Leaderboard

If you had told me 10 years ago that by 2020 I’d be living in a world where Donald Trump was President of the United States and John Williams had written another Star Wars trilogy, I’m not sure which would have been harder to believe.

20th Century Fox https://www.foxscreenings.com/ Ad Astra (Max Richter, Lorne Balfe) Alita: Battle Angel (Junkie XL) Ford v Ferrari (Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders) Spies in Disguise (Theodore Shapiro) A24 Films LINK 1 or 2 Farewell, The (Alex Weston) Gloria Bell (Matthew Herbert) High Life (Stuart A. Staples) Last Black Man in San Francisco, The (Emile Mosseri) Lighthouse, The (Mark Korven) Midsommar (Bobby Krlic) Souvenir, The (?) Uncut Gems (Daniel Lopatin) Waves (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) Aegean Entertainment https://awards.aegeanentertainment.com/ Cliffs of Freedom (George Kallis) Amazon Studios LINK 1 or 2 Aeronauts, The (Steven Price) [19 cues, 59:21] Brittany Runs a Marathon (Duncan Thum) Gully Boy (ishQ Bector, Karsh Kale, & Jasleen Royal) Honey Boy (Alex Somers) [26 cues, 59:50] Invisible Life (Benedikt Schiefer) Late Night (Lesley Barber) Les Misérables (?) One Child Nation (Nathan Halpern & Chris Ruggiero) Peterloo (Gary Yershon) Report, The (David Wingo) [37 cues, 43:01] Seberg (Jed Kurzel) Annapurna Pictures 1, 2, or 3 Aviron Pictures https://avironpicturesawards.com Bleecker Street LINK 1, 2 , 3 or 4 Arctic (Joseph Trapanese) Brian Banks (John Debney) Hotel Mumbai (Volker Bertelmann) Broadgreen Pictures 1 or 2 CBS Films 1 or 2 DreamWorks LINK 1 or 2 DreamWorks Animation LINK 1 or 2 Entertainment Studios https://entertainmentstudiosawards.com/ EuropaCorp http://awards.europacorp.com/ Focus Features LINK 1 or 2 Dark Waters (Marcelo Zarvos) [26 cues, 53:27] Downton Abbey (John Lunn) [9 cues, 18:13] Harriet (Terence Blanchard) [29 cues, 56:16] Harriet [Song - "Stand Up" (Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo), 05:04] Mustang, The (Jed Kurzel) Fox Searchlight Pictures LINK 1 or 2 Hidden Life, A (James Newton Howard) [14 cues, 1:09:37] Jojo Rabbit (Michael Giacchino) [37 cues, 41:06] GKIDS https://gkids.com/awards/ Another Day of Life (Mikel Salas) Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (Arturo Cardelús) Ce magnifique gâteau! (This Magnificent Cake!) (?) Children of the Sea (Joe Hisaishi) Funan (Thibault Agyeman) Marona's Fantastic Tale (Pablo Pico) Okko's Inn (Keiichi Suzuki) Promare (Hiroyuki Sawano) Weathering With You (Radwimps) IFC Films http://www.ifcfilmsawards.com/ Lionsgate http://www.lionsgateawards.com/ Bombshell (Theodore Shapiro) John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard) Knives Out (Nathan Johnson) Midway (Harald Kloser & Thomas Wanker) Magnolia Pictures http://www.magpictures.com/awards/ Brink, The (Ilan Isakov & Dan Teicher) Cunningham (?) Mike Wallace is Here (John Piscitello) Out Stealing Horses (Kaspar Kaae) Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins (?) Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Kathryn Bostic) Whistlers, The (?) Neon http://neonguilds.com/ Apollo 11 (Matt Morton) Biggest Little Farm, The (Jeff Beal) Clemency (Kathryn Bostic) Honeyland (Foltin) Luce (Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury) Monos (Mica Levi) Parasite (Jung Jae Il) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Jean-Baptiste de Laubier & Arthur Simonini) Wild Rose (Jack Arnold) Netflix LINK 1 or 2 6 Underground (Lorne Balfe) American Factory (Chad Cannon) Atlantics (Fatima Al Qadiri) Black Godfather, The (Jasha Klebe) Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The (Antonio Pinto) Dolemite is My Name (Scott Bomar) Edge of Democracy, The (Vitor Araújo, Rodrigo Leão, Gilberto Monte, & Lucas Santtana) Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Marco Beltrami & Dennis Smith) Great Hack, The (Gil Talmi) Highwaymen, The (Thomas Newman) I Lost My Body (Dan Levy) Irishman, The (Robbie Robertson) King, The (Nicholas Britell) Klaus (Alfonso G. Aguilar) Knock Down the House (Ryan Blotnick) Laundromat, The (David Holmes) Marriage Story (Randy Newman) [14 cues, 24:59] Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (?) Sitara: Let Girls Dream (Laura Karpman) Tell Me Who I Am (Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans) Two Popes, The (Bryce Dessner) Open Road Films http://openroadfilms.com/AWARDS/ The Orchard https://awards.theorchard.com/ Paramount Pictures LINK 1 , 2, or 3 Rocketman (Matthew Margeson) Roadside Attractions http://roadsideawards.com/home Judy (Gabriel Yared) Peanut Butter Falcon, The (Jonathan Sadoff, Zachary Dawes, Noam Pikelny, & Gabe Witcher) Sony Pictures LINK 1 or 2 Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, A (Nate Heller) Little Women (Alexandre Desplat) Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (?) Sony Pictures Classics http://www.sonyclassics.com/awards- information/ After the Wedding (Mychael Danna) Aquarela (Eicca Toppinen) David Crosby: Remember My Name (Marcus Eaton & Bill Laurance) Frankie (Dickon Hinchliffe) Maiden (Rob Manning & Samuel Sim) Pain and Glory (Alberto Iglesias) [27 cues, 56:15] Song of Names (Howard Shore) Traitor, The (Nicola Piovani) Where’s My Roy Cohn? (Lorne Balfe) White Crow (Ilan Eshkeri) STX Entertainment LINK 1 or 2 Hustlers (Linden Joseph; additional music - Lorenzo Johnson) United Artists Releasing AMPAS & HFPA booksmart (Dan the Automator) Missing Link (Carter Burwell) [31 cues, 49:51] Missing Link [Song - "Do-Dilly-Do (A Friend Like You)" (Walter Martin), 3:13] Universal Pictures LINK 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 1917 (Thomas Newman) [17 cues, 1:03:24] Abominable (Rupert Gregson-Williams) [20 cues, 47:00] CATS (Andrew Lloyd Webber) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (John Powell) [27 cues, 1:14:44] Queen & Slim (?) Secret Life of Pets 2, The (Alexandre Desplat) Us (Michael Abels) [30 cues, 59:48] Walt Disney LINK 1 or 2 Aladdin (Alan Menken) Avengers: Endgame (Alan Silvestri) Frozen II (Christophe Beck) [19 cues, 48:58] Frozen II [Song – “Into the Unknown” (Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez), 3:15] Lion King, The (Hans Zimmer) Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Geoff Zanelli) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (John Williams) [23 cues, 50:44] Toy Story 4 (Randy Newman) Toy Story 4 [Song – “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” (Randy Newman), 2:06] Warner Brothers AMPAS, HFPA, & BAFTA Blinded by the Light (A.R. Rahman) Good Liar, The (Carter Burwell) It Chapter Two (Benjamin Wallfisch) Joker (Hildur Guðnadóttir) [17 cues, 36:41] Just Mercy (Joel P. West) [18 cues, 35:28] Motherless Brooklyn (Daniel Pemberton) [20 cues, 1:06:09] Motherless Brooklyn [Song - "Daily Battles" (Thom Yorke), 02:54] Richard Jewell (Arturo Sandoval) LEGO Movie 2, The: The Second Part (Mark Mothersbaugh) Western Stars (Bruce Springsteen) MISCELLANEOUS 5B (Justin Melland) 5B [Song - "A Human Touch" (Jackson Browne & Leslie Mendelson), 4:41] Let There Be Light (David Solař & Oscar Rózsa) Our Mothers (Rémi Boubal) Papicha (Robin Coudert) Stupid Young Heart (Timo Naomi Dirksen) Tel Aviv on Fire (André Dziezuk) Truth and Justice (Mihkel Zilmer) NOTES: ARCHIVES OF PAST YEARS' THREADS: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, & 2011 Links to film sites above provided only for those featuring score/music excerpts. Direct links to audio files provided in the Spoilers below the film titles. Please post other studios and film sites featuring music below and I will add them to this master list. Sources for the sites listed above (in part): http://www.richiesolomon.com/screenings/#films Historical: http://www.awardscircuit.com/oscar-predictions/103406-2/fyc-awards-season-tracker-2016-2017/

World Premiere for Star Wars-The Last Jedi: Film Live With Orchestra will be in Tokyo, Japan on October 14, 2019 Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Buc http://www.promax.co.jp/info/2019/101301/

Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood It’s QT’s Hugo or Hail, Caesar! A lot of love letter vignettes and less of a central plot to string them together. Found it to be a little too meta, even for Tarantino, but there were many great scenes. Tim Roth is credited as being cut from the film. At an already lengthy 160 minutes, I wonder how much didn’t make the final cut. I found it impressive that nearly all of the music was diegetic sound.

Just wait for the 30th Anniversary LLL possibly arriving later this year if the manufacturing plants and licencing agents decide to actually do some work!

Excellent! Broadcast live from Edinburgh Music Festival. Program: UPDATE: First encore is Imperial March. Second is presumably Superman!

Talk about mixed messages!

@PoggoAOTS Hi Andrew! Apologies for being a pest -- just wondering if part two of your EMPIRE STRIKES BACK discussion might be coming in the foreseeable future? I know you guys are super busy so please know we love and appreciate all the work you put into these podcasts. In my opinion, you're unchallenged when it comes to the realm of film score podcasts, especially with the industry experience you 3 share. I'm assuming you guys have already recorded the episode but I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on JW's updated concert suite for Han Solo and the Princess, considering that theme originated in ESB and he chose to revise it nearly four decades later (with such melancholic heft). On a semi-related note, I saw that THE LAST JEDI was now available for live-to-picture performances. Are you allowed to say if the MSO has any plans to perform this score before year's end? I reckon the MSO would smash this score out of the park -- unlike the relatively restrained TFA, TLJ is brimming with orchestral highlights like Escape, Holdo's Resolve, The Spark and The Battle of Crait, where the orchestra takes centre stage. On a personal note, one of my favourite parts of seeing the MSO performance of THE FORCE AWAKENS at the Palais (other than your pre-concert discussion ) was knowing that John's score for TLJ was only one week away. It would be amazing if the same entree could be served before THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, potentially John's final entry in the main Star Wars saga... just saying.

That's really disheartening news, especially in difficult economic times. All I can say is -- if Mike/MV/MG/whoever reads this, we love the work you guys are doing and we'll keep opening the wallets to ensure it continues, if you'll indulge us! Here's hoping this is only temporary...

It looks like JW is a little bit more comfortable these days revisiting older, more obscure pieces from his repertoire. That being said, we don’t know which of those he would approve to be performed/recorded anew—from what it seems, he wouldn’t approve much of his really early stuff, while he seems okay with things from early 70s onwards, even though it’s a case-by-case basis. Lockhart however seems to know how to get things from him—during this year’s Pops season he performed “The Turbulent Years” from Nixon several times. So, considering what’s already available as published suites, what could be dusted off from JKMS and the BSO library and what realistically JW would allow, here’s my wish list for a Vol.2: Esplanade Overture End Title from The Poseidon Adventure Blood Moon from Images Overture from Tom Sawyer End Title (or Ballet from Divers) from Jaws 2 The Ancestral Home from The River Theme from The Accidental Tourist Theme from The Lost World Theme from Seven Years in Tibet Epilogue from War of the Worlds Suite from the Book Thief The Presidents Suite: Prologue from JFK The Turbulent Years from Nixon The People’s House from Lincoln Three Pieces from the Star Wars saga: Han Solo and the Princess from TESB The Rebellion is Reborn from The Last Jedi Concert Piece from The Rise of Skywalker

I've been returning to Scriabin's 10th sonata regularly over the past few weeks. It's such an unsteady work, the trills start to be almost ludicrous at a certain point, but it's really a remarkable piece. I'm a bit addicted. It's definitely music for hot, humid summers.

I prefer to touch things. Edit: Chen removed parts of his posts so now this doesn't make sense at all. Is that a metaphor for life?

Drax and I like plenty of girly things but you give us shit for that. So it's like what the fuck.

Going off of @Marian Schedenig's recommendation in another thread, I've been looking into Hans Rott's music. Some very dynamic stuff from the guy. What I love is how he often sets up a phrase or progression to go in a certain direction, but then suddenly veers someplace completely unexpected, yet so much better and more satisfying. Too bad he buckled under the weight of his mind.

I love this shot from Shin Gojira. The point of view of looking up while driving by Godzilla, showing the immense size of the beast. The original Gojira’s first full shot of him is another favorite. The black and white film gives this scene a more realistic look as it combines live action of the people fleeing and the miniature set under Godzilla. Plus the scene taking place at night gives it a chilling feeling.

I stopped posting there because I was labeled a cat killer for posting a funny YouTube video of two cats brawling to Silvestri’s Predator.

And yet, somewhere, on someone's hard drive, exists probably an hour's worth of recorded music from TROS. How about that!

Just in case this is useful to anyone else: I recently picked up the OST to Always and couldn't find a decent high res scan of the cover, so I made these. I think that big underlined text and catalog number are kind of ugly, so I took those out. Original version is here too, for the purists.

I’m going on the idea that some of these orchestras on the planet that have already played The Force Awakens, or will play it before December, may book The Last Jedi between now and December to cash-in on the anticipation for The Rise of Skywalker, as the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra did. I have seen orchestras add more LTP concerts long after their schedule for the upcoming season has officially announced and while a season is in progress. Orchestras That Already Played TFA New York Philharmonic Orchestra. October 6th and 7th, 2017 I can’t picture the New York Philharmonic adding-on any more LTP concerts, they have 5 now for this season (CE3K, Psycho, Harry Potter, Singin’ In the Rain, and Mary Poppins). Last season it was 4 (There Will Be Blood, Home Alone, Red Violin, Bugs Bunny at the Symphony) National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC. February 21, 22, and 23, 2019 During the 2018/19 Season, they played all 4 Star Wars concerts in Disney's series, plus Get Out. That’s 5 LTP concerts. I have seen this orchestra book an LTP concert while a season is in progress. During the 2017-18 Season, the NSO announced the world premiere of Jurassic World on April 3, 2018 for a May 30th 2018 performance. This season, the NSO has only 2 LTP concerts (Up, and a Harry Potter), so, they may fit in TLJ as a North American Premiere. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. December 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th 2017. I don’t know the international orchestra scene, but if the Tokyo Philharmonic can book TLJ after a season schedule is released to the public, then the MSO may do it, too. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra will play TFA this September 12th through 14th, so, maybe you'll find TLJ being booked, soon.

Yes! I just listened to excerpts from their performance of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony. Sounds excellent to my ears. Would be interesting to hear this orchestra perform TLJ.

@thx99 These threads are always incredibly useful and help me track the onslaught of FYCs each year. Thank you!

Cat killer!

Then you should definitely check out Schnittke's Requiem!

I certainly dislike a lot of music put out by aging classic rockers, most of them are dreadful, but there are a few who continue to be interesting and relevant for me. Fagen is one, Robert Plant is another. Anyway, as always, engaging with you is an unenlightening and dull exercise due to your sour, stubborn, and condescending demeanor. Adios!

Not everyone likes how it moves at a very slow pace. In fact, it's probably the biggest complaint people have. How can it not be? While 2001: ASO is unmistakably the granddaddy of modern sci-fi, few movies have tried (or dared) to copy its pacing.

Maybe not quite, but if Chen thinks the story starts way past the hour mark he doesnt really understand 2001, or know what a story is or how it can be told.

It's likely they dozed off during the dawn of men sequence.

Sony posted an FYC site for Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, so I figured it was as good a time as any to create the thread. No music, yet, but it'll come in time.

My god, we're here again already?! 2019 is disappearing fast.

Thanks for the suggestion, sadly not stateside :-) I have found a copy on a Dutch webshop. It is currently "being processed"

Whaa? You're going through all the crap a label producer has to go through and then Sony/Warner just loses your stuff? Jesus....

Perhaps the neighbour was better at telling stories.

Jail him! I'm not even a real cinephile myself but going by a fairly large circle of acquaintances, many of them working in media & culture, the general taste encompasses everything from Douglas Sirk to Nouvelle Vague movies, D. A. Pennebaker documentaries to, surely, certain blockbusters or Kubrick movies etc. I probably saw more dvd's of 'City of God' covers on dvd racks than '2001', that's for sure.

...with intriguing music by Philip Glass.

That's just Alex being determined to keep the pair of 'em in "I remind you again I'm sophisticated" debate rotation tbh.

James Bond, Her Majesty's loyal terrier ... Defender of the so-called Faith!

It was a pretty bad year.

1. Selling England By The Pound 2. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Accept it! Live with it!

Anyone else wanna play with her gagas?

Such an enlightening conversation.

Something I really love about this piece is how subtle the transitions between the different movements are. Some of them are so well integrated that they almost become movements in themselves, as if they each tell their own story about how the subject gets from one scene to the other. And by the time you get to the polonaise you almost wonder how you ended up there, given that only 17 minutes ago you were in "fairy-tale" land with the glistening, whimsical orchestration, and there has not been a single break in the music since then. I don't know another piece of music which gives off that effect as well as this one...

Most of them are really entertaining. The last three are big popcorn fun. It helps that the majority of sequences are based around real stunts. As far as Hollywood action films go these are way a above most. Karol

Of course it is. Everything he has done in the 2010's is. Wonderful man.

As far as satisfying variations on a predecessor's themes, I feel comfortable ranking The Last Jedi as one of best of the best in Williams' career. I don't know if it's in part because this is one of the first, if not the first time, John Williams wrote for a sequel that's as episodically connected with the first film--it's practically a television show episode in that regard--...but holy hot mama, Williams squeezes so much juice and mileage out of his themes from The Force Awakens, it's incredible.

The use of Rey's Theme in unexpected and interesting ways is quite fascinating in TLJ. I'm loving how it appears from 0:15 to about 0:50ish in the FYC version of The Last Jedi: And of course during Rey's Journey:

I prefer the Broom Boy ending for the film. I just wish Williams had continued to build that interesting melody instead of defaulting to the force theme. I imagine if it had been allowed to play out and develop for 2 minutes instead of 40 seconds, it could have been another Jedi Steps.

The film and score really should have ended with Peace and Purpose with the final shot being Leia and Rey sitting together on the Falcon. The music in Peace and Purpose deftly moves from one theme to the next with such grace and fluidity. Almost every theme receives a tender, gentle rendition. It's one of my favorite tracks of the sequel trilogy. It's a shame that finale is comparatively so choppy and unoriginal.

Was Sinatra referring to Mike Matessino?