ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARDS NEWS
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Film Composers Have a Dirty Little Secret
Who composed the score for Hollywood’s biggest recent blockbusters? The answer to that question is more complicated than you might think, Mark Rozzo writes in an investigative piece from V.F.’s 2022 Hollywood Issue. The bottom line: Many of the film world’s most vaunted composers “do not, in fact, write the music they are celebrated and remunerated for. That work, or a good bit of it, is delegated to others. Sometimes those others are credited as ‘additional composers,’ but often they are gig workers, effectively, who receive modest pay and no credit. Such shadow contributors are known as ‘ghost composers,’ and the debate over how name-brand music directors get paid is haunted by their existence.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Hillary Busis reveals the chaotic behind-the-scenes story of an infamous Super Bowl commercial; Maude Apatow talks Euphoria with Savannah Walsh; Julie Miller presents another interview with one of the real people depicted in Inventing Anna, this time trainer Kacy Duke; and David Canfield has a candid chat with Oscar nominee Kirsten Dunst.
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