This week, Lorne Balfe joins me on The Film Scorer. Lorne has about two-hundred credits to his name across film, TV, and video games, including projects like Top Gun: Maverick, a couple Mission: Impossible films, The Crown, Assassin’s Creed, Call […]
Today, Takeshi Furukawa (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) joins the show! Takeshi’s latest projects have been scoring the both seasons of Netflix’s live action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender as well as Planet of Lana […]
Hard to believe that we’re already about a quarter of the way through season 6 – feels like we’ve only just started. To commemorate this occasion, I’m joined by Kara Talve. Kara has been the principal composer of The Simpsons […]
Gavin Brivik is the latest guest on The Film Scorer! I’ve been familiar with Gavin’s work for quite a while, probably dating back to his score for the 2021 film Wild Indian, which was one of those situations where I […]
One of the great pleasures of this show is talking to people whose work I really enjoy. Although I’d known Keegan Dewitt’s music for a number of years (probably first taking notice with 2018’s Gemini), his score for last year’s […]
On the latest episode of The Film Scorer podcast, I’m joined by John Paesano (Daredevil, Marvel’s Spider-Man)! I’ve been a fan of John’s for a while, with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes being a recent favorite, so it […]
Here we are, season 6, episode 2, things are in motion, momentum is building, and I’m joined by one of my favorite composers: Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus, Smile)! Cristo’s latest project is the 2026 BBC adaptation of Lord […]
After a long wait and seemingly unending anticipation, Season 6 of The Film Scorer Podcast is here! To kick off the new season, I’m joined by the very rare repeat guest, the great Colin Stetson (Hereditary, The Menu)! Colin and I […]
Although we’re now a couple months into 2026, I finally present you with the “best” film scores of 2025. As usual, there are some very mainstream scores in here that most observers would agree with and there are a few […]
It wasn’t that long ago the sound of the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences stepped into the future… 2011. Industrial agitators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross step onto the Dolby Theatre stage to accept their first Oscar for The Social […]
You poor fools – imagine thinking that The Film Scorer was actually on hiatus? Far, far from the truth. Ending the fifteen second break I took after interviewing Daniel Lopatin is Simon Franglen! For those that don’t know, Simon is […]
One of the complaints about modern film scoring is how it can veer into sound design, with the two sometimes becoming indistinguishable. It’s a far cry from the theme based, Romantic, Wagnerian roots of film scoring and the traditional scoring-as-narrative […]