Jon Burlingame

Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are on the verge of EGOT status… that is, if Emmy voters nominate their song from “Only Murders in the Building” and it winds up winning three months from now. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul — already Oscar winners for “La La Land” and Tony and Grammy winners for […]

Just as he did for Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things,” English composer Jerskin Fendrix has supplied an offbeat, musically provocative score for Lanthimos’ new film, “Kinds of Kindness” — except this time it’s all piano and choir instead of the strange, electronically processed sonorities of “Poor Things.” “Kinds of Kindness” was even more challenging, Fendrix tells […]

A cool 1960s vibe, an old-fashioned love theme, dramatic music befitting a lunar landing: Daniel Pemberton‘s score for “Fly Me to the Moon” needed to accomplish all these and more. Greg Berlanti’s rom-com with Scarlett Johansson as Kelly Jones, a Madison Avenue marketing genius hired to sell the moon to the American public, and Channing […]

Douglass Fake, founder of leading movie soundtrack label Intrada and producer of more than 700 albums of movie and TV music, died Saturday at a Richmond, Calif., hospital after a long illness. He was 72. Fake’s many credits include the first complete restoration of Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Waterfront,” a lavish 5-CD release of Elmer […]

Composer Hans Zimmer has won practically every major show-biz award: he has two Oscars, three Golden Globes and four Grammys. But he has never won an Emmy, and this year he has his best shot yet with nominations in three categories across the Creative Arts Emmys nominations. Peacock’s six-part historical drama “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” […]

This year's Emmy competition in the music categories could yield two new EGOT winners and a first-ever Emmy for veteran film composer Hans Zimmer.

'Twisters' and 'Inside Out 2' are strong candidates for the 2025 visual media Grammys, but all bets are off in a post-'Barbenheimer' year.

'Twisters' and 'Inside Out 2' are strong candidates for the 2025 visual media Grammys, but all bets are off in a post-'Barbenheimer' year.

John Williams Documentary to Debut Wednesday at AFI Fest

'House of Cards' composer Jeff Beal and his wife donated $2 million to the L.A. Chamber Orchestra for original works by film, TV and game composers.