If only there was a podcast that would ask Charli xcx about her music for Wuthering Heights rather than whether she wants kids...

Listening again through last year's film scores and there are a lot of great ones that sadly got kinda ignored. Fantastic Four (Michael Giacchino) and 28 Years Later (Young Fathers) are more obvious ones, but Smashing Machine, The Shrouds, Eddington, and Anemone are a few other missed goodies

Ludwig picks up the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Sinners (as expected)

Keep thinking about how The Magician’s Nephew is getting a psychedelic rock inspired score from the guy that made Uptown Funk

Damon Albarn is scoring Luca Guadagnino’s new film, Artificial. It’ll be Luca’s first film without Reznor and Ross scoring since Suspiria in 2018, which Thom Yorke scored - he sure does love his band members-turned-film composers

Bummed to see that Eiko Ishibashi isn’t scoring the new Hamaguchi film - Drive My Car and Evil Does Not Exist were both some of my favorite recent scores

Congratulations to the nominees for the best original score BAFTA! These nominations also happen to be identical to the Oscar best score nominees…

With Oscar nominations out, check out my interview with Max Richter where we talk about his freshly nominated score for Hamnet: thefilmscorer.com/an-interview...

Congratulations to the nominees for the best original score Oscar!

No one really talked about them, but Bryce Dessner's score for The Accountant 2 and Volker Bertelmann's score for The Amateur are two of the most interesting scores from last year in how strongly they play against action tropes

A good article from Jon Burlingame about how several Oscar “best score” contenders started working on their score during production/filming. Sure it’s more expensive, but imo can provide huge benefit to the score and film overall variety.com/2026/artisan...

Damn, Hans Zimmer and the team at Bleeding Fingers are scoring the new Harry Potter series

Simon Franglen and I explore the world of Pandora and his score for Avatar: Fire and Ash, including themes, building and expanding the sonic palette, laying easter eggs for future scores, and more: thefilmscorer.com/avatar-with-...

Really floored by Daniel Blumberg's score for The Testament of Ann Lee - the mixture of experimental vocal textures, tuned percussion, and celesta makes for an ethereal, out of body experience. Literally chilling stuff

Now that people are finally watching Industry, here's my interview with series composer Nathan Micay from like 3 years ago thefilmscorer.com/an-interview...

Just finished what's hopefully my last interview for the next several months...

Congratulations to Ludwig Göransson for winning the best original score Golden Globe for Sinners!

Lol the Best Original Score presentation is getting cut from the Golden Globes telecast

Congrats to the ten scores that made the BAFTA Longlist for best original score Nice to see 28 Years Later get some love Tom Basden only did the songs in Wallis Island, but since he won the BIFA for it alongside Adam Ilhan, I added him in

Daniel said I should try to hang my score notes in a modern art museum - here’s a sneak peek at a page of my Marty Supreme notes before they hit a gallery near you 😉

Obsessed with this audio transition in You've Got Mail, such a funny idea to match-up a sandwich bite with a bag rustling

A big thanks to everyone that listened to the show last year and to all my great guests (all 24 of 'em) - can't do this without you and looking to another great set of chats in 2026

With 2025 now over, what were your favorite scores of the year?

Saw the film at the start of the week and giving the score a standalone listen right now and it's so damn good

"Noises and drones merge with Pinocchio's pain and suffering, amplifying it and thrusting it back into the eyes and ears of the viewer – if Pinocchio must suffer, so must they" Reviewing Dowser's score for the cult techno-horror film 964 Pinocchio thefilmscorer.com/964-pinocchi...

Vindicating my skepticism for the inorganic push for podcasting to pivot to video Video and audio are two different media requiring different approaches, you can't just post a raw video and expect it to be good www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Great talk about a great soundtrack and a great film. I love how Daniel Lopatin talks so highly of mixer and sound guru Skip Lievsay who did the sound for #MartySupreme. The interplay between music and sound design in the movie is brilliant ❤️🔊

Haven't seen the new Anaconda film, but listened to the score and there's a sequence where Jack Black is vocalizing an imagined score (with the real score following along over top), very reminiscent of his scene in The Holiday singing famous film themes

It’s Marty Supreme release day - so take a break from your celebrations and listen to Daniel Lopatin and I talk about his killer score for the film thefilmscorer.com/an-interview...

Christmas comes early - Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) chats with me about scoring MARTY SUPREME, musical anachronism and influence from 80s sports films, Denzel’s turn in Gladiator (and the similarities to Timothy Chalamet), and more thefilmscorer.com/an-interview...

Though an odd grouping of composers of the year, this is an interesting look at bands-turned-film composers and the struggles and triumphs they face consequence.net/cover/idles-...

Congrats to all of the scores and composers who made the shortlist for the Best Score Oscar! No sites actually included the composers, so I’ve added em all in…

A pretty varied list of the best film scores/soundtracks of the year from Film Stage, refreshing to not simply see the same six getting all the attention thefilmstage.com/the-best-sco...

A clever use of repetitive ambient score, creating a sense of debilitating anxiety, of otherness and isolation despite being surrounded by people in the middle of bustling Tokyo '964 Pinocchio' scored by Dowser/Hiroyuki Nagashima

With Ramin Djawadi getting tapped to score Supergirl, both DCU composers have also scored MCU projects. Kinda shows how small a world blockbuster scoring can be

Somehow I missed that M83 scored Bi Gan’s Resurrection - one more reason to look forward to it!

Are there any notable downsides to joining the YouTube partner program? Feels like there's just a possibility of upside without a catch...

Congrats to the Golden Globe nominees for best original score: Alexandre Desplat - Frankenstein Ludwig Göransson - Sinners Jonny Greenwood - One Battle After Another Kangding Ray - Sirāt Max Richter - Hamnet Hans Zimmer - F1: The Movie

Congrats to the best score nominees at the Critics Choice Awards: Hans Zimmer – F1
Alexandre Desplat – Frankenstein
Max Richter – Hamnet
Daniel Lopatin – Marty Supreme 
Jonny Greenwood – One Battle After Another
Ludwig Göransson – Sinners

It’s the last bandcamp Friday of the year - a great time to support your favorite artists (especially if they showed up on your wrapped…) What’d you release today? What’d you pick up?

Each year’s Spotify Wrapped for Podcasters is humbling: always great to see the show played all across the world and being so many people’s number one podcast still blows my mind If The Film Scorer made it into your top pods for the year, don’t be afraid to share 😉

Reading an article about Wolfen (by my bud @filmsonwax.bsky.social), where James Horner replaced Craig Safan. Horner says Safan's score "would not work" since there was "nothing to relate to [and no] emotional quality." Pretty rare to see a composer so openly deride the score he's replacing

Luca Guadagnino's recent comments about costume designers remind me of this older clip of Quentin Tarantino talking about film composers

“It’s not going to be remixes of Williams’ cues. It may be inspired by some of that, but I knew I needed a bighearted movie score from a composer who, like John Williams, doesn’t shy away from themes.” Shawn Levy on the music of Star Wars: Starfighter and tapping Thomas Newman for the score

Max Richter describes how "On the Nature of Daylight" came to be used in Hamnet and helped solve the film's ending

Thomas Newman is apparently scoring the new Star Wars flick, Starfighter

The 2025 Critics Choice Award Shortlist For Best Score (and the other Below-The-Line Categories) has just been released - love seeing the first sets of shortlists and nominations, before groups narrow things down to the same handful of scores (though it's not like these are particularly surprising)

Max Richter's score for Hamnet released this past weekend, and the film hits limited release in a couple of days, so make sure you've listened to Max and I chat about the film... thefilmscorer.com/an-interview...

Sisu 2’s score mixing spaghetti western vibes with a little bit of throat singing, gotta love it

I uploaded versions of both of Jon Brion’s tracks from One Battle After Another to my YouTube channel, and it’s genuinely so wonderful seeing so many people in the comments celebrating the music and film