Although we've just entered 2025, this series is deep in the middle of 2024. The months of April, May, and June released some of my favorite scores of the year (feel free to guess which) as well as arguably the most popular score of the year in Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's Challengers, and plenty more scores, both big and small. I also noticed that I've interviewed almost a third of the composers mentioned during this period - I still get surprised now and again with just how many folks I've interviewed!
Keep your eye on The Film Scorer website for reviews and articles covering some of these scores, including detailed writeups and lists.
April: https://thefilmscorer.com/the-best-film-scores-of-april-2024/
For a full list of the scores discussed in this episode, see below:
- Challengers - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- Confidenza - Thom Yorke
- Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter 1 - John Debney
- The Dead Don't Hurt - Viggo Mortensen
- Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) - Jerome Rebotier
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - John Paesano
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Tom Holkenborg
- Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver - Tom Holkenborg
- Young Woman and the Sea - Amelia Warner
- The Rooster - Stefan Gregory
- The Swimming Diaries - Donna McKevitt
- Evil Does Not Exist - Eiko Ishibashi
- The First Omen - Mark Korven
- All You Need Is Death - Ian Lynch
- I Saw the TV Glow - Alex G
- The Glassworker - Carmine Di Florio and Usman Riaz
- Back to Black - Nick Cave and Warren Elli
- Sasquatch Sunset - The Octopus Project
- Civil War - Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury
- We Grown Now - Jay Wadley
- Unfrosted - Christophe Beck
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Christopher Benstead
- If - Michael Giacchino
- Hit Man - Graham Reynolds