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Long Live The Bear's epic soundtrack, and especially the show's relationship with Taylor Swift. Season 3 is back with a new set of challenges and road bumps for the crew at Carmy's fine dining restaurant. As always, emotional moments and certain scenes in episodes are accompanied by a resonant…

Shōgun music duo Atticus Ross and Nick Chuba joined Deadline's Sound & Screen Television live-music event to discuss reutilizing archaic styles of music for the FX series.  Based on James Clavell's novel, Shōgun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii…

Romance and cannibalism might seem like an unlikely pairing, but that's exactly why Bones and All screenwriter David Kajganich thought that only director Luca Guadagnino could do justice to his script, which he adapted from Camille DeAngelis' 2015 novel.  "This really interesting and intimate story…

This morning, in a rare feat, composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross pulled a pair of Original Score nominations for Soul and Mank. Throughout film history, we've often seen a single composer earn two Academy Award nominations for different films, in the same year. The most recent to do so was Alexandre Desplat, who…

UPDATE, with video Disney Pixar’s animated Soul took the Golden Globe Award for best original score tonight, with co-composer Jon Batiste telling viewers we “only have one life to live and one soul, and this soul is happy today.” Despite presenter Tracy Morgan’s odd misreading of the title – it came out sounding…

Netflix’s drama Mank led all Golden Globe feature nominations this morning with a count of six, and one of those belonged to composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for the David Fincher film. Mank reps the fourth feature between the filmmaker and the composers, the latter who immediately took home the Oscar…

On Night 4 of the Creative Arts Emmys Awards, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross earned their first Emmy for their Watchmen score, coming that much closer to the coveted EGOT. Two of the artists behind industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, Reznor and Ross previously earned an Oscar in 2011 for their score to David…

When composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross first met with Damon Lindelof about his HBO superhero drama Watchmen, they had a hard time putting their finger on the tone of the show, and the kind of music that would be right for it. Based on a DC comics series created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons—which was previously…

The Oscar-winning duo of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are tuning up to compose the music for Watchmen, HBO’s upcoming DC superhero series from Damon Lindelof. The pair won their Oscar for scoring 2010’s The Social Network and also have worked on such films as Patriots Day, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo…

In Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's 10-part documentary series The Vietnam War, 80 witnesses give testimonies about their experiences in the conflict from Americans who fought to protesters, North and South Vietnamese soldiers, and civilians. Burns thought he knew a lot about the war, but when he took on the project, it…

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have become synonymous with penetrating documentaries in their long careers. In PBS’ The Vietnam War, they tackle one of the most contentious moments of the 20th century in a 10-part, 18-hour series. Burns, on a panel at Deadline’s annual The Contenders Emmys event, calls it “the most…

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s 10-part documentary series, The Vietnam War, takes a sweeping look at the first war that came into America's living rooms.  While many stories have been told about the war, Burns said his series takes a different approach than other projects that come to mind. "It was important for us to…