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Film Score Friday 3/15/24
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Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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3/14/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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This year's winners for the music Oscars, to no one's great surprise, were Ludwig Goransson for his original OPPENHEIMER score, and the sibling team of Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell for BARBIE's original song "What Was I Made For?" Each of this year's music winners were actually winning for the second time, and the Barbie songwriters are now both the youngest two-time Oscar winners.
Composer Kris Bowers, who had been shortlisted for his incidental music for The Color Purple, won the Documentary Short Subject Oscar (with Ben Proudfoot) for THE LAST REPAIR SHOP. Bowers, whose other scores include Green Book, Haunted Mansion, Origin, and the currently-in-theaters Bob Marley: One Love, had previously been nominated in the category with Proudfoot for 2020's A Concerto is a Conversation.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Danny Elfman - Varese Sarabande CD Club
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - John Powell - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Scusi, ma lei le paga le tasse?/Come rubammo la bomba atomica - Lallo Gori - Beat
Top Gun - Harold Faltermeyer - La-La Land
IN THEATERS TODAY
The American Society of Magical Negroes - Michael Abels
The Animal Kingdom - Andrea Laszlo De Simone
Arthur the King - Kevin Matley
High & Low - John Galliano - Tom Hodge
Irish Wish - Nathan Lanier
Knox Goes Away - Alex Heffes
The Neon Highway - Arturo Sandoval
One Life - Volker Bertelmann
The Prank - Deron Johnson
Shirley - Tamar-kali
Snack Shack - Keegan DeWitt
The Throwback - Dylan Glatthorn
Uproar - Karl Solve Steven |
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Film Score Friday 3/8/24
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Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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3/7/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest release from La-La Land - available to pre-order and expected to begin shipping next week - is a two-disc release of the soundtrack to one of the most iconic films of the 1980s, TOP GUN, featuring the first full release of the original Harold Faltermeyer score plus the songs from the original soundtrack CD.
The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and their associated labels include GOLIATH AWAITS, George Duning's* score for the 1981 two-part TV movie about the discovery of survivors living in an ocean liner decades after its sinking, starring Mark Harmon and Christopher Lee; THE DAVID MICHAEL FRANK COLLECTION VOL. 3, featuring the composer's scores for the TV movies A Will of Their Own and About Sarah (both from 1998); and Paul Gilreath's score for the 1985 action movie NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER, co-starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
*Not Morton Stevens' score - I only noticed this correction in the Message Board nine days later. As a wise man once said, d'oh!
Just a reminder, the 96th Academy Awards are this Sunday at 4pm Pacific Time. Music Oscars will be given - probably to Ludwig Goransson and possibly to Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas (that's my guess, anyway). My predictions are at the bottom of this column.* Please feel free to revel in my inevitable wrongness (I'm always much better at predicting nominations).
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Cliffhangers - Joe Harnell - Five Jays [CD-R]
The Joe Kraemer Collection Vol. 1 - Joe Kraemer - Dragon's Domain [CD-R] |
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Film Score Friday 2/9/24
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Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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2/8/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest release from La-La Land is the fourth in their 1701 COLLECTION series of episode scores from the original STAR TREK (previously included in the label's massive boxed-set). This release features scores from the series' third and final season, by composers Alexander Courage ("The Enterprise Incident," "Plato's Stepchildren"), Jerry Fielding ("Spectre of the Gun") and Gerald Fried ("The Paradise Syndrome"), plus source music and other cues from the episodes "Requiem for Methuselah," "The Way to Eden" and "Whom Gods Destroy."
The latest release from Caldera is the first release of the original score tracks for Roy Budd's score from the 1970 Western SOLIDER BLUE, starring Peter Strauss and Candice Bergen.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Alexei Aigui - Film Music Collection - Alexei Aigui - Music Box
Les B.O. Introuvables Vol. 7 - Sam Bernett, Jean Bouchety, Jean Musy, Dominique Perrier, Karl-Heinz Shafter - Music Box
Relative Dimensions: 60 Years in Time and Space - Joe Kraemer - Buysoundtrax
Soldier Blue - Roy Budd - Caldera |
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Film Score Friday 1/26/24
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Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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1/25/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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For those who missed my column on the topic earlier this week (it seems like only yesterday!), or who don't read the Message Board, or entertainment news in general, here again are this year's Oscar nominations for the music categories:
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
AMERICAN FICTION - Laura Karpman
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY - John Williams
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON - Robbie Robertson
OPPENHEIMER - Ludwig Göransson
POOR THINGS - Jerskin Fendrix
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
THE FIRE INSIDE - Flamin' Hot - Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
I'M JUST KEN - Barbie - Music and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
IT NEVER WENT AWAY - American Symphony - Music and Lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson
WAHZHAZHE (A SONG FOR MY PEOPLE) - Killers of the Flower Moon - Music and Lyric by Scott George
WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? - Barbie - Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell
American Star - Remate
The Breaking Ice - Kin Leonn
Maya - Michelangelo Sosnowitz
Miller's Girl - Elyssa Samsel
Sometimes I Think About Dying - Dabney Morris
The Sweet East - Paul Grimstad |
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Oscar Nominations 2023
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Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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1/24/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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This year’s Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday morning, by Zazie Beets and Jack Quaid (demonstrating that Quaid truly is in everything these days), including the following music categories:
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
AMERICAN FICTION - Laura Karpman
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY - John Williams
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON - Robbie Robertson
OPPENHEIMER - Ludwig Göransson
POOR THINGS - Jerskin Fendrix
This is the first nomination for Fendrix, Karpman and Robertson. Karpman is still among the very few female composers nominated for their original scores, following winners Rachel Portman and Hildur Guonadottir and nominee Germaine Franco (Jackie nominee Mica Levi identifies as non-binary). Robertson passed away on August 9th of last year. His is not even the first posthumous original score nomination, as Victor Young (Around the World in 80 Days) and Alfred Newman (Airport) passed away before their final nominations. It is the third nomination for Göransson, and the 54th (!) for Williams. Göransson seems the likely winner, unless the Academy feels that Williams deserves a sixth one, especially since his last win was 30 years ago (for Schindler’s List). I believe I’m not the only Williams devotee who feels that Dial of Destiny is a less-than-classic Williams score, so I’m hoping sentiment does not win out (especially if that sentiment goes to Robertson). For the record, it’s his fourth nomination for an Indiana Jones score (only Kingdom of the Crystal Skull didn’t make the cut).
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
THE FIRE INSIDE - Flamin' Hot - Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
I'M JUST KEN - Barbie - Music and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
IT NEVER WENT AWAY - American Symphony - Music and Lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson
WAHZHAZHE (A SONG FOR MY PEOPLE) - Killers of the Flower Moon - Music and Lyric by Scott George
WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? - Barbie - Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell
If nothing else, this batch reminds one you should never bet against Diane Warren getting a nomination, no matter how obscure the film (raise your hand if you’ve seen Breakthrough, The Life Ahead, Four Good Days or Tell It Like a Woman). Barbie’s “What Was I Made For?” seems the most likely winner.
And now for those categories everyone else cares about: |
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Oscar Predictions and Other End Of 2023 Lists
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Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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1/19/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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Predictions are in boldface, followed by those which I personally would nominate in italics. As with previous years' lists, for several categories I have NOT provided my own nominations, since frankly I know jack about costumes, sound and so forth, though more and more I try to pay attention to sound in particular. Films that I have listed as my own personal nominations yet which will definitely not be nominated -- either because they are ultimately ineligible in those categories or simply not shortlisted -- are marked with an asterisk.
The actual nominations will be announced this Tuesday morning around 5:30 am (Pacific Time).
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AMERICAN FICTION
BARBIE
THE HOLDOVERS
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
MAESTRO
OPPENHEIMER
PAST LIVES
POOR THINGS
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
AFIRE
AMERICAN FICTION
THE HOLDOVERS
MAESTRO
MAY DECEMBER
OPPENHEIMER
POOR THINGS
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
TORI & LOKITA
THE ZONE OF INTEREST |
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Today in Film Score History: March 19 |
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Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for The Mummy Returns (2001) |
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Anthony Marinelli born (1959) |
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Dimitri Tiomkin wins Oscars for High Noon's score and song (1953) |
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George Garvarentz died (1993) |
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Jean Weiner born (1896) |
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Jeff Alexander begins recording his score to Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) |
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Joseph Mullendore records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “Shell Game” (1969) |
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Michel Legrand begins recording his score for The Other Side of the Wind (2018) |
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Velton Ray Bunch records his score for the Enterprise episode “Acquisition” (2002) |
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