Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Sony Pictures will conduct a live orchestra at the Academy Museum featuring the bombastic music from its animated feature (and best picture) contender “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” At a special invitation-only event at the David Geffen Theater, the studio will feature an exhilarating arrangement of electronics, turntables and a live orchestra performing the original score from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s box office smash by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning composer Daniel Pemberton.
The concert will feature appearances by Oscar-winning producers and screenwriters Phil Lord and Chris Miller; the film’s directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K.
Thompson; producers Avi Arad, Amy Pascal and Christina Steinberg; and screenwriter Dave Callaham. Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
In addition, executive producer and Grammy Award-nominated artist Metro Boomin, behind the acclaimed soundtrack “Metro Boomin Presents Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Soundtrack From and Inspired by the Motion Picture” and was recently named producer of the year for Variety’s Hitmakers, will also appear. “Metro’s songs and Daniel’s score create a groundbreaking and vital aural portrait of Miles Morales’ world,” said Lord and Miller. “Daniel is a relentlessly inventive composer who circuit bends new instruments for new worlds — creating five unique musical approaches for each universe that he wove into a unified symphony.
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