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 Impossible – Ghost Protocol by Michael Giacchino, Real Steel by Danny Elfman, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes by Patrick Doyle

Drive is a modern-day crime thriller directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks. Gosling plays the unnamed Driver, a stunt driver for the movies who moonlights as a getaway driver for some of Los Angeles’s less salubrious inhabitants, and who finds himself neck-deep in a war between different factions of organized crime, while trying to reconcile himself with his blossoming relationship with his pretty next-door neighbor and her young son

Martinez’s ambient, ethereal electro-pop score was intended to have a retro 1980s vibe, and was performed by Martinez on vintage keyboards to give it an authentically period-specific sound. The score was one of the best-reviewed scores of the year amongst mainstream film critics, earning the composer awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics and the Chicago Film Critics Association, as well as Critics Choice and Golden Satellite Award nominations.

New York-born Martinez began his career as a drummer for rock bands such as Captain Beefheart and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, before making his film music debut in 1989 on director Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape. Since then Martinez has composed music for eight further Soderbergh films, including Kafka (1991), King of the Hill (1993), Underneath (1995), Gray’s Anatomy (1996), The Limey (1999), Traffic (2000), Solaris (2002) and Contagion (2011). His other theatrical credits include such critical and commercial successes as Pump Up the Volume (1990), Wicker Park (2004) and The Lincoln Lawyer (2011).

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IFMCA members Jon Broxton, Damian Sołtysik, Łukasz Waligórski and Łukasz Wudarski will be leading one of the festival’s six Festival Academies, entitled “Film Music and the Film Music Fan Community Phenomenon”, which will take place on Friday, May 25th 2012 at 12:00 noon at the famous Kino Pod Baranami on Rynek Główny in the historic center of old town Kraków. The Academy session, which also features IFMCA Award-nominated composer Bartosz Chajdecki (“Czas Honoru”) and record label CEOs Emmanuel Chamboredon from Milan Records and Robert Townson from Varese Sarabande, will explore the world of film music from the point of view of the consumer, looking at film music journalism and criticism, the fan and collector community, and the record labels who release the music on CD.

Kino Pod Baranami will also be hosting an artistic display of Waligórski’s personal collection of framed, signed film music sheet music from famous works by composers such as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Marco Beltrami, James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman, James Horner and Dario Marianelli.

The Kraków Film Music Festival is one of the world’s leading international celebrations of film music, and features concerts, film screenings, festival academies and multi-media presentations. In 2012, the concert series showcases a live-to-picture performance of the score for “Perfume: Story of a Murderer” by Tom Tykwer, Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek, an 80th birthday celebration concert featuring the music of Wojciech Kilar, and a two-part concert combining music from the Alien quadrilogy, with music by Oscar-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal.

Other special guests taking part in the Festival Academies include Oscar-winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, director Julie Taymor, film music publicist Ray Costa, ASCAP executive Nancy Knutsen, and music supervisor Maggie Rodford.

A full report of the IFMCA’s activities in Kraków will appear in due course; for further information about the Festival itself, please visit http://www.fmf.fm/en.

The IFMCA strongly felt that this impressive and important charitable effort was worthy of special recognition for the groundbreaking collaborative efforts of the Los Angeles-based film music community, not to mention the outstanding musical content the Symphony itself. IFMCA members Jon Broxton and Oscar Flores were on hand to formally make the presentation to Lennertz at his refurbished Sonic Fuel Studios facility in El Segundo, California.

The Symphony of Hope is a musical fundraising project which was originally designed to help the people of Haiti in their desperate time of need, after the devastating earthquake which decimated the Caribbean nation in January 2010. Responding to the nation’s need for help, Lennertz led a collaboration between 25 of Hollywood’s leading composers and over 100 musicians, orchestrators, copyists and industry professionals to create the symphony. The idea behind the symphony is that, building from an original Haitian melody, each composer contributes an additional 8-32 bars of music to the piece and then passes it along to the next composer, symbolizing the way that one lending hand passes on to another lending hand.

The 80-minute Symphony was recorded at the Eastwood Scoring Stage on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, California, in March 2011. Conductor Lucas Richman led a 90-piece orchestra and a 60-piece choir made up of some of Los Angeles’s finest musicians, with vocalists Lisbeth Scott and Carmen Twillie and multi-instrumentalist George Doering providing special solo performances. The music itself was written by Nathan Barr, Tyler Bates, Jeff Beal, Christophe Beck, Bruce Broughton, George S. Clinton, Elia Cmiral, Don Davis, John Debney, Randy Edelman, Andrew Gross, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, David Kitay, Lennertz, Deborah Lurie, Lisbeth Scott, Pete Seibert, Theodore Shapiro, Ed Shearmur, John Swihart, Brian Tyler, Michael Wandmacher, Tim Wynn and Christopher Young.

The album was released in the summer of 2011, all the sales from which continue to go to a nonprofit organization, Hands Together, which is devoted to educating, inspiring and encouraging people to understand the importance of responding to the needs of the poor and disadvantaged, and has been instrumental in establishing schools, orphanages, nutrition and feeding programs, medical clinics, sustainable-development projects, and other important infrastructures in disaster-hit regions.

A live concert performance of the symphony is planned for August 3rd 2012 at 8:00 at the Grand Performances Outdoor Amphitheater on California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles.

Massachusetts native Christopher Lennertz is himself a 2-time IFMCA nominee, having been nominated for Best Video Game Score in 2007 for Warhawk and Best Comedy Score in 2010 for his score for Vampires Suck. He attended the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he studied with Academy Award-winner Elmer Bernstein, and first came to prominence as a composer in the video game industry, contributing memorable music to such projects as Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, Medal of Honor: European Assault and Gun. Amongst his subsequent big screen credits are such hit films as Alvin and the Chipmunks, Meet the Spartans, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Horrible Bosses and Hop.

For further details about the Symphony of Hope please visit http://www.haitisymphony.com. Please also visit http://filmmusiccritics.org/2011/03/ifmca-supports-a-symphony-of-hope-the-haiti-project/ for the IFMCA’s coverage of this event.

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This is Toprak’s second award in two years, having been awarded the IFMCA Award for Best Comedy Score in 2010 for her score for The Lightkeepers. The other nominees in the documentary category were Frozen Planet by George Fenton, Hold At All Costs: The Story of the Battle of Outpost Harry by Larry Groupé, Jig by Patrick Doyle, and Russland – Im Reich der Tiger, Bären und Vulkane by Kolja Erdmann.

The Wind Gods, directed by Fritz Mitchell and produced by David Ellison and Wendy Yamano, is an action-packed documentary telling the story of the 33rd America’s Cup yacht race, which saw Oracle Corporation owner Larry Ellison’s American yacht USA-17, representing the Golden Gate Yacht Club, defeat the Swiss-owned Alinghi 5 yacht of Italian entrepeneur Ernesto Bertarelli, against the backdrop of an acrimonious legal battle for the right to compete in the race.

Toprak’s soaring orchestral score was recorded with a large symphony orchestra in Los Angeles, and is a powerful musical celebration of a life on the ocean, and the men and women who spend their lives seeking to conquer it.

Pinar Toprak was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and began her studies at the Istanbul State Conservatory, before moving to the United Statesto study at the Berklee College of Music. She worked under composer Hans Zimmer at Media Ventures on scores such as The Last Samurai, King Arthur and the original Pirates of the Caribbean, before branching out on her own. In addition to The Wind Gods and The Lightkeepers, her credits include the X-Box 360 video game Ninety-Nine Nights, the action sequel Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil, the romantic thriller Say It In Russian, the animated fantasy Light of Olympia, the serial killer thriller The River Murders starring Ray Liotta and Christian Slater, and numerous “creature features” for the Sci-Fi Channel.

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This is Young’s third IFMCA Award, having previously won for Best Score for a Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror Film for Drag Me to Hell in 2009, and Film Music Composition of the Year for the cue “Concerto to Hell” from the same score.

The Rum Diary is based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, and sees director Bruce Robinson making his return to the cinema 19 years after his last feature, Jennifer Eight, and a full 24 years since his acclaimed debut, Withnail & I. Johnny Depp stars as jaded and alcohol-soaked journalist Paul Kemp, who takes an assignment working for a local newspaper in Puerto Rico in the mid-1950s. However, rather than finding the escape from life he was looking for, Kemp stumbles from one hilarious rum-laced adventure to another, facing the closure of his newspaper, dealing with his cantankerous colleagues, getting involved in some shady dealings with a local industrialist played by Aaron Eckhart, and even falling in lust with the shady entrepreneur’s beautiful young wife, Amber Heard.

Young’s music is a celebration of Puerto Rican life and culture, as well as the laid back jazz grooves of the film composers of the time, including Henry Mancini, Les Baxter and Neal Hefti.

New Jersey native Young studied at North Texas State University and at the UCLA Film School, and was originally a jazz drummer, before making a move into film music in the early 1980s. He rose to prominence following his critically acclaimed score for Hellraiser in 1987, and has since gone on to score a slew of critical and commercial successes such as Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Murder in the First, Species, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Spider-Man 3 and Ghost Rider. He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2002 for his score for The Shipping News, was nominated for an Emmy in 1996 for Norma Jean & Marilyn, and won the prestigious BMI Richard Kirk Award for career achievement in 2008.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012 – The International Film Music Critics Association announces the winners of its eighth annual awards for excellence in musical scoring in 2011 with John Williams’ score for Steven Spielberg’s WAR HORSE topping the list, winning Film Score of the Year, Best Score for a Drama Film and Individual Cue for “The Homecoming.” Williams also wins Composer of the Year and Best Score for an Animated Film for THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN. French composer Ludovic Bource wins Breakout Composer of the Year for his score to THE ARTIST.

Cliff Martinez wins Best Score for an Action/Adventure/Thriller Film for Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE. Best Score for a Comedy Film is given to THE RUM DIARY by Christopher Young. Michael Giacchino wins his 11th career award for JJ Abrams’ SUPER 8 in the Best Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film category. Turkish composer Pinar Toprak wins Best Score for a Documentary Film for her score to THE WIND GODS.

In the non-film categories, Arnau Bataller wins Best Score for a Television Series for the Spanish telenovela ERMESSENDA. Veteran Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi wins Best Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media for the Level-5 / Studio Ghibli game NI NO KUNI: WRATH OF THE WHITE WITCH.

The Best Archival Release goes to the massive Warner Bros sixteen-disc, retrospective box-set THE DANNY ELFMAN & TIM BURTON 25TH ANNIVERSARY MUSIC BOX, which was housed in a Zoetrope box and included an exclusive historical book. The winner of Best Archival Re-recording goes to conductor William Stromberg and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra for their re-recording of Bernard Herrmanm’s THE BATTLE OF NERETVA and THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. Best Record Label of the Year goes to La-La Land Records, their second win in a row in this category, for such notable 2011 expanded release soundtracks as 1941, SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND, FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY, COMMANDO and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION COLLECTION VOLUME 1.

The Association is also bestowing a Special Award to SYMPHONY OF HOPE: THE HAITI PROJECT, a benefit recording collaboration between 25 film and TV composers, including John Debney, Christopher Young, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, and Christopher Lennertz who produced with Steve Schnur. The recording is available as a download on itunes and Amazon among other outlets with proceeds going to Haiti Earthquake Relief. More information can be found at www.haitisymphony.com.

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2011 Film Categories

FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR
• WAR HORSE, music by John Williams

FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
• JOHN WILLIAMS

BREAKOUT COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
• LUDOVIC BOURCE

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A DRAMA FILM
• WAR HORSE, music by John Williams

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A COMEDY FILM
• THE RUM DIARY, music by Christopher Young

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER FILM
• DRIVE, music by Cliff Martinez

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION/HORROR FILM
• SUPER 8, music by Michael Giacchino

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN ANIMATED FEATURE
• THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN, music by John Williams

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
• THE WIND GODS, music by Pinar Toprak

FILM MUSIC COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR
• WAR HORSE – “The Homecoming” (John Williams)

2011 Non-Film Categories

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR TELEVISION
• ERMESSENDA, music by Arnau Bataller

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A VIDEO GAME OR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
• NI NO KUNI: WRATH OF THE WHITE WITCH, music by Joe Hisaishi

BEST ARCHIVAL RELEASE OF AN EXISTING SCORE
• THE DANNY ELFMAN & TIM BURTON 25TH ANNIVERSARY MUSIC BOX, music by Danny Elfman; album produced by Danny Elfman and Tim Burton; liner notes by Jeff Bond and Danny Elfman; album art direction by Matt Taylor (Warner Bros Records)

BEST ARCHIVAL RE-RECORDING OF AN EXISTING SCORE
• THE BATTLE OF NERETVA/THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, music by Bernard Herrmann; conducted by William Stromberg; album produced by William Stromberg, John Morgan and Anna Bonn; liner notes by Jim Doherty and Kevin Scott; album art direction by Jim Titus (Tribute Film Classics)

FILM MUSIC RECORD LABEL OF THE YEAR
• LA-LA LAND RECORDS

SPECIAL AWARD
• A SYMPHONY OF HOPE: THE HAITI PROJECT

The International Film Music Critics Association announces its list of nominees for excellence in musical scoring in 2011 with veteran composer John Williams leading the field with 7 nods including WAR HORSE (3 nominations) and THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN (3 nominations) for Film Score of the Year. Also nominated in this category are Ludovic Bource’s THE ARTIST (3 nominations), Mark McKenzie’s score to THE GREATEST MIRACLE (2 nominations) and Howard Shore’s HUGO (2 nominations).

Williams is short-listed for Film Composer of the Year along with Bource; last year’s winner, Alexandre Desplat (whose many scores include HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2, THE TREE OF LIFE, EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, THE IDES OF MARCH and A BETTER LIFE); Michael Giacchino (SUPER 8, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL, 50/50, MONTE CARLO, CARS 2) and Alberto Iglesias (TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, LA PIEL QUE HABITO (THE SKIN I LIVE IN), TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA, LE MOINE).

French composer Ludovic Bource has the rare distinction of also being nominated for Breakout Composer of the Year for Michel Hazanavicius’ silent film, THE ARTIST. The category has an international flair with nominations for Ireland’s Brian Byrne, recognized for his score to ALBERT NOBBS; the British electronic duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons aka The Chemical Brothers for HANNA; British composer Michael Richard Plowman for A LONELY PLACE TO DIE, AGE OF HEROES and TREASURE GUARDS and Spanish composer Lucas Vidal for MIENTRAS DUERMES.

The British dominate the TV Score category with the popular ITV/PBS series DOWNTON ABBEY (John Lunn) nominated alongside DOCTOR WHO (Murray Gold) and SHERLOCK (David Arnold and Michael Price). Rounding out the category are the Spanish series ERMESSENDA (Arnau Bataller) and the American HBO series GAME OF THRONES (Ramin Djawadi).

The International Film Music Critics will announce the winners of its Eighth Annual Awards on February 23, 2012.

2011 Film Categories

FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR

• THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN, music by John Williams
• THE ARTIST, music by Ludovic Bource
• THE GREATEST MIRACLE, music by Mark McKenzie
• HUGO, music by Howard Shore
• WAR HORSE, music by John Williams

FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

• LUDOVIC BOURCE
• ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
• MICHAEL GIACCHINO
• ALBERTO IGLESIAS
• JOHN WILLIAMS

BREAKOUT COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

• LUDOVIC BOURCE
• BRIAN BYRNE
• THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
• MICHAEL RICHARD PLOWMAN
• LUCAS VIDAL

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A DRAMA FILM

• THE ARTIST, music by Ludovic Bource
• JANE EYRE, music by Dario Marianelli
• SOUL SURFER, music by Marco Beltrami
• W.E., music by Abel Korzeniowski
• WAR HORSE, music by John Williams

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A COMEDY FILM

• PAUL, music by David Arnold
• THE RUM DIARY, music by Christopher Young
• TORRENTE 4: LETHAL CRISIS, music by Roque Baños
• A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS, music by William Ross
• YOUR HIGHNESS, music by Steve Jablonsky

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER FILM

• CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, music by Alan Silvestri
• DRIVE, music by Cliff Martinez
• MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL, music by Michael Giacchino
• REAL STEEL, music by Danny Elfman
• RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, music by Patrick Doyle

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION/HORROR FILM

• DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, music by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2, music by Alexandre Desplat
• HUGO, music by Howard Shore
• PRIEST, music by Christopher Young
• SUPER 8, music by Michael Giacchino

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN, music by John Williams
• THE GREATEST MIRACLE, music by Mark McKenzie
• KUNG FU PANDA 2, music by John Powell and Hans Zimmer
• PUSS IN BOOTS, music by Henry Jackman
• RANGO, music by Hans Zimmer

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• FROZEN PLANET, music by George Fenton
• HOLD AT ALL COSTS: THE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF OUTPOST HARRY, music by Larry Groupé
• JIG, music by Patrick Doyle
• RUSSLAND – IM REICH DER TIGER, BÄREN UND VULKANE, music by Kolja Erdmann
• THE WIND GODS, music by Pinar Toprak

FILM MUSIC COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR

• “The Adventure Continues” from THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN, music by John Williams
• “George Valentin” from THE ARTIST, music by Ludovic Bource
• “Captain America March” from CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, music by Alan Silvestri
• “Final Round” from REAL STEEL, music by Danny Elfman
• “The Homecoming” from WAR HORSE, music by John Williams

Other 2011 Categories

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A TELEVISION SERIES

• DOCTOR WHO, music by Murray Gold
• DOWNTON ABBEY, music by John Lunn
• ERMESSENDA, music by Arnau Bataller
• GAME OF THRONES, music by Ramin Djawadi
• SHERLOCK, music by David Arnold and Michael Price

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A VIDEO GAME OR INTERACTIVE MEDIA

• CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3, music by Brian Tyler
• THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM, music by Jeremy Soule
• L.A. NOIRE, music by Andrew Hale and Simon Hale
• NI NO KUNI: WRATH OF THE WHITE WITCH, music by Joe Hisaishi
• SOCOM 4: U.S. NAVY SEALS, music by Bear McCreary

BEST ARCHIVAL RELEASE OF AN EXISTING SCORE

• THE BLACK HOLE, music by John Barry; album produced by Randy Thornton and Douglass Fake, liner notes by Jeff Bond; album art direction by Steve Sterling (Disney / Intrada)
• THE DANNY ELFMAN & TIM BURTON 25TH ANNIVERSARY MUSIC BOX, music by Danny Elfman; album produced by Danny Elfman and Tim Burton; liner notes by Jeff Bond and Danny Elfman; album art direction by Matt Taylor (Warner Bros Records)
• DAYS OF HEAVEN, music by Ennio Morricone; album produced by Lukas Kendall and Craig Spaulding; liner notes by Lukas Kendall and Jeff Bond; album art direction by Joe Sikoryak (Film Score Monthly)
• GREMLINS, music by Jerry Goldsmith; album produced by Mike Matessino and Bruce Botnick; liner notes by Jeff Bond and Mike Matessino; album art direction by Joe Sikoryak (Film Score Monthly)
• MASADA, music by Jerry Goldsmith and Morton Stevens; album produced by Douglass Fake and Roger Feigelson; liner notes by Jon Burlingame; album art direction by Joe Sikoryak (Intrada)

BEST ARCHIVAL RE-RECORDING OF AN EXISTING SCORE

• THE BATTLE OF NERETVA/THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, music by Bernard Herrmann; conducted by William Stromberg; album produced by William Stromberg, John Morgan and Anna Bonn; liner notes by Jim Doherty and Kevin Scott; album art direction by Jim Titus (Tribute Film Classics)
• CONAN THE DESTROYER, music by Basil Poledouris; conducted by Nic Raine; album produced by James Fitzpatrick; liner notes by Frank K. DeWald; album art direction by GINKO DIGI (Prometheus)
• THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, music by Dimitri Tiomkin; conducted by Nic Raine; album produced by James Fitzpatrick; liner notes by Frank K. DeWald; album art direction by James Fitzpatrick, Damien Doherty and GINKO DIGI (Prometheus)
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS SYMPHONY, music by Howard Shore; conducted by Ludwig Wicki; album produced by Jonathan Schultz and Howard Shore; liner notes by Howard Shore and Ludwig Wicki; album art direction by Alan Frey (HOWE Records)
• TARAS BULBA, music by Franz Waxman; conducted by Nic Raine; album produced by James Fitzpatrick; liner notes by Frank K. DeWald; album art direction by Damien Doherty (Tadlow Music)

FILM MUSIC RECORD LABEL OF THE YEAR

• FILM SCORE MONTHLY
• INTRADA
• LA-LA LAND
• MOVIESCORE MEDIA
• VARÈSE SARABANDE

The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) is an association of online, print and radio journalists who specialize in writing about original film and television music.

The IFMCA was originally formed in the late 1990s as the now-defunct “Film Music Critics Jury” by editor and journalist Mikael Carlsson, a former contributor to filmmusicradio.com and filmmusicmag.com, and currently the owner of the Swedish independent film music label MovieScore Media.

Since its inception, the IFMCA has grown to comprise over 50 members from countries as diverse as Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Previous IFMCA Score of the Year Awards have been awarded to John Powell’s HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON in 2010, Michael Giacchino’s UP in 2009, Alexandre Desplat’s THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON in 2008, Dario Marianelli’s ATONEMENT in 2007, James Newton Howard’s LADY IN THE WATER in 2006, John Williams’ MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA in 2005 and Michael Giacchino’s THE INCREDIBLES in 2004.

For more information about the International Film Music Critics Association, its members and the list of past awards, please visit http://www.filmmusiccritics.org or contact press@filmmusiccritics.org.

ASTURSCORE (asturscore.com)

• J. EDGAR (Clint Eastwood)

 BSO SPIRIT (bsospirit.com)

•  MAN TO MAN (Patrick Doyle)

FILM MUSIC: THE NEGLECTED ART (sdtom.wordpress.com)

• FILM MUSIC 2011 (Various Artists)

FILMTRACKS (filmtracks.com)

• BACK TO GAYA (Michael Kamen)
• BIG MIRACLE (Cliff Eidelman)
• THE GREY (Marc Streitenfeld)
• UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (Paul Haslinger)

MAINTITLES (maintitles.net)

• MINECRAFT – VOLUME ALPHA (C418)

 MOVIE WAVE (movie-wave.net)

• CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 (Brian Tyler)
• HAYWIRE (David Holmes)
• ONE FOR THE MONEY (Deborah Lurie)
• STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (Leonard Rosenman)
  

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.com)

• KATMANDÚ, UN ESPEJO EN EL CIELO – Pascal Gaigne
• EL CAPITÁN TRUENO Y EL SANTO GRIAL – Luis Ivars
• THE BIRTHDAY – Fernando Velázquez
• BOSQUE DE SOMBRAS – Fernando Velázquez
• ARRUGAS – Nani García
  

SOUNDTRACKBEAT (soundtrackbeat.com)

• THE DARKEST HOUR (Tyler Bates)
• MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (Michael Giacchino)
• WAR HORSE (John Williams)

TRACKSOUNDS (tracksounds.com)

• THE DARKEST HOUR (Tyler Bates)
• FILM MUSIC 2011

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PODCASTS AND RADIO SHOWS

CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO SHOW (cinematicsound.net)

• The Best Scores of the New Millennium
  

FILM SCORE FOCUS (filmscorefocus.org)

• 40 Years of Missing Max featuring scores from legendary composer Max Steiner including KING KONG, A SUMMER PLACE, THE SEARCHERS and more.  Tune in live Friday February 3rd at 7pm (CST) on 89.5 KMFA Austin, Texas or on-line at kmfa.org

SOUNDS AND SIGHTS OF CINEMA (dvdverdictpresents.com)

• The Best Film Scores of 2011 (Part One)

TRACKSOUNDS: THE SOUNDCAST (tracksounds.com)

• Oscars:  I Think There Is A Buzz.  The panel chats about the awards season and the recent Academy Award nominations.

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INTERVIEWS

MUNDOBSO (mundobdso.wordpress.com)

• Interview with Pascal Gaigne

RUNMOVIES (runmovies.eu)

• Interview with Marc Vaillo
• Interview with Lucas Vidal
• Interview with Luis Ivars
  

SCORENOTES (scorenotes.com)

• An audio interview with composer Andrew Lockington
  

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ARTICLES

RANDALL LARSON’S SOUNDTRAX (buysoundtrax.com)

• Randall Larson interviews Paul Haslinger and reviews such titles as ANIMALS UNITED (David Newman), BACK TO GAYA (Kamen), BIG MIRACLE (Eidelman), DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (Paxton), FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY (Morricone), FRANTIC (Morricone), FRIDAY THE 13TH PARTS I-VI (Manfredini), THE GREY (Streitenfeld), THE INNKEEPERS (Grace), ONE FOR THE MONEY (Lurie), REAL STEEL(Elfman)

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.wordpress.com)

• Remembering Bingen Mendizabal’s La Madre Muerta

BSO SPIRIT (bsospirit.com)

• CONTAGION (Cliff Martinez)
• SHERLOCK HOMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (Hans Zimmer)
• DOLPHIN TALE (Mark Isham)
• GAME OF THRONES (Ramin Djawadi)
• HUGO (Howard Shore)
• LA LIGNE DROITE (Patrick Doyle)
• MARS NEEDS MOMS (John Powell)
• THE TEMPEST (Elliot Goldenthal)

FILM MUSIC: THE NEGLECTED ART (sdtom.wordpress.com)

• BACK TO GAYA (Michael Kamen)

FILMTRACKS (filmtracks.com)

• ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (Harry Gregson-Williams)
• BATMAN FOREVER (Elliot Goldenthal)
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Alberto Iglesias)

MAINTITLES (maintitles.net)

• MARS NEEDS MOMS (John Powell)
• RIO (John Powell)

MOVIE MUSIC UK (moviemusicuk.us)

• CONAN THE DESTROYER (Basil Poledouris)
• THE IRON LADY (Thomas Newman)

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.com)

• CHICO & RITA (Bebo Valdés)
• SI, PERO NO LO SOY (Fernando Velázquez)
• COPITO DE NIEVE (Zacarías M. De la Riva)
• LA CHISPA DE LA VIDA (Joan Valent)

ONE MOVIE, FIVE VIEWS (onemoviefiveviews.wordpress.com)

• JOYFUL NOISE (Various Artists)

SCORENOTES (scorenotes.com)

• JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (Andrew Lockington)

SOUNDTRACKBEAT (soundtrackbeat.com)

• A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (William Ross)
• THE IRON LADY (Thomas Newman)
• REAL STEEL (Danny Elfman)
• SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (Hans Zimmer)

TRACKSOUNDS (tracksounds.com)

• UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (Paul Haslinger)
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Alberto Iglesias)

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PODCASTS AND RADIO SHOWS

FILM MUSIC MAGAZINE (filmmusicmag.com)

• On The Score presents a new audio interview with BIG MIRACLE composer Cliff Eidelman and director Ken Kwapis. (On-Demand)
  

FILM SCORE FOCUS (filmscorefocus.org)

• Music from the Animated World of Bugs featuring The Ant Bully, A Bug’s Life, Antz and more.  Tune in Friday January 27^th at 7pm (CST) on 89.5 KMFA Austin, Texas or on-line at kmfa.org
  

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INTERVIEWS

ASTURSCORE (asturscore.com)

• A video interview with composer Bear McCreary

BSO SPIRIT (bsospirit.com)

• Interview with Michael McCann
  

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.wordpress.com)

• An Interview with Nani Garcia

TRACKSOUNDS (tracksounds.com)

• A video interview with composer Cliff Martinez at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
  

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ARTICLES

AIN’T IT COOL NEWS (aintitcool.com)

• Scorekeeper’s Top Ten Film Scores of 2011

MOVIE MUSIC UK (moviemusicuk.us)

• Awards Season commentary by Jonathan Broxton

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