LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The American
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) 34th
Annual ASCAP Screen Awards returned to the historic
Beverly Hilton tonight to celebrate
the greatest names in today's film, television and video game
music. This year's show was hosted by actor Richard Kind who added a special touch to
the evening's programming for a packed room of VIP composers and
music industry executives.
Blockbuster film composer Michael
Giacchino was honored with the prestigious ASCAP
Henry Mancini Award for outstanding achievements and
contributions to film and television music. The Oscar, Emmy and
three-time Grammy Award-winning composer is best known for his
Disney and Pixar film scores, including The Incredibles and
Ratatouille, as well as hits like Lost, Mission:
Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,
Jurassic World, Inside Out, Doctor Strange, Rogue One: A Star Wars
Story, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Coco and Incredibles 2.
His music will also be heard in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far
from Home, due in theaters on July 2. Brad Bird, director for Ratatouille
and The Incredibles, bestowed the award to Giacchino.
Composer Pinar
Toprak was recognized with the ASCAP Shirley
Walker Award for her achievements and contributions to the
diversity of film and television music. Toprak, the first woman to
score a billion-dollar film (Captain Marvel), landed one of
her breakout assignments composing for the video game
Fortnite and is also the recipient of two International Film
Music Critics Association Awards. Toprak's colleague and mentor,
David Ellison, CEO and
Founder of Skydance Media, presented her with the award.
Broadway legend Stephen
Schwartz, mentor to songwriting duo
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, presented them with the
ASCAP Vanguard Award — the first time the award has been
given to music creators known for their film and musical theatre
accomplishments. The pair made their debut on Broadway
with the Tony-nominated score for A Christmas Story in
2012 and went on to create the six-time Tony-honored Broadway
hit Dear Evan Hansen as well
as award-winning songs for films La La Land and The
Greatest Showman. Their multiple Oscar, Grammy, Tony and
Golden Globe wins and nominations leave much to anticipate for
their upcoming projects, including Disney live-action movies
Aladdin and Snow White.
The three ASCAP Composers' Choice winners were also
revealed at the invitation-only event. Established by ASCAP in
2014, the awards are voted on exclusively by the ASCAP composer and
songwriter community. The 2019 Composers' Choice Film Score of
the Year was awarded to John
Powell for Solo: A Star Wars Story; TV
Composer of the Year went to Jeff
Cardoni; and the Video Game Score of the Year
winner was Lena Raine for her
work on the original soundtrack to Celeste.
A special segment was dedicated to the inaugural presentation of
the ASCAP Harmony Award, a new honor created in partnership
with the Guild of Music Supervisors to recognize a composer and
music supervisor for outstanding collaboration on an audio-visual
work. Colman Domingo, who
played Joseph Rivers in If Beale
Street Could Talk, presented the award to composer
Nicholas Britell and music
supervisor Gabe Hilfer for
their work on the film.
Composers David Vanacore,
Joel Beckerman, Michael Giacchino, Cat Gray, Jared Gutstadt, Didier
Lean Rachou, Jeff Lippencott,
Ed Robertson, Mark Snow, Mark T.
Williams and Hans
Zimmer were recognized in the Most Performed Themes
and Underscore category. Top Box Office Film went to Michael Giacchino for Jurassic World: Fallen
Kingdom; Top Television Network Series winners
were Dan Foliart and
Howard Pearl for ABC's
Roseanne; and Top Cable Television Series was presented to
ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop alum Maurizio
Malagnini for his work on the PBS series, Call the
Midwife.
In addition to a medley of scores from Giacchino's catalog, the
attendees enjoyed live performances of music created by this year's
top honorees. Keala Settle sang
Pasek and Paul's "This is Me" and Tim Davis performed "Come Alive" (both from
The Greatest Showman). The house orchestra also
performed Pinar Toprak's themes from
Pixar's Purl, a computer-animated short film released in
February.
The complete list of 2019 ASCAP Screen Awards winners is
available at http://www.ascap.com/screenawards19.
About ASCAP
The American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of
songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music.
ASCAP's mission is to license and promote the music of its members
and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public
performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it
collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the
world's best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient
licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who
use it to add value to their business - from bars, restaurants and
retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and
more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses
to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of
songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With more than 700,000
members representing more than 11.5 million copyrighted works,
ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and
advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American
performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its
writer and publisher members. Learn more and stay in touch at
www.ascap.com, on Twitter @ASCAP and on Facebook.
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