Any discussion of the music of Tár must first start with the idea that the film has no score. I saw this constantly repeated, particularly when the film’s score was up for a number of awards and critics’ recognitions in […]
The Oscars are upon us, the keynote event of the 2020 film award season. However, at this point the best original score category feels like a retread of this season’s prior awards competitions. Of this year’s five nominees, three have […]
After listening to nearly 700 scores released in 2019, I present the definitive list of the best film scores of the year.
This year’s Golden Globes showcase a more varied and intriguing field than 2019’s, leading to a less-clear frontrunner. While the nominations have some familiar faces and inevitably cater to the more mainstream of film and film music (the nominated composers […]
What creates a supervillain? Most commonly it’s something supernatural, otherworldly, or otherwise impossible to experience in our world. But Joker – and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir’s score – shows a different kind of origin, one in which the villain is molded […]
October has been far and away the strongest month this year for new film scores. The downside of this eruption is that there are simply too many, with quite a few otherwise worthy scores being left out of this writeup. Oppression […]