Music Composed by Rachel Portman
Rating: ** 1/2

It’s not uncommon for two studios to release competing versions of the same genre film, but it’s rare when the two films are so specifically identical. Between 2005 and 2006, we not only get two biopics about Truman Capote, we get two biopics about Truman Capote’s relationship with [...]

Music Composed by Danny Elfman
Rating: *****

Music (Score)Babel – Gustavo SantaolallaThe Good German – Thomas NewmanNotes On A Scandal – Philip GlassPan’s Labyrinth – Javier NavaretteThe Queen – Alexandre Desplat
Music (Song)“I Need To Wake Up” – An Inconvenient Truth“Listen” – Dreamgirls“Love You I Do” – Dreamgirls“Our Town” – Cars“Patience” – Dreamgirls

Here are the music nominees for the 2007 Academy Awards. Academy favorite Thomas Newman gets another ‘Best Score’ nod, with last year’s winner Gustavo Santaolalla returning to the big show with his sparse score for Babel. These are the first nominations for Javier Navarette and Alexandre Desplat. Congratulations to Milan Records, who [...]

The once-solitary job of film scoring is becoming a collaborative effort.By Jeff BondJan 5, 2007
(via The Hollywood Reporter) As most filmmakers will attest, making movies is an immensely collaborative process. While producers, directors and writers often end up getting the lion’s share of the credit when a film succeeds, the reality is that great movies [...]

By JON BURLINGAMEPublished: January 7, 2007(From The New York Times)
The trouble with Hollywood film scores these days is that so many sound as if you have heard them before. That’s less the fault of composers than of directors, who commonly prescore their films with temporary music during editing, then frequently expect the final score to [...]

Thinking in Colors and Textures, Then Writing in Music, By Jon Burlingame, Published: January 7, 2007 (From The New York Times)
“The trouble with Hollywood film scores these days is that so many sound as if you have heard them before. That’s less the fault of composers than of directors, who commonly prescore their films with [...]

Director Tom Tykwer knows the score — because he wrote it. His latest film is “Perfume.”By Richard Knight Jr., Chicago Tribune
“There are a lot of renowned collaborations between film directors and their favorite composers — Steven Spielberg and John Williams, Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, Tim Burton and Danny Elfman. But it’s rare to find [...]