James Peterson accepts IFMCA Awards for The Red Canvas

Composer James Peterson has been presented with his International Film Music Critics Awards by IFMCA members Jon Broxton and Oscar Flores. Peterson won two awards at the 2009 IFMCA Awards, for Breakout Composer and Best Action/Adventure score for The Red Canvas. He was also nominated for Film Music Composition ...

IFMCA announces winners of 2009 Awards

MICHAEL GIACCHINO’S UP WINS BEST SCORE OF 2009 MARCH 1, 2010 – Michael Giacchino wins the 2009 Score of the Year award from the International Film Music Critics Association for his inventive and nostalgic score for the Disney Pixar film, UP, which also wins Best Original Score for an ...

IFMCA announces its 2009 nominees for scoring excellence

The International Film Music Critics Association announces its list of excellence in musical scoring for 2009 with composer Michael Giacchino receiving nine individual nominations, the most for any composer in a given year since the Association began issuing awards in 2004. Along with multiple mentions for his score to ...

Welcome new members

The IFMCA is delighted to announce that four new members have joined the Association in recent months: Tim Burden, a writer from Northern Ireland who contributes reviews and articles to Film Score Monthly  Olivier Desbrosses, owner and reviewer for the French film music website Underscores Oscar Flores,  a Los Angeles-based ...

IFMCA announces its 2008 winners for scoring excellence

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT’S THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON WINS BEST SCORE OF 2008 Alexandre Desplat wins the 2008 IFMCA’S Film Score of the Year Award for THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, David Fincher’s imaginative re-telling of a 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man who ages ...