John Powell receives IFMCA Award for The Call of the Wild

Composer John Powell has been presented with the 2020 International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure/Thriller film by IFMCA members Jon Broxton and Craig Lysy. Powell’s win was for his thrilling score the new adaptation of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, ...

Christopher Willis receives IFMCA Award for Score of the Year

Composer Christopher Willis has been presented with the 2020 International Film Music Critics Association Awards for Score of the Year and Best Original Score for a Comedy by IFMCA members Jon Broxton and Craig Lysy. Willis’s wins were for his score for the outstanding adaptation of the Charles Dickens ...

Introducing the Critic: Nasrollah Davoodi

Tell us a little about your background, both personally and professionally (in terms of film music). How did you first discover film music? I was born in 1982 in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Though my father was not a professional musician, he was very musical and played the Santoor ...

Daniel Pemberton receives IFMCA Award for Composer of the Year

Composer Daniel Pemberton has been presented with the 2020 International Film Music Critics Association Award for Composer of the Year by IFMCA member Tim Burden. Pemberton’s varied projects over the year included the literary adventure Enola Holmes, based on the popular young adult novels by Nancy Springer about the ...

Introducing the Critic: Blake Fichera

Tell us a little about your background, both personally and professionally (in terms of film music). How did you first discover film music? I’m not sure there was an actual moment of discovery. My parents were not specifically “film music fans,” but they were fans of both movies and ...

IFMCA introduces more new members for 2021

We are very pleased to announce that three more film music journalists have joined the IFMCA in 2021. We are delighted to have the expertise and experience of Simon Elchlepp from Australia, Anne Kahnwald from Germany, and Oliver Pöllendorfer, also from Germany. After spending too much of his youth ...