ASCAP Honors Top Film And Television Music Composers At 26th Annual Awards Celebration

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ ASCAP) ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) hosted its 26th Annual Film & Television Music Awards on Thursday, June 23rd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. The invitation-only dinner and awards ceremony paid special tribute to Angelo Badalamenti and Alf Clausen, and honored the composers of the top box office film music and the most performed television music of 2010.

Director David Lynch and ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams presented ASCAP's Henry Mancini Award to acclaimed composer Angelo Badalamenti in recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions to the world of film and television music. Following a video montage highlighting his distinguished career, Badalamenti and his 11-piece band, comprising colleagues and music students from the jazz department at California State University Northridge, performed a medley of his music. Past recipients of the award include Bruce Broughton, Carter Burwell, John Debney, Mark Isham, Quincy Jones, Michel Legrand, Randy Newman, James Newton Howard, Johnny Mandel, Marc Shaiman, Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer.

Longtime friend and fellow composer Lee Holdridge and writer/producer of The Simpsons (1989-92) Jay Kogen presented Emmy Award-winning composer Alf Clausen with ASCAP's Golden Note Award in recognition of his ongoing success as one of the most versatile and popular composers, conductors, and arrangers in Television and Film Music. Clausen closed the show with a performance from his 17-piece big band. Past recipients of the award include Mark Snow, Andre Previn, Garth Brooks, Jose Feliciano, Dennis McCarthy, Alan Jackson, Jay-Z, Tom Petty and Stevie Wonder.

The winner of the Top Video Game Award was Halo: Reach with music composed by Marty O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori.

Those honored in the Top Box Office Films category included past ASCAP Henry Mancini Award honorees Carter Burwell (True Grit), John Debney (Iron Man 2, Valentine's Day, Yogi Bear), Randy Newman (Toy Story 3), James Newton Howard (The Last Airbender, Salt, The Tourist) and Hans Zimmer (Inception, Megamind), in addition to Lorne Balfe (Megamind), Jon Brion (The Other Guys), Michael Brook (The Fighter), Ramin Djawadi (Clash of the Titans), Rupert Gregson-Williams (Grown Ups), James Horner (The Karate Kid), Deborah Lurie (Dear John), Heitor Pereira and Pharrell Williams (Despicable Me), John Powell (How To Train Your Dragon), Trevor Rabin (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), Trent Reznor (The Social Network), Glenn Slater (Tangled), Marc Streitenfeld (Robin Hood) and Steven Trask (Little Fockers).

ASCAP composers whose combined works earned the highest number of performance credits on network, local and cable television in the category of themes and dramatic underscore for the 2010 survey year were Jack Allocco, Joel Beckerman, Sean Callery, Rob Duncan, Michael Giacchino, David Kurtz, Jeff Lippencott, Walter Murphy, David Vanacore and Mark T. Williams.

The composers who wrote the themes and underscore for the highest rated television series in 2010 were: J.J. Abrams and Michael Giacchino (Lost, Undercovers), John Adair (The Suite Life on Deck, The Wizards of Waverly Place), Peter Adams, Michael Levine, Franz Vonlichten and Helmut Vonlichten (Cold Case), Lee Aronsohn (Two and a Half Men), Steven Belfer, Nicolas Carr, Derek Drymon, Mark Harrison, Stephen Hillenburg, Pat Irwin, Stephen Marston, Blaise Smith and Barry Trop (SpongeBob SquarePants), Matt Bowen, Tony Morales, Devin Powers and Brad Segal (The Bachelor, The Bachelorette), Sean Callery (24, Bones), Jeff Cardoni (CSI: Miami, The Defenders, Undercover Boss), Gary Chase and Butch Walker (Hellcats), Andrea Datzman and Christopher Tilton (Undercovers), Catherine Dennis, Julian Gingell and Barry Stone (American Idol), John Dickson (Burn Notice), Rob Duncan (Castle), David Evans and Winnie Holzman (Huge), Marc Fantini, Steffan Fantini and Scott Gordon (Army Wives, Criminal Minds), Jay Ferguson (NCIS: Los Angeles), Dan Foliart (Secret Life of the American Teenager), Jamie Forsyth and Ken Jordan (Bones), Grant Geissman (Mike & Molly, Two and a Half Men), Eric Goldman, Zedrick Kelley and Jeannie Lurie (Shake It Up), Jared Gudstadt (Pawn Stars), Richard Haitz (1000 Ways To Die), Matthew Hawkins, Maurice "m.O" Jackson and Neil Martin (NCIS), Ron Jones, Seth MacFarlane and Walter Murphy (Family Guy), Aaron Kaplan (Royal Pains), John Keane (CSI), Josh Kelley (Mike & Molly), Dave Kushner, Curtis Stigers, Kurt Sutter and Bob Thiele (Sons of Anarchy), Russ Landau (Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Survivor: Nicaragua), James Levine (Glee, Rizzoli & Isles, Royal Pains), Jeff Lippencott and Mark T. Williams (Biggest Loser), Lucero (Soy Tu Dueno), Bear McCreary (Walking Dead), Daniel McGrath and Josh Phillips (Dancing With The Stars), Mayre Martinez (Aurora), Trevor Morris (The Tudors), Anton Newcombe (Boardwalk Empire), Atli Orvarsson (Law & Order: LA), Oscar Owens and Steve Porcaro (Justified), Didier Lean Rachou (Gold Rush: Alaska), Ed Robertson (Big Bang Theory), Elvin Ross and J.Dub (Meet The Browns), Morton Stevens (Hawaii Five-0), Emerson Swinford (Hot In Cleveland), Brandon Thompson (Ghost Hunters), David Vanacore (Ghost Hunters, Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Survivor: Nicaragua, Undercover Boss) and Ron Wasserman (Hot In Cleveland, SpongeBob SquarePants).