ASMAC Honors ASCAP Writers Diane Warren, Alan Silvestri and Bill Holman at Annual Golden Score Awards



In honor of its 70th anniversary, The American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC) honored three luminaries of the music world, all of whom are ASCAP members, at its annual Golden Score Awards event. The legendary songwriter Diane Warren received the 2008 President's Award; veteran film composer Alan Silvestri received the Golden Score Award - Film Composition, and jazz icon Bill Holman, the Golden Score Award - Arranging. This year's event, for which ASCAP was the sole benefactor, was held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California on Friday, March 14th.

Diane Warren has authored more than 100 Top 10 hits for such notable artists as Aerosmith, Elton John, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and the Pussycat Dolls. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe® Awards, six Academy Awards®, and seven Grammy® nominations, winning for "Because You Loved Me" (performed by Celine Dion) for the film Up Close and Personal. She most recently wrote the original song "Do You Feel Me" for the critically acclaimed film American Gangster. Diane has received seven ASCAP Film & TV Music Awards and has been named the ASCAP Pop Songwriter of the Year six times.
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Alan Silvestri has scored an impressive amount of successful films including Back to the Future Part I, IIand III, Predator I and II,Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Bodyguard, What Lies Beneath, Lilo & Stitch, Van Helsing, and more recently, Night at the Museumand Beowulf. Silvestri has been nominated for an Oscar® for Best Original Score for Forrest Gump, Best Songfor "Believe" on The Polar Express Soundtrack, won twoGrammysfor the music from Cast Away and the song "Believe" from The Polar Express, was awarded numerous ASCAP accolades and received a World Soundtrack nomination in 2005. Alan has received nine ASCAP Film & TV Music Awards and was awarded the Society's Henry Mancini Award for lifetime achievement in 2002.
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Bill Holman is a songwriter, conductor, composer/arranger, and saxophonist. During the 1950s, he was active in the West Coast jazz movement, playing in small bands led by Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne. He began his association with Stan Kenton in 1952, eventually becoming Kenton's chief arranger and creating a large portion of the band's 1950s repertoire, and co-led a quintet with Mel Lewis in 1958. Holman has written for some top jazz names including Natalie Cole on her Grammy-winning album Unforgettable... with Love, Tony Bennett, Carmen McRae, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughn and many others. His arrangement of "Take the "A" Train" for the Tonight Show Orchestra earned Holman a Best Instrumental Grammy in 1987. He wrote compositions such as "Bright Eyes" and "Trilogy", and is known for his earlier work on films such as Swamp Woman (1956), Get Out of Town (1959) or Three on a Coach (1966).

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