performance boundaries beyond the usual Bach, Mozart...
View ArticleDan Wallin, Oscar-Nominated and Emmy-Winning Music Mixer, Dies at 97
Dan Wallin, the music scoring engineer who recorded such classic film scores as “Spartacus,” “Bullitt,” “The Wild Bunch” and “Out of Africa,” died early Wednesday in Hawaii. He was 97. Twice...
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