Soundtrack Geek January Summary
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Welcome to the first of 12 summaries I plan to write in 2010. I thought it would be nice with a summary post of each month that has passed to celebrate what we love the most: film music. Soundtrack Geek isn’t just Soundtrack Geek anymore, we now have Soundtrack Fans and also Soundtrack Geek Game Music. In addition we are on Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and a lot more places, but this will not be a summary of everything, that would probably be a 10.000 word post and you wouldn’t want that, trust me.
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Up Wins Best Score at the Grammy Awards
The unstoppable force that is UP won the Grammy Awards last night, who would have thought it? By the way, that was an attempt of irony. Michael Giacchino is three for three with already having won Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globe Awards earlier this year.
Here are the nominees in full:
* Up by Michael Giacchino
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Alexandre Desplat
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Nicholas Hooper
* Milk by Danny Elfman
* Star Trek by Michael Giacchino
We congratulate Michael Giacchino yet again!
Source: Grammy.com
IFMCA 2009 Nominees For Best Score Announced!
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.
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