Daniel Blumberg: Last News

DEALSWarner Chappell has signed film composer Daniel Blumberg. “I’m really happy to be working with the team at Warner Chappell Music in this new chapter of my career”, he says. “I’m looking forward to developing my practice as a songwriter and composer over the coming years, starting with a new solo album and some upcoming film projects”.————————————————–APPOINTMENTSBMG has appointed Sarah Mitchell as head of its UK-based neighbouring rights business.

Yuck frontman Daniel Blumberg won Best Original Score for The Brutalist at the 2025 Oscars last night (March 2).Off the back of a recent Bafta win for the score, the composer won his first Oscar yesterday for his efforts soundtracking the sprawling drama, which charts the life of fictitious Hungarian architect, László Tóth – a role that also won Adrien Brody the Academy Award for Best Actor – who moves to the US after surviving the Holocaust.Blumberg’s work was nominated alongside the scores for Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Wicked and The Wild Robot, and gave a glowing description of his creative relationship with director Brady Corbet, who enlisted him to score his third film after Scott Walker had worked on the first two.“I’ve been an artist for 20 years, since I was a teenager,” he said, “and when I met Brady, I met my artistic soulmate.” He went on to thank the “hard-working, radical musicians” who helped perform his score for the film.NME’s five-star-review of The Brutalist noted “Blumberg’s jagged steam-roller of a score”, which employed jazz infused piano, sax and towering percussion to convey Tóth’s mounting despair.Earlier this year, the musician told Pitchfork that when the film was in post-production, he and the sound team would have screenings with Corbet, and he ran into a problem where every time he watched the film, he cried at the end.Daniel Blumberg – former frontman of Yuck – has won an Oscar for his soundtrack for #TheBrutalist. Here’s the vocalist/guitarist and his band talking to NME 15 years ago about their sound and “massive riffs”#Oscars #Yuck pic.twitter.com/Hr7ao2QAI3— NME (@NME) March 3, 2025“The first time it happened, I just ran out the room,” he recalled.

Jon Burlingame This year’s contenders for the original score Oscar are an innovative and international mix and, for the first time in more than a quarter century, two musicals are among the nominees: “Emilia Pérez” and “Wicked.” Three are past Oscar winners: German Volker Bertelmann (for “All Quiet on the Western Front”), Americans Stephen Schwartz (he has three, all for animated musicals) and Kris Bowers (curiously, not for music but for last year’s music-themed documentary short “The Last Repair Shop”). Three more are newcomers to Oscar: Englishman Daniel Blumberg and French composers Camille and Clément Ducol.

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind seven-time Golden Globe nominee The Brutalist have been quietly working on a starry musical called Ann Lee, which has now wrapped, with Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried (Mank) in the lead role.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Focus Features has bought international rights to Brady Corbet‘s “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn, Variety has learned. Corbet, who sits on the Berlinale jury, penned the film with Mona Fastvold (“The World to Come”), a Swedish filmmaker who is also his wife. The film charts 30 years in the lives of visionary architect László Toth and his wife, Erzsébet, who flee post-war Europe in 1947 and witness the birth of modern America.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Emmy winner Guy Pearce (Mare of Easttown) and Conversations With Friends and The Favourite star Joe Alwyn are among cast confirmed for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.

Naman Ramachandran This year’s nominees for the Ivor Novello Awards — which honor outstanding songwriting and composing — include Adele, who is in the running for two awards, and Ed Sheeran, who is nominated for three Ivors.Up for four awards, Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover is this year’s most nominated songwriter. He is recognized for his work with fellow nominees Cleo Sol and Little Simz.Named after the late Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer, the Ivor Novello awards have been presented since 1956.Shaznay Lewis,  Ivor Novello award winner and  judge for the Ivors, said in a statement: “It’s been a standout year for music and I am full of admiration for the 77 talented songwriters and composers we are celebrating this year.