Long gone are the days where the main tasks of a film composer were the seeking out of scoring projects and the writing process itself. Over the past few decades, …
BOOK REVIEW: Guerrilla Film Scoring, by Jeremy Borum Read More
While predicting the future is something we can only dream of, I have always found that digging into the past reveals recurring patterns that tend to point in a particular …
Oscar Nominees 2015 (Part 6 of 6): Prediction, Best Original Score Read More
When director Christopher Nolan first approached his regular composer, Hans Zimmer, to write the score for Interstellar, he wanted to avoid the clichés associated with the science-fiction genre and “engage …
Oscar Nominees 2015, Best Original Score (Part 5 of 6): Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar Read More
English composer Gary Yershon has largely staked out his career in various realms of dramatic music, scoring mainly for theater but also for television, radio, and film. His experience in …
Oscar Nominees 2015, Best Original Score (Part 4 of 6): Gary Yershon’s Mr. Turner Read More
No stranger to film scoring, Jóhann Jóhannsson has been writing music for films for the last fifteen years (mainly for films from his native Iceland and from Europe), and has …
In addition to earning two Oscar nominations in 2014, Alexandre Desplat managed to score some of the year’s biggest box-office successes as all five of the films he scored ranked …
