Film Music Articles

The son of a concert pianist and trumpeter, Bulgarian-born, Austrian-trained composer Mario Grigorov has been creating film music for two decades, having become particularly busy in the last ten years or so. Among his movie credits are Leonardo Ricagni's 29 Palms (1999) and El chevrolé (2002), Alison Thompson's documentary The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story (2007), additional music for Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning Iraq War documentary [...]

Maurice Jarre, best known for his Oscar-winning association with David Lean in films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984), died in his sleep on March 28 at his home in Malibu after a brief illness. Some reports claimed that Jarre had cancer. He was 84. Throughout his five-decade career in film and on television Jarre was [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 56 songs will be considered in the original song category for the 2007 Academy Awards. On Tuesday, January 16, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for Music Branch voting members in both Beverly Hills and New York City. According to the Academy's press release, "to be eligible, a song [...]