Alan Silvestri Receives BMI Icon Award at 2017 BMI Film, TV and Visual Media Awards
Beverly Hills ceremony also honored year’s top film and television composers
BMI proudly held its 2017 Film, TV & Visual Media Awards last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The ceremony was hosted by BMI Vice President, Film, TV & Visual Media Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross and BMI President and CEO Mike O’Neill, who honored celebrated composer Alan Silvestri, along with the composers of music featured in the past year’s top-grossing films, top-rated primetime network television series and highest-ranking cable and streamed media programs.
Alan Silvestri received BMI’s Icon Award, which is bestowed on composers who have made significant contributions to the realm of film and television music.
In his storied career as a film composer, Silvestri has written music for some of the most iconic and successful films in Hollywood history. He has scored over a hundred titles and earned two Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, two Emmy Awards and three GRAMMY awards. Silvestri’s energetic synth-driven music caught the ear of budding director Robert Zemeckis, who drafted the composer to write the music for various films including Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? What Lies Beneath and The Polar Express, which earned Silvestri an Oscar nomination for the song “Believe.” The Zemeckis/Silvestri union may be best summed up, however, by the 1994 best picture winner, Forrest Gump, which earned the composer his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.
Beyond his work with Zemeckis, Silvestri’s list of scores span every style and genre. His stirring, resonant themes have enriched and enlivened diverse films such as Predator, Lilo and Stitch, the Night at the Museum trilogy, The Bodyguard, Van Helsing, Captain America: First Avenger, The Avengers, and many more. He is currently hard at work scoring the next two installments of Marvel’s Avengers franchise.
Additional BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Award winners included visionary composers Justin Hurwitz, James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, Alan Menken, Alexandre Desplat, Brian Tyler, Mark Mancina, Danny Elfman, Mark Isham, Tyler Bates, Christopher Lennertz and Fil Eisler, among others.
Watch an exclusive interview with BMI Icon Alan Silvestri here.
Here’s a complete list of the night’s winners:
BMI Icon
Alan Silvestri
Academy Award® Winners
LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz
“CITY OF STARS” FROM LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz
BMI Film Music Awards
FINDING DORY
Thomas Newman
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Alan Menken
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS
Alexandre Desplat
MOANA
Mark Mancina
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
James Newton Howard
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS
Brian Tyler
JASON BOURNE
David Buckley (PRS)
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
John Ottman
LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz
SPLIT
West Dylan Thordson
GHOSTBUSTERS
Theodore Shapiro
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Ludwig Göransson
Theodore Shapiro
SULLY
Christian Jacob
FIFTY SHADES DARKER
Danny Elfman
BAD MOMS
Christopher Lennertz
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
Harald Kloser
Thomas Wander
PASSENGERS
Thomas Newman
SAUSAGE PARTY
Christopher Lennertz
Alan Menken
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2
Tyler Bates
Joel J. Richard
THE ACCOUNTANT
Mark Isham
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
Steve Jablonsky
POWER RANGERS
Brian Tyler
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Danny Elfman
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Danny Elfman
STORKS
Jeff Danna (SOCAN)
Mychael Danna
NOW YOU SEE ME 2
Brian Tyler
A DOG’S PURPOSE
Rachel Portman (PRS)
BMI Streaming Media Awards
FULLER HOUSE
Jeff Franklin
Bennett Salvay
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
Gwendolyn Sanford
Regina Spektor
MAKING A MURDERER
Kevin Kiner
HOUSE OF CARDS
Jeff Beal
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
Dominic Lewis
CREATIVE GALAXY
James Chapple (SOCAN)
Graeme Cornies (SOCAN)
David Kelly (SOCAN)
Brian Pickett (SOCAN)
TRANSPARENT
Dustin O’Halloran
EAST LOS HIGH
Juan Carlos
Rodríguez Sanchia
BMI Network Television Music Awards
NCIS
Brian Kirk
THIS IS US
Siddhartha Khosla
BLUE BLOODS
Rob Simonsen
NCIS: NEW ORLEANS
John Lee Hooker
Brian Kirk
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
Jos Jorgensen
Andy Love
DESIGNATED SURVIVOR
Sean Callery
Robert Lydecker
HAWAII FIVE-0
Keith Power (SOCAN)
Brian Tyler
EMPIRE
Jim Beanz
Fil Eisler
GREY’S ANATOMY
Carim Clasmann (PRS)
Galia Durant (PRS)
CRIMINAL MINDS
Mark Mancina
MADAM SECRETARY
Mike Fratantuno
Terence Yoshiaki
CHICAGO FIRE
Atli Örvarsson
SCORPION
Tony Morales Brian Tyler
CHICAGO P.D.
Atli Örvarsson
CHICAGO MED
Atli Örvarsson
MACGYVER
Keith Power (SOCAN)
SCANDAL
Chad Fischer
CODE BLACK
Clinton Shorter
LAW & ORDER: SVU
Mike Post
PERSON OF INTEREST
Ramin Djawadi
KEVIN CAN WAIT
Mike DelGuidice
Raney Shockne
THE FLASH
Blake Neely
TRES VECES ANA
Alex Sirvent
BMI Cable Television Music Awards
MURDER IN THE FIRST
H. Scott Salinas
Patrick Warren
AMERICAN DAD!
Mike Barker
Joel McNeely
Matt Weitzman
HENRY DANGER
Michael Corcoran
Zack Hexum
WWE RAW
Jim Johnston
GAME OF THRONES
Ramin Djawadi
AMERICAN HORROR STORY
Charlie Clouser
César Dávila-Irizarry
Mac Quayle
TANGLED: THE SERIES
Kevin Kliesch
Alan Menken
TEEN TITANS GO!
Andy Sturmer
ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE
Jacob Shea
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
Paul Haslinger
Atticus Ross
SHADOWHUNTERS
Trevor Morris
DEVIOUS MAIDS
Edward Shearmur
BEING MARY JANE
Kurt Farquhar
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