The Annie Awards 2009 Nominees for Best Music in a Feature Production

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The Annie Awards 2009, or animation awards as some are calling it is soon here again.
The nominees [...]

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Soundtrack Review: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

This is a review of the motion picture score Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs by John Powell.
“Arguably Powell’s finest animation score since Chicken Run”
Another year, another John Powell animation score, right?  Over the 2000s he has averaged one score a year.  There is no denying that his slapstick approach is successful as well as [...]

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Soundtrack Review: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

This is a review of the motion picture score Ice Age: The Meltdown by John Powell.
“An addictive, rambunctious joy”
By now John Powell appears to reign supreme over the animation genre, at least in terms of quantitative output.  The composer has averaged one animated score per year during the 2000s, and all have maintained an impressive [...]

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Soundtracks: Preview Edition! John Powell, Gabriel Yared and more!

Welcome to Soundtracks: Preview Edition!
As featured on Soundtrack Fans earlier, here are none other than 6 soundtrack previews for your listening pleasure.
The 6 are:
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs by John Powell
In The Electric Mist by Marco Beltrami
My Sister’s Keeper by Aaron Zigman
The Countess by Julie Delpy
The Hedgehog by Gabriel Yared
The Stoning of Soraya M. [...]

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Change We Can Believe In: 2008 Scores In Review

It was not a great year for mainstream film scores.  A good year, for sure, since I had 23 scores getting an 8 or higher, but only one major Hollywood score earned a ten, and only one other from that pack got a nine, a severe dropoff from last year’s 8 (and 13 total including [...]

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