FEBRUARY 21, 2013 — The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its list of winners for excellence in musical scoring in 2012. Unlike in previous years, where one score has taken multiple victories, the main film prizes are split equally between 11 different movies and composers, the greatest spread in IFMCA history. - Full article [...]
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John Williams Interview on Classical KUSC Radio
2013 Best Score Oscar Nominee John Williams For his 48th Oscar Nomination, John Williams has gone presidential in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. He discusses with Jim Svejda the challenges of translating mid-19th century American into the score & the uncanny 4th Dimensional Experience (John’s words) of watching Daniel Day-Lewis. – Listen to the interview at KUSC.org [...]
List of ‘Lincoln’ Score Nominations and Awards (Updated Feb. 25)
What follows is a list of awards for which Lincoln has been nominated in the Best Score or Best Music category:
‘Lincoln’ Score Wins Critics’ Choice Award
John Williams’ Lincoln received his second award Thursday as the best score of 2012 according to the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). The Maestro’s score for the Spielberg film beat Alexandre Desplat’s Argo, Mychael Danna’s Life of Pi, Jonny Greenwood’s The Master and Alexandre Desplat’s Moonrise Kingdom. – Critics’ Choice Awards 2013: The full winners list Discuss this [...]
Williams Gets 48th Oscar Nomination
As expected, John Williams’ score for the latest Spielberg film is among the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards, to be held on February 24 in Los Angeles. Lincoln has received a total of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. The other contenders in the Original Score category are Dario Marianelli for Anna [...]
John Williams’ ‘Lincoln’ Nominated for the BAFTAs
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln led all films with 10 nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced Wednesday morning in London. John Williams’ score received a nomination along with Anna Karenina by Dario Marianelli, Argo by Alexandre Desplat, Life of Pi by Mychael Danna, and Skyfall by [...]
‘Lincoln’ Score Receives Golden Globe Nomination
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is frontrunner for next year’s Golden Globes Awards after receiving seven nominations, including John Williams’ score. The other nominees in the Original Score category are: Mychael Danna for Life of Pi, Alexandre Desplat for Argo, Dario Marianelli for Anna Karenina, and Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil for Cloud Atlas. The 70th annual Golden [...]
Williams’ Boston Concerts: June 7-12, 2013
The ever-popular Film Night returns this spring in a four-concert series (June 7, 8, 11 & 12) led by Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams, whose unparalleled contributions to cinematic music have spanned decades. These concerts will showcase some of the biggest blockbuster scores written by the highly acclaimed composer such as music from the [...]
‘John Williams’ Inevitable Themes’
Of course, Steven Spielberg’s latest film “Lincoln” is opening in theaters around the country this weekend. “Lincoln” is also the latest movie score from Mr. Spielberg’s longtime collaborator, John Williams, the composer, who’s celebrated his 80th birthday this year. John Williams was honored this summer with a gala concert at Tanglewood, where he sat down [...]
Spielberg & Williams: Inseparable Tandem
Lincoln marks their 26th film, one of the longest-running director-composer partnerships in modern movie history. Williams calls it “an amazing relationship. We’ve never really had an argument. It’s just something that has, personally and musically, worked well.” – Full article at Variety.com
Williams Talks ‘Lincoln’
“There probably are about 55 minutes of music in the film, I think. And we recorded 92 minutes of music in Chicago.” Discuss this topic in our forums UPDATE from Randall D. Larson’s facebook: Transcript from comments made by John Williams at Lincoln‘s world premiere (Nov 8), included in Dreamwork’s EPK released today:
JWFAN EXCLUSIVE: ‘LINCOLN’ SOUNDTRACK MP3 SAMPLES
Listen to 30 second samples of every track on the Lincoln soundtrack album! – UPDATED with links to more samples and “first listens” of the latest John Williams score! (click for high-res version)
