Movie Music UK Awards 2025
2025 was an excellent year for film music, if you were prepared to go and look for it. While very few of the year’s most acclaimed films had scores to match (I actively disliked a lot of the music from...
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2024 has been a difficult, challenging year for multiple reasons, but one aspect that continues to impress was the overall quality of its film music. I heard more than 800 scores in 2024 – either as a...
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This year was a fascinating year for me in terms of film music, mainly because for the majority of it there wasn’t one runaway winner for Score of the Year. In recent years there has been a Rings of...
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The film music world got back to normal, mostly, after two years of COVID-related disruption, and ultimately roared back with a vengeance with a ton of great scores. I heard more than 650 scores in...
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I said that 2020 has been, by far, the strangest year in living memory for both films and film music – but 2021 almost matched it. Although the rampant COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on...
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2020 has been, by far, the strangest year in living memory for both films and film music. The rampant COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic shuttered cinemas around the world and pushed the overwhelming...
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Popular opinion among the film music community has posited that 2019 was the worst year of the decade for new original scores, and while that may be the case for the majority of mainstream Hollywood,...
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The world of film music in 2018 yielded some truly outstanding scores, but my top scores of the year actually came to me rather more easily than they usually do. They each spoke to different aspects of...
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After a little bit of a slow start, 2017 ended up being a really excellent year for film music. Many of the industry’s most reliable and storied composers had superb years, each writing multiple...
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I know I have said this year after year, but this year it seems to be truer than ever: choosing the best scores of 2016 was an incredibly difficult task. The issue, for me, was the lack of a clear...
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I feel like I say this every year, but narrowing down my choices for the best scores of 2015 has been harder than ever. It’s been a wonderful year for film music – I managed to experience well over 400...
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It’s been an outstanding year for film music in 2014. I managed to get experience over 350 scores this year, both by watching movies and listening to their soundtracks independently,and I strongly feel...
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Film music went from strength to strength again in 2013. In terms of it’s world wide excellence, the breadth of outstanding music coming from all corners of the globe is astonishing – some of the best...
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SCORE OF THE YEAR CLOUD ATLAS, Tom Tykwer, Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek Nominees: THE IMPOSSIBLE, Fernando Velázquez JOHN CARTER, Michael Giacchino LIFE OF PI, Mychael Danna MIEL DE NARANJAS, Nuno...
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SCORE OF THE YEAR MARK McKENZIE for The Greatest Miracle Nominees: LUDOVIC BOURCE for The Artist DARIO MARIANELLI for Jane Eyre JOHN WILLIAMS for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn...
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SCORE OF THE YEAR JOHN POWELL for How To Train Your Dragon Nominees: DAFT PUNK for Tron: Legacy ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part I ALEXANDRE DESPLAT for The King’s Speech...
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