MovieScore Media is a Swedish record label devoted to original

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

s, founded in 2005 by former film music journalist Mikael Carlsson. The label has produced over 500

soundtrack album A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show. The first such album to be commercially released was Walt Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' ...

s, focusing primarily on scores composed by up and coming composers and from smaller, independent feature films. However, the label has also released soundtracks by established composers, including

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-winning composers

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and

Gabriel Yared Gabriel Yared (Arabic: غبريال يارد; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films ''Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claude ...

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-nominated composer

Ryan Shore Ryan Shore (born 29 December 1974) is a Canadian composer, songwriter, conductor, music producer, and music director for film, television, virtual reality, records, games, concerts, and theater. He is often known from his scores for '' Star ...

Basil Poledouris Basil Konstantine Poledouris (; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoe ...

and

Michael Kamen Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician. Biography Early life Michael Arnold Kamen was born in ...

and

Ivor Novello Award The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. They have been presented annually in London by the Ivors Academy (formerly the BASCA) since 1956, and over 1,000 statuettes have been a ...

-winning composer Francis Shaw, as well as from films and television shows by bigger studios and companies, such as

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. In 2011, MovieScore Media launched a sub-label devoted exclusively to music from horror films, Screamworks Records, with the release of

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by Jeff Grace as its first album. In terms of distribution strategies, MovieScore Media was first introduced as an online label dedicated to digital distribution, primarily via Apple's

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, only. In 2007, the label expanded its business to include limited edition of CDs in addition to the established digital distribution. In 2021, the label's catalogue was acquired by

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for worldwide digital distribution. MovieScore Media has been nominated for the 'Film Music Record Label of the Year' award by the International Film Music Critics Association eleven times. Screamworks Records' release of

's soundtrack for '' The Shrine'', received a 2012

nomination for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.

References

External links

MovieScore Media (official web site)

Internet Movie Database
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