Hollywood Music in Media Awards Honor Billie Eilish, Hans Zimmer, Nicholas Britell, Rufus Wainwright and More

Billie Eilish, Tina Turner, The Velvet Underground and more have all been listed as eligible for an Academy Award in 2022.The Academy has released a list of the 138 films eligible for consideration in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 94th Oscars, and a string of films centred around musicians have made the cut.Billie Eilish’s Apple TV+ documentary The World’s A Little Blurry is eligible, dropping earlier this year and filmed over the course of three years.

This year’s Best Original Song category is wide open. Sure, there are songs from animated musicals such as “Encanto” and new tracks from superstars such as Beyonce, but for the most part, there are few locks when it comes to the Oscar race.

DEALSFader has formally announced the launch of Fader Distribution, and has agreed a new partnership with Universal Music’s label services business Virgin. “We set up Fader Distribution to create a tier of service to aid independent artists that are in the very early stages of their development”, says CEO Jon Cohen.

Billie Eilish has shared a video for "Male Fantasy," the closing track from her third studio LP, July's Happier Than Ever, which is nominated for the Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album awards at the 2022 Grammys. Its title track is nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Solo Pop Performance, and the song's visual treatment is nominated for Best Music Video.

Billie Eilish looks back on past relationships with the music video for “Male Fantasy”.

Billie Eilish has teased details around her forthcoming music video for ‘Male Fantasy’, which she has directed and edited herself.Taking to social media, Eilish shared a clip of the video which sees her sitting in a dark room while the ‘Happier Than Ever’ track’s opening notes play.Set for release at 9am PT time (5pm GMT time), the video for ‘Male Fantasy’ will be the sixth from ‘Happier Than Ever’ – all of which Eilish herself has directed.

Billie Eilish has always had a great relationship with her fans, but sometimes she needs some help when they become a little more familiar than they should.

Billie Eilish is showing off her new look on the red carpet for the first time!

Bye, bye blonde! Billie Eilish seemingly said goodbye to her light locks — and fans are going wild over her new look.

Jon Burlingame The theatrical experience is unique, important and akin to an experience of “shared dreaming,” says Hans Zimmer, whose scores for 2021’s “Dune” and “No Time to Die” are among those in next year’s awards conversation — and who is being honored by Variety as Composer of the Year, presented by ASCAP.“It’s an incredible honor and, at the same time, it comes with a strange sort of responsibility in this year,” the Oscar- and four-time Grammy winner tells Variety as part of its Music

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Billie Eilish, 19, is growing up before our very eyes and it shows in her latest interview! The singer proved she’s not only transforming into an adult physically, but emotionally too, and that’s part of the reason she debuted a brand new blonde hair color and cut earlier this year and is sticking to it.

Chris Willman Music WriterRecord Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton knows that Black Friday feels different this year — for the indie record stores that observe the “holiday” as an adjunct to the main RSD event in April, and the retail-consumer culture at large. “All the big boxes have been doing their sales for weeks,” she points out.

JON BATISTELeading the nominations with 11, Jon Batiste thanked his collaboraters and ancestors. A post shared by Jon Batiste (@jonbatiste)H.E.RH.E.R is only 24 years old and has already been nominated for 23 Grammy‘s.

Jon Burlingame editorThe Los Angeles Philharmonic took a major step forward over the weekend with its “Reel Change” series devoted to contemporary film composers.By inviting Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker”) and Americans Kris Bowers (“Green Book”) and Nicholas Britell (“Moonlight”) to curate programs of their music, and those of composers that inspired them, the Phil is formally acknowledging the importance of media music as a legitimate part of the contemporary musical

ARTIST NEWSBillie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell have written songs for fictional boyband 4*Town, who will featuring in new Pixar movie ‘Turning Red’. A bit of one of those songs can be heard in the new trailer for the film, which is out in March.