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Academy Award Winners 2023
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the winners of the 96th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2023.
In the Best Original Score category Ludwig Göransson won the award for his score for Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan’s epic drama about the life and work of the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer whose work on the Manhattan Project in the 1940s led to the creation of the world’s first nuclear weapon. Accepting his award, Göransson said:
“Thank you Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas for inviting me on this incredible world. Christopher Nolan it was your idea to use the violin in the score, and it allowed me to work and collaborate with my wonderful wife and acclaimed violinist Serena Göransson. We had… we recorded at night and we were rushing to home and put our kids Apollo and Romeo down to bed, but the result of that was amazing and it really set a really nice tone for the film of that performance. Theresa Stanislav, Jake Brown, Chris Fogel, Anthony Parnther, Alyssa Park, thank you for making the music sound great, and to my parents up there, thank you for giving me guitars and drum machines instead of video games! Thank you!
The other nominees were Joscelin Dent-Pooley (Jerskin Fendrix) for Poor Things, Laura Karpman for American Fiction, Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon, and John Williams for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
In the Best Original Song category, the winners were Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for “What Was I Made For” from the smash hit movie Barbie.
The other nominees were Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson for “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony, Scott George for “Wahzhazhe – A Song for My People” from Killers of the Flower Moon, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie, and Diane Warren for “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot.
In film-music adjacent news, composer Kris Bowers also won an Oscar, not for music, but for co-directing and producing the documentary short film The Last Repair Shop, which is about a workshop in Los Angeles who find, repair, and donate musical instruments to under-privileged students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. This makes Bowers one of the few full-time film music composers to win an Academy Award for something other that composing.
IFMCA Award Winners 2023
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2023 IFMCA AWARDS
JOHN WILLIAMS WINS SCORE OF THE YEAR FOR FIFTH INDIANA JONES FILM, DIAL OF DESTINY; CHRISTOPHER YOUNG WINS FOUR AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN HORROR FIELD; COMPOSERS FROM JAPAN AND POLAND ALSO TAKE HOME AWARDS
FEBRUARY 22, 2024 — The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its list of winners for excellence in musical scoring in 2023, in the 2023 IFMCA Awards.
The award for Score of the Year goes to American composer John Williams, for his score for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth film in the beloved action-adventure series starring Harrison Ford as the eponymous globetrotting archaeologist. The score also won the award for its genre, being named Best Score for an Action/Adventure film.
IFMCA member James Southall praised Dial of Destiny as “a nostalgic throwback to those great times of the past – a set of meticulously-composed new music by one of the greatest film composers we’ve ever had – an exhibition in skill and technique with the orchestra which is guaranteed to go beyond almost any other film music we hear this year.” IFMCA member Christian Clemmensen said that the score was “an especially gratifying treat and an immense pleasure to hear in the 2020’s… it continues to espouse the uniquely superior aspects of Williams’s writing from decades past”. Similarly, IFMCA member Anton Smit said the score was “a fantastic listening experience from start to finish… a masterpiece… one of the highlights of this final phase of John Williams’ career.”
This is John Williams’s fifth Score of the Year victory, having previously won for Memoirs of a Geisha in 2005, War Horse in 2011, Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. These wins also take Williams’s all-time IFMCA win tally to 21, not including those for archival releases of his older scores, making him the most-awarded composer in IFMCA history. Read more…
BAFTA Winners 2023
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have announced the winners of the 77th British Academy Film Awards, honoring the best in film in 2023.
In the Best Original Music category, the winner was Ludwig Göransson, who won the award for his score for Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan’s epic drama about the life and work of the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer whose work on the Manhattan Project in the 1940s led to the creation of the world’s first nuclear weapon. Accepting his award, Göransson said:
“Thank you to the BAFTA, and thank you Chris [Nolan] and Emma [Thomas], for all the love and dedication your poured into Oppenheimer. Chris, also thank you so much for spending so much time with me working on this music. All the time you allowed for experimentation, listening to my music over and over again, dissecting the score, talking about the sounds, the themes, and making it into the musical world of Oppenheimer meant… it meant everything to me. That was an incredible experience. I want to also thank all the musicians that poured their hearts into playing on this score and making the music come alive. Without them it wouldn’t be possible. And I also want to thank my partner in life and music, Serena, I love you.”
The other nominees were Jerskin Fendrix for Poor Things, Daniel Pemberton for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon, and Anthony Willis for Saltburn.
SCL Award Winners 2023
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the winners of the fifth annual SCL Awards, honoring the best in film and television music in 2023. The SCL is the premier professional trade group for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working in the motion picture, television, and game music industry, and is headquartered in Los Angeles. The winners are:
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
- LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Oppenheimer
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
- JOHN POWELL for Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION OR STREAMING PRODUCTION
- NICHOLAS BRITELL for Succession
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL TITLE SEQUENCE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
- CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA for Lessons in Chemistry
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA – DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY
- OLIVIA RODRIGO and DAN NIGRO for “Can’t Catch Me Now” from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA- MUSICAL/COMEDY
- BILLIE EILISH and FINNEAS O’CONNELL for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
- STEPHEN BARTON and GORDY HAAB for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
- CATHERINE JOY
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
- MARTIN SCORSESE and ROBBIE ROBERTSON
IFMCA Nominations 2023
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
JOHN WILLIAMS AND CHRISTOPHER YOUNG LEAD LIST OF NOMINATED COMPOSERS WITH FOUR NOMINATIONS EACH;MULTIPLE COMPOSERS FROM JAPAN AND POLAND AMONG MAJOR NOMINEES
FEBRUARY 8, 2024. The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its list of nominees for excellence in musical scoring in 2023, for the 20th annual IFMCA Awards. Composers John Williams and Christopher Young lead the list of composer nominees with four nominations each, closely followed by Lorne Balfe, Stephen Barton, Ludwig Göransson, and Bear McCreary, who each have three.
Legendary American composer Williams’s nominations are all for his work on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth film in the beloved action-adventure series starring Harrison Ford as the eponymous globetrotting archaeologist. Dial of Destiny received nominations for Score of the Year, Best Action/Adventure score, and Composition of the Year for the score’s main theme, “Helena’s Theme,” while Williams himself was nominated for Composer of the Year.
IFMCA member James Southall praised Dial of Destiny as “a nostalgic throwback to those great times of the past – a set of meticulously-composed new music by one of the greatest film composers we’ve ever had – an exhibition in skill and technique with the orchestra which is guaranteed to go beyond almost any other film music we hear this year.” Similarly, IFMCA member Christian Clemmensen said that the score was “an especially gratifying treat and an immense pleasure to hear in the 2020’s. It extends the quality of the prior two [Indiana Jones] works and continues to espouse the uniquely superior aspects of Williams’s writing from decades past”. Read more…
Movie Music UK Awards 2023
This year was a fascinating year for me in terms of film music, mainly because for the majority of it there wasn’t one runaway winner for Score of the Year. In recent years there has been a Rings of Power or some other clear front runner, but that wasn’t the case this year – instead there were a very large group of four and four-and-a-half star scores, any of which could have taken top honors depending on the slightest vagaries of personal taste, composer affection, or film quality. I heard more than 700 scores in 2023 – either as a soundtrack album, in movie context, or both – and I ended up rating 84 of them **** or better.
There were an especially large number of excellent scores from outside the mainstream Hollywood system – especially China, France, Japan, and Poland – which again indicates that the world of film music remains as rich and vibrant as it ever was, provided you are willing to put in some effort and explore beyond the confines of the mainstream Hollywood system. There were also a large number of exceptional TV scores, video game scores, and even scores for animated short films that left a significantly positive impression. As such, as was the case last year, I decided to continue to allow television and video game scores to compete on an equal footing with film scores for my coveted ‘Score of the Year’ award –
So, without further ado, here are my choices for the best scores of 2023! Read more…
Academy Award Nominations 2023
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2023.
In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are:
- JOSCELIN DENT-POOLEY (JERSKIN FENDRIX) for Poor Things
- LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Oppenheimer
- LAURA KARPMAN for American Fiction
- ROBBIE ROBERTSON for Killers of the Flower Moon
- JOHN WILLIAMS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
These are the first Oscar nominations for Dent-Pooley, Karpman, and Robertson; Robertson’s nomination is posthumous, as he died in August 2023, just weeks before Killers of the Flower Moon was released. This is the third Oscar nomination – the second in this category – for Göransson, who previously won for Black Panther in 2018.
Incredibly, this is the 54th Oscar nomination for John Williams, which breaks his own record for being the most nominated living person, and maintains his position as the second most nominated person of all time after Walt Disney (who had 59). He previously won Academy Awards for Fiddler on the Roof in 1971, Jaws in 1975, Star Wars in 1977, E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial in 1982, and Schindler’s List in 1993.
In the Best Original Song category, the nominees are:
- JON BATISTE and DAN WILSON for “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony
- BILLIE EILISH and FINNEAS O’CONNELL for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
- SCOTT GEORGE for “Wahzhazhe – A Song for My People” from Killers of the Flower Moon
- MARK RONSON and ANDREW WYATT for “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
- DIANE WARREN for “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot
The winners of the 96th Academy Awards will be announced on March 10, 2024.
BAFTA Nominations 2023
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the nominations for the 77th British Academy Film Awards, honoring the best in film in 2023.
In the Best Original Music category, which is named in memory of the film director Anthony Asquith, the nominees are:
- JOSCELIN DENT-POOLEY (JERSKIN FENDRIX) for Poor Things
- LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Oppenheimer
- DANIEL PEMBERTON for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- ROBBIE ROBERTSON for Killers of the Flower Moon
- ANTHONY WILLIS for Saltburn
This is the second BAFTA nomination for Pemberton, and the second nomination for Willis. All the other three nominees are first time nominees – although Göransson does have an Oscar, a Golden Globe, three Grammys and two Emmys – meaning that whoever wins will be a first time BAFTA winner. Robertson’s nomination is posthumous; he died in August 2023, just weeks before Killers of the Flower Moon was released.
The winners of the 77th BAFTA Awards will be announced on 18 February, 2024.
Golden Globe Winners 2023
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) have announced the winners of the 81st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2023.
In the Best Original Score category composer Ludwig Göransson won the award for his score for Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan’s epic drama about the life and work of the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer whose work on the Manhattan Project in the 1940s led to the creation of the world’s first nuclear weapon. This is the first Golden Globe for Göransson, in his fourth nomination – he was previously nominated for Best Score for Black Panther in 2019, and Tenet in 2021, and for Best Song for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in 2022. In his acceptance speech, Göransson said:
“Thank you to the HFPA, and thank you to Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas for inviting me on this journey, and for creating this masterpiece. Working with Christopher Nolan has been an incredible experience and I think the way that you use music in your films and your storytelling has inspired a lot of people. I want to also thank Cillian Murphy, I have been watching your face over and over and over again [laughs] – it’s been an incredible experience and thank you for inspiring me. I want thank all the musicians that played on this incredible score… on this score, they made an incredible effort. And I also want to thank my partner in life and partner in music, Serena, for helping me to realize this music. I love you.”
The other nominees were Joscelin Dent-Pooley (Jerskin Fendrix) for Poor Things, Joe Hisaishi for The Boy and the Heron, Mica Levi for The Zone of Interest, Daniel Pemberton for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon
In the Best Original Song category, the winners were Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for their song “What Was I Made For,” one of three nominees from the smash hit summer blockbuster Barbie.
The other nominees were Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, and John Spiker for “Peaches” from The Super Mario Bros. Movie; Lenny Kravitz for “Road to Freedom” from Rustin; Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie; Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Dua Lipa, and Caroline Ailin for “Dance the Night” from Barbie; and Bruce Springsteen for “Addicted to Romance” from She Came to Me.
SCL Award Nominations 2023
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the nominations for the fifth annual SCL Awards, honoring the best in film and television music in 2023. The SCL is the premier professional trade group for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working in the motion picture, television, and game music industry, and is headquartered in Los Angeles. The nominees are:
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
• LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Oppenheimer
• JOE HISAISHI for The Boy and the Heron
• LAURA KARPMAN for American Fiction
• ROBBIE ROBERTSON for Killers of the Flower Moon
• ANTHONY WILLIS for Saltburn
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
• JON BATISTE for American Symphony
• MICA LEVI for The Zone of Interest
• FABRIZIO MANCINELLI and RICHARD M. SHERMAN for Mushka
• DANIEL PEMBERTON for Ferrari
• JOHN POWELL for Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
• NICHOLAS BRITELL for Succession
• NATALIE HOLT for Loki
• MARTIN PHIPPS for The Crown
• CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA for Lessons in Chemistry
• GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA for The Last of Us
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL TITLE SEQUENCE FOR A TELEVISION PRODUCTION
• CHANDA DANCY for Lawmen: Bass Reeves
• NAINITA DESAI for The Deepest Breath
• KEVIN KINER for Ahsoka
• ATLI ÖRVARSSON for Silo
• CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA for Lessons in Chemistry
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA – DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY
• JON BATISTE and DAN WILSON for “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony
• NICHOLAS BRITELL and TAURA STINSON for “Slip Away” from Carmen
• SHARON FARBER and NOAH BENSHEA for “Better Times” from Jacob the Baker
• LENNY KRAVITZ for “Road to Freedom” from Rustin
• OLIVIA RODRIGO and DAN NIGRO for “Can’t Catch Me Now” from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA- MUSICAL/COMEDY
• JACK BLACK, JOHN SPIKER, ERIC OSMOND, MICHAEL JELENIC, and AARON HORVATH for “Peaches” from The Super Mario Bros Movie
• BILLIE EILISH and FINNEAS O’CONNELL for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
• HEATHER MCINTOSH, ALLYSON NEWMAN, and TAURA STINSON for “All About Me” from The L Word: Generation Q
• MARK RONSON and ANDREW WYATT for “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
• DIANE WARREN for “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
• STEPHEN BARTON and GORDY HAAB for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• WINIFRED PHILLIPS for Secrets of Skeifa Island
• PINAR TOPRAK for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
• AUSTIN WINTORY for Stray Gods
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
• CATHERINE JOY
• FABRIZIO MANCINELLI
• ALLYSON NEWMAN
• HANNAH PARROTT
• KENNY WOOD
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
• MARTIN SCORSESE and ROBBIE ROBERTSON
The winners of the 5th SCL Awards will be announced on 13 February, 2024.
Golden Globe Nominations 2023
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has announced the nominations for the 81st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2023.
In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are:
- JOSCELIN DENT-POOLEY (JERSKIN FENDRIX) for Poor Things
- LUDWIG GÖRANSSON for Oppenheimer
- JOE HISAISHI for The Boy and the Heron
- MICA LEVI for The Zone of Interest
- DANIEL PEMBERTON for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- ROBBIE ROBERTSON for Killers of the Flower Moon
These are the first nominations for Dent-Pooley, Hisaishi, Levi, and Robertson; Robertson’s nomination is posthumous, as he died in August. It is the third nomination for Göransson, and the third nomination for Pemberton. None of the composers have ever won a Golden Globe before.
In the Best Original Song category, the nominees are:
- JACK BLACK, AARON HORVATH, MICHAEL JELENIC, ERIC OSMOND, and JOHN SPIKER for “Peaches” from The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- BILLIE EILISH O’CONNELL and FINNEAS O’CONNELL for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
- LENNY KRAVITZ for “Road to Freedom” from Rustin
- MARK RONSON and ANDREW WYATT for “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
- MARK RONSON, ANDREW WYATT, DUA LIPA, and CAROLINE AILIN for “Dance the Night” from Barbie
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN for “Addicted to Romance” from She Came to Me
The winners of the 81st Golden Globe Awards will be announced on January 7, 2024.
Academy Award Winners 2022
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the winners of the 95th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2022.
In the Best Original Score category composer Volker Bertelmann won the award for his score for the new version of the classic anti-war story All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the all-time great novel by Erich Maria Remarque. In accepting his award, Bertelmann said:
“Well, thank you so much, thanks to the Academy for this huge recognition. When I was working on the film I was thinking a couple of times of my mom, because she was telling me, every now and then, when you want to change humanity and empathy in the world, you have to start by yourself and with your own surroundings, because you learn by that and you can show actually where we all – how we all can live together. So, you know, by working on a film like that you always are deeply touched and sometimes you have to make the screen very small because there are so much explosions happening. I want to say thank you to my wife, Elizabeth, and my kids up there, Lotte, Paulina, and Lucas. To Malthe Grunert and Edward Berger, and the whole cast and crew, for their amazing craftsmanship. To Netflix for their huge support. And to my fellow nominees, Carter, John, Justin, Son Lux, that I can be a part of such a unique, human, and diverse group of talented composers, that’s for me a big gift. And last but not least I want to thank all of you, for this wonderful evening. Thank you so much!
The other nominees were Carter Burwell for The Banshees of Inisherin, Justin Hurwitz for Babylon, Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang (Son Lux) for Everything Everywhere All at Once, and John Williams or The Fabelmans.
In the Best Original Song category, the winners were M. M. Keeravani and Kanukuntla Subhash Chandrabose for “Naatu Naatu” from the smash hit Bollywood movie RRR.
The other nominees were Stephanie Germanotta (Lady Gaga) and Michael Tucker (Bloodpop) for “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick, Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mituski Miyawaki (Mitski) for “This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All At Once, Temilade Openiyi (Tems), Robyn Rihanna Fenty, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Göransson for “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Diane Warren for “Applause” from Tell It Like A Woman.
IFMCA Award Winners 2022
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2022 IFMCA AWARDS
BEAR MCCREARY WINS SCORE OF THE YEAR FOR EPIC TV SERIES THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER; ALSO NAMED COMPOSER OF THE YEAR, WINS TWO OTHER AWARDS. SIMON FRANGLEN WINS TWO AWARDS FOR WORK ON AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. DOCUMENTARY TRIBUTE TO LATE ENNIO MORRICONE HONORED WITH SPECIAL AWARD
FEBRUARY 23, 2023 — The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its list of winners for excellence in musical scoring in 2022, in the 2022 IFMCA Awards.
The award for Score of the Year goes to American composer Bear McCreary, for his score for the epic Amazon Prime television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series, which has a main theme by composer Howard Shore, is based on the extended writings of author J.R.R. Tolkien, and looks at events that took place in Middle Earth millennia before those portrayed in director Peter Jackson’s massively successful and popular Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films.
IFMCA member James Southall called The Rings of Power “a real triumph, undoubtedly McCreary’s own career-defining moment,” and IFMCA member Conrado Xalabarder said that the score was “one of the best in the history of music for television series … a work made from intelligence, commitment, and above all respect for Tolkien and the audience. All its central themes work impeccably, coherently, and they develop and interact with each other, creating first-rate narration and dramaturgy.” IFMCA member Jon Broxton similarly praised the score, saying “the level of research and intelligent design McCreary has done in terms of creating the musical structure of The Rings of Power is absolutely astonishing, and is probably unparalleled in the history of television music.”
This marks the first time a score written for television has been named Score of the Year by the IFMCA. The rules were changed earlier in 2022 to allow television and video game scores to compete alongside films for the top award. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is also named Best Original Score for Television, while McCreary himself is named Composer of the Year, his first win in this category. McCreary’s other work in 2022 included the animated comedy Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, which is a re-imagining of the classic 1970s comedy Blazing Saddles; the epic video game God of War: Ragnarök (which also won the award for Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media); and continuing contributions to the most recent seasons of TV series such as Outlander, See, The Serpent Queen, The Walking Dead, and The Witcher: Blood Origin. These are the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth IFMCA Awards of McCreary’s career. Read more…
BAFTA Winners 2022
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have announced the winners of the 76th British Academy Film Awards, honoring the best in film in 2022.
In the Best Original Music category, the winner was Volker Bertelmann, who took home the award for his work scoring the German-language World War I epic All Quiet on the Western Front. Accepting his award, Bertelmann said:
“Thank you so much. Thank you to all the BAFTA members for honoring that film, and also the music. That means a lot to me because that film showed me that humanity, empathy, and embracing diversity of human beings and nations is one thing that is the most important in our world. So, I’m very happy that I was a part of the film. I want to say thank you to my wife Elizabeth. To my three kids Lotta, Paulina, and Lucas. To Edward Berger and Malte Grunert, for their trust, and letting me do my thing, Being, you know, they just cut the leashes whenever I wanted to fly a little bit more. I want to say thank you to the wonderful cast and crew because without their craftsmanship I couldn’t do a good score. I would be a little bit helpless. I want to say thank you to Netflix for their support, and I want to say thank you to Patti Macmillan, my agent, and Thomas Mikusz, who are since the beginning of my career they are friends and supporters and they never doubted that this might have happened at some point. So thank you for this, and congratulations to my fellow nominees, and to all the others that are nominated and all the winners. Have a wonderful evening, enjoy it! Thank you.”
The other nominees were Carter Burwell for The Banshees of Inisherin, Alexandre Desplat for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Justin Hurwitz for Babylon, and Son Lux for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
SCL Award Winners 2022
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has announced the winners of the fourth annual SCL Awards, honoring the best in film and television music in 2022. The SCL is the premier professional trade group for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working in the motion picture, television, and game music industry, and is headquartered in Los Angeles. The winners are:
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
- MICHAEL ABELS for Nope
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
- SON LUX for Everything Everywhere All At Once
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION OR STREAMING PRODUCTION
- CRISTOBAL TAPIA DE VEER for The White Lotus
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA – DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY
- DIANE WARREN for “Applause” from Tell It Like A Woman
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG FOR VISUAL MEDIA- MUSICAL/COMEDY
- ALEXANDRE DESPLAT, ROEBAN KATZ, and GUILLERMO DEL TORO for “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
- STEPHANIE ECONOMOU for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
DAVID RAKSIN AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
- NAMI MELUMAD
SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD
- DAMIEN CHAZELLE and JUSTIN HURWITZ
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