Most of the main film awards take place during January and February, with the Oscars sometimes pushing into March. 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 76th Golden Globes were announced on December 6th 2018, and the winners (listed first) were presented on January 6th 2019. In the Music categories these were:
"First Man" by Justin Hurwitz
"A Quiet Place" by Marco Beltrami
Isle of Dogs by Alexandre Desplat
Black Panther by Ludwig Göransson
Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman
"Shallow" by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (performed by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) from A Star Is Born
"All the Stars" by Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Sounwave & Al Shux (performed by Kendrick Lamar & SZA) from Black Panther
"Girl in the Movies" by Dolly Parton & Linda Perry (performed by Dolly Parton) from Dumplin'
"Requiem for a Private War" by Annie Lennox (performed by Annie Lennox) from A Private War
"Revelation" by Jónsi, Troye Sivan & Leland (performed by Troye Sivan and Jon Thor Birgisson) from Boy Erased
Here is the official HFPA site, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who organise the Golden Globe Awards.
Nominations for the 72nd BAFTA film awards were announced on January 9th 2019, and the winners will be presented at the awards ceremony on Sunday February 11th:
"A Star Is Born" by Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga & Lukas Nelson
"BlacKkKlansman" by Terence Blanchard
"If Beale Street Could Talk" by Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs by Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman
BAFTA does not have a Song Category. However the BAFTA Video Game awards and the BAFTA Television Craft awards are separate events taking place every year. The nominations for the Video Game awards were released on March 14th as follows and the winners (listed first) announced at the awards ceremony on April 4th:
GOD OF WAR by Bear McCreary, Keith Leary, Peter Scaturro - Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
CELESTE by Lena Raine – Matt Makes Games Inc./Matt Makes Games Inc.
FAR CRY 5 by Development Team – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft
FLORENCE by Development Team – Mountains/Annapurna Interactive
GRIS by Development Team – Nomada Studios/Devolver Digitial
TETRIS EFFECT by Hydelic, Noboru Mutoh, Takako Ishida – Monstars Inc. and Resonair/Enhance, Inc.
GOD OF WAR by Mike Niederquell, Todd Piperi, Leilani Ramirez – Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
BATTLEFIELD V by Development Team – EA Dice/Electronic Arts
DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN by Guillaume de Fondaumière, David Cage, John O'Brien – Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN by Paul Mudra, Phillip Kovats, Dwight Okahara – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 by Development Team – Rockstar Games/Rockstar Games
TETRIS EFFECT by Hydelic, Noboru Mutoh, Takako Ishida – Monstars Inc. and Resonair/Enhance, Inc.
The BAFTA Television Craft Awards nominations were announced on 28th March, and the ceremony took place on 28th April:
Killing Eve by David Holmes, Keefus Ciancia – Sid Gentle Films / BBC One
The Little Drummer Girl by Cho Young-Wuk - The Ink Factory / 127 Wall / BBC / AMC / BBC One
A Very English Scandal by Murray Gold – Blueprint Pictures / BBC One
Patrick Melrose by Hauschka - Two Cities / SunnyMarch / Little Island Productions / Sky Atlantic
Here is the official BAFTA site, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
The nominations for the Music Categories of the 91st Oscars were announced on January 22nd, and the winners will be presented at the oscar awards ceremony on Sunday February 24th:
Black Panther by Ludwig Göransson
"BlacKkKlansman" by Terence Blanchard
"If Beale Street Could Talk" by Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs by Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman
"Shallow" by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (performed by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) from A Star Is Born
"All the Stars" by Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Sounwave & Al Shux (performed by Kendrick Lamar & SZA) from Black Panther
"I'll Fight" by Diane Warren (performed by Jennifer Hudson) from RBG
"The Place Where Lost Things Go" by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman (performed by Emily Blunt) from Mary Poppins Returns
"When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch (performed by Tim Blake Nelson and Willie Watson) from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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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