Howard Shore will be honored with the Frederick Loewe Music Award at the 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. The composer will be receiving the award for his work on Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, for which he already received a Golden Globe, as well as a Broadcast Film Critics Association Movie Award nomination. Shore has previously won the prize in 2005 for his score for Scorsese’s The Aviator. The composer will be be recognized at a gala on January 7, 2012 at the Palm Springs Convention Center along with other honorees George Clooney, Glenn Close, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Michelle Williams and directors Stephen Daldry and Michel Hazanavicius.