The Best Scores of the 2020s (So Far)
It’s a bit worrying to realize that we’re now over halfway through the 2020s – where has the time gone? Well, I suppose we all know one collective reason why it feels like a blur… But rather than lament the […]
2024 Academy Award Nominations – Best Original Score Overview
The Oscars are tonight (March 10), marking the end of awards season. At this point, the winner of the best original score seems certain, but nothing ever is. At the very least, we can celebrate that score (Ludwig Göransson’s Oppenheimer), […]
The “Best” Film Scores of 2023
Another year, another list of the ten “best” film scores, this time I’m running through 2023. These scores aren’t presented in any particular order – I intended to go alphabetically, but instead ended up going by vibes instead, wherever the […]
2024 EE BAFTA Nominations – Best Original Score Overview
The BAFTAs air on February 18th, and mark the second-to-last stop in awards seasons (with the Oscars seemingly still a ways away). The nominees are almost entirely made up of ones we’ve seen fill every other list all season, save […]
Ludwig Göransson’s Tenet (2020) – Film Score Review
Ludwig Göransson’s score for Tenet proved to be the most divisive of 2020. Some hailed its creativity and ingenuity, calling it among the best of the year; others labeled it generic action music and a pastiche of Hans Zimmer, Tenet […]
78th Golden Globes (2021) – Best Original Score
After a prolonged absence, 2021’s award season is finally here, starting with the 78th Golden Globe Awards. Although the Golden Globes are renowned for making some surprising (or downright bizarre) nominations, this year’s nominations for Best Original Score were fairly […]
Best Film Scores of September 2020
Welcome to September! As the film industry gradually opens up we’ve seen an uptick in film scores releases (including a few major ones!) and hopefully the trend continues! This month sees a broad array of great scores, from the experimental […]
Ranking the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Film Music
Over the past decade Marvel has released 22 movies to create the “Infinity Saga” – the most ambitious overarching film story experiment. While it is impossible to analyze every score in a single article, ranking and briefly discussing the scores […]
2019 Academy Award Nominations – Best Music/Original Score
2019’s Golden Globe and BAFTA winners for Best Music/Original Score failed to make the final cut for the 91st Academy Awards, giving five unproven scores the chance at glory. While I may not be an awards-season aficionado, the least I […]
2019 Golden Globe Nominations – Best Score
Black Panther by Ludwig Göransson First Man by Justin Hurwitz Isle of Dogs by Alexandre Desplat Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman A Quiet Place by Marco Beltrami ANALYSIS The 2019 Golden Globes air tonight. As with many larger awards […]