This is the first in a series of six posts on the 2013 Oscar nominees for Best Original Score. The first five posts will discuss each of the nominees individually, […]
Oscar Nominees 2013: Alexandre Desplat’s Score for Argo Read More
Hans Zimmer worked alone for the trilogy’s final installment instead of collaborating with James Newton Howard, who claimed that, although he had contributed much to the music of these films,
Musical Themes in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Part 5 of 6: The Dark Knight Rises Read More
Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is one of the most highly regarded in film history, most of all because the music does so much to create the suspenseful and sometimes
Comparing Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho Score and Sinfonietta (1936) Read More
Last week the nominees for the 2013 Academy Awards were announced, and among them was composer Mychael Danna, both for his score to Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and for
Mychael Danna’s Two Oscar Nominations Read More
Although the score for The Dark Knight was a collaboration between Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, the composers divided up the music for the two main villains of the film,
Musical Themes in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Part 4 of 6: The Dark Knight Read More
Like Batman Begins, the music of The Dark Knight was composed by both Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Of course many themes from the first movie reappear in this
Musical Themes in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Part 3 of 6: The Dark Knight Read More
