IFMCA 2009 Nominees For Best Score Announced!
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Awesome! Love the International Film Music Critics Awards, simply because it is the best award “show” only for film music. Here are this year’s nominees:
FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR
• AVATAR, music by James Horner
• DRAG ME TO HELL, music by Christopher Young
• STAR TREK, music by Michael Giacchino
• THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, music by Alexandre Desplat
• UP, music by Michael Giacchino
FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
• Alexandre Desplat
• Michael Giacchino
• James Horner
• Brian Tyler
• Christopher Young
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(4 votes, average: 6.50 out of 10)
Loading ...Soundtrack Review: Legion (2010)
Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score Legion by John Frizzell.
“The most exciting moment was when I got the score, not while listening to it.”
It’s time for another Supernatural movie, in fact it sounds a bit like the series Supernatural. God loses faith in all humans and sends a legion of angels to bring forth the end of the world. The only hope us humans have is the Archangel Michael apparently. Sounds a bit lame if you ask me, but hey, I do enjoy Supernatural so I can’t be a hypocrite now can I? This falls more into the horror genre than in the fantasy genre from what I have seen and John Frizzell is the composer.
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(3 votes, average: 6.33 out of 10) Loading ...Soundtrack Review: Leverage (2010)
TV Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the Television Score Leverage by Joseph LoDuca.
“Another fine release by LoDuca who for all I care, can keep on doing TV scores forever”
Leverage is a Television series about a gang of con-artists who steal from the wealthy and corrupt. It stars Timothy Hutton and has a cool vibe around it. Sort of like a light version of Ocean’s Eleven. I did watch half of first season but it didn’t have the staying power so I left it. I did notice the score, but didn’t think to much of it at the time. The composer is none other than Joseph LoDuca who seems to do every TV score these days. He is certainly versatile and this cool show needs a cool score.
(9 votes, average: 6.22 out of 10) Loading ...Soundtrack Review: The Hurt Locker (2008)
Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score The Hurt Locker by Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders.
“The experience of watching The Hurt Locker can’t be fully felt on the score album alone.”
I first saw the one-of-a-kind war movie, The Hurt Locker back in February of last year and since then it has seemed like an eternity waiting for the release of the film’s score by Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders, a soundtrack I’d been anticipating as soon as the credits rolled eleven months prior. The duo gave me the surprise of 2009 with their unsung effort for the otherwise dreadful, Max Payne. What I admired so much about their second collaboration in conjunction with the film, was that it did so much more than simply evoke an emotional response from the viewer. It got us inside the heads of a three-man bomb disposal unit, trying to survive the Iraq conflict in 2004. Life in a bomb disposal unit in the Middle East is probably not like anything that you or I could possibly begin to conceive of, but all the elements of The Hurt Locker; direction, camerawork, acting, editing sound design and score are wholly dependent upon each other in believably taking us there and placing us in the thick of the action, to jaw-dropping effect.
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(10 votes, average: 9.40 out of 10) Loading ...Soundtrack Review: A Single Man (2010)
Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score A Single Man by Abel Korzeniowski & Shigeru Umebayashi.
“This is the type of score that can make you fall in love with film music.”
A Single Man, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore is the story of a man (Colin Firth) who loses everything when his partner suddenly dies. His world is turned upside down and in this set-up there lies the potential for a powerful movie and performance (which it is). The movie is based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood and directed by noted fashion designer Tom Ford. It has already been tipped for awards, although while nominated 3 times for the Golden Globes, including Best Score, it didn’t win a single one. The score is written by Abel Korzeniowski with additional score by Shigeru Umebyashi.
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