Most of the main film awards take place during January and February. At mfiles we take an understandable interest in the film music categories, and the Season kicks off as usual with the Golden Globes. The nominations for the 73rd Golden Globes were announced on December 10th 2015, and the winners (listed first) were presented on January 10th 2016. In the Music categories these were:
The Hateful Eight by Ennio Morricone
Carol by Carter Burwell
Steve Jobs by Daniel Pemberton
The Danish Girl by Alexandre Desplat
The Revenant by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto
"Writing's On The Wall" by Sam Smith and James Napes from Spectre
"Love Me Like You Do" by Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ali Payami, Tove Lo & Ilya Salmanzadeh from Fifty Shades of Grey
"See You Again" by Justin Franks, Andrew Cedar, Charlie Puth & Wiz Khalifa from Furious 7
"One Kind of Love" by Brian Wilson and Scott Montgomery Bennett from Love & Mercy
"Simple Song #3" by David Lang from Youth
Here is the official HFPA site, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who organise the Golden Globe Awards.
Nominations for the 69th BAFTA film awards were confirmed on January 8th, and the winner (listed first) presented at the awards ceremony on Sunday February 14th:
The Hateful Eight by Ennio Morricone
Bridge of Spies by Thomas Newman
The Revenant by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto
Sicario by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens by John Williams
BAFTA do not have a Song Category. However the BAFTA Video Game awards are a separate event and the winners for these awards were presented on 7th April. "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" also won the "Audio Achievement" category:
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture by Development Team
Batman: Arkham Knight by Development Team
Assassin's Creed Syndicate by Development Team
Ori and the Blind Forest by Gareth Coker
Fallout 4 by Development Team
Halo 5: Guardians by Kazuma Jinnouchi, Nobuko Toda, Peter Cobbin
Here is the official BAFTA site, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
The nominations for the Music Categories of the 88th Oscars were announced on January 14th, and the winners (listed first) were presented at the oscar awards ceremony on Sunday February 28th 2015:
The Hateful Eight by Ennio Morricone
Bridge of Spies by Thomas Newman
Carol by Carter Burwell
Sicario by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens by John Williams
"Writing's On The Wall" by Sam Smith and James Napes from Spectre
"Earned It" – Music and Lyrics by Ahamad Balshe (Belly), Stephan Moccio, Jason "Daheala" Quenneville, Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd) from Fifty Shades of Grey
"Manta Ray" – Music by J. Ralph, Lyrics by Antony Hegarty from Racing Extinction
"Simple Song #3" – Music and Lyrics by David Lang from Youth
"Til It Happens to You" – Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga and Diane Warren from The Hunting Ground
Here is the official Oscars site from AMPAS, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
For winners and nominations in previous years for the music-related academy awards see our Film Music Oscars page on mfiles.
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