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 74th Golden Globes were announced on December 12th 2016, and the winners (listed first) were presented on January 8th 2017. In the Music categories these were:
La La Land by Justin Hurwitz
Moonlight by Nicholas Britell
Arrival by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Lion by Dustin O'Halloran & Hauschka
Hidden Figures by Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams & Benjamin Wallfisch
"City of Stars" by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (performed by Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone) from La La Land
"Faith" by Ryan Tedder, Stevie Wonder and Francis Farewell Starlite (performed by Stevie Wonder featuring Ariana Grande) from Sing
"Gold" by Stephen Gaghan, Danger Mouse, Daniel Pemberton & Iggy Pop (performed by Danger Mouse and Iggy Pop) from Gold
"How Far I'll Go" by Lin-Manuel Miranda (performed by Auli'i Cravalho) from Moana
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback (performed by Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar) from Trolls
Here is the official HFPA site, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who organise the Golden Globe Awards.
Nominations for the 70th BAFTA film awards were confirmed on January 10th, and the winner (listed first) was presented at the awards ceremony on Sunday February 12th:
La La Land by Justin Hurwitz
Arrival by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jackie by Mica Levi
Lion by Dustin O'Halloran & Hauschka
Nocturnal Animals by Abel Korzeniowski
BAFTA do not have a Song Category. However the BAFTA Video Game awards is a separate event where winners (listed first below) were presented on 6th April.
VIRGINIA Lyndon Holland – Variable State/505 Games
ABZÛ Austin Wintory – Giant Squid/505 Games
DOOM Mick Gordon, Chris Hite, Chad Mossholder – id Software/Bethesda Softworks
INSIDE Martin Stig Andersen, SØS Gunver Ryberg – Playdead/Playdead
THE LAST GUARDIAN Takeshi Furukawa – SIE Japan Studio, genDesign/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
UNCHARTED 4 Henry Jackman, Jonathan Mayer, Scott Hanau – Naughty Dog LLC/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
THE LAST GUARDIAN Development Team - SIE Japan Studio, genDesign/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
BATTLEFIELD 1 Development Team – DICE/Electronic Arts
DOOM Development Team – id Software/Bethesda Softworks
INSIDE Martin Stig Andersen – Playdead/Playdead
REZ INFINITE Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Takako Ishida, Noboru Mutoh - Enhance Games, Monstars Inc., Resonair/Enhance Games
UNCHARTED 4 Development Team – Naughty Dog LLC/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europs
The BAFTA Television Craft Awards nominations were announced on 28th March, and the best music winner (listed first) was presented at the awards ceremony on Sunday 23rd April.
National Treasure by Cristobal Tapia de Veer - The Forge/Channel 4
Poldark by Anne Dudley - Mammoth Screen/BBC One
Planet Earth II by Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, Jasha Klebe - BBC Natural History Unit/BBC America/ZDF/France Television/BBC One
War and Peace by Martin Phipps - BBC Wales/Lookout Point/TWC/BBC One
Here is the official BAFTA site, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
The nominations for the Music Categories of the 89th Oscars will be announced on January 24th, and the winners (listed first) were presented at the oscar awards ceremony on Sunday February 26th:
La La Land by Justin Hurwitz
Jackie by Mica Levi
Lion by Dustin O'Halloran & Hauschka
Moonlight by Nicholas Britell
Passengers by Thomas Newman
"City of Stars" by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (performed by Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone) from La La Land
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (performed by Emma Stone) from La La Land
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback (performed by Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar) from Trolls
"The Empty Chair" by J. Ralph and Sting (performed by Sting) from Jim: The James Foley Story
"How Far I'll Go" by Lin-Manuel Miranda (performed by Auli'i Cravalho) from Moana
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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