Rolfe Kent Receives Richard Kirk Award at BMI Film & TV Awards
Ceremony also honors year’s top film and television composers in Beverly Hills
Global music rights leader Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) held its annual Film/TV Awards tonight at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The ceremony saluted the composers of music featured in the past year’s top-grossing films, top-rated primetime network television series, and highest-ranking cable network programs.
Rolfe Kent received BMI’s Richard Kirk Award, which is bestowed on composers who have made significant contributions to the realm of film and television music.
Kent also took home two BMI Film/TV crystals for his work on Mr. Popper’s Penguins and Dexter. The evening’s other honorees included Mark Mothersbaugh (21 Jump Street, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked), John Williams (The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse), Michael Andrews (Bad Teacher, Bridesmaids), Thomas Newman (The Help), Cliff Martinez (Contagion), Mychael Danna (Moneyball), Christopher Lennertz (Horrible Bosses), Aaron Zigman (Madea’s Big Happy Family), Mike Post (Rob), Will Jennings (American Idol), Charlie Clouser (American Horror Story), David Buckley (PRS) (The Good Wife) and Brian Tyler (Hawaii Five-0, Terra Nova). BMI also celebrated Ludovic Bource’s (SACEM) Academy Award win for The Artist.
As the 2012 recipient of the Richard Kirk Award, Kent joins a prestigious list that includes David Arnold, Rachel Portman (PRS), Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Thomas Newman, Christopher Young, George S. Clinton, Harry Gregson-Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Kamen, Mark Mothersbaugh, Danny Elfman, Alan Menken, Mike Post, Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, Charlie Fox and John Williams.
Rolfe Kent has succeeded in creating a body of work that is fiercely original, musically complex and artistically bold, all in the service of the films and television for which it is composed. His diverse list of credits spans intellectual comedy to slapstick, white-knuckle thrillers to drama. Kent has scored almost 50 films, including the Academy Award-nominated Up in the Air, for which he won a Golden Satellite Award; Sideways, which earned Kent a Golden Globe nomination and Critics’ Choice Award in 2007; Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Young Adult, Charlie St. Cloud, About Schmidt, Election, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde II, Wedding Crashers, The Matador, Reign Over Me, The Hunting Party, The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Thank You for Smoking and most recently Michael Hoffman’s Gambit, written by the Coen Brothers and slated for release in January 2013. In television, Kent also composed the Emmy-nominated main title theme for Showtime’s runaway hit Dexter. An in-demand collaborator, he has established strong working relationships with top-tier directors such as Richard Shepherd, Alexander Payne, Mark Waters, Jason Reitman, and Burr Steers. Kent has received an impressive 13 BMI Film & Television Awards since 2002.
The 2012 BMI Film/TV Awards were hosted by BMI President & CEO Del Bryant and BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations Doreen Ringer Ross. For more information on BMI’s film and television composers and events, please visit www.bmi.com/filmtv.
2012 BMI Film/TV Award Winners
RICHARD KIRK AWARD
ROLFE KENT
FILM MUSIC AWARDS
21 JUMP STREET
Mark Mothersbaugh
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN
John Williams
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED
Mark Mothersbaugh
BAD TEACHER
Michael Andrews
BRIDESMAIDS
Michael Andrews
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
Alan Silvestri
CONTAGION
Cliff Martinez
CONTRABAND
Clinton Shorter (SOCAN)
COWBOYS & ALIENS
Harry Gregson-Williams
CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.
Nick Urata
THE DEVIL INSIDE
Benjamin Romans
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Atticus Ross
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2
Alexandre Desplat (SACEM)
THE HELP
Thomas Newman
HORRIBLE BOSSES
Christopher Lennertz
JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Andrew Lockington (SOCAN)
MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY
Aaron Zigman
MONEYBALL
Mychael Danna
MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS
Rolfe Kent
REAL STEEL
Danny Elfman
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
Steve Jablonsky
UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING
Paul Haslinger
THE VOW
Rachel Portman (PRS)
WAR HORSE
John Williams
WE BOUGHT A ZOO
Jón Þór Birgisson (PRS)
WRATH OF THE TITANS
Javier Navarrete (SGAE)
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER
THE ARTIST
Ludovic Bource (SACEM)
TELEVISION MUSIC AWARDS
2 BROKE GIRLS
Peter Bjorn and John (STIM)
THE AMAZING RACE
Christopher Franke
Vaughn Johnson
Lee Sanders
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
Jos Jorgensen
Andy Love
AMERICAN IDOL
Will Jennings
THE BACHELOR
Rob Cairns
BLUE BLOODS
Rob Simonsen
BODY OF PROOF
Daniel Licht
CRIMINAL MINDS
Mark Mancina
CSI
Pete Townshend (PRS)
CSI: MIAMI
Pete Townshend (PRS)
Kevin Kiner
CSI: NY
Pete Townshend (PRS)
Bill Brown
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Danny Elfman
Steve Jablonsky
THE GOOD WIFE
David Buckley (PRS)
GREY’S ANATOMY
Carim Clasmann (PRS)
Galia Durant (PRS)
HAWAII FIVE-0
Keith Power (SOCAN)
Brian Tyler
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Carter Bays
Craig Thomas
THE MENTALIST
Blake Neely
MIKE & MOLLY
Keb’ Mo’
NCIS
Brian Kirk
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Tim Bright
Chad Fischer
REVENGE
iZLER
ROB
Mike Post
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
George Ritter
Bert Selen
TERRA NOVA
Brian Tyler
TWO AND A HALF MEN
Chuck Lorre
UNDERCOVER BOSS
Kenneth Berry
Matt Koskenmaki
John Nooney
Craig Owens
Mark Phillips
THE X FACTOR
Jos Jorgensen
Andy Love
SPANISH-LANGUAGE TELEVISION MUSIC AWARDS
UNA MAID EN MANHATTAN
Marco Flores
TRIUNFO DEL AMOR
José Antonio Farías
CABLE MUSIC AWARDS
AMERICAN HORROR STORY
Charlie Clouser
César Dávila-Irizarry
DEXTER
Rolfe Kent
Daniel Licht
FALLING SKIES
Noah Sorota
FLYING WILD ALASKA
Doug Bossi
Tony Elfers
Mat Morse
NINJAGO: MASTERS OF SPINJITZU
Michael Kramer
Jay Vincent
THE O’REILLY FACTOR
Phil Garrod
Reed Hays
Scott Schreer
PROJECT RUNWAY
Biff Sanders
Adam Sanborne
ROYAL PAINS
Søren Oakes Christensen (KODA)
Per Mølgaard Jørgensen (KODA)
Allan Fjeldgaard Villadsen (KODA)
Steffen Westmark (KODA)
SOUTH PARK
Brain
Les Claypool
Larry LaLonde
Jamie Dunlap
SUITS
Christopher Tyng
TRUE BLOOD
Jace Everett
Nathan Barr
VICTORIOUS
Michael Corcoran
WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE
Ryan Elder
Bradley Hamilton
Steve Hampton
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