Best Original Score Oscar: Carter Burwell (Twilight) may finally get first nod while past Winners and Nominees back in the running.
Composers
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Kelly Greyson in Alone Yet Not Alone. ‘Alone Yet Not Alone’ song has Oscar nomination revoked: Nod for obscure Christian movie had left many scratching their heads Last night, Jan.…
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San Francisco Symphony & Cary Grant in ‘North by Northwest.’ San Francisco Symphony salutes Alfred Hitchcock: Halloween movies and Hitchcock movie music The San Francisco Symphony will celebrate Alfred Hitchcock…
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Emmy Nominations’ Oscar Favorites: Al Pacino and Helen Mirren in Phil Spector. Emmy Nominations’ Oscar Favorites The 2013 Emmy nominations were announced earlier today by the Academy of Television Arts…
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Howards End with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins: Music by Richard Robbins. ‘Howards End’ composer Richard Robbins has died Richard Robbins, two-time Academy Award-nominated composer and frequent James Ivory-Ismail Merchant…
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Marvin Hamlisch and Barbra Streisand. Best known for the Oscar-winning theme song from the 1973 Barbra Streisand-Robert Redford tearjerker The Way We Were, composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch died Monday,…
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Mitt Romney Our Idiot Brother (Paul Rudd) Mitt Romney Our Idiot Brother / Barack Obama The King’s Speech says Harvey Weinstein. With the blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court, the…
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The Muppets Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took a well-deserved swipe at Fox News while taking part at a press conference at London’s May Fair Hotel this past Jan.…
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Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: Making Golden Globes history. Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: ‘The Artist’ achieves unique Golden Globes feat Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo accept…
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Women Directors’ Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Presence: Nadine Labaki submission Where Do We Go Now? Today it was announced that Patty Jenkins, whose Monster earned Charlize Theron a Best…
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Meet Me in St. Louis with Margaret O’Brien, Judy Garland Hugh Martin, best known for co-composing with Ralph Blane “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” sung by Judy Garland in…
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John Barry: Composer created the score for classics and near-classics such as Born Free, Goldfinger, and Somewhere in Time. Composer John Barry died at age 77. Although best known for…
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Diane Keaton and Woody Allen in Manhattan: Gordon Willis cinematographer. Gordon Willis for Klute (1971), The Godfather (1972), The Paper Chase (1973), The Godfather: Part II (1974), All the President’s…
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Ricky Martin, best known for the song “Livin’ la Vida Loca,", has announced that he is a “fortunate homosexual.” Martin pretty much just confirmed what everyone knew or at least…
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At a meeting held Monday, the 2009 Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) jury comprised of Katinka Faragó, Nils Petter Sundgren, Pia Johansson, Jannike Åhlund, Johan Renck, Mikael Marcimain and Guldbagge jury chairman…
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Josh Duhamel and Fergie (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA). George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA). George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis arrive at the 2010 Golden…
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Michael Feinstein, Rose Marie & Doris Roberts: Johnny Mercer Tribute with Monica Mancini and Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna.
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Mario Grigorov. 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…
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Johnny Mercer (top); Mercer, Donald O’Connor, Hoagy Carmichael at the 1951 Academy Awards ceremony (bottom) Johnny Mercer’s musical legacy will be celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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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 at…
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Maurice Jarre: 3-time Oscar-winning composer receiving Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement + Academy blocks sale of 2 Mary Pickford Oscars.
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The two 1992 Oscar-winning documentaries, Barbara Trent’s feature The Panama Deception and Gerardine Wurzburg’s short Educating Peter, will be screened as part of “Oscar’s Docs, Part Four: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries…
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Ennio Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West and Cinema Paradiso composer gets Honorary Oscar after 500 scores plus five nominations but no wins.
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Composer Franz Waxman tribute Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA – In celebration of Oscar®-winning composer Franz Waxman’s centennial, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 1941 films…
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Travelin’ Thru and Nobody Jesus But You among eclectic Best Song Oscar list + movies Best Visual Effects for teens and kids + Slamdance movies.
Kathryn Bigelow and Benh Zeitlin are Best Director favorites but Michael Haneke surprisingly bypassed also for Best Screenplay despite acclaimed film.
How to watch the 2012 BAFTA Awards live-streaming online? Well, if you’re in the United Kingdom, you might want to check out BBC3 at 7:30 p.m. London time for the…
Composer Joseph Brooks, who won an Academy Award for the song “You Light Up My Life,” was found dead today, May 22, in his Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Brooks,…
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson kiss: Bella attempts to seduce Edward in David Slade’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse May 13: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s kiss in the picture above…
Meryl Streep Gloom vs. Glitz, T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham: Golden Globes plus Jeff Bridges while Mo’Nique goes from teary to exultant.
Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman at 1983 Academy Awards. Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, among whose compositions are “The Way We Were” and the song score for Yentl, will be…
‘Falling Slowly’ Oscar controversy resolved + meet Academy Awards’ Film Editors + Art Directors and Set Decorators + check out nominated shorts.
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