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Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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Ismail Okafor

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Ismail Okafor covers Artists, Soundtrack News and Storytelling.

Articles by Ismail Okafor

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The Theme That Follows You Home: How the Leitmotif Took Over Film Music

Ismail Okafor

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Soundtrack News

Ludwig Göransson's Oppenheimer Score Wins the Academy Award

Ismail Okafor

A Minor Key of Dread: how John Williams built leitmotifs that outlived four decades of Star Wars

A Minor Key of Dread: how John Williams built leitmotifs that outlived four decades of Star Wars

Ismail Okafor

A Counter Story on Curtom: how Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly soundtrack argues with its own film

Soundtrack News

A Counter Story on Curtom: how Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly soundtrack argues with its own film

Ismail Okafor

The Thirty-Five Percent Rule: how a film score earns its Oscar nomination

Soundtrack News

The Thirty-Five Percent Rule: how a film score earns its Oscar nomination

Ismail Okafor