Last night Dario Marianelli won his first Academy Award for Atonement, besting Michael Giacchino (Ratatouille), James Newton Howard (Michael Clayton), Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma) and Alberto Iglesias (The Kite Runner). Accepting his award, Marianelli said:

“Well, that was a very long walk, it felt like. I feel like — I’m a very lucky man. [...]

Music Composed by Alexandre Desplat
Rating: ****
Alexandre Desplat had a huge breakout year in 2007, with two grandstanding Hollywood fantasy scores sitting alongside his more typical serious arthouse fare. And with all of the buzz surrounding his extravagant work for The Golden Compass and his rhapsodic contributions to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, it seemed that [...]

Music Composed by Dario Marianelli
Rating: **** 1/2
Last time I wrote about a Dario Marianelli score, the man was just breaking into Hollywood. His one-two punch of Brother’s Grimm and Pride and Prejudice in 2005 gave the film music community great reason to be excited. A few years later, and a few scores of [...]

USA Today profiled two first-time Oscar-nominated composer, Michael Giacchino and slotted Marco Beltrami in a sidebar.
“I was looking around thinking, ‘This is insane. This is crazy that I’m even sitting here,’ because since I was kid I watched the Oscars, and I always wanted to make movies and do all this.” – Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino spoke briefly with Todd Martens at The Envelope (the L.A. Times’ year-round look at film awards) about Mr. Giacchino’s upcoming Speed Racer and Star Trek scores. On Racer Giacchino said: “It will have an injection of feeling from the old show, but just on a bigger scale. I have every single [...]