LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ BMI Los Angeles) - Leading U.S. music rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) staged its annual Film/TV
Music Awards last night at the Beverly
Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. During the invitation-only gala, BMI saluted the composers of music featured in the past year's top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series, and highest-ranking cable network programs. Hosted by BMI President & CEO Del Bryant and Film/TV Relations Vice President Doreen Ringer Ross, the ceremony also featured the presentation of the Richard Kirk Award to Rachel Portman.
The Richard Kirk Award is bestowed on composers who have made significant contributions to the realm of film and television music. As the 2010 honoree, Rachel Portman joins an elite list that includes 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, Charles Fox and John Williams.
The first woman composer to win an Oscar, Portman has created scores for films including the Oscar-winning Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, Beloved, The Manchurian Candidate, Infamous, The Duchess, and Never Let Me Go, as well as television projects including HBO's Grey Gardens, Ethan Frome and BAFTA-winning Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
BMI also presented the Classic Contribution Award to Grammy-winning musician and composer Terence Blanchard, and honored T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham, whose collaboration 'The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)' garnered the Oscar for Best Original Song.
For a complete list of 2010 BMI Film/TV Music Awards winners, visit www.bmi.com.
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is an American performing right organization that represents more than 400,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music and more than 6.5 million works. BMI reported $905 million for its 2009 fiscal year in performing right collections. BMI has represented the most popular and beloved music from around the world for 70 years. The U.S. corporation collects license fees from businesses that use music, which it then distributes as royalties to the musical creators and copyright owners it represents.
