EXCLUSIVE: Birdman may be flying high with critics, but Oscar just shot him down permanently. Musically, that is. Perhaps the most inventive and talked about motion picture music score of the year — a ...

Studio films with pure jazz scores are few and far between in this day and age. Unlike the ’60s when composers like Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin churned them out, most filmmakers gravitate toward ...

Composer Antonio Sanchez on Tuesday said he is saddened and disappointed that Oscar’s music branch disqualified his score for “Birdman,” and that the Academy has upheld that decision in an appeal. In ...

The man behind the drums of 2014’s Oscar-winning “Birdman” may have been “saddened” at his score being disqualified by the film Academy’s music branch last year, but he has reason to celebrate now.

Antonio Sanchez knows how Hollywood sees him. In an industry that can focus too much on replicating the successes of the past, he — thanks to his improvisation-heavy work on Alejandro G. Iñárritu's ...

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