New soundtracks this week: Nathaniel Mechaly’s score to O.G., Randy Miller’s score to Hellraiser III, and Thomas Ades’ score to Colette comes to CD. Also, keep reading for a peek at forthcoming new releases to new feature films!
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Premiering Saturday, February 23 is HBO’s new drama, O.G., starring Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright! The film premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, where Wright won the award for Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film. Theothus Carter and William Fichtner also star. O.G. features score by award-winning Composer Nathaniel Méchaly, known for his scores to the Taken film franchise and two-time Academy Award®-nominated film, The Grandmaster, among many others. More details coming soon!
HBO presents O.G., airing Saturday, February 23 (10 PM) on HBO Go and HBO Now!
O.G. follows Louis (Jeffrey Wright), once the head of a prominent prison gang, in the final weeks of his 24-year sentence. His impending release is upended when he takes new arrival Beecher (Theothus Carter), who is being courted by gang leadership, under his wing. Coming to grips with the indelibility of his crime and the challenge of reentering society, Louis finds his freedom hanging in the balance as he struggles to save Beecher.
Groundbreaking in being filmed at an actual prison, with many of the men incarcerated there cast in acting roles, O.G. takes an intimate and unflinching look at the journey of one man at the precipice of freedom.
The film premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, where Wright won the award for Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film. Theothus Carter and William Fichtner also star.
Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai’s two-time Academy Award®-nominated The Grandmaster film is 10 years in the making, based loosely on the life of Ip Man, the man who trained another Martial Arts legend, Bruce Lee, the fundamentals of Wing Chun. Acclaimed composers Nathaniel Méchaly and Shigeru Umebayashi score the visually-stunning multi-period drama, considered a romantic film with satisfying, dynamic fight scenes inspired by classic Kung Fu films. The bold and sweeping music is the kind of score that was made for vinyl. The film and score swept the film awards in Asia. Preview the album below.
THE GRANDMASTER available now on Blu-ray/DVD (get it here) and On Demand (rent it on iTunes).
Lakeshore Records congratulates all of the nominees for the 87th Annual Academy Awards! Over the years, we have released some of the finest movie soundtracks ever to be heard, and we are so proud of every album. In commemoration of this year’s event, we look back at 11 film scores and soundtracks we’ve released whose films have won Oscars® or received nominations. Which ones do you remember? Which ones do you want to own?
Nightcrawler (Composer: James Newton Howard) – Nomination: Best Original Screenplay, Dan Gilroy
The Grandmaster (Composers: Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Mechaly) – Nomination: Best Achievement in Cinematography, Philippe Le Sourd; Best Achievement in Costume Design, William Chang
The Hurt Locker (Composer: Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders) – Wins: Best Motion Picture of the Year: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro; Best Achievement in Directing: Kathryn Bigelow (Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.); Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Mark Boal; Best Achievement in Film Editing: Bob Murawski, Chris Innis; Best Achievement in Sound Mixing: Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett; Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson; Nominated Oscar Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Jeremy Renner; Best Achievement in Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd;
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score: Marco Beltrami,
Buck Sanders
The Kids Are All Right (Various Artists) – Nominated: Best Motion Picture of the Year: Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Celine Rattray; Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Annette Bening; Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Mark Ruffalo; Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
A Serious Man (Composer: Carter Burwell) – Nominated: Best Motion Picture of the Year and Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Bright Star (Composer: Mark Bradshaw) – Nominated: Best Achievement in Costume Design: Janet Patterson
Tropic Thunder (Various Artists) – Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Robert Downey Jr.
In Bruges (Composer: Carter Burwell) – Nominated: Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh
Into The Wild (Composer: Michael Brook) – Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Hal Holbrook; Best Achievement in Film Editing: Jay Cassidy
Little Miss Sunshine (Composers: Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa) – Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Alan Arkin; Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt
Wanted (Composer: Danny Elfman) – Nonimated: Best Achievement in Sound Mixing: Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt; Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Wylie Stateman
Watch Trailer On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPDErRzsl-0
See this year’s complete list of nominees for the 87th Oscars at Oscars.org.
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Can’t get enough of movies? This week, we’ve rounded up a collection of posts which feature some great movies and soundtracks released by Lakeshore Records. Check out the latest list of movie soundtracks and film scores we recommend such as The Limits of Control (both the various artists and EP are fantastic), and Wanted (film scored by Danny Elfman). Elfman’s signature touches and Director Jim Jarmusch‘s influence makes these soundtracks collectible. Don’t forget to note the film composers to follow their score work on other Lakeshore Records albums. 
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