Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste win best Original score award at the Oscars last night for their work on the beautiful animated feature film 'Soul'. In the Best original song category, H.E.R. took home the trophy for 'Fight for You' from the feature film 'Judas and the Black Messiah'. 'Sound of Metal' won Film editing, and Sound. Check out all the winners and nominees here.

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April 11, 2021

Reznor, Ross and Batiste win at BAFTAs

Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross won the Original score award at this year BAFTAs, for their work on the animated movie 'Soul', the Variety reports. Music movie 'Sound of Metal', about a metal drummer who goes deaf, has won the Editing and the Sound awards. 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom', about the influential blues singer Ma Rainey has won the Costume design award. Check out all the nominees - here.

Ross / Reznor / Ahmed

The music movie 'Sound of Metal' about a drummer who goes deaf is nominated for an Oscar in the best picture category, the Academy has revealed. The lead actor from that movie, British musician and actor Riz Ahmed, is nominated for his leading role in that movie. Chadwick Boseman, who died last year, is up against him in the same category for his performance in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'. Also, Viola Davis is nominated in the Actress in a Leading Role category for her performance in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom', as well as Andra Day for 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are nominated twice in the Original Score category, with 'Mank' and 'Soul' - Jon Batiste joins them in the latter. Also, in the same category, nominated are Terence Blanchard with 'Da 5 Bloods', Emile Mosseri with 'Minari', and 'News of the World' by James Newton Howard. In the Original song category nominated are: 'Fight For You' from 'Judas and the Black Messiah', 'Hear My Voice' from 'The Trial of the Chicago 7', 'Husavik' from 'Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga', 'lo Sì (Seen)' from 'The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)', and 'Speak Now'" from 'One Night in Miami…'.

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste won best score - motion picture at 2021 Golden Globe Awards for their collaborative work on Pixar's 'Soul'. In other music-related Golden Globes news, 'Io Sì (Seen)' from 'The Life Ahead', written by Daine Warren and performed by Laura Pausini, won Best Song, Chadwick Boseman won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture for his performance in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom', and Andra Day won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture for 'The United States Vs. Billie Holiday'. The full list of winners and nominees - here.

Reznor / Ahmed

British musician and actor Riz Ahmed is nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama category for his role as a metal-drummer losing his hearing in 'The Sound of Metal', CNN reports. Another music movie in the same category - 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom', with Chadwick Boseman. Viola Davis is nominated in the female category with the same movie, as well as Andra Day in 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are nominated - twice - in the Best Original Score category - for the biopic 'Mank', and, next to Jon Batiste, in the animated movie 'Soul'. The other nominees are Alexandre Desplat for 'The Midnight Sky', Ludwig Göransson for 'Tenet', and James Newton Howard for 'News Of The World'. Directorial debut by Sia, 'Music' with Kate Hudson, is nominated in Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. In Best Original Song - Motion Picture the nominees are: 'Fight For You' by H.E.R., from 'Judas And The Black Messiah', 'Hear My Voice' by Daniel Pemberton from 'The Trial Of The Chicago', 'Io Sì (Seen)' by Diane Warren from 'The Life Ahead', 'Speak Now' by Leslie Odom Jr and Sam Ashworth from 'One Night In Miami...', and 'Tigress & Tweed' by Andra Day and Raphael Saadiq from 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'. Check out all the nominees - here.

David Bowie’s friends, collaborators, and some of the musicians he inspired performed a tribute to celebrate his 74th birthday, CoS reports. Trent Reznor performed covers of 'Fantastic Voyage' and 'Fashion', Billy Corgan played 'Space Oddity', Duran Duran covered 'Five Years', The Cult’s Ian Astbury tackled 'Lazarus', Bowie’s friend Gary Oldman sang 'I Can’t Read', Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, and Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney covered 'Hang On to Yourself'. Other participants included Macy Gray, Adam Lambert, Boy George, Lzzy Hale, Peter Frampton, Perry Farrell, Gary Barlow, Anna Calvi... Guardian looks back on Bowie's legacy five years after his death, quoting writer Dan Fox - “He was the greatest art student of the 20th century. He never stopped learning, never stopped being curious. I think you can use his work as a model: don’t be afraid to admit ‘I don’t know’, and go and find someone who does”.

It’s been a wild 10 years for Reznor and Ross, one that began with a deafening bang with 'The Social Network', high-pointing this year with David Fincher’s 'Mank' played only on 1940s instruments, and with the score for Pixar’s latest feature film 'Soul'. The Consequence of Sound named them Composers of the Year and made an extensive interview with the pair.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won an Emmy for their score for HBO’s 'Watchmen', and now only lack a Tonny for EGOT status - they won an Academy Award for 'The Social Network' and a Grammy for their score for 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', Deadline reports. British singer-songwriter Labrinth was honored for his song 'All for Us' from the finale of HBO’s 'Euphoria', Billboard reports. Composer Laura Karpman won her first prime-time Emmy in the documentary score category for 'Why We Hate', a six-part Discovery Channel series about hatred around the globe, Variety reports. All the nominees and winners - here.

Trent Reznor, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, Kamasi Washington, Beastie Boys are nominated for 2020 Emmy awards, in music categories, uDiscover Music reports. Trent Reznor got his nomination for 'Watchmen', Kamasi Washington is in with 'Becoming', while Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo are recognized for their work in 'The Black Godfather'. Beastie Boys Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz and their creative partner and director Spike Jonze are nominated for Apple TV’s 'Beastie Boys Story' in five categories, including for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Check all the nominees here.

Daniel Lopatin

A great read in the Electronic Beats about how film scoring has become an increasingly fertile industry for artists rising from the more experimental branches of electronic music and club culture. Last year, Bobby Krlic - better known as the experimental artist The Haxan Cloak - scored the Swedish horror movie 'Midsommar'. Oneohtrix Point Never first built his career with idiosyncratic, synth-laden productions, to skip over to experimental scores as Daniel Lopatin, producing two of Josh and Benny Safdie’s films, 'Good Time' and 'Uncut Gems'. Alec Empire, frontman of Atari Teenage Riot and longtime maverick of the German noise, industrial, ambient and digital hardcore scenes, has been involved in several A/V and film-scoring projects in his multifaceted career

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