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2009 Academy Award Nominees
It’s been a long road of prognosticators and pontificating on the way to this year’s Oscar nominees, myself included. As the years pass, I become less and less interested in all the major categories
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IFMCA Nominations 2009
The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) has just announced its sixth annual nominations for the best in musical scoring of 2009. Nominations are taken from films and television from around the world in
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To Infinity and Beyond
My goal with this site has been to educate, entertain, and always champion film composers and their music. Since I started this site, I have been exposed to the work of numerous composers that I
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The Art of Making Art
Once upon a time, there was the LP. Big and bulky, and oh so easy to scratch. Unveiled in 1948, they lasted roughly half a century until the clear digital quality of the CD
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Oscar’s Eligible Scores – 2009
For years I’ve wondered why the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences don’t officially release a list of eligible original scores, like they do for the original song category. Well, they still haven’t.
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63 Original Songs Up For 2009 Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has released the list of the songs eligible for this year’s Best Original Song (a practice I wish they would do for Best Original Score). Since
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2009 Golden Globe Nominees
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced their nominations for the 67th annual Golden Globes. The music nominees are as follows: BEST SONG “Cinema Italiano” – NINE (Maury Yeston) “I Want to Come Home” –
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2009 Grammy Nominations
For many film music fans, the Grammys merit even less discussion than the Oscars. The film categories are never handed out on TV, and with such a proliferation of categories, it’s hard to take
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DSO Announces “Masters of Film Music” Series
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra just announced a multi-year project called Masters of Film Music. This series will bring the music of some of today’s top film composers to Dallas as part of the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012
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Vic Mizzy (1916-2009)
Long before I ever heard the name Vic Mizzy, he was a part of my life. As a child of the 60s, GREEN ACRES and THE ADDAMS FAMILY were required TV viewing and Mizzy’s now-classic themes have
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