The Film Scorer

Nicholas Marcus

Love film music? Then the Film Scorer Podcast has you covered, featuring a wide array of long-form interviews with composers for film, as well as tv, video games, and documentaries.Hear first-hand from Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, and Pulitzer winning and nominated composers - the masters of today and tomorrow - about your favorite film, tv, and video game scores and learn all about this great craft that underpins so many great pieces of art. After all, "the better the sound, the better the image" - Walter Murch.

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The Film Scorer

Episodes (150)

Sunday Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible, Top Gun: Maverick)
Aug 23rd Takeshi Furukawa
Aug 9th Kara Talve

The Film Scorer

Sep 6, 2026
1¼ hours
69 MB

This week, Lorne Balfe joins me on The Film Scorer. Lorne has about two-hundred credits to his name across film, TV, and video games, including projects like Top Gun: Maverick, a couple Mission: Impossible films, The Crown, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, and a whole load more. Not a bad resume... Now, although he normally releases about ten scores a year, 2026 has been a much quieter year for him, conducting at the global tour of Top Gun: Maverick in Concert and working on the new adaptation of The Cat in the Hat, coming...

The Film Scorer

Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible, Top Gun: Maverick)

Nicholas Marcus

00:00 -01:06:20