Composer Cliff Martinez has been presented with the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Score in 2011, for his score for Drive, by IFMCA member Brian Satterwhite. Drive represents Martinez’s first IFMCA nomination and first win. The other nominees in the action/adventure/thriller category were Captain America: The First Avenger by Alan Silvestri, Mission [...]
The International Film Music Critics Association is honored to announce that it will be officially taking part in the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Kraków, Poland at the end of May. IFMCA members Jon Broxton, Damian Sołtysik, Łukasz Waligórski and Łukasz Wudarski will be leading one of the festival’s six Festival Academies, entitled “Film [...]
Composer Pinar Toprak has been presented with the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Score in 2011, for her score for The Wind Gods, by IFMCA members Jon Broxton and Craig Richard Lysy. This is Toprak’s second award in two years, having been awarded the IFMCA Award for Best Comedy Score in [...]
Composer John Powell has been presented with the International Film Music Critics Association Awards for Score of the Year and Best Score for an Animated Feature in 2010, for his Oscar-nominated work on How to Train Your Dragon, by IFMCA members Jon Broxton and Oscar Flores. Powell overcame strong opposition from Hans Zimmer (Inception), Daft [...]
Composer Pinar Toprak has been presented with the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Comedy Score in 2010, for her score for The Lightkeepers, by IFMCA members Jon Broxton and Oscar Flores. Toprak beat out established composers such as Scott Glasgow (Lo), James Newton Howard (Nanny McPhee Returns), Philippe Rombi (Potiche) and Christopher [...]
The IFMCA is delighted to announce the induction of four new members into the group: John Bender is a freelance film music journalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His earliest memories of pleasures from life on Earth involve television and film, and the music for both. As a student he pursued education in the visual Fine Arts [...]
The IFMCA is pleased to announce the publication of the third IFMCA Legend tribute, “Miklós Rózsa: The Midas Touch”, by Greek film music journalist and IFMCA member Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, the founder and editor of “Soundtrackbeat.com”, the first Greek site about film music. The Rózsa tribute examines his life and work, from his early days working for producer [...]
WALL*E, the Pixar movie about a lone robot left on Earth, garnered the most nominations for the fifth annual International Film Music Critics Association Awards for Excellence. The animated film was nominated for four awards: Film Score of the Year, Best Score for an Animated Film, Best Film Composition (for “Define Dancing”) and Composer of [...]
The members of the International Film Music Critics Association have announced the winners of the 4th Annual IFMCA Awards, honoring achievements in film and television music in 2007. They are: FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR – Atonement, music by Dario Marianelli FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR – Alexandre Desplat BEST NEW COMPOSER OF 2007 – [...]
If you enjoyed the post, make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed.
© 2012
Powered by WordPress. Design by 