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 ...

The scores from “Wicked,” “Moana 2” and “Emilia Perez” are among the 89 songs and 145 scores eligible for music Oscars this year. As predicted, “Dune: Part Two” is not among them. Composer Hans Zimmer ...

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, ...