Congratulations goes out to Mica Levi, who received this year’s The Ivors Best Original Score nomination for Monos, as reported by Crack Magazine! Mica’s best score nomination is in good company with Nainita Desai (For Sama) and Bobby Krlic (Midsommar). See the full list of nominations in all categories at The Ivors online.
Winners will be announced at The Ivors ceremony on September 2, 2020 in London, England. Congratulations to all the nominees this year!
Lakeshore Records congratulates soundtrack partners Diego Maradona, Marriage Story, Monos, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, and Three Identical Strangers on their British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) nominations!
A highlight includes five (5) nominations for Diego Maradona (HBO), including Best Music for Composer Antonio Pinto. See the categories and listen to the soundtracks below.
The BIFA awards will be broadcast on their Facebook Live feed on Sunday, December 1. See the full list at BIFA online. Congratulations to all the nominees this year!
Levi contributed a spare and atmospheric score to “Monos,” director Alejandro Landes’ modern-day “Lord of the Flies” set among teenage soldiers holding an American doctor hostage in a South American jungle. – Variety
Awards season is upon us and all eyes are on the year’s most acclaimed films, including scores that eschew the conventions of tradiional film scoring. Case in point: Monos composer Mica Levi is featured in this Variety spotlight on the year’s most provocative and “offbeat” scores: “Inspired by the actors using their mouths and hands to make whistling sounds, she did her own whistling and augmented it with synths and timpani.” Read the full feature now at Variety.
In case you haven’t given the album a spin, see below to listen to Monos – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, out now on Invada Records and Lakeshore Records!
Continue reading Monos: Spotlight On Academy Award Nominee Mica Levi | Variety
“Monos is a stunning cinematic achievement; marrying dynamic visuals, faultless performances and groundbreaking storytelling. It’s a masterpiece!” – Wash Westmoreland, LFF Head of Jury
Lakeshore Records congratulates our partners at team Monos (NEON) on their Best Film Award win at this year’s London Film Festival! The winners list was announced Saturday — see the list at The Hollywood Reporter.
Directed by Alejandro Landes, the film is now playing in U.S. theaters and headed to UK and Ireland cinemas on October 25. The visually stunning drama, which has been described as the “Colombian ‘Lord of the Flies,'” will represent Colombia in the International Feature Film category for next year’s Academy Awards®. Keep reading to listen to the film’s score composed by Academy Award®-nominated Composer, Mica Levi!
Continue reading ‘Monos’ Takes Home Top Prize At London Film Festival (Score By Mica Levi)
Her sparse, typically jagged compositions for Monos expand upon the film’s central contradictions, dealing in eerie whistles and amorphous ambient clashes designed to provoke and unsettle. – Will Gottsegen, Spin
Academy Award®-nominated composer Mica Levi talks to Spin magazine about her Monos score from Alejandro Landes’ critically-acclaimed “Colombian ‘Lord of the Flies’” feature film. What does it feel like to be isolated in the jungles of Colombia? Levi explains how quickly the sounds of Monos came to her early on in the process. Get the scoop now at exclusively at Spin.
Continue reading ‘Monos’ Interview: Mica Levi on ‘Making Music Sound Like A Mushroom Trip’ | Spin
