Pharrell Williams To Be Honored With Ascap Film Music Award For Despicable Me

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ ASCAP) ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) has announced that Grammy Award-winning songwriter/rapper/producer Pharrell Williams will be honored with an ASCAP Film Music Award at the 26th Annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards. The black-tie gala salutes those ASCAP composers whose music was featured in the top box office films and top television series of 2010. Pharrell is being honored for the 3-D animated comedy, Despicable Me.

Also being honored are John Debney for Iron Man 2, Valentine's Day and Yogi Bear, James Newton Howard for The Last Airbender, Salt and The Tourist, Randy Newman for Toy Story 3, Trevor Rabin for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Trent Reznor for The Social Network and Hans Zimmer for Inception and Megamind, among others.

Special ASCAP awards will be presented to Angelo Badalamenti, who will receive the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award, and Alf Clausen, who will receive the ASCAP Golden Note Award. Badalamenti is widely known for his collaboration with the director David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks). Clausen is best known for his scoring and songwriting for the hit television series The Simpsons.

The invitation-only event takes place June 23, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California.