He was the Editor of and has written for the BBC Proms, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall, Hollywood in Vienna and Silva Screen Records. He looks after the 26 pages of recording and book reviews in the magazine each month, deciding what will be reviewed – no easy task with so much being sent in for consideration! Michael joined the team in 2018, following ten years as a freelance film music journalist and fifteen years at St George's Bristol.įilm and television music is his favourite thing, and when he’s not listening to things to be reviewed in the mag, Michael loves nothing more than to listen to the music of John Williams and James Horner – his favourite film composers. Michael is the Reviews Editor of BBC Music Magazine. Recommended recording: Chocolat (Music from the Miramax Motion Picture) Her painterly scores have graced award-winning films in all genres and she remains one of the UK’s most respected and highly sought-after film composers. While she was by no means the first woman to compose film music, Portman did make history in 1997 when she won an Oscarfor Emma (1996). In 10th place we have film composer Rachel Portman. All the Oscar winners and nominees for Best Original Score, since 1935īest film composers of all time 10. What is the difference between a film score and film soundtrack?.This list of the best film composers, though, takes in some of the legends, trailblazers and downright popular composers who have played their part in establishing and innovating the art form, or quite simply attracted global attention to it. Even a Top 50 might be tricky to agree on. Okay, okay, everyone will have their own ideas of who should be in a Top 10 of film composers – let’s face it, film music (as we know it) has been around for almost 90 years and every filmmaking country on the planet has composers.
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