Amanda Jones is a Primetime Emmy® nominee for her score to Apple TV+ ‘Maine’ episode of Home. With her nomination, she made history as the first African-American woman to be nominated for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) this year! If you haven’t already followed all the press coverage of her work on the series or her groundbreaking nomination, we’ve compiled a short list for your convenience below. Have you listened to the soundtrack yet?
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 I Lost My Body (Xilam Animation/Netflix) on their Best Animated Feature and Best Score wins at this year’s César Awards! This is France’s equivalent to the Oscars.
Music.Film congratulates the team behind The Kindness of Strangers and Composer Andrew Lockington on their Best Score nomination for this year’s Canadian Screen Awards! The soundtrack was released digitally on February 14 via Music.Film and Varese Sarabande on the same day of the film’s Digital and VOD release.
Andrew is an award-winning Canadian composer known for his score to recent blockbuster San Andreas and Journey To The Center of the Earth. In 2009, the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) awarded him Breakthrough Film Composer of the Year.
Presented by the CBC, this year’s Canadian Screen Awards will be broadcast live March 29 at 8 PM (check local listings)! See the full schedule at the Canadian Screen Academy online.
Lakeshore Records congratulates soundtrack partner Marriage Story on the Academy Award® win for Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern)! The critically-acclaimed Noah Baumbach film (The Meyerowitz Stories, The Squid and the Whale) has won 115 awards including Golden Globes, BAFTA, Film Independent Spirit (aka Indie Spirit Awards), the Gotham Awards, and received 222 nominations. Additional highlights include AFI naming Marriage Story the Movie of the Year and the Indie Spirit Awards bestowed the Robert Altman Award, presented to the ensemble cast, director and casting director of a film.
For the film’s composer, Randy Newman, 22-time Academy Award Nominee and 2-time Oscar Winner, he was named Composer of the Year at the Hollywood Film Awards. In addition to his Academy Award Best Score nomination, he won Best Score at the New York Film Critics Association and dozens of nominations from the Golden Globes, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Hollywood Music In Media Awards and more. See below for album listening links and more.
