Alan Silvestri Receives BMI Icon Award at 2017 BMI Film, TV and Visual Media Awards

Beverly Hills ceremony also honored year’s top film and television composers

Posted in News on May 11, 2017
BMI VP Film, TV & Visual Media Relations Doreen Ringer-Ross, 2017 BMI Icon Award recipient Alan Silvestri and BMI President & CEO Mike O'Neill at the 2017 Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI) Film, TV & Visual Media Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 10, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California
BMI VP Film, TV & Visual Media Relations Doreen Ringer-Ross, 2017 BMI Icon Award recipient Alan Silvestri and BMI President & CEO Mike O'Neill at the 2017 Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI) Film, TV & Visual Media Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 10, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California Photo: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for BMI

BMI proudly held its 2017 Film, TV & Visual Media Awards last night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The ceremony was hosted by BMI Vice President, Film, TV & Visual Media Relations, Doreen Ringer-Ross and BMI President and CEO Mike O’Neill, who honored celebrated composer Alan Silvestri, along with the composers of music featured in the past year’s top-grossing films, top-rated primetime network television series and highest-ranking cable and streamed media programs.

Alan Silvestri received BMI’s Icon Award, which is bestowed on composers who have made significant contributions to the realm of film and television music.

In his storied career as a film composer, Silvestri has written music for some of the most iconic and successful films in Hollywood history. He has scored over a hundred titles and earned two Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, two Emmy Awards and three GRAMMY awards. Silvestri’s energetic synth-driven music caught the ear of budding director Robert Zemeckis, who drafted the composer to write the music for various films including Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? What Lies Beneath and The Polar Express, which earned Silvestri an Oscar nomination for the song “Believe.” The Zemeckis/Silvestri union may be best summed up, however, by the 1994 best picture winner, Forrest Gump, which earned the composer his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.

Beyond his work with Zemeckis, Silvestri’s list of scores span every style and genre. His stirring, resonant themes have enriched and enlivened diverse films such as Predator, Lilo and Stitch, the Night at the Museum trilogy, The Bodyguard, Van Helsing, Captain America: First Avenger, The Avengers, and many more. He is currently hard at work scoring the next two installments of Marvel’s Avengers franchise.

Additional BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Award winners included visionary composers Justin Hurwitz, James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, Alan Menken, Alexandre Desplat, Brian Tyler, Mark Mancina, Danny Elfman, Mark Isham, Tyler Bates, Christopher Lennertz and Fil Eisler, among others.

Watch an exclusive interview with BMI Icon Alan Silvestri here.

Here’s a complete list of the night’s winners:

BMI Icon

Alan Silvestri

Academy Award® Winners

LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz

“CITY OF STARS” FROM LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz

BMI Film Music Awards

FINDING DORY
Thomas Newman

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Alan Menken

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS
Alexandre Desplat

MOANA
Mark Mancina

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
James Newton Howard

THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS
Brian Tyler

JASON BOURNE
David Buckley (PRS)

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
John Ottman

LA LA LAND
Justin Hurwitz

SPLIT
West Dylan Thordson

GHOSTBUSTERS
Theodore Shapiro

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Ludwig Göransson
Theodore Shapiro

SULLY
Christian Jacob

FIFTY SHADES DARKER
Danny Elfman

BAD MOMS
Christopher Lennertz

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
Harald Kloser
Thomas Wander

PASSENGERS
Thomas Newman

SAUSAGE PARTY
Christopher Lennertz
Alan Menken

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2
Tyler Bates
Joel J. Richard

THE ACCOUNTANT
Mark Isham

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS
Steve Jablonsky

POWER RANGERS
Brian Tyler

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Danny Elfman

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Danny Elfman

STORKS
Jeff Danna (SOCAN)
Mychael Danna

NOW YOU SEE ME 2
Brian Tyler

A DOG’S PURPOSE
Rachel Portman (PRS)

BMI Streaming Media Awards

FULLER HOUSE
Jeff Franklin
Bennett Salvay

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
Gwendolyn Sanford
Regina Spektor

MAKING A MURDERER
Kevin Kiner

HOUSE OF CARDS
Jeff Beal

THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
Dominic Lewis

CREATIVE GALAXY
James Chapple (SOCAN)
Graeme Cornies (SOCAN)
David Kelly (SOCAN)
Brian Pickett (SOCAN)

TRANSPARENT
Dustin O’Halloran

EAST LOS HIGH
Juan Carlos
Rodríguez Sanchia

BMI Network Television Music Awards

NCIS
Brian Kirk

THIS IS US
Siddhartha Khosla

BLUE BLOODS
Rob Simonsen

NCIS: NEW ORLEANS
John Lee Hooker
Brian Kirk

AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
Jos Jorgensen
Andy Love

DESIGNATED SURVIVOR
Sean Callery
Robert Lydecker

HAWAII FIVE-0
Keith Power (SOCAN)
Brian Tyler

EMPIRE
Jim Beanz
Fil Eisler

GREY’S ANATOMY
Carim Clasmann (PRS)
Galia Durant (PRS)

CRIMINAL MINDS
Mark Mancina

MADAM SECRETARY
Mike Fratantuno
Terence Yoshiaki

CHICAGO FIRE
Atli Örvarsson

SCORPION
Tony Morales Brian Tyler

CHICAGO P.D.
Atli Örvarsson

CHICAGO MED
Atli Örvarsson

MACGYVER
Keith Power (SOCAN)

SCANDAL
Chad Fischer

CODE BLACK
Clinton Shorter

LAW & ORDER: SVU
Mike Post

PERSON OF INTEREST
Ramin Djawadi

KEVIN CAN WAIT
Mike DelGuidice
Raney Shockne

THE FLASH
Blake Neely

TRES VECES ANA
Alex Sirvent

BMI Cable Television Music Awards

MURDER IN THE FIRST
H. Scott Salinas
Patrick Warren

AMERICAN DAD!
Mike Barker
Joel McNeely
Matt Weitzman

HENRY DANGER
Michael Corcoran
Zack Hexum

WWE RAW
Jim Johnston

GAME OF THRONES
Ramin Djawadi

AMERICAN HORROR STORY
Charlie Clouser
César Dávila-Irizarry
Mac Quayle

TANGLED: THE SERIES
Kevin Kliesch
Alan Menken

TEEN TITANS GO!
Andy Sturmer

ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE
Jacob Shea

FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
Paul Haslinger
Atticus Ross

SHADOWHUNTERS
Trevor Morris

DEVIOUS MAIDS
Edward Shearmur

BEING MARY JANE
Kurt Farquhar

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