Watch out – the film music boys (and girls) are coming for a concert hall near you. Next spring brings the first-ever Soundtrack Festival dedicated to Television and Games Music to London. Meanwhile, ...

It’s hard to discern a unifying theme in the best film scores of 2025. This year’s cinema certainly favored the bold and audaciously musical, in the literal sense — from the devilish fantasia of ...

Scores for Oscar-nominated movies like The Brutalist are better than they’ve ever been — even if you can’t tell which instruments are being used. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection For decades, ...

During the silent film era, movie showings almost always featured live music. Whether played on a single piano or on one of the large theater organs such as the famous “Mighty Wurlitzer,” music was ...

If you’ve watched a handful of Westerns and/or a decent number of movies produced in Italy before, there’s a good chance you’ve run into an Ennio Morricone score or two in your time. As far as ...

Nine Inch Nails’ music for “Tron: Ares,” Nala Sinephro’s compositions for “The Smashing Machine” and more. By Lindsay Zoladz As I was putting together my annual list of my favorite albums of the year, ...

One might not expect an industrial rock star to make music for a Disney movie, but that’s exactly what Trent Reznor did with Soul. Jon Batiste worked on much of the jazz-oriented music throughout the ...