This week, the Grammy Award nominations were announced. Check out the nominees in the categories "Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media", "Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media" and "Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Visual Media" by clicking here. Congratulations to all the nominees.
Announced this week were new composer assignments for Max Richter (White Boy Rick), Rob Simonsen (Love, Simon) and Christopher Lennertz (Lost in Space), among many others. For the full list of composer and music supervisor assignments from this week, click here.
Over 40 new soundtrack albums were released this week. Click here for the full schedule.
No movies are opening nationwide this weekend, as is typical post-Thanksgiving weekend. Among the limited openings this week are (with music by): The Shape of Water (Alexandre Desplat and The Disaster Artist (Dave Porter).
We are tracking song credits for the following new theatrical releases:
-The Disaster Artist (13 songs)
-Love Beats Rhymes (56 songs)
-The Shape of Water (27 songs)
We also recently added song credits for last week's wide expanding movies, Lady Bird (28 songs) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (11 songs).
The following composers are celebrating their birthdays within the next week:
- John Altman (Shall We Dance, Hope Springs) is turning 68 on Tuesday, December 5.
- Richard Gibbs (Dr. Dolittle, Big Momma's House) is turning 62 on December 5.
- Cliff Eidelman (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, He's Just Not That Into You) is turning 53 on December 5.
- Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) is turning 67 on Wednesday, December 6.