IFMCA Award Nominations 2019

INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR RECEIVES FIVE NOMINATIONS; MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS FOR ALEXANDRE DESPLAT, BEAR McCREARY, THOMAS NEWMAN, JOHN WILLIAMS. FEBRUARY 6, 2020. The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its list of nominees for excellence in musical scoring in 2019, for the 16th ...

IFMCA welcomes new members in 2018-19

The IFMCA is delighted to have welcomed two new members into the IFMCA in 2018 and 2019: Mogens Skaaning Høegsberg and Yavar Moradi. Mogens is from Denmark. Mogens bought his first film score in 1990 at the age of 13, and began writing about film music in 2000 for ...

Remembering Kyle Renick

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of IFMCA member Kyle Renick. Kyle died on November 29th, 2019. Kyle served as Executive Director of WPA Theatre (Workshop of the Players Art Foundation, Inc.), producing more than one hundred Off-Broadway plays and musicals, including such long-running successes ...

IFMCA members celebrate America in Space

On a cool August night in Los Angeles, IFMCA members Jon Broxton and Daniel Schweiger were among the thousands of attendees at the Hollywood Bowl for “America in Space,” a concert celebrating the achievements of NASA, the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and ...

Amelia Warner receives IFMCA Award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year

Composer Amelia Warner has been presented with the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year by IFMCA members Johannes Ruckstuhl and Peter Simons. Warner was honored for her enormously impressive mainstream debut work scoring the literary drama based on the life of the groundbreaking ...

Christopher Lennertz receives IFMCA Award for Lost in Space

Composer Christopher Lennertz has been presented with the 2018 International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for Television by IFMCA member Jon Broxton, for his work on the Netflix reboot of the classic sci-fi show Lost in Space. This is Lennertz’s second IFMCA Award; he previously ...