John Williams wins five awards from International Film Music critics

Posted by · 10:19 am · February 24th, 2012

The International Film Music Critics Association has offered up the final precursor awards announcement of the season as we head into the weekend, which will bring the Independent Spirit Awards and, finally, the Oscars. And John Williams had a great day, it turns out.

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Round-up: Playing off the Academy's music branch

Posted by · 6:30 am · January 27th, 2012

Also: Ebert on Farhadi, and the geography of Oscar

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'Drive,' 'A Better Life' and 'Attack the Block' among scores not eligible for Oscar this year

Posted by · 5:03 pm · December 22nd, 2011

The Academy has announced a list of 97 film scores eligible for consideration in the Best Original Score category this year. Typically, it’s this announcement that brings the bad news of this or that score either not being submitted or being ruled ineligible for whatever reason.

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Oscarweb Round-up: Longing for indies of old

Posted by · 4:00 am · September 23rd, 2011

In today’s round-up, Ryan Gibey pines across the pond for the American indie cinema of 20 years past, Patrick Goldstein sees a story of outsider innovation in “Moneyball” and everyone’s talking about the Best Actor race in one way or another.

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