10th (2022) Reel Music Awards – The Winners

The winners for the 10th (2022) Reel Music Awards announced

At last! The announcement of my favourite film, TV and video game music of 2022 has been a long time coming, but I hope that wait has been worth it. This post highlights music from a number of film genres and entertainment formats that I have particularly enjoyed listening to. My post also endeavours to celebrate more generally the music of a myriad of composers who dedicate their time to creating music that both supports the music’s original projects but which also “speaks” to listeners via an emotional connection.

As with previous years, the 10th Reel Music Awards are my way of recognising and highlighting some of my favourite and memorable music written in the various areas of the entertainment industry.

I hope that my choices offer up some interesting listening for those who have taken the time to peruse my selections. There’s a healthy mix of the familiar and less familiar and, as usual, my choices are my personal favourites and feature music that has in some way attracted my attention over and above the numerous other scores I have listened to.

Putting the original shortlists together, and making my final choices, has been done during a period (over the last 10 months or so) which has been particularly challenging from a personal perspective, and I wanted to take the opportunity to that those (you know who you are!) who have helped me in ways that have allowed me to continue my score listening journey.

Now let’s see what 2023 has in store.

10th (2022) Reel Music Awards – The Nominations

The nominations for the 10th (2022) Reel Music Awards announced

At last! Here are my shortlists of nominations for the 10th Reel Music Awards. These shortlists feature music from projects of various genres released in 2022 which I believe are worth highlighting for praise. My main goal is to celebrate a selection of music that I particularly enjoyed over the past 12 months or so. I am sure that most people will be familiar with a lot of my selections but I hope that there are a few that are a little less well-known that will be come favourites.

As with previous years, I will post my personal favourites in this nominations post and then single out an overall favourite score of the year (I do not propose that my selections are “the best”). As always, any mistakes or inaccurate information are of my own hand and I apologise in advance!

So, peruse the shortlists below and see if they agree with your own favourites from 2022. I will announce my winners as soon as they are ready.

2022 Reel Music Awards – Scores for Consideration

The Reel Music Award “Scores for Consideration” Announced

Reel Music publishes the list of scores for consideration for the 10th Reel Music Awards. One of the main purposes of this post is for anyone interested to see which scores were considered and which category they were included in.

In order to qualify for inclusion in the 2022 Reel Music Awards consideration list the film, TV, video game, etc. had to have received some sort of release during 2022 (according to imdb.com and additional internet searching). Also, they should not been considered in the 2021 awards process. I extended the monitoring time past the end of 2022 to capture any ‘straggling’ released titles. In these cases, the album for a 2022 released title was not available until into 2023. Any 2022 titles released after this specific extension date (I can’t recall the specific date) will now be assessed in the archival section in next year’s 2023 Reel Music Awards.