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 […]
2023 Academy Award Nominations – Best Original Score
As far as I can tell, the upcoming Academy Awards have avoided last year’s widely reviled gaffe of putting certain “technical” awards in a secondary class. It’s hard to call this progress, as we’re just returning to the status quo, […]
The Best Film Scores of October 2022
October saw the release of two Oscar and BAFTA nominated scores, The Banshees of Inisherin and All Quiet on the Western Front, with fairy tale melancholy and the blaring fear of war, respectively, as well as a number of other […]
Scoring No-Man’s Land – An Interview with Volker Bertelmann
Pleased to have Academy Award nominated composer Volker Bertelmann join the show! Volker is fresh off of scoring the new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, a new bleak, harrowing anti-war version of the classic novel. We chat […]
The Best Film Scores of December 2021
December takes us to the end of the year, bringing not just the last of the awards season hopefuls but also a number of my favorite scores of 2021, like La Panthere des Neiges and The Novice. As a result, […]
The Best Film Scores of 2020
A new year has started, which means it’s time to run through the “best” film scores of 2020! If you don’t want to read through the process, scroll down to listen to the podcast or scroll even further to get […]
Best Film Scores of November 2020
November proved to be a somewhat slower month than normal, the calm before December’s great deluge of excellent scores. This isn’t to say that November’s scores were bad, not at all – the month was still filled with plenty of […]