Last night, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) held its annual Film & TV & Visual Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Alan Silvestri was honored with the organization’s Icon Award for his impactful contribution in the realm of film and television music. The composer whose credits include such hit movies as Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Avengers, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Mummy Returns and Captain America: The First Avenger was presented the award by the evening’s host, BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross and BMI President & CEO Mike O’Neill. Several of the composer’s frequent collaborators congratulated him via a tribute video, including director Robert Zemeckis who worked with the composer on all of his movies since 1984’s Romancing the Stone, Shawn Levy (Night of the Museum trilogy), Chris Sanders (The Croods, Lilo & Stitch) and scoring mixer Dennis Sands.
Throughout the evening, 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 were also celebrated. Among the composers who accepted their awards in person were Danny Elfman (The Girl on the Train, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Fifty Shades Darker), James Newton Howard (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), Brian Tyler (The Fate of the Furious, Power Rangers, Now You See Me 2, Hawaii Five-O, Scorpion), Justin Hurwitz (La La Land), Ludwig Goransson (Central Intelligence), Mychael & Jeff Danna (Storks), Christopher Lennertz (Bad Moms, Sausage Party), Mark Mancina (Moana, Criminal Minds), Mark Isham (The Accountant), John Ottman (X-Men: Apocalypse), Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard (John Wick: Chapter 2), Mac Quayle (American Horror Story), Trevor Morris (Shadowhunters), Harald Kloser (Independence Day: Resurgence), West Dylan Thordson (Split), Dustin O’Halloran (Transparent), Dominic Lewis (The Man in the High Castle), Gwendolyn Sanford (Orange Is the New Black), Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us), Sean Callery & Robert Lydecker (Designated Survivor), Mike Post (Law & Order: SVU), Blake Neely (The Flash, Supergirl, Blindspot), Paul Haslinger (Fear the Walking Dead), Rob Simonsen (Blue Bloods), Christian Jacob (Sully), Brian Kirk (NCIS, NCIS: New Orleans), Keith Power (Hawaii Five-O, MacGyver), Charlie Clouser & César Dávila-Irizarry (American Horror Story), Clinton Shorter (Code Black), Jacob Shea (Alaskan Bush People), Tony Morales (Scorpion), Chad Fischer (Scandal), Jim Beanz (Empire), Juan Carlos & Rodríguez Sanchia (East Los High), Mike Fratantuno & Terence Yoshiaki (Madam Secretary), H. Scott Salinas (Murder in the First), Raney Shockne (Kevin Can Wait), Kurt Farquhar (Being Mary Jane), Kevin Kliesch (Tangled: The Series). Click here for a full list of winners. Also in attendance at the event were previous BMI honorees George S. Clinton, Richard Sherman, Christopher Young, Cliff Martinez, Lalo Schifrin and Randy Edelman. Check back on this page for video highlights from the event.
