Michael Giacchino won his first Academy Award last night. The Oscar for ‘Best Original Score’ went to his widely acclaimed score for the Pixar hit Up, a score that previously has been awarded the Golden Globe, the BAFTA and a Grammy among many other honours. Giacchino spoke about the dream coming true in his acceptance speech, saying to the “kid out there who do not have a support system” that …

Michael Giacchino is a popular name among film music critics. The International Film Music Critics Association just revealed its winners of the 2010 IFMCA awards and Giacchino received four awards, including “Score of the Year,” “Composer of the Year” and “Best Original Score for an Animated Feature” for Up, and “Best Original Score to a Fantasy/Science Fiction Feature” for Star Trek. Giacchino has always been a big name in film music …

Finnish composer Dani Strömbäck won the Nordic Film Music Prize which was handed out for the first time during the Göteborg International Film Festival on Saturday. His intimate piano-based score for Klaus Härö’s drama Letters to Father Jacob won in competition with one nominee each from the other Nordic countries: The Blessing by Danish composer Flemming Nordkrog, Burrowing by Swedish composer Erik Enocksson, Max Manus by Norwegian composer Trond Bjerknæs …

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed this year’s Oscar nominations. No big surprises in the Best Original Score category, where Michael Giacchino’s Golden Globe-nominated score for Up was joined by Hans Zimmer’s Sherlock Holmes, Marco Beltrami’s and Buck Sanders’ The Hurt Locker, Alexandre Desplat’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and, of course, James Horner’s Avatar. Randy Newman’s music for The Princess and the Frog was deemed ineligible in …

Composer Michael Giacchino set a new record in the six year long history of the International Film Music Critics Association Awards with nine (9) nominations for his output in 2009. Along with several mentions for his score to the animated Up (which also earned the composer the Golden Globe) and Star Trek, the 42-year old composer received nominations for television series Lost as well as documentary Earth Days.
Giacchino was also …

Michael Giacchino won the Golden Globe Award for his score for the Pixar movie Up when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed their final honours for 2009 yesterday. Up also won the ‘Best Animated Feature Film’ award. The Golden Globe for ‘Best Original Song’ went to Ryan Bingham and T. Bone Burnett for “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”. The other nominees in the score category were Marvin Hamlisch …

In the past ten years, Hans Zimmer has been the most commercially succesful film composer working in Hollywood. Other composers who join the exclusive club of composers who worked on films grossing over 2.5 billion dollars in the USA during the first decade of the new millennium are John Powell, John Debney, Danny Elfman, John Williams, James Newton Howard and Alan Silvestri. MovieScore Magazine has made an exclusive analysis of …

A number of critically acclaimed composers will not be a part of the Oscar race this year, The Wrap reports. Brian Eno, who recently scored Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, is not eligible simply due to the reason that the composer never was submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration. According to the Warp article by Steve Pond, Eno “simply felt that he didn’t have …

Michael Giacchino wrote 2009’s best film score according to the Chicago Film Critics Association, who announced yesterday that his score for the bittersweet Pixar animation Up won their award  for ‘Best Original Score.’ The film that won the most awards from the Chicago Critics is The Hurt Locker (scored by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders), earning five prizes. Giacchino’s score for Up has already won the Austin Film Critics Award …

The Golden Globe nominations for the 2010 awards were revealed yesterday, and the score category was a mix of surprises and “usual suspects”. Veterans James Horner and Marvin Hamlisch were nominated for Avatar and The Informant respectively, fan favorite Michael Giacchino for Up and newcomer Abel Korzeniowski for A Single Man (Korzeniowski only just had his big break in the business with the big orchestral score for animated feature Battle …