ASCAP Honors Top Film and Television Music Composers at 22nd Annual Awards Celebration; Marc Shaiman Receives the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award
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LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 18, 2007 -- The American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers (ASCAP) presented its Henry Mancini Award to Marc Shaiman at
the 22nd Annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards held last night
(April 17) at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In addition to
honoring Shaiman, ASCAP also honored the composers and songwriters of the
top box office film music and the most performed television music of 2006.
Over 850 members of the music industry attended the invitation-only event,
which was hosted by Academy-Award winning lyricist and President and
Chairman of ASCAP, Marilyn Bergman.
One of the many highlights of the evening was the special tribute to Marc
Shaiman who was honored with the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award in recognition
of his outstanding achievements and contributions to the music of film and
television. Rob Reiner and Billy Crystal joined Marilyn Bergman onstage to
present the award to Shaiman. Many other friends and collaborators paid
homage by way of video tribute messages, including Matthew Broderick,
Nathan Lane, Martin Short and Robin Williams, as well as John Travolta,
Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Allison Janney and other cast members of
the upcoming movie, "Hairspray." Broadway actress Marissa Jaret Winokar
performed "Good Morning, Baltimore" from the musical, "Hairspray,"
accompanied by Shaiman on piano. Shaiman also performed "Fifty Checks"
from his new musical, "Catch Me If You Can."
Marc Shaiman has received five Academy Award nominations, a Tony, Grammy
and Emmy Award. Irreverent, witty, energetic and optimistic, Shaiman is
currently in the midst of a dream movie assignment -- completing the film
adaptation of his own Tony Award-winning musical, "Hairspray," which was a
smash reworking of John Waters' original film. Though he's best-known for
composing scores for mainstream Hollywood comedies -- among them "Sleepless
in Seattle," "Sister Act," "The Addams Family," "Patch Adams," "City
Slickers," "George of the Jungle" and "In & Out" -- Shaiman's credits also
include science fiction ("From the Earth to the Moon" for HBO), military
drama ("A Few Good Men"), a baseball film ("61*" for HBO) and outrageous
animation ("South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut"). He has worked
frequently in films and TV with Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal and Bette Midler.
Shaiman is primarily a composer and lyricist, but has also enjoyed success
as an arranger, record producer, music supervisor and actor.
Past recipients of the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award, which was established in
1996, include: John Debney, Mark Isham, Quincy Jones, Michel Legrand, Randy
Newman, James Newton Howard, Johnny Mandel, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore
and Hans Zimmer.
ASCAP's Todd Brabec, Nancy Knutsen, Sue Devine and Mike Todd presented
awards in four categories -- Most Performed Themes, Most Performed
Underscore, Top Television Series, and Top Box Office Films -- to several
veteran film and television music composers as well as to the best and
brightest of a new generation of writers. Those in attendance included
John Adair, Erran Baron Cohen (PRS), Joel Beckerman, Sean Callery, Jeff
Cardoni, Adam Cohen, Lisa Coleman, Catherine Dennis (PRS), Ramin Djawadi,
Rob Duncan, Marc Fantini, Steffan Fantini, Steve Franks, Grant Geissman,
Scott Gordon, Alex Greenwald, Andrea Guerra (SIAE), Matthew Hawkins,
Reinhold Heil, John Keane, Johnny Klimek, Russ Landau, Michael Levine,
Wendy Melvoin, Blake Neely, David Nichtern, John O'Brien, Daniel Pinnella,
Douglas Pipes, David Porter, John Powell, Mark Snow, David Vanacore, Franz
Vonlichten, Helmut Vonlichten, Mark T Williams, and John Robert Wood.
Ginny Mancini collected an award on behalf of her late husband, Henry
Mancini, for the original theme to "The Pink Panther."
Also in attendance were: actor, director, writer, musician, and composer
Christopher Guest; actor, writer, producer Sacha Baron Cohen and actress
Isla Fisher; actress Nikki Blonsky, who stars in the new film version of
"Hairspray," along with the film's director Adam Shankman, producers Craig
Zadan and Neil Meron and music supervisor Matt Sullivan; singer/actress
Jenifer Lewis; E! Entertainment's Debbie Matenopoulos, director Peyton Reed
and TV actress Arlene Sorkin.
For the complete list of winners, please visit
http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/awards/filmtv/2007/
MEDIA, PLEASE NOTE: High-resolution photos of the 2007 ASCAP Film and
Television Music Awards will be available for downloading from ASCAP's
Press Room http://www.ascap.com/press/pressroom/filmtvawards/
The 22nd Annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards is part of an entire
week of events planned by ASCAP to celebrate the voice of the music
creator. Los Angeles City Council has issued a proclamation to declare the
week of April 15 - 21, 2007 as "ASCAP I Create Music Week" in Los Angeles,
California.
About ASCAP
Established in 1914, ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers) is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization
representing the world's largest repertory totaling over 8.5 million
copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than 285,000
composer, lyricist and music publisher members. ASCAP also represents the
repertories created by the international affiliates of 90 foreign
performing rights organizations. ASCAP protects the rights of its members
and foreign affiliates by licensing the public performances of their
copyrighted works and distributing royalties based upon surveyed
performances. ASCAP is the only American Performing Rights Organization
owned and governed by its writer and publisher members. www.ascap.com