Los Angeles, CA, 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 Winokur 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.
Click here for the complete list of winners.
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
